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The end of revolution. The transformation in the conception and way of living the making of history in the Italian social movements of the 70s This article focuses on the Italian social movements of the 70s in order to grasp a crucial... more
La «politica dei sacrifici» del governo Andreotti e la proposta dell’«austerità» avanzata da Berlinguer furono il principale bersaglio del movimento del 1977. Sacrifici e austerità erano ritenuti due programmi convergenti, finalizzati –... more
Il volume ripercorre le molte analisi e interpretazioni del Settantasette, per ricostruire la complessità e le molteplici sfaccettature di quell’evento e inserirlo in una più ampia prospettiva storica. Si confronta con le difficoltà di... more
In 1978, twenty-eight Italian artists donated works to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on the occasion of the International Art Exhibition for Palestine held in Beirut in the spring of the same year. As was the case with other... more
Ten years in the making, An Alternative Seventies: the last age of Radicalism is a revisionist look at design and styling in the 1970s and sets out to demolish the long-established fallacy that all is hideous from this decade. Diligent... more
The article looks at Vitalità del negativo nell’arte italiana 1960/70 an exhibition held in the winter of 1970 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. By showing paintings by the Roman School of Pop, kinetic environments, Arte Povera,... more
F*ck May 68, Fight Now: Exploring the Uses of the Radical Past from 1968 to Today Session 1: History is a Weapon June 8, 2018 Department of History, University of Liverpool... more
In the 1970s Italy the cycle of inflation/devaluation represented a response to the challenges posed by class conflict and an offspring of a mercantilist vision of national development. Italian authorities essentially aimed at defending a... more
Article on Italian Feminist photobooks of the 1970s published in Photoworks issue 22
Edited version of published paper presented at 'Is Black and Red Dead?' Conference, Centre for the Study of Social and Global and Justice (CSSGJ) University of Nottingham, 7-8 September, 2009... more
This thesis examines the generic body of a vast group of commercial crime films produced in Italy during the anni di piombo, or Leaden Years, a time peculiarly marked by widespread episodes of political violence and tragic facts of... more
in "Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali" n.92/2018 Indice dei paragrafi: 1) Il dondolio del "riflusso" 2) "Riflusso". Radici ed evoluzioni del termine 3) Sulla "scomparsa" dei giovani e sulla "fine" dei movimenti 4) Il... more
International Society for Cultural History CONFERENCE
Trieste, 18-22/07/2016
Panel: "Troubling Generations: Youth Cultures in Postwar Italy"
Organizer: Cecilia Brioni, University of Hull
The article focuses on the changes in the nature of urban history and the shaping of this specific approach as a field in the 1970s in Europe. It deals with the Italian scholar Vera Comoli’s way of “making history” within the frame of the... more
At first glance, there could be few countries more diverse than Britain and Italy: one the cradle of democracy, a model for most other parliamentary systems; the other a young nation and the essence of political instability. Yet despite... more
More than 30 years ago the violent death - on 11 March 1977 - of a left-wing student in the Italian city of Bologna brought an end to a student protest movement, the ‘Movement of ’77’. Today nostalgia dominates public commemorations of... more
As written by John Goldthorpe economic problems are “to an important degree epiphenomenal.” “Social divisions and antagonisms” will be found “at the root of what are experienced as economic problems”. The origins of the 1970s inflation... more
This article tries to provide some food for thought on the identities of the PCI and the PCF about the developed socialism, taking into consideration some relevant turning points in the ‘70s and three different case studies (the USSR,... more
“Italy is sick; an effective long-term therapy should be provided. Its Western partners have an important role to play. But it is also urgent to cope with the present crisis: for the first time in 30 years a fundamental change in the... more
This paper focuses on representations of women in the giallo films of 1960s-80s, and analyzes them in the light of socio-cultural and industrial aspects that revolve on the wider issue of violence against women.
Schon seit geraumer Zeit beschäftigt sich die Geschichtswissenschaft mit der Zeit seit den 1970er Jahren und erschließt sich somit die jüngste Vergangenheit. Daraus ergeben sich neue Untersuchungsperspektiven, aber auch vielfältige... more
Memories are increasingly shaped and shared through the media, in particular visual media such as photography. However, it is not just the images that allow for memories to enter our individual and collective identities: the latter take... more
In quattro densi capitoli un valente giovane storico ripercorre un tratto importante della storia dell’Italia repubblicana. Lo fa attraverso l’attività di governo di un politico democristiano, Carlo Donat-Cattin che, tra il dicembre del... more
Claudio Magris est notamment connu comme l’auteur de Le Mythe et l’empire dans la littérature autrichienne moderne (1963) et de Danube (1986). Jusqu’à présent, la recherche abordait surtout ses travaux relatifs à Trieste, sa ville natale,... more
Since Italy’s transition to the Second Republic in the early 1990s, a period marked furthermore by attempts to come to terms with the traumatic experience of the violent 1970s, cinema and television have increasingly been (ab)used for the... more
Since its origins European integration has been closely connected to the social tensions that capitalism generates. During the interwar years, one of the main rationales behind the push to deeper European economic integration was the... more
Die 1970er-Jahre gelten gemeinhin als "rotes Jahrzehnt" - eine Zuschreibung, die der Mehrdeutigkeit der Dekade nach "1968" nicht gerecht wird. In diesem Band werden politische Akteure in den Blick genommen, die sich als Alternative zur... more
In 1977, a new Italian student movement arose which turned itself explicitly against traditional left-wing parties and unions. In the university town of Bologna, a student and sympathiser of a former left-wing, extra-parliamentary group -... more
Working in 1970s Italy, a group of artists—namely Ugo La Pietra, Maurizio Nannucci, Francesco Somaini, Mauro Staccioli, Franco Summa, and Franco Vaccari—sought new spaces to create and exhibit art. Looking beyond the gallery, they... more
Invitati speciali: Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University, Stati Uniti) Gianmario Borio (Università di Pavia e Fondazione Cini) Alessandro Bertinetto (Università di Udine) Vincenzo Caporaletti... more