Wrong Place, Right Time

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ID6141650
AuthorsEvan Calder Williams (0000-0002-3384-7836), A Toscano (0009-0007-5156-5414)
Year2019
Volume15
Issue3
Pages273-288
Publication date2019-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/17432197-7725423
OpenAlexW2983074901
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This essay critically approaches the use of “1968” as a periodizing category by contrasting historiographic and political debates on the event and aftermath of the French May with the spatial and temporal unevenness that attaches to Italy’s “long” 1968. We explore two interlocking dimensions of the latter: the reprise of the “Southern question” in the midst of this sociopolitical upheaval, on the one hand, and the potent if enigmatic image of an Italian “creeping May,” on the other. A political and historiographic reflection on the Italian case suggests the need to dislocate a linear, if punctuated, periodization of 1968, and to move toward an understanding of the crises and movements that cluster around this date through a framework anchored around the notion of rhythm conceived as the site of political and spatial unevenness

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Centring · Event (particle physics · Periodization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reprise · Sociology · Visual arts · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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