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Conflits armés, idéologie et technologie dans Für Paul Dessau de Luigi Nono

open access: yesTransposition, 2014
Despite the horror caused by war, some armed conflicts of the twentieth century have raised great hopes for social justice among Marxist artists engaged in the international political struggles of their time.
Luis Velasco-Pufleau
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The rise and fall of Benedetto Croce: intellectual positionings in the Italian cultural field 1944-1947 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article evaluates the discourse developed around Benedetto Croce in the Italian cultural periodical press between 1944 and 1947 and it discusses the forms of adversarial discourse and the agents involved in the anti-Croce polemics that unfolded in ...
La Penna, Daniela
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Red screens : the cinematographic production of the Italian Communist Party [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This thesis was previously held under moratorium from 23 December 2013 until 23 December 2018The thesis concerns the production of propaganda films and documentaries by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) between 1946 and 1979.
Fantoni, Gianluca
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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Mafia in the ballot box [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We study the impact of organized crime on electoral results, analyzing in detail the national parliamentary elections in Sicily for the period 1946-1992.
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The Dual‐Edged State Paradox: Fighting for Justice When the State is Unreliable

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 689-714, November 2025.
Sociological theories of collective resistance offer insights into how communities mobilize against oppression but often overlook the complexities when the state, an entity relied upon for justice, also acts as an agent of betrayal. Based on 8 years of ethnographic research in Palermo (2016–2024), this study examines the relationship between Sicilian ...
Baris Cayli Messina
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The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
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BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 105-130, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and “difficult” heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the freedom to remember) or a weakness (as when people are thought to repress uncomfortable or ...
PAOLO HEYWOOD
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Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 58, Issue 7, Page 1119-1132, December 2024.
Abstract There is ample literature to suggest that labour's interests are at odds with the extension of income protection to ‘outsiders’. Until recently, Italian unions were reluctant, if not outright obstructive, towards the introduction of a minimum income scheme (MIS). After the 2008 financial crisis and its dramatic social and economic consequences,
Luca Cigna, Bianca Luna Fabris
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Tempo di inquietudini. La segreteria Natta raccontata da L’Unità (1984-1989)

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2014
The paper aims to describe the years of Alessandro Natta as Secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1985 to 1988. It reconstructs the self-representation of the party’s leadership through its newspaper.
Michelangela Di Giacomo si è addottorata presso l’Università di Siena; è Borsista presso l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans di Barcellona e Cultore della materia presso il Dispi-Università di Siena. Ha vinto con le sue tesi il premio della Presidenza della Repubblica/Fondazione Spadolini nel 2012 e di quello del Senato della Repubblica nel 2009.
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