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Popolazione e Storia 21/2016 S.I.De.S. Società Italiana di Demografia Storica c/o Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e aziendali dell’Università degli Studi di Sassari Via Muroni, 25 – 07100 Sassari Presidente : Alessio Fornasin c/o Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e statistiche dell’Università degli Studi di Udine Via Tomadini, 30/A - 33100 Udine (UD) tel. +39.0432.249573; fax +39.0432.249595; e-mail [email protected] Segreteria : Stanislao Mazzoni Dipartimento di Scienze economiche e aziendali dell’Università degli Studi di Sassari Via Muroni, 25 – 07100 Sassari Tel. 079.213031 – Fax 079.213002 – E-mail: [email protected] Tesoriere : Mauro Reginato Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica dell’Università degli Studi di Torino Corso Unione Sovietica, 218 bis – 10134 Torino Tel. 011.6705733 – Fax 011.6705783 – E-mail: [email protected] Comitato scientifico : Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Marcantonio Caltabiano, Alessio Fornasin, Vincent Gourdon, Matteo Manfredini, Luca Mocarelli, Michele Nani, Mauro Reginato, Alessandra Samoggia, Francesco Scalone, Francesco Zanotelli. Popolazione e Storia Rivista semestrale della Società Italiana di Demografia Storica 1/2016 Direttore responsabile Marco Breschi Registrazione Tribunale di Udine n. 20 del 19 luglio 2000 FORUM SEditrice Universitaria Udinese FARE srl - società con socio unico Università di Udine via Palladio, 8 - 33100 Udine Tel. 0432.26001 - Fax 0432.296756 www.forumeditrice.it SIDeS Società Italiana di Demografia Storica Popolazione e Storia 21/2016 FORUM Indice Eugenics in the National and International Context edited by Giovanni Favero Giovanni Favero Explicit and Disguised Eugenics: A Premise pag. - Roser Cussò The League of Nations and Eugenics: An Overview of Transnational Activity »- Luca Tedesco Latin and Nordic Eugenics in the Project of Racial Improvement Set Up by Giuseppe Sergi, Founder of the Comitato italiano per gli studi di Eugenica »- Manfredi Alberti Official Statistical Surveys on Psychic Disorders in Italy during the Fascist Era (1926-1940) »- Angelo M. -
Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah.” Master’S Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com g/s/i is an annual peer-reviewed journal which publishes research on gendered identities and the ways they intersect with and produce Italian politics, culture, and society by way of a variety of cultural productions, discourses, and practices spanning historical, social, and geopolitical boundaries. Title: Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra: A Politically Incorrect Use of Neapolitan Identities and Queer Masculinities? Journal Issue: gender/sexuality/italy, 2 (2015) Author: Marcello Messina, Universidade Federal do Acre Publication date: July 2015 Publication info: gender/sexuality/Italy, “Open Contributions” Permalink: http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/matteo-garrones-gomorra/ Author Bio: Marcello Messina is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Federal do Acre, Brazil. He is recipient of the PNPD post-doctoral bursary from CAPES (Brazil) and of the Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australia – Macquarie University). He is also active as a composer and musicologist. Abstract: Taking as a starting point John Champagne’s recent argument about the queer representations of Italian masculinity contained in Garrone’s Gomorra, this paper aims to connect the queer masculinity of the film’s characters with the negative judgement on their lives and actions suggested by the film. In particular, it will be argued that queerness is used alongside the Neapolitan- ness of the characters to portray them as Others, in order to alienate the audience from them. In other words, it will be suggested that the film does not celebrate the queerness of the characters, but uses it as a means to portray them as deviant to a non-Neapolitan, heterosexual audience. Copyright Information g/s/i is published online and is an open-access journal. -
Introduction Chapter 1
Notes Introduction 1. Timothy Campbell, introduction to Bios. Biopolitics and Philosophy by Roberto Esposito (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), vii. 2. David Graeber, “The Sadness of post- Workerism or Art and Immaterial Labor Conference a Sort of Review,” The Commoner, April 1, 2008, accessed May 22, 2011, http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/graeber_ sadness.pdf. 3. Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended 1975–1976 (New York: Picador, 2003), 210, 211, 212. 4. Ibid., 213. 5. Racism works for the state as “a break into the domain of life that is under power’s control: the break between what must live and what must die” (ibid., 254). 6. Ibid., 212. 7. Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France 1978–1979 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 219. 8. Ibid., 224. 9. Ibid., 229. 10. See Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer. Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998) and State of Exception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). 11. Esposito, Bios. Biopolitics and Philosophy, 14, 15. 12. Ibid., 147. 13. Laurent Dubreuil, “Leaving Politics. Bios, Zo¯e¯ Life,” Diacritics 36.2 (2006): 88. 14. Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude (New York: Semiotext[e], 2004), 81. Chapter 1 1. Catalogo Bolaffi delle Fiat, 1899–1970; repertorio completo della produzione automobilistica Fiat dalle origini ad oggi, ed. Angelo Tito Anselmi (Turin: G. Bolaffi , 1970), 15. 2. Gwyn A. Williams, introduction to The Occupation of the Factories: Italy 1920, by Paolo Spriano (London: Pluto Press, 1975), 9. See also Giorgio Porosini, 174 ● Notes Il capitalismo italiano nella prima guerra mondiale (Florence: La Nuova Italia Editore, 1975), 10–17, and Rosario Romero, Breve storia della grande industria in Italia 1861–1961 (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1988), 89–97. -
Amadeo Bordiga and the Myth of Antonio Gramsci
AMADEO BORDIGA AND THE MYTH OF ANTONIO GRAMSCI John Chiaradia PREFACE A fruitful contribution to the renaissance of Marxism requires a purely historical treatment of the twenties as a period of the revolutionary working class movement which is now entirely closed. This is the only way to make its experiences and lessons properly relevant to the essentially new phase of the present. Gyorgy Lukács, 1967 Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. Leszek Kolakowski When I began this commentary, both the USSR and the PCI (the Italian Communist Party) had disappeared. Basing myself on earlier archival work and supplementary readings, I set out to show that the change signified by the rise of Antonio Gramsci to leadership (1924-1926) had, contrary to nearly all extant commentary on that event, a profoundly negative impact on Italian Communism. As a result and in time, the very essence of the party was drained, and it was derailed from its original intent, namely, that of class revolution. As a consequence of these changes, the party would play an altogether different role from the one it had been intended for. By way of evidence, my intention was to establish two points and draw the connecting straight line. They were: one, developments in the Soviet party; two, the tandem echo in the Italian party led by Gramsci, with the connecting line being the ideology and practices associated at the time with Stalin, which I label Center communism. Hence, from the time of Gramsci’s return from the USSR in 1924, there had been a parental relationship between the two parties. -
Racial Exclusion and Italian Identity Construction Through Citizenship Law
L’Altro in Italia: Racial Exclusion and Italian Identity Construction through Citizenship Law Ariel Gizzi An Honors Thesis for the Department of International Relations Tufts University, 2018 ii Acknowledgements Over the course of this thesis, I received academic and personal support from various professors and scholars, including but not limited to: Cristina Pausini, Kristina Aikens, Anne Moore, Consuelo Cruz, Medhin Paolos, Lorgia García Peña, David Art, Richard Eichenberg, and Lisa Lowe. I also want to mention the friends and fellow thesis writers with whom I passed many hours in the library: Joseph Tsuboi, Henry Jani, Jack Ronan, Ian James, Francesca Kamio, and Tashi Wangchuk. Most importantly, this thesis could not have happened without the wisdom and encouragement of Deirdre Judge. Deirdre and I met in October of my senior year, when I was struggling to make sense of what I was even trying to write about. With her guidance, I set deadlines for myself, studied critical theory, and made substantial revisions to each draft I produced. She is truly a remarkable scholar and mentor who I know will accomplish great things in her life. And lastly, thank you to my parents, who have always supported me in every academic and personal endeavor, most of which are related in some way or another to Italy. Grazie. iii Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction………………………………………………………….1 Chapter 2: Theoretical Frameworks …………………………………………….6 Chapter 3: Liberal Italy………………………………………………………….21 Chapter 4: Colonial and Fascist Italy……………………………………………44 Chapter 5: Postwar Italy…………………………………………………………60 Chapter 6: Contemporary Italy…………………………………………………..77 Chapter 7: Conclusion…………………………………………………………...104 Chapter 8: Bibliography…………………………………………………………112 1 Chapter 1: Introduction My maternal grandfather, Giuseppe Gizzi, was born and raised in Ariano Irpino, Italy. -
Résistance D'une Jeunesse À L'époque Du Fascisme. Traduction De Textes Choisis Des Lezioni Recitabili De Leonardo Casalino
Résistance d’une jeunesse à l’époque du fascisme. Traduction de textes choisis des Lezioni recitabili de Leonardo Casalino Typhaine Dupont To cite this version: Typhaine Dupont. Résistance d’une jeunesse à l’époque du fascisme. Traduction de textes choisis des Lezioni recitabili de Leonardo Casalino. Sciences de l’Homme et Société. 2016. dumas-01426011 HAL Id: dumas-01426011 https://dumas.ccsd.cnrs.fr/dumas-01426011 Submitted on 4 Jan 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. DUPONT Typhaine Master 2 Recherche Langue, Littérature et civilisation italiennes Mémoire de recherche : Résistance d'une jeunesse à l'époque du fascisme. Traduction de textes choisis des Lezioni recitabili de Leonardo Casalino sous la direction de M. Serge STOLF Année universitaire : 2015/2016 1 2 Remerciements Je voudrais remercier les personnes qui m'ont aidée à réaliser ce mémoire. Je remercie M. Stolf, professeur à l'Université Grenoble-Alpes, pour avoir accepté de diriger ce mémoire, pour sa gentillesse, sa disponibilité et ses conseils avisés. Je remercie également Mme Nanni, pour avoir accepté de répondre à mes questions ainsi que pour ses précieux conseils et sa disponibilité. -
From Criminal to Enemy: the Birth and Development of the Scientific Police and Criminal Identification in Italy
Revista Ítalo-Española de Derecho Procesal Vol. 1 | 2020 16 pp. Madrid, 2020 © Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales © Emilia Musumeci ISSN: 2605-5244 FROM CRIMINAL TO ENEMY: THE BIRTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC POLICE AND CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION IN ITALY Emilia Musumeci Lecturer of History of Medieval and Modern Law University of Teramo ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in Italy in order to shed new light on the legacy of criminal anthropology in policing and criminal justice in the delicate transition from liberal Italy to the Fascist regime. While identification techniques invented by Alphonse Bertillon in France spread to many coun- tries, their deployment in Italy was different, being strongly influenced by Lombroso’s con- cept of ‘criminal man’. The ‘Italian method’ was introduced thanks to the efforts of Salvatore Ottolenghi (1861-1934), a pupil of Cesare Lombroso and founder of the Italian scientific police (polizia scientifica). This was the birth of the so-called “Ottolenghi method”, used, especially during the Fascist regime, to identify not only criminals but also subversives, enemies of social order and any suspicious individuals. KEYWORDS: Criminal identification; Scientific Police; Criminal Anthropology; Bertillonage; Salvatore Ottolenghi; Cesare Lombroso. SUMMARY: 1. INTRODUCTION.—2. FROM THE CRIMINAL MAN TO THE CRIMINAL WORLD.— 3. THE SCIENTIFIC POLICE AND THE ‘OTTOLENGHI METHOD’.—4. IDENTIFYING THE ENEMY: TOWARDS THE FASCIST REGIME.—5. CONCLUSION. 1. INTRODUCTION After the unification of Italy in 1861, there had followed a period of emer- gency stemming from gradual but inexorable migration from the countryside to the cities, which became increasingly crowded with social outcasts that would populate the ranks of what would become known as the “dangerous 68 EMILIA MUSUMECI classes”. -
Convegno: Di Vittorio Gli Anni Del Confino
Convegno: Di Vittorio gli anni del confino Il 4 e 5 ottobre si è svolto il convegno dal titolo “A Cinquanta anni dalla scomparsa di Giuseppe Di Vittorio. Gli anni del confino”, organizzato dal Comune di Ventotene e dalla Fondazione Giuseppe Di Vittorio, sotto l’Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica. Pubblichiamo di seguito gli interventi di Francesco Giasi e di Filomena Gargiulo. Francesco Giasi In occasione delle celebrazioni per il cinquantenario della morte di Giuseppe Di Vittorio, la Fondazione che porta il suo nome ha scelto giustamente di non limitarsi alle commemorazioni dettate dall’occasione. Accanto ad una serie di iniziative commemorative, ha deciso, infatti, di promuovere ricerche, pubblicazioni, convegni, che consentissero di riavviare una discussione approfondita sulla figura di Di Vittorio. Ciò si è fatto non solo in Italia, ma anche all’estero, con giornate di studio a Parigi, Barcellona, in America Latina e in altre parti del mondo. Nel quadro delle celebrazioni sono state finalmente compiute delle ricerche sul periodo trascorso da Di Vittorio in Spagna durante la guerra civile e si è fatta finalmente luce su questo momento abbastanza sconosciuto della sua vita. Vi sono state significative pubblicazioni, tra cui la raccolta dei suoi scritti giornalistici del periodo 1944- 1957 mai prima pubblicati in volume; prossimamente uscirà un numero degli annali della Fondazione dedicato ai “nuovi studi e alle nuove interpretazioni” che raccoglierà alcuni contributi presentati nei diversi convegni organizzati nel 2007. Infine, sono state avviate una serie di ricerche archivistiche che si concluderanno con la pubblicazione di un volume di documenti tratti dal fascicolo del Casellario politico centrale a lui intestato e conservato presso l’Archivio centrale dello Stato. -
1 Unified Italy, Southern Women and Sexual Violence
UNIFIED ITALY, SOUTHERN WOMEN AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: SITUATING THE SEXUAL ASSAULT TV “PRANK” AGAINST EMMA MARRONE WITHIN THE DYNAMICS OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY AS A SCOPIC REGIME Marcello Messina1 Teresa Di Somma2 ABSTRACT On 22 April 2017, while rehearsing a musical performance for talent show “Amici di Maria De Filippi”, female singer Emma Marrone was repeatedly molested and groped by a male dancer as part of a prank orchestrated by the TV team. During the broadcast, cast members and guest stars laughed at Marrone‟s irritated reactions to the “simulated” sexual assaults of the dancer. The episode was then normally broadcast and promoted as a hilarious prank. While totally partaking in the general indignation and outrage that this episode has brought about in international media and in national anti-abuse organisations, we want to focus on Marrone‟s positionality as a diasporic Southern Italian woman, which has largely gone overlooked in the diffused reactions to the episode. In this work, we proceed to unearth the often-silenced histories of mass rapes against Southern women committed during the Italian Unification period and in the final stages of World War II, in order to expose the exploitation of female bodies as military trophies, perpetrated by occupying (Italian and international) forces. We then situate the episode involving Emma Marrone and “Amici di Maria de Filippi” within the perverse dynamics of contemporary Italy as a scopic regime that claims continuity with these histories of racialised sexual violence. KEYWORDS: Unified Italy; Sexual violence; Scopic Regime; Southern women; Television. RESUMO No dia 22 de abril de 2017, enquanto ensaiava uma performance musical para o show de talentos “Amici di Maria De Filippi”, a cantora Emma Marrone foi repetidamente molestada e tocada por um dançarino, como parte de uma brincadeira orquestrada pela equipe do show. -
The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context I
Giulia Fabbri La Sapienza – Università di Roma Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past & Present In the last thirty years critical race theory has revealed the cultural origin of race and has pointed out the importance of using this category in the theoretical and critical analysis in order to identify the material effects that it produces. Race does not exist as a biological category, but it has been created and built up as a category of social differentiation, which is eminently concrete in terms of its political, social and cultural consequences. It determines the way in which specific groups are considered insiders or outsiders, it produces hierarchies, exclusions and belongings, it affects the possibility of obtaining employment, habitation, of having access to healthcare. Race grants the respect of human rights only to specific groups of people, while it makes other subjects or groups undesirable and perceived as socially dangerous. Despite the deconstruction of the biological category of race, it keeps operating and produces symbolic, material and psychological effects in the social fabric. Both the construction of racial categories and the resultant racism are processes strictly bound to the social, geographic and cultural context in which they develop. And also within the same geographic space, race and racism change shape in time, adapting to social and cultural changes. Keeping in mind that the construction of whiteness and blackness is the expression of the intersection of race with gender, class, nationality, religion, citizenship and other axes of domination, racial categories need to be analysed in close connection with the racial history of the framework we are referring to, in this case the Italian one. -
Italianness in the United States Between Migrants' Informal
Modern Italy, 2021 Vol. 26, No. 2, 199–215, doi:10.1017/mit.2021.16 Italianness in the United States between migrants’ informal gardening practices and agricultural diplomacy (1880–1912) Gilberto Mazzoli* Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (Received 27 November 2020; final version accepted 2 March 2021) During the Age of Mass Migration more than four million Italians reached the United States. The experience of Italians in US cities has been widely explored: however, the study of how migrants adjusted in relation to nature and food production is a relatively recent concern. Due to a mixture of racism and fear of political radicalism, Italians were deemed to be undesirable immigrants in East Coast cities and American authorities had long perceived Italian immigrants as unclean, unhealthy and carriers of diseases. As a flipside to this narrative, Italians were also believed to possess a ‘natural’ talent for agri- culture, which encouraged Italian diplomats and politicians to propose the establishment of agricultural colonies in the southern United States. In rural areas Italians could profit from their agricultural skills and finally turn into ‘desirable immigrants’. The aim of this paper is to explore this ‘emigrant colonialism’ through the lens of environmental history, comparing the Italian and US diplomatic and public discourses on the potential and limits of Italians’ agricultural skills. Keywords: environmental history of migration; colonialism; diplomacy; agriculture; gardening. Introduction: the diplomat and the gardener In 1905, the Italian ambassador to the United States, Edmondo Mayor des Planches, toured the numerous settlements of Italian migrants scattered amongst the southern states of the USA. -
Università Degli Studi Del Molise
Università degli Studi del Molise Dottorato di Ricerca in “Storia della società italiana” (XXV ciclo) Dipartimento Scientifico Disciplinare SUSS CAMILLA RAVERA E MARGHERITA SARFATTI: DUE PARABOLE UMANE A CONFRONTO Candidata Relatore/Tutor Dott.ssa Benedetta Mancino Prof. Giovanni Cerchia Coordinatore del Dottorato Prof. Giovanni Cerchia 1 INDICE INTRODUZIONE 1 CAPITOLO I: DONNE NELL’EPOCA GIOLITTIANA 1.1 Un nuovo “stivale” per il Re. Il Regno d’Italia tra Otto e Novecento: problematiche e condizioni di vita nel periodo post-unitario 11 1.2 … e le donne? 13 1.3 Camilla Ravera e la sua lunga strada verso corso Siccardi 19 1.4 Margherita Sarfatti: un’ “analfabeta” raffinatamente colta 30 CAPITOLO II: L’ITALIA DALLA PADELLA (DELLA GUERRA) ALLA BRACE (DELLA DITTATURA) 2.1 Dallo scoppio della “polveriera” europea alla costruzione del Regime 52 2.2 La mobilitazione femminile: dalla Grande guerra al Fascismo 61 2.3 La “svolta” comunista di Camilla Ravera 67 2.4 Margherita Sarfatti e l’addio al socialismo 76 CAPITOLO III: GLI ANNI DEL REGIME: DAL CONSOLIDAMENTO AI PREPARATIVI BELLICI 3.1 Benito Mussolini conduce l’Italia 90 3.2 Il contributo delle donne durante il Ventennio 98 3.3 I duri anni del carcere e del confino di Camilla Ravera 107 3.4 Margherita Sarfatti: da “musa” a vittima del Fascismo 118 BIBLIOGRAFIA 129 2 INTRODUZIONE La tesi si propone di analizzare i diversi elementi che hanno generato ed agevolato l’emancipazione della condizione femminile in età contemporanea, muovendo dall’età giolittiana ed attraversando quasi l’intero Ventennio, fino ai preparativi del secondo conflitto mondiale.