Social Identities And Political Cultures In Italy

Author : Anna Cento Bull
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571819444

Get Book

Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy by Anna Cento Bull Pdf

Emanating from a project begun in 1994 for the European studies program at the U. of Bath, this volume reports the results of a survey completed by 888 respondents from a small manufacturing town near Como and an industrial suburb of Milan, Italy (shown on maps.) Given Italy's diverse regional paths to modernity, the questionnaire addressed individualistic, family, and collective values. The results indicate that while family and social ties remain forte, those to political parties and trade unions have weakened. "Leghist" apparently refers to the Catholic-linked Lega Nord (Northern League) party. Includes the questionnaire and supporting tables and figures. Publication of the results of parallel French case studies is pending. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gino Bedani,B. A. Haddock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025034245

Get Book

The Politics of Italian National Identity by Gino Bedani,B. A. Haddock Pdf

A collection of a dozen penetrating critical essays discussing the development of Italian national identity, from political, economic and cultural points of view, during the past 150 years.

Author : Anna Cento Bull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780198726517

Get Book

Modern Italy by Anna Cento Bull Pdf

This title considers the history of Italy from the Risorgimento (the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861) to the present. It also discusses Italy's political system and style of government; economic modernisation; emigration, internal migration and immigration; and the modern Italian culture and lifestyle.

Author : Anna Cento Bull
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857451743

Get Book

Italian Neofascism by Anna Cento Bull Pdf

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating with the massacre in Bologna, on 2 August 1980. Making use of the literature on national reconciliation and narrative psychology theory, this book examines the fight over the 'judicial' and the 'historical' truth in Italy today, through a contrasting analysis of judicial findings and the 'narratives of victimhood' prevalent among representatives of both the post- and the neo-fascist right.

Author : Linda Reeder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350005204

Get Book

Italy in the Modern World by Linda Reeder Pdf

Providing a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including: * Comprehensive bibliographic essays covering each of the four parts * 23 images and 12 maps Italy in the Modern World also firmly places both the nation and its people in a wider global context through a distinctly transnational approach. It is essential reading for all students of modern Italian history.

Author : Edward Herring,Kathryn Lomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : IND:30000092820806

Get Book

The Emergence of State Identities in Italy in the First Millennium BC by Edward Herring,Kathryn Lomas Pdf

Author : M. Graziano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230113060

Get Book

The Failure of Italian Nationhood by M. Graziano Pdf

This book explains Italy s endless political instability and its historical, cultural and economic roots. It also illustrates why, even after the creation of the Italian state, Italy was never really unified. Piero Gobetti described fascism once as the "autobiography" of the Italian nation. This book explains why today it is possible to describe "berlusconism" - a cultural, political and social phenomenon in Italy- as the most recent version of this country s autobiography.

Author : Eva Garau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317557661

Get Book

Politics of National Identity in Italy by Eva Garau Pdf

This book focuses on the politics of national identity in Italy. Only a unified country for just over 150 years, Italian national identity is perhaps more contingent than longer established nations such as France or the UK. The book investigates when, how and why the discussions about national identity and about immigration became entwined in public discourse within Italy. In particular it looks at the most influential voices in the debate on immigration and identity, namely Italian intellectuals, the Catholic Church, the Northern League and the Left. The methodological approach is based on a systematic discourse analysis of official documents, interviews, statements and speeches by representatives of the political actors involved. In the process, the author demonstrates that a 'normalisation' of intolerance towards foreigners has become institutionalised at the heart of the Italian state. This work will be of particular interest to students of Italian Politics, Nationalism and Comparative Politics.

Author : Mabel Berezin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501722141

Get Book

Making the Fascist Self by Mabel Berezin Pdf

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities. The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols. In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in political spectacles, creating communities of feeling in public piazzas. Such communities were only temporary, Berezin explains, and fascist identity was only formed to the extent that it could be articulated in a language of pre-existing cultural identities. In the Italian case, those identities meant the popular culture of Roman Catholicism and the cult of motherhood. Berezin hypothesizes that at particular historical moments certain social groups which perceive the division of public and private self as untenable on cultural grounds will gain political ascendance. Her hypothesis opens a new perspective on how fascism works.

Author : Rinella Cere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028652654

Get Book

European and National Identities in Britain and Italy by Rinella Cere Pdf

This text is a comparative study of European-related news discourses of two countries of the European Union: Britain and Italy. The central hypothesis of the study is that specific historical, cultural and political factors are powerful determinants of the differences in commitment toward the European project of both news media and political cultures, and have led to different formulations of Europe. The book argues that the Italian nation-state and national identities are inclusive at some levels of a European identity, whereas the British state and national identities are, on the whole, exclusive of a European identity. This underlies the predominant negativity of British media news discourses on the question of Europe and the European Community in particular.

Author : Alberto Martinelli,Alessandro Cavalli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004351776

Get Book

European Society by Alberto Martinelli,Alessandro Cavalli Pdf

The EU is to-day at a crossroad: either it becomes a great supranational union or it goes back to being an array of separate independent states. Alberto Martinelli and Alessandro Cavalli draw a grand fresco of the society in which the European Union is taking shape.

Author : Beverly Allen,Mary J. Russo
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452903125

Get Book

Revisioning Italy by Beverly Allen,Mary J. Russo Pdf

More than any other nation, Italy -- from its imperial past to its subordinate present, from its colonial forays to its splendid isolation -- embodies the myriad and contradictory historical forms of nationhood. This volume covers a range of subjects drawn from Italy and abroad to study Italian national identity. Whether considering opera or Ninja Turtles, the essays reveal how cultural identity is constructed and manipulated -- an issue made urgent by the influx of African, Indochinese, and Eastern European immigrants into Italy today. Topics include exile, nationalism, and imagined communities, Italy's colonial "unconscious", and Mussolini's adventures in North Africa.

Author : Michel Huysseune
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789204278

Get Book

Modernity and Secession by Michel Huysseune Pdf

The northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy’s (real or presumed) inadequacies – such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime – this imagined geography acquired political centrality in that the North became associated with the virtues of modernity and the South with the vices of un-modernity. It was not only politicians but also social scientists, who fostered and perpetuated this conceptualization of the North-South divide, thus imposing a normative hierarchy between the two parts of the country. In response to this discourse many scholars, both in Italy and abroad, have started to question this perception of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society. Starting from this critical tradition, Michel Huysseune provides a new, systematic, and interdisciplinary approach that re-interprets the premises behind Italy’s imagined geography of modernity. He moves beyond an understanding of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society and problematizes normative notions of modernity, thus offering a new perspective on the North-South divide, which has a significance well beyond the case of Italy.

Author : Jonathan Dunnage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317886914

Get Book

Twentieth Century Italy by Jonathan Dunnage Pdf

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines contemporary Italian society in the light of the political and moral crisis of the early 1990s.

Author : Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351938891

Get Book

Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics by Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro Pdf

Employing primary sources and interviews with protagonists of the rebellion of the Italian North, this book explores the invention of the Padanian nation and the construction of identity politics in Northern Italy. It reveals for the first time the connection between the ethnic wave in European party politics in the 1970s and the rise of a new radical right nationalism in the 1990s. The author highlights the way in which the discourse of national minorities was instrumental in the rise of a new political agenda that links territory, identity and cultural rights to create new boundaries of exclusion. In addition to clarifying the connection between the new nationalism and racism by demonstrating how cultural distinctiveness is constructed in contemporary European politics, this unique book also explores the dynamics of new party mobilization and the symbolic resources of nationalist rhetoric. This book presents for the first time data on political participation - both party elites and members - and the real dimension of the party organization.