Data Management Plan

During the first 6 months, a systematic Data Management Plan will be developed by the researcher Francesco Toncich in collaboration with the supervisor Marta Verginella. The archival research will take several kinds of data and sources concerning the post-1918 transition of Public Health structures between the cities and territories of Vienna, Ljubljana and Trieste into account:- Government/administrative sources: archives of ministries, lieutenancies, and the police.- Materials of the medicalisation: archives of hospitals, psychiatric institutions, clinics, voluntary and private aid organisations (most of them are stored in State or City archives).- Ego-documents: private estates of doctors or general observers.- Media sources: newspapers, scientific publications and magazines or bulletins.- Scientific and academic sources: archives of universities and scientific-medical institutes.- Materials from the archives of international health organisations.The first 15 months will be dedicated to fieldwork in archives and libraries. Most of the research time will be spent in Ljubljana, Vienna and Trieste - at least four months for each city. Shorter visits to the central state archives (mainly in Rome and Belgrade) are planned for integrating the main research with sources produced in the new capital cities of the successor states after 1918. Following a “glocal” perspective, a short visit to archives in Geneva is planned for gathering sources from international health organisations. However, since the research will follow transnational networks, the research plan could be partially adapted according to needs, and it could include shorter, specific research in related urban centres, such as Graz, Klagenfurt, Fiume/Rijeka and Gorizia/Gorica.This research will follow a qualitative approach to sources, which requires a strong integration of different methodological and theoretical approaches. Principally, it is based on the encounter between the two big disciplinary areas of history and anthropology. At this intersection, the research will be supported by viewpoints from the so-called “new imperial history”, an interdisciplinary and trans-imperial/national field of study of European empires, which, in recent decades, has emerged from “post-colonial”, “cultural” and “gender studies”. Its comparative point of view will be crucial also regarding its attention to non-normative sociocultural and gender realities. It is closely related to the “entangled history”, which will be highly useful in comparing three different, though interconnected, territories and urban centres in three different successor states (Austria, Yugoslavia and Italy). To overcome sharp ideological divisions, the current “border studies” can help to challenge the concept of “border” itself, considering it as a porous three-dimensional space open to increased mobility as well as forms of coexistence and hybridity among diversities. Within this “glocal” frame, the research will pursue a “thick description”, which investigates the objectives by moving between the “microhistory” and the “global history”. During the research, some paradigmatic examples will be chosen and examined thanks to approaches from “biographical” and “network studies”, which are crucial for understanding educational and training pathways, and professional and institutional roles and their place in social networks during transition years. The integration of these approaches in the history of administrative and political institutions will help to deconstruct the monolithic idea of a state-to-state transition in a time of fluid sovereignty and changing mobility of professional medical staff and people needing care between peripheries and new political centres. This integration is vital to rediscover non-normative realities and processes in every-day-life, which can be analysed thanks to tools from historical and cultural anthropology and gende