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{"title":"After institutional reception: time, im-mobility and social networks in Southern Italy","authors":"Giuliana Sanò, Francesco Zanotelli","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2139059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2139059","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By examining the changes that have occurred in migration policies over the last decade, which have radically transformed the mobility trajectories of migrants, the article analyses the im-mobility produced by these policies through existential, spatial and temporal perspectives. Going deep into two ethnographic settings in Calabria (Southern Italy), one rural and one urban, the article investigates how people involved in the process of going through the reception system can enhance their aspirations, hopes and desires in the attempt to find greater existential, work and housing stability. Together with the initiatives of local groups and social networks, the ‘“capacity to aspire’” of individuals is, in fact, the basis of the possibility to navigate the im-mobility produced by migration policies as well as to imagine and practice the future in present-times.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"433 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45150409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lega Nord: between mistrust of the Church, traditionalist sympathies and neo-pagan alternatives (beginnings)","authors":"D. Saresella","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2133282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2133282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The focus of this article is the Lega party and the religious question from the early 1990s to its definitive collocation on the centre-right in 2001, highlighting the various facets of the movement. One faction grounded in intransigent culture, suspicious of modernity and with evident links to Fraternità Sacerdotale di San Pio X was juxtaposed by another faction espoused, in particular, by Gilberto Oneto which called for a new political religion inspired by pre-Christian Celtic traditions based on ‘small homelands’ whose raison d’être was an assumed Padanian identity juxtaposed to Christian standardization. In the new millennium these anti-Christian stances were cast aside, for the most part, and Lega Catholicism took on a non-universal doctrinal character made up of local, identity-based and racist ideologies. The relationship between the Lega and the radical right milieu is evident, as is its opposition to Vatican II on the grounds of the latter’s vocation for dialogue with other religions and denominations and its solidarity with the poor and marginalized.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"343 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45223017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jüdinnen in der frühen italienischen Frauenbewegung (1861–1945)","authors":"Marion Näser-Lather","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2133308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2133308","url":null,"abstract":"freedom of women – that were portrayed in Italian operas. The reactions of Stendhal and Mme. De Stael in these contexts are exemplary. The essays cover nineteenth receptions of Italian opera on at least three continents. Their broader aims are illustrated, for example, in Fernando Santos Berçot’s examination of the role played by the Italian Opera Company in Rio de Janeiro, which the author argues helped to establish Brazil as an independent nation-state because the ‘genre itself embodied the idea of European civilization’. Claudio Vellutini’s study of the presence of Gaetano Donizetti and of the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli at the Habsburg court in the middle of the nineteenth century also shows how italianità was not simply a matter of the ‘implantation’ of Italian culture in a foreign context, illustrating instead how it was subject to adaptation and transformation for specific purposes within new contexts. This is evident, too, in Andrew Holden’s interesting comments on the role played by religion in determining public approval of an opera during the nineteenth century in Italy, where the presence of the church and religious considerations determined success or failure – for example, Richard Wagner’s works had to wait until 1871 to be performed on the Italian stage. Similarly, Richard Erkens argues that the operas by Leoncavallo and Franchetti that drew on German myths were considered to be too far from the emotional ideals of the German audience. There are also two very interesting essays on the reception of Italian opera (and evidently of the culture as well) in India and Japan by Rashna Darius Nicholson and Michael Facius, respectively. In both cases, the role of impresarios proved to be fundamental for finding the right language and themes through which to export the culture of Mediterranean Europe into apparently different social contexts. In the closing essay, Benjamin Walton considers that ways in which the essays published in this volume and current literature serve to open new questions about the global and transnational roles of opera in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"150 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46727439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transnational beauty: Avon International and the case of Italy","authors":"E. Scarpellini","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2132680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2132680","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A clear example of the cultural adaptation process is represented by the global spread of one of the most famous American cosmetics companies, Avon Products. The products related to hygiene and cosmetics, in particular, are deeply influenced by the canons of the dominant culture regarding aesthetics, fashion, morality, gender, religion. This paper will concentrate on one of these challenges, namely, the company’s international strategy in order to expand into different countries, focusing on a case study, Italy. Avon’s history exemplifies the role of light industries during a boom in the economy; it shows the adjustments to a changing market and embodies the challenge of adapting to a different cultural context. Executives at Avon Italy were forced to consider issues like gender and class in their strategies, as their American counterparts did before them, but in a different framework. Moreover, they found that the key to success was the development of targeted marketing for Italian female consumers: a marketing where local sales representatives played a key role.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"113 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41551185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Against parties? The Radicals between anti-partitocracy and reform, 1979–87","authors":"L. Bonfreschi","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2132678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2132678","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many historians and political scientists have seen the Italian Radicals as the ‘forerunners’ of the anti-partitocracy and anti-political battle, and some scholars have even referred to them as members of the populist family. Distancing itself from the latter definition, the article intends to focus on the emergence of the Radical Party’s (P.R.) anti-partitocracy battle, showing how it combined elements of ‘structural’ anti-politics with an attempt to promote ‘another’ kind of politics and party organization. In the second half of the 1970s, their criticism of parties and the political system shifted from the latter meaning to the first, a shift connected with the perception, from 1978–79, of a ‘blocked system’ and with the evolution of the Radicals’ political project. From 1984–85 they sought to find ways out of the impasse in which were the political system and their own anti-partitocratic critique. This way out took the form of promoting an electoral reform (one-round single-member majority system) and attempting to create a ‘third pole’ (between Christian Democracy and the Communist Party) with the other lay parties.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"159 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49400365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeding fascism: the politics of women’s food work","authors":"J. Dickie","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2139965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2139965","url":null,"abstract":"able to fully dominate. One may ask, however, if presenting the image of Mussolini as a weak dictator ultimately downplays Mussolini’s policies and the Duce’s determination to overcome said limits, especially in the second part of the 1930s. The regime’s radicalization entailed more than ‘boredom’ or ‘routine’. In a certain sense, making the point that fascist policies were ‘all show and no content’, and underlying the Duce’s ‘phantasy foreign policy schemes’ may lead to contradict somewhat the very reality of the regime that Corner correctly strives to reconstruct; think for instance, about the sections he devotes to anti-Semitic policies and war. The central question here is not so much the relative strength of the Fascist state, but its very nature, the party-state, which embodied the totality of the nation, and directed its mobilization and transformation. Corner’s scholarship is meticulous. He deserves much credit for tackling the memory of the Fascist Ventennio and its significance today in a thorough and perceptive manner. Despite possible disagreements with his argument in some sections of this book, it is evident that this work will stimulate further reflections on and discussion about the legacy of the Duce and his regime in contemporary Italy.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"390 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48621840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The inner decline of the Christian Democrat Party. Mario Segni and the origins of the referendum movement for electoral system reform","authors":"P. Carusi","doi":"10.1080/1354571x.2022.2124714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2022.2124714","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The loudest and most senior voice to be found in the Christian Democrat Party in the 1980s in support of electoral system reform was that of Mario Segni; a voice so loud as to progressively become a destabilizing factor for the party. In support of a bipolar political system since 1976, Segni tabled a series of electoral reform bills seeking to implement majority rule reform measures both locally and nationally. The rejection of his proposals led him, in 1988, to abandon the parliamentary route and turn to an electoral reform movement that sought to implement change via referenda in June 1991.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"191 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41607178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Italian opera in global and transnational perspective – reimagining Italianità in the long nineteenth century","authors":"Paolo Rota","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2111919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2111919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"149 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46051253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fascist view of the ‘allogeni’ in the border regions","authors":"A. Di Michele","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2122369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2122369","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Fascist policy towards linguistic minorities has sometimes been compared to that practised in the colonies, using the categories of racism and internal colonialism. According to some interpretations, Fascism considered members of minorities as something foreign, potentially hostile, if not actually inferior, starting from a clear dividing line between who could be considered Italian and who not. It has also been argued that the ‘allogeni’ were the first targets of radical measures to exclude them from Italian citizenship, the forerunners of the later racist laws implemented against colonial subjects and Jews. This article has three aims: to verify whether severe discriminatory actions really were taken against members of linguistic minorities with regard to citizenship rights; to understand whether these persons were perceived as completely alien to the nation on the basis of clear, shared demarcation lines between those who could consider themselves Italian and those who could not; and, finally, to determine whether the view of such minorities was always radically negative and disdainful to the extent that it could justifiably be called racism. The analysis of forms of representation focuses in particular on the German-speaking population of South Tyrol, using various sources (newspapers, institutional correspondence, political speeches, literary accounts). The answer to the first question posed is negative; as regards the other two, in the first place there is a considerable degree of uncertainty on the part of the Fascists in defining the members of the German-speaking minority, who were sometimes presented as being completely outside the perimeter of Italianità, i.e. Italianness, while more often as being on the margins but undoubtedly capable of integration thanks to their unshakably Italian core. This seems to reveal a certain difficulty in defining who could be considered Italian and who could not when clearly drawing the boundaries of Italianness. Secondly, judgements were made about the South Tyroleans that were in no way characterized by a lack of appreciation or by contempt. The descriptions of the South Tyrolean peasant are, to say the least, flattering: full of exaggerated praise for his many virtues, from his religiosity to his obedience to institutions, from his strong ties to the land to his conservatism. The views regarding the Slovenian and Croatian-speaking populations of Venezia Giulia and Istria were very different, expressing and amplifying the most scornful stereotypes of anti-Slavism developed during the national struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"90 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49149218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migration and the media: debating Chinese migration to Italy, 1992–2012","authors":"J. South","doi":"10.1080/1354571X.2022.2069422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2069422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16364,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Modern Italian Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"809 - 811"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44173685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}