Italian Modernities

Competing Narratives of Nationhood
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-50155-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5005 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forlenza, Rosario

Thomassen, Bjørn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.-Chapter 1
Into Italy, into the Modern.-

.Chapter 2 Liberal Modernity.-

.Chapter 3 Catholic Modernities. Epics of a Christian
Nation.-

.Chapter 4 Gramsci and the Italian Road to Socialist
Modernity.-

.Chapter 5 Fascist modernity.-

.Chapter 6 Frictions of Modernity: World War II as a
Historical Juncture.-

.Chapter 7 Competing Modernities: Postwar Italy and the
Struggle Over a Divided Past.-

.Chapter 8 Fragile Modernities: Critique, Crisis and
Emancipatory Politics.-

.Chapter 9 After Modernity?
Nationhood in the Post-Cold War era.-

.Chapter 10 - Conclusion What
if we were never modern?.-

Über Autor(innen)

Rosario Forlenza is a Research Fellow at the European Institute, Columbia University, USA and a Marie
Curie Fellow at the University of Padova, Italy. He is a historian of modern
Europe and twentieth century Italy, whose research is located at the
intersection of history, politics and anthropology. He has published two books
and several articles in journals such as History Workshop Journal, Contemporary
European History, and Journal of Cold War Studies.

Bjørn Thomassen is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. His work
spans across the social sciences with a focus on urban studies, globalisation,
nationalism, memory politics in Italy, Europe and globally. Recent books are Breaking
Boundaries. Varieties of Liminality (ed. Berghahn 2015), Liminality and
the Modern: Living through the In-Between (Ashgate 2014), Global Rome:

Changing Faces of the Eternal City (2014).