Amy King

The Politics of Sacrifice

Remembering Italy's Rogo di Primavalle

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an original and comprehensive study of the memory of the Rogo di Primavalle, a fatal arson attack on the home of a far-right family on 16 April 1973. Perpetrated by members of the militant left group Potere Operaio, this was the first attack on a domestic space during Italy's Years of Lead. Through analysis of media coverage, books, and social media; observation of commemoration ceremonies; visits to sites of memory; and oral history interviews conducted by the author, The Politics of Sacrifice argues that memory of the Rogo di Primavalle has been instrumentalised by neo-fascist groups over the past 50 years. Drawing on contemporary theoretical debates relating to public and private memories, King connects the construction of a narrative of sacrifice to challenges faced by the institutional far right from the time of the Movimento Sociale Italiano in the 1970s, Alleanza Nazionale in the mid-1990s, and Fratelli d'Italia today. With the far right on the rise inItaly and abroad, the book identifies the characteristics of remembering that define far-right memory culture and investigates the role of memory in building support for the far right over time.

Produktdetails

• Italian and Italian American Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-45549-0
• 1st ed. 2023
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9783031455490
• ISBN-10: 3031455495
• Artikelnr.: 68790039

Autorenporträt

Amy King is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Mediated Memories and Contested Narratives.- 3. Political Martyrdom and Counter-Memory.- Part 2.- 1995-2012: After the Svolta di Fiuggi.- 4. Honouring a Lost Heritage.- 5. Pacification of Memory after Lollo's Confession.- Part 3. From Fratelli d'Italia to CasaPound.- 6. Historicising Far-Right Sacrifice in the Populist Era.- 7. Afterword: The Legacy of Divided Memory.