Palimpsestic pedagogies
Mapping fascist violence against children from Mussolini’s dictatorship to present day Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12010262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula M Salvio (0000-0003-2061-7959, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 291-308 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-6784 • E-ISSN: 1467-873X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03626784.2020.1809965 |
| OpenAlex | W3095451978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay focuses on the disavowed histories of Italy’s fascist past with a specific focus on how select historical disavowals reverberate in the present through the law of restricted citizenship, policies governing the lives of migrants, and recent pro-natal campaigns. I take as the occasion for my discussion, the 2017 exhibit at the Museo della Shoah in Rome, entitled “The Enemy Race: Nazi and Italian Fascist Propaganda.” Through representations of the child during Mussolini’s reign, the exhibit represents Mussolini’s investment in the Italian child, conceived of as Catholic, Aryan, and born on Italian soil. His regime aimed to cultivate a future generation that would purify the nation through physical vitality, a belief in racial elitism, and loyalty to the nation state, while casting Jewish and “non-Italian” children as enemy subjects. I argue that the pedagogical impulse of the Museo della Shoah aims, not only to represent life histories that have been imperfectly erased from post-war memory, but also to recognize such a project as an interminable process of reflection that unfolds in a country that continues to suffer under the weight of its disavowed colonial and anti-Semitic history
Democracy · Dictatorship · Political science · Politics · School violence · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |