Paolo Heywood

Burying Mussolini

Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism

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Produktbeschreibung

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 148mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781501778285
• ISBN-10: 1501778285
• Artikelnr.: 71546463

Autorenporträt

Paolo Heywood is Associate Professor of anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference, editor of New Anthropologies of Italy , and the co-editor of Beyond Description.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Fascist Parenthesis
1. Fascism and the Social Life of"Ordinary Life"
2. Ordinary Exemplars and the Moralization of the Everyday
3. The "Carnival of Mussolini" and How to Pretend It Isn't Happening
4. Everyday Space and Walking in the Fascist City
5. Ordinary Skepticism and Fascist Family Resemblances
6. Recycling the Past and the"Museum of Fascism"
Conclusion: Anthropology after Fascism