X CLOSE

Ilaria Scaglia

Lecturer in Modern History, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Ilaria Scaglia is a lecturer in modern history at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. She is the author of The Emotions of Internationalism: Feeling International Cooperation in the Alps in the Interwar Period (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Website

Written by Ilaria Scaglia

Photo of three scouts saluting, holding a poster of flags and the Statue of Liberty, in front of the US Capitol building.

History of emotions

idea

The politics of internationalism rest on the intimacy of feelings

Political communities are based on feelings of familiarity and affinity, so how do you make people internationalists?

by Ilaria Scaglia