The Rhetoric of Regionalism
The Northern League in Italian Politics, 1983-94
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962519 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Agnew (0000-0003-3248-409X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 156-156 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622429 |
| OpenAlex | W2326896663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 8 |
Research on the geography of political movements has tended to emphasize the social processes which produce support for the movements rather than the geographical objectives of the movements and the political basis of their appeal. This paper examines the rise of the Northemrn League in northern Italy in terms of the movement's rhetoric and support. The key argument is that this movement shifted its rhetoric from regional separatism to national populism as it gained in electoral strength in northemrn Italy and as the established parties of government collapsed. The original rhetoric of regionalism has given way to a rhetoric of national political renewal based on a projection of 'northern' political virtues. Although localistic in its social roots the Northemrn League has been drawn into a national political discourse in which national political ambitions have displaced regional ones. For even the most devotedly local of parties regional ambitions were not enough. This has implications for all forms of politics based on drawing an opposition between the local and the national
Economic history · League · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regionalism (politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Historical and Environmental Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Introduction
A Long Way from Home
Italy
The ‘new regionalism’ and the politics of the regional question
Italy
The Construction of “Harmful” Environments for Juveniles Using the Rhetoric of Social Problems and Geographical Scale
Pro scale
Not All Blarney Is Cast in Stone
Articulating Local and Global Scales
Italian Books and Society and Space
Geographical context, interest in politics and voting behaviour
Radical right populism and the backlash against gender equality
Developing rural spatial imaginaries
Public discourse about autonomous regions and de facto states
Regional media and non-statewide party voting in Europe
The territorial politics of regulation under state capitalism
The red and the black
The Movimento Autonomista Bergamasco and the Lega Nord
A Place Called Padania
The North/South divide in Italy and England
Place and region 3
The social construction of scale
Regions in revolt
Place and region 2
The unlikely independence of Northern Italy
Multilevel Governance or Scalar Clashes
Arguing with Regions
Regions and the search for spatial justice
Cohesion And Diversity In The European Union
Heritage, Identity and Europe
Political geography II
Institutional thickness’, political sub‐culture and the resurgence of (the ‘new’) regionalism in Italy – a case study of the Northern League in the province of Varese
Of Vines and Policy Vignettes
The U.S. Electoral College and Spatial Biases in Voter Power
Battleship at the port of Europe
A comparison of Catalan and 'Padanian' nationalism
The Spatialising Politics of EUropean Political Practice
Sub-National Movements and the Framing of Regional Trade Agreements
Indizi Di Un Inverno Precoce
Omens of an early winter
Party Realignment and Voter Transition in Italy, 1987-1996
International Economic Sources of Regime Change
Identity politics in Okinawan elections
Protest and the scale politics of telecommunications
Mapping politics
The dramaturgy of horizons
Italian regionalism or 'Padanian' nationalism - the political project of the Lega Nord in Italian politics
Territorialized party politics and the politics of local ecomomic development
Living in diversity
The 'everyday' of banal nationalism - Ordinary people's views on Italy and Italian
Allochthons, Colonizers, and Scroungers
Geographies of Production and the Contexts of Politics
The Craft of Scalar Practices
Creative Tensions
The geographical dynamics of Italian electoral change, 1987-2001
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |