Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.59
Simone Battiston, Stefano Luconi, Marco Valbruzzi
{"title":"To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad","authors":"Simone Battiston, Stefano Luconi, Marco Valbruzzi","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.59","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas constituency. Instead, it delves into external vote dynamics to provide insights into overseas Italians’ abstention in parliamentary elections and referenda. After summarising the history of the introduction of Italy's peculiar model of external voting, drawing on the results of an online survey of Italians abroad, the article examines the factors influencing turnout, with specific attention to the eligible voters’ personal characteristics. It also focuses on the attitude of Italians abroad towards possible reforms aiming at increasing electoral participation. It concludes that country of birth and Italian language skills are among the most relevant variables not only to assess what fosters or inhibits external voting, but also to gauge the opinion of voters residing outside Italy about proposals to reform the procedures regulating the exercise of suffrage from abroad.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"60 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71474905","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.25
Alan J. Gravano
{"title":"Remembering Italian America: Memory, Migration, Identity by Laurie and Michael Buonanno, New York, Routledge, 2021, 274 pp., $49.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780367514693.","authors":"Alan J. Gravano","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.25","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"6 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135813494","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.49
Rossana Capitano
{"title":"Modernity and consumer culture in Visconti's early films","authors":"Rossana Capitano","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.49","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Luchino Visconti is widely recognised as a high-culture director. However, in his films of the period 1943–63 there was a firm engagement with consumer culture and modernity in terms of themes, characters and references. This article explores this often overlooked dimension in Visconti's films by analysing a number of key sequences and moments that relate directly to consumption, consumer culture, leisure, modernity, Americanisation and youth culture. The analysis shows how these representations related to the ongoing changes in Italian postwar society and to incoming Americanisation in particular. My research is informed by the work of Gary Cross, Victoria De Grazia and Emanuela Scarpellini on consumer culture and contextualises how Visconti's referencing of consumer culture and modernity was received by the PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano or Italian Communist Party).","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908255","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.56
Patrizia Sambuco
{"title":"Dynamics, experiences and political meaning of the black market in Second World War Italy","authors":"Patrizia Sambuco","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"Rationing and illegal food trade in Second World War Italy have received very little scholarly attention in comparison to the scale and impact they had on people's daily life. This article contributes to filling this gap, first by providing an overview of the dynamics that already in the early years of the war determined the development of an illegal system of food trade. It then considers the experience of the black market through two wartime diaries, one published and the other unpublished, written by women of opposite political views, both living in Rome and its outskirts. The analysis of the diaries considers women's attitudes towards the black market. The article argues that the Fascist propaganda of duty to the homeland, so intensively practised through domestic literature during the 1920s and 1930s, was again exploited in wartime in the discourse around the black market and hid the political responsibilities of the government.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"92 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435473","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.54
Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
{"title":"Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism: Let Our Music Be Played edited by Alessandro Carrieri and Annalisa Capristo, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, xiv + 210 pp., $129.99 (softcover and hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-52933-8.","authors":"Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.54","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"34 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135216275","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.43
Carlo Greppi, Gianluca Falanga, Eric Gobetti
{"title":"The Italian historiographical debate and the Fact Checkers movement","authors":"Carlo Greppi, Gianluca Falanga, Eric Gobetti","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.43","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ‘Fact Checking’ series of titles published by Laterza since 2020 is, in the first place, a response to the proliferation of historical fake news, which has grown exponentially as a consequence of social networks. But it is also a response to an increasingly systematic political abuse of history – not only in Italy. The authors and the public firmly believe in the necessity of restoring complexity and value to historical research, as well as in the importance of playing a significant role in the public debate about our past. In many ways the political use of history works in an authoritarian and anti-democratic manner, spreading erroneous and dangerous convictions among broad sections of society. Among the examples which appear in various sections of the article, we discuss the books in the series which problematise the ‘official’ and victimist version of events which took place on the Italian-Yugoslavian border at the end of the Second World War. Other parts of the article examine the instrumental readings of the history and experience of twentieth-century communism.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135730066","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.44
Mirko Grasso
{"title":"Salvemini, militant historian, and his publications on Fascism","authors":"Mirko Grasso","doi":"10.1017/mit.2023.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2023.44","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyses Salvemini's major works on Fascism, namely <jats:italic>The Fascist Dictatorship in Italy</jats:italic> (1927), <jats:italic>Mussolini Diplomate</jats:italic> (1932) and <jats:italic>Under the Axe of Fascism</jats:italic> (1936). The focus of this analysis is twofold: to explore both Salvemini's methodology and the events leading to the publication of these works. In <jats:italic>The Fascist Dictatorship in Italy</jats:italic>, Salvemini examines the origins and the rise of Mussolini's movement, highlighting the complicity of the monarchy, the army, and industrial magnates. In <jats:italic>Mussolini Diplomate</jats:italic>, he analyses Fascist foreign policy from 1922 to 1932, in which Salvemini is unable to identify a consistent strategy, but only a propagandistic approach aiming to foster diplomatic relations. In <jats:italic>Under the Axe of Fascism</jats:italic>, Salvemini dissects Fascist economics, debunking the idea that the corporate state was an original and equitable compromise in the conflict between capital and labour, as was being portrayed abroad. An analysis of these three volumes brings into focus some noteworthy aspects of Salvemini's so-called ‘historiographical workshop’, which have hitherto been overlooked by historians (such as his adept use of sources and his endeavour to combine social sciences and economics), as well as underscoring his ability to forge cultural and intellectual networks, an essential element for undertaking such a complex task.","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"26 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166866","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}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.57
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Modern ItalyPub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1017/mit.2023.58
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