Burying Mussolini
Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Publishing:15th Dec '24
£108.00
This title is due to be published on 15th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£23.99(9781501778285)
Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually. But, Paolo Heywood asks, what of the people who actually live there? What does 'ordinary life' look like in the shadow of Mussolini's grave?
As politicians, commentators, and social scientists seek to understand what lies behind new forms of political authoritarianism, and whether and how they resemble movements once thought consigned to the past, Burying Mussolini narrates how people in Predappio cope with the dark heritage of their home by carefully crafting a sense of 'ordinariness' that is itself inflected by ghosts of their fascist past.
ISBN: 9781501778278
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 907g
204 pages