The Politics of Sacrifice

Remembering Italy's Rogo di Primavalle

von Amy King

255 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

Winner of the 2024 Book Prize – First Book (Ex-Aequo) awarded by The American Association for Italian Studies for its outstanding contribution to Italian Studies.

 

• Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783031455520
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2025
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing