The re/production of a (white) people: confronting Italian nationalist populism as a gender and race issue

IF 0.7 4区 文学 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES
Carla Panico
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to inquiry nationalistic populism in Italy, using an intersectional perspective - feminist and postcolonial - and proposing some possible articulations between feminist and racial struggles as a response to the contemporary advance of the racist and misogynist far-right. Using the theoretical frame of Critical Studies on Whiteness (Giuliani 2013), the hypothesis is that this specific articulation of racism and sexism represents the basis of affirmation of alt right hegemony in contemporary Italy – where the political and cultural context is characterized by a capillary diffusion of racial, misogynist, homophobic and xenophobic feelings. The text focuses on the emotional dimension of nationalist populism (Ahmed 2004): this theoretical framework is necessary for the analysis of the history of Italian nationalism as a phenomenon based on the obsession with the production and maintenance of the whiteness of the Italian people (Petrovich Njegosh 2012). The last part of the present paper is dedicated to the examples of articulation between feminist and racial/postcolonial struggles in contemporary Italy, focusing on the case of the feminist “vandalization” of colonialist monuments, i.e., the statue of Indro Montanelli in Milan, on the 8th of March 2019 (Panico 2019).
一个(白人)民族的再/生产:作为性别和种族问题面对意大利民族民粹主义
摘要本文旨在从女权主义和后殖民主义的交叉视角探讨意大利的民族民粹主义,并提出女权主义和种族斗争之间的一些可能的表述,以回应种族主义和厌女主义极右翼的当代发展。使用《白人批判研究》(Giuliani,2013)的理论框架,假设种族主义和性别歧视的这种具体表述代表了对当代意大利另类右翼霸权的肯定——意大利的政治和文化背景以种族、厌女、恐同和仇外情绪的毛细扩散为特征。本文关注民族主义民粹主义的情感维度(Ahmed 2004):这一理论框架对于分析意大利民族主义的历史是必要的,意大利民族主义是一种基于对意大利人民白人生产和维护的痴迷的现象(Petrovich Njegosh,2012)。本文的最后一部分致力于当代意大利女权主义和种族/后殖民主义斗争之间的联系,重点关注2019年3月8日(Panico 2019)女权主义对殖民主义纪念碑,即米兰的Indro Montanelli雕像的“破坏”。
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