Diana Garvin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Garvin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Garvin |
| SIGNATURE | GARVIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1469-6953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon
Building pasta's empire
This article investigates the role that Italian food companies like Barilla pasta played in creating narratives of East African empire at the apex of the Fascist ventennio . It aims to use the commercial remnants of Fascist empire to provide a more thorough accounting of how colonialism shaped the modern cultural history of Italian pasta. To do so, I analyze the paper ephemera, that is, the pasta advertisements and packaging, that connected occup…
The Pioneer’s Feast
This article examines colonial Italian menus used in interwar Ethiopia and Eritrea to understand how provide companies supported Fascism’s imperial projects. Feasts celebrated battlefield victories, steamship journeys, and settlement soirees. Menus produced by shipping companies (Rex, Lloyd Triestino) and banks (Banca di Roma) for use by Italian colonists on Ethiopian settlements speaks to the economics of Fascism, demonstrating how private compa…
Fruit of Fascist Empire
This article investigates Italian banana plantations in Somalia and the Mediterranean fruit trade under Fascism. Bananas were the first African addition to Benito Mussolini's culinary battles for "homegrown" crops like grain, rice, grapes, and oranges. To brand Somali bananas as Italian, the regime promoted its own agricultural techniques and technology in the empire. The Istituto Agricolo Coloniale in Florence developed new banana cultivars for …
Paper Soldiers on the March
Under the Fascist regime, young Italians amused themselves by practicing the war games of adulthood. Paper soldiers marched across board games set in the newly established empire of Italian East Africa. To reveal how these vicious lessons worked, this article examines three types of toys. It starts with the design and deployment of paper soldiers: Italian Alpinisti, Eritrean Ascari, and Somali Dubat. Next, a playbook for The Conquest of Abyssinia…
Feeding Fascism
Dollies for the Duce
To foreground this study of early childhood play under Italian Fascism, this article opens by exploring the relationship between Fascism and youth culture in the broad terms of dictatorial governance and gendered approaches to the citizenry. Fascist demographic policy and projects centres this inquiry. First, legislation shows how low birthrates provided as a primary catalyst for the regime’s obsession with the rites of childhood. Then, architect…
Militarizing Monopoly
This article tells the story of how Monopoly, a familiar object, was militarized on the eve of World War II. It will trace how game makers working for both Allied and Axis nations redesigned Monopoly to address their own political contexts, ranging from the Great Depression to Italian Fascism to Nazi German POW camps. To understand how different nations mobilized Monopoly for wartime, we first must turn to the historical origins of its design
The Italian coffee triangle
This article investigates the history of coffee culture across three continents during the Fascist ventennio (1922–45.) By using the novel framework of coffee, from the bean in the field to the machine in the caffè , it connects interwar histories that previously have been explored independently. Specifically, it examines the transnational economics of coffee bean trade routes and the colonial imagery of coffee advertising to argue that caffès em…
Fascist foodways
Food connects people and land, a link that the Italian Fascist regime exploited through their seizure of local culinary culture for the promotion of national demographic goals. This article traces the connections between the regime’s concurrent drives for food production and sexual reproduction. It will show the propagandistic potential of recipes, and also the limits of top-down dietary change under dictatorship. Ricettari, propagandistic recipe…
Reproductive Health Care from Fascism to Forza Nuova
This article examines pronatalism from Fascism to Forza Nuova to investigate how far-right political groups in Italy have historically approached reproductive health care. Visual analysis of posters and films read in context with the urbanism of Roman streets and rationalist obstetric clinics clarifies the specific strategies these groups have used to discredit female health-care practitioners and the broader reproductive choices they have tradit…
Black markets
This article investigates East African marketplace films to trace the developmental arc and varieties of Italian Fascist racism in empire. Totalling over 70 in number, these bantam adventures in souks and bazaars were among the most popular formats for 1930s newsreels purporting to document daily life in the colonies. The short documentary-style films were produced by LUCE, the cinematic arm for state-run propagandistic projects. Like many of the…
Constructing race through commercial space
The principles that guided Fascist urban planning in Addis Abeba’s Merkato Ketema exemplify a broader set of conditions that governed everyday life in Ethiopia under the Italian regime. Moreover, the Merkato’s legacy of racial segregation demonstrates why these interwar architectural interventions remain relevant today. To analyse the market, this article combines two disciplinary approaches: through the history of architecture and urbanism, it a…
Italian Fascism’s empire cinema
‘Movies made during the Fascist dictatorship were “the skeleton in the closet” of the Italian film industry. As features supporting Fascist wars and occupations, empire films were at the heart of t
Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Bianco e nero
Taylorist Breastfeeding in Rationalist Clinics
Let the Meatballs Rest and Other Stories About Food And Culture
The Italian coffee triangle
This article investigates the history of coffee culture across three continents during the Fascist ventennio (1922–45.) By using the novel framework of coffee, from the bean in the field to the machine in the caffè , it connects interwar histories that previously have been explored independently. Specifically, it examines the transnational economics of coffee bean trade routes and the colonial imagery of coffee advertising to argue that caffès em…
Fascist foodways
Food connects people and land, a link that the Italian Fascist regime exploited through their seizure of local culinary culture for the promotion of national demographic goals. This article traces the connections between the regime’s concurrent drives for food production and sexual reproduction. It will show the propagandistic potential of recipes, and also the limits of top-down dietary change under dictatorship. Ricettari, propagandistic recipe…
Taylorist Breastfeeding in Rationalist Clinics
Constructing race through commercial space
The principles that guided Fascist urban planning in Addis Abeba’s Merkato Ketema exemplify a broader set of conditions that governed everyday life in Ethiopia under the Italian regime. Moreover, the Merkato’s legacy of racial segregation demonstrates why these interwar architectural interventions remain relevant today. To analyse the market, this article combines two disciplinary approaches: through the history of architecture and urbanism, it a…
Let the Meatballs Rest and Other Stories About Food And Culture
Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Bianco e nero
Taylorist Breastfeeding in Rationalist Clinics
Italian Fascism’s empire cinema
‘Movies made during the Fascist dictatorship were “the skeleton in the closet” of the Italian film industry. As features supporting Fascist wars and occupations, empire films were at the heart of t
Black markets
This article investigates East African marketplace films to trace the developmental arc and varieties of Italian Fascist racism in empire. Totalling over 70 in number, these bantam adventures in souks and bazaars were among the most popular formats for 1930s newsreels purporting to document daily life in the colonies. The short documentary-style films were produced by LUCE, the cinematic arm for state-run propagandistic projects. Like many of the…
Constructing race through commercial space
The principles that guided Fascist urban planning in Addis Abeba’s Merkato Ketema exemplify a broader set of conditions that governed everyday life in Ethiopia under the Italian regime. Moreover, the Merkato’s legacy of racial segregation demonstrates why these interwar architectural interventions remain relevant today. To analyse the market, this article combines two disciplinary approaches: through the history of architecture and urbanism, it a…
Militarizing Monopoly
This article tells the story of how Monopoly, a familiar object, was militarized on the eve of World War II. It will trace how game makers working for both Allied and Axis nations redesigned Monopoly to address their own political contexts, ranging from the Great Depression to Italian Fascism to Nazi German POW camps. To understand how different nations mobilized Monopoly for wartime, we first must turn to the historical origins of its design
The Italian coffee triangle
This article investigates the history of coffee culture across three continents during the Fascist ventennio (1922–45.) By using the novel framework of coffee, from the bean in the field to the machine in the caffè , it connects interwar histories that previously have been explored independently. Specifically, it examines the transnational economics of coffee bean trade routes and the colonial imagery of coffee advertising to argue that caffès em…
Fascist foodways
Food connects people and land, a link that the Italian Fascist regime exploited through their seizure of local culinary culture for the promotion of national demographic goals. This article traces the connections between the regime’s concurrent drives for food production and sexual reproduction. It will show the propagandistic potential of recipes, and also the limits of top-down dietary change under dictatorship. Ricettari, propagandistic recipe…
Reproductive Health Care from Fascism to Forza Nuova
This article examines pronatalism from Fascism to Forza Nuova to investigate how far-right political groups in Italy have historically approached reproductive health care. Visual analysis of posters and films read in context with the urbanism of Roman streets and rationalist obstetric clinics clarifies the specific strategies these groups have used to discredit female health-care practitioners and the broader reproductive choices they have tradit…
Paper Soldiers on the March
Under the Fascist regime, young Italians amused themselves by practicing the war games of adulthood. Paper soldiers marched across board games set in the newly established empire of Italian East Africa. To reveal how these vicious lessons worked, this article examines three types of toys. It starts with the design and deployment of paper soldiers: Italian Alpinisti, Eritrean Ascari, and Somali Dubat. Next, a playbook for The Conquest of Abyssinia…
Feeding Fascism
Dollies for the Duce
To foreground this study of early childhood play under Italian Fascism, this article opens by exploring the relationship between Fascism and youth culture in the broad terms of dictatorial governance and gendered approaches to the citizenry. Fascist demographic policy and projects centres this inquiry. First, legislation shows how low birthrates provided as a primary catalyst for the regime’s obsession with the rites of childhood. Then, architect…
Building pasta's empire
This article investigates the role that Italian food companies like Barilla pasta played in creating narratives of East African empire at the apex of the Fascist ventennio . It aims to use the commercial remnants of Fascist empire to provide a more thorough accounting of how colonialism shaped the modern cultural history of Italian pasta. To do so, I analyze the paper ephemera, that is, the pasta advertisements and packaging, that connected occup…
The Pioneer’s Feast
This article examines colonial Italian menus used in interwar Ethiopia and Eritrea to understand how provide companies supported Fascism’s imperial projects. Feasts celebrated battlefield victories, steamship journeys, and settlement soirees. Menus produced by shipping companies (Rex, Lloyd Triestino) and banks (Banca di Roma) for use by Italian colonists on Ethiopian settlements speaks to the economics of Fascism, demonstrating how private compa…
Fruit of Fascist Empire
This article investigates Italian banana plantations in Somalia and the Mediterranean fruit trade under Fascism. Bananas were the first African addition to Benito Mussolini's culinary battles for "homegrown" crops like grain, rice, grapes, and oranges. To brand Somali bananas as Italian, the regime promoted its own agricultural techniques and technology in the empire. The Istituto Agricolo Coloniale in Florence developed new banana cultivars for …
Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (14 works) · History (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)