Public space at stake
Competing forms of territorialisation and the construction of a democratic public space in the first years of the Italian Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12535586 |
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| Authors | Virgile Cirefice (0000-0002-5527-9972, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Histoire University of Limoges, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 395-407 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Italy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/mit.2024.54 |
| OpenAlex | W4405829173 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The end of the civil war, the fall of the Italian Social Republic, the allied occupation and the gradual transition to the new Italian Republic not only set Italy on the path to democracy, but also gradually gave Italians access to a new public space. This article proposes to revisit the classic question of the legacy of Fascism by looking at the question of space and the difficult construction of a genuine democratic space. During the ventennio , opponents were largely denied access to common spaces, both symbolically and physically. The article raises the question of violence and the exclusive appropriation of space, showing that the representations and practices inherited from Fascism did not disappear overnight. But these practices of space were not always violent: by looking at aspects that are often neglected (graffiti, manifestos, noises and singing), the aim is to show that the transition took time and was sometimes complicated, despite the political leaders of the Italian Republic claiming to have opened up a completely new era
Architectural engineering · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical and Environmental Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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