The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right
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The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right

From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right

From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum

About this book

The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right examines the role of colonial memory in the contemporary Italian populist radical right, which includes the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia (FdI).

The book originally adopts postcolonialism as an analytical framework to critically examine which roles colonial memory plays in the Italian populist radical right. Considering the timeframe between 2013 and 2021, this book suggests that the contemporary Italian populist radical right selectively shaped its memory of the colonial past, expunging the most difficult aspects from it. The fact that the Italian populist radical right parties examined do not fully acknowledge the controversial aspects of Italy's colonial past, which are bracketed off discourse, may contribute to the deployment of colonial discourse by these same parties when discussing immigration. From this Italian case study, broader implications can be drawn regarding the role of colonial memory in political discourse, which is a topical matter across Europe.

The book will be of interest to those studying populism, the radical right, Italian politics and history, colonialism, and the politics of memory.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The Italian Populist Radical Right: Debates and the Missing Link with Memory
  11. 2 Nation and Race: The Theoretical Roots of Nativism
  12. 3 Research Design
  13. 4 “Italians First”: The Ethno-cultural Nation with Civic Undertones
  14. 5 “I am not racist, but …”: Problematisation, Differentiation, and Othering of Immigration
  15. 6 Echoes from Colonialism: Criminalisation, Inferiorisation, and Abjectification of Immigration
  16. 7 Memory and Forgetting: The Colonial Past in the Italian Populist Radical Right
  17. 8 Memory and Forgetting: The Fascist Past in the Italian Populist Radical Right
  18. Conclusion
  19. Postscript
  20. Primary Sources
  21. Appendix 1 Rationale for Interview Questions
  22. Index