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Belgian History and the Making of Marginality and Subalternity

par Lauro, Amandine ;Rodriguez Garcia, Magaly
Référence Revue Belge d'histoire contemporaine, 2016, XLVI-1, page (14-39)
Publication Publié, 2016

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While in recent years, the history of the making of marginality and subalternity has attracted increased international academic interest, historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Belgium seem to have been little influenced by these developments. Belgian scholars have certainly paid attention to the construction of “otherness” and to the history of social categories marginalized on the basis of i.a. gender, ethnicity, age, class, or respectability, but they have rarely placed their analyses within precise conceptual and methodological frameworks. This introduc­tory essay proposes to selectively reflect on these historiographical trends, their echoes in Belgian history, and on the ways in which explorations of subaltern/marginal categories in late­modern and contemporary contexts could contribute to spur new discussion on Belgian society and on the construction of its logics of in/exclusion in historical perspective.