The Politics of Sacrifice: Remembering Italy's Rogo di Primavalle

di Amy King (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2024

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 in Italy 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.

• Autore: Amy King
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 255 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• Peso: 498 gr.
• EAN: 9783031455490

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