Italy's Margins

Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861

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ID19924853
AuthorsDavid Forgacs (0000-0003-2817-2034, New York University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-03-27
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueItaly's Margins ` (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781107280441
OpenAlexW3047031701
Open LibraryOL34557201M
ISBN9781107280441
LanguageEN
Citations received35

Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside society's centre. The author looks closely at how photography and writing have supported political and social exclusion and, conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases are examined: the peripheries of Italy's major cities after unification; its East African colonies in the 1930s; the less developed areas of its south in the 1950s; its psychiatric hospitals before the reforms of the late 1970s; and its 'nomad camps' after 2000. Each chapter takes its lead from a symptomatic photograph and is followed by other pictures and extracts from written texts. These allow the reader to examine how social marginalization is discursively performed by cultural products

Art · Geography · Photography · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Unification · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law

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