Commemoration and processes of appropriation
The Italian Communist Party and the Italian Resistance (1943–48)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Cossu (0000-0001-8324-4024, University of Padua, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 386-400 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698011408183 |
| OpenAlex | W2026608502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
Scholarship on collective memory often conceives struggles over the past as directly dependent on the structure of interests in the present. However, temporal constraints affect the way the past is selected and represented. In this article I focus on the appropriation of the memory of the Resistance by the Italian Communist Party in the years between 1943 and 1948. I highlight, following a growing literature on the path dependence of memory, that the consolidation of the memory of this period was conditioned not only by the political culture of the organization, but also by the internal dynamics and the specific genre of communist commemoration
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Collective memory · Communism · Consolidation (business · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy
Commemoration
Social dramas and memory formation. Resistance and the use of the Risorgimento in the Italian politics of memory, 1943–1948
The Chronicles of Long Kesh
From lines to networks
From commemoration to celebration
Auschwitz y Buchenwald sin judíos? Una aproximación al Holocausto en las narrativas comunistas europeas (1945-1970)
Un pasado que no cesa? Discurso patrimonial y memoria pública comunista en el franquismo y la transición española
Creating the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’
Path dependence in research on collective memory
Presenting the Past
Politics and Symbols
Ritual, politics, and power
The rites of rulers
Between Hollywood and Moscow
Making the Fascist Self
A Daily Revision of the Past
The Logic of Practice
Stalin and the dove
Division and Conflict in the Partisan Resistance
"Never Give In." The Italian Resistance and Politics
Nation and Commemoration
Collective Memory and Cultural History
Collective Memory and Cultural Constraint
Genre Memories and Memory Genres
Ritual, politics and power
Comrades and Christians
Four Types of Symbolic Conflict
The Past as a Scarce Resource
Reiterated Commemoration
Double-edged rituals and the symbolic resources of collective action
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |