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Recensione di Marcello Ravveduto, Lo spettacolo della mafia : storia di un immaginario tra finzione e realtà
2019
Letta sotto questa lente, la mafia, anzi le mafie al plurale, si affermano nel discorso pubblico come un potere oscuro, a volte invincibile, di sicuro violento e corruttore. Per conoscerle bisogna innanzitutto compiere un’azione di costruzione sociale del male, c’è bisogno di identificare il mafioso come un nemico pubblico e attribuirgli, per renderlo manifesto, tutti i difetti che non appartengono al cittadino virtuoso
Conspiracy theories in Republican Italy: the Pellegrino Report to the Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism
2015
This article analyses the draft of the final report prepared by Senator Giovanni Pellegrino, who from 1994 to 2001 chaired the ‘Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on terrorism in Italy and on the causes of the failure to identify those responsible for the massacres’. The document was completed in 1995 and attempted a general interpretation of the causes of the political violence that had been a major feature of the history of the Italian Republic up to that point. The report was closely connected with what is often described as the moment of the transition between Italy's ‘first’ and ‘second’ Republic and, in keeping with revisionist theories current at the time, attributed responsibility …
Criminalpol Sicilia and the mafia, 1966-1981
2022
This article reconstructs events relating to the Centro di coordinamento regionale di polizia criminale (Criminalpol Sicilia) in Palermo, from its establishment in the second half of the 1960s up to the beginning of the 1980s. Created in order to unify and coordinate mafia investigations at the regional level, Criminalpol Sicilia became, over time, one of the most significant ventures in the history of the battle against the mafia. First and foremost, this was because during the 1970s it managed to operate in total synergy with the most important investigative bodies engaged in fighting the mafia, including Palermo’s Squadra Mobile (Flying Squad). Secondly, it was because it proved capable …
Identità nazionale, monarchia, impero. Costruire la Spagna nell'età del liberalismo (1782-1868)
2018
Nella storiografia sulla Spagna contemporanea i termini nazione ed impero, costruzione nazionale e imperialismo sono spesso rappresentanti come tra loro contraddittori o autoescludenti. Con i processi rivoluzionari americani del primo quarto del XIX secolo, la dimensione imperiale spagnola avrebbe ceduto il passo a quella prettamente nazionale, dove le diverse famiglie liberali, attraverso un processo rivoluzionario, prima introdussero un sistema monarchico costituzionale e poi si scontrarono per l'articolazione politica e culturale interna della nazione. Secondo tale lettura, solo durante la Restauración borbonica e con la crisi del 1898, sarebbe riemersa una "coscienza imperiale" come com…
Il Suono dei Soli e le lamiere di Dario Buccino
2009
Camorra e mafie di mezzo in alcuni recenti contributi delle scienze sociali
2018
Interacting with the lively debate on petitions and the various forms of appeal to the authorities written in different spatial and temporal contexts, the article deals with the analysis of a group of “discrimination” requests addressed to the General Directorate for Demography and Race by a sample of female Italian citizens qualified as belonging to the “Jewish race” in Autumn 1938. Women’s petitions represented a minority within the broader corpus of requests for derogation from the Anti-Semitic Fascist legislation. They are nonetheless a source of great importance, both to illuminate the relevance of the “discrimination” procedures from the persecuted point of view, and to shed fresh lig…
Le forme del patiren/della contemporaneità
2011
The Road to Parnassus. Artist Strategies in Contemporary Art. Rise and Success of Glasgow artist Douglas Gordon and of the wider YBA generation
2015
How can one become a successful artist? Where should one start a career in the art world? What are useful strategies to achieve recognition in the art system? Such questions hoard in students' minds ever since entering art school and they probably chase every kind of art professional who is at an early career stage. “The Road to Parnassus” tries to understand what makes a good start in today's art world, who are influential players in the field and which strategies might apply. The swift career ascension of Glasgow artist Douglas Gordon – one of today's leading visual artists – and of the broader YBA generation that rose into worldwide prominence in the 1990s – Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas …
Gibellina: avanguardia di città cosmopolita
2021
Gibellina è città tellurica per orogenesi: rinasce dopo un drammatico terremoto e, con la sua peculiarità di città d’arte, produce un sisma che scuote le incrostazioni dell’urbanistica, facendosi avanguardia di una città aperta al mondo, ai mondi della cultura contemporanea: l’architettura, l’arte, il teatro. La sua storia si intreccia, anticipa e contiene altre storie urbanistiche siciliane, mediterranee ed europee. Per il piccolo centro rurale della Sicilia il terremoto ha segnato una netta frattura nella sua continuità storica: il sito originario è stato abbandonato e per gli abitanti superstiti è stata costruita ex novo un’altra città. Una città “altra”, aliena al contesto sociocultural…
Paolozzi & Wittgenstein: The Artist and the Philosopher
2019
Conceived as a collection of essays, this edited volume exceptionally brings together philosophers and art historians of different geographic and generational backgrounds to discuss Wittgenstein and Paolozzi, giving voice to a variety of disciplinary approaches and shaping diverse topics that may arouse the interest of a twofold audience. As a matter of fact, the book offers both a unique take on Paolozzi’s oeuvre, reassessing his pivotal importance in the second half of the twentieth century—especially as far as medium diversity and the use of popular culture are concerned—and a convenient opportunity to explore Wittgenstein’s thought related to visual arts and his influence on contemporar…