Natural Time, Political Time

Contested Histories in Northern Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID7198091
AuthorsJaro Stacul (University of Regina, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume11
Issue4
Pages819-836
Publication date2005-11-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00263.x
OpenAlexW2039068495
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited31

This article explores the ways in which a post‐peasant society in the Trentino region of northern Italy reworked its past history at a time of political turmoil when the rise of regionalist parties with an Italian version of Thatcherism in their agenda challenged the legitimacy of the Italian state. It illustrates how making a regional, local history entails representing the past as a period characterized by the repetitiveness of events. It is argued that everyday accounts of the past, because they centre on the ideas of social and political order and private property, form the background against which ‘official’ politics is understood. In this sense, everyday local‐level discourses about the past are as political as the ‘official’ ones of party leaders. In making this argument, the article shows that ‘repetitive time’ also represents a device through which social actors place themselves outside ‘national history’ and cast the encompassing nation‐state as the outsider

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Legitimacy · Peasant · Period (music · Political economy · Political history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Thatcherism · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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