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Discorsi geneticamente modificati nella democrazia dello 'streaming'. Il nuovo ordine del discorso politico nell'Italia post-berlusconiana
2016
In this paper I discuss some features of Italian political discourse after the ending of the so called ‘berlusconismo’ (that is, the specific communicative style of Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of Italian right wing for almost two decades). In particular, I display the figure of Matteo Renzi, the current Italian Prime Minister and Secretary of PD, the most important Italian political party. In my work, I try to pinpoint the peculiarity of Renzi’s discourse strategies. In this vein, I suggest to use the notion of ‘disphasic discourse’, in order to underline the strong decrease of styles, genres and textual types variability characterizing his ways of communicating. I focus the attention on …
Left-Wing Italian Jews from the 1960s to 1980s: A Fluid Identity
2012
The aim of this chapter is to show how belonging to the Jewish Community as well as to the Italian left contributed to create the identity of certain Italian Jews. Through three life stories an attempt will be made to demonstrate that this link with the left-wing movement, which was very strong in the 1960s and 1970s, started to disappear in the early 1980s. At this time, due to the debate on the Lebanese war, Israel became the main component of their identity. Of course, this process had different characteristics which depended on different experiences. However, generally speaking we can talk about ‘mixed identities’ in which the link with Israel and political ideologies were balanced in v…
Marta Cimino e il Comitato dei lenzuoli. Antimafia, cordoglio e mobilitazione nell'Italia degli anni '90
2023
In 1992, the massacres in which judges Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and Paolo Borsellino lost their lives, along with the women and men who made up their escorts, caused a shock throughout the country. Also for this reason, 1992 is considered a watershed year, a crucial date for the end of the “First Republic”. This essay reconstructs the history of an entirely new attempt at mobilisation, the Committee of the Sheets, which was born spontaneously immediately after the Capaci massacre on the initiative of Marta Cimino, a former militant of the New Left, the daughter of two militants of the Italian Communist Party. For its short life, the Committee was one of the best known expression…