‘How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly’: colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right

Griffini, Marianna

doi:10.1080/23745118.2022.2058753

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“…Examples of the (ab)use, exploitation, mobilisation of the dark past on the part of both the Lega and FdI abound (e.g. Bolzonar, 2023; Couperus & Tortola, 2019; Griffini, 2022; Manucci, 2019; Sondel‐Cedarmas, 2022). Of the two, it is the League that has attracted more scholarly and public attention thus far, partly because of its dominance of the Italian far‐right space for the best part of the last decade, but also because of the blatant and performative way in which Salvini has often committed his memory abuses – for instance intentionally using fascist buzzwords and quotes to incite his supporters and attack his adversaries (Il Post, 2019).…”

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“…The uses and abuses of memory on the part of the far‐right have been increasingly explored in recent years, with studies examining, to mention just a few examples, reassessments of the colonial experience in Italy (Griffini, 2022), France (Flood, 2005; Flood & Frey, 2002) and the Netherlands (Couperus & Tortola, 2019); of fascism in Italy (Bolzonar, 2023; Broder, 2023), Germany (Vees‐Gulani, 2021; Volk, 2022), France (Golsan, 2017) and Hungary (Pető, 2022); and of communism in Germany (Richardson‐Little et al, 2022) or Poland (Koryci, 2019). Needless to say, developments in the modes and channels of political communication, above all the expansion of social media, often play a large role in reinforcing tactics of reassessment, manipulation, and weaponization of the past (Esteve‐Del‐Valle & Costa Lopez, 2023; Rensmann, 2017; Richardson‐Little et al, 2022).…”

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“…Italy is a case in point of the trends described above, thanks to the convergence of two factors: first, the country's tumultuous past and primarily its fascist ventennio ; second, the profound restructuring of the Italian political landscape since the early 1990s, which has opened new societal and discursive spaces for more or less subtle reassessments of that historical period (Griffini, 2022; Mammone, 2006; Prezioso, 2016; Thomassen & Forlenza, 2013). This abuse of the country's past and memory has become bolder over the past three decades, and today is primarily perpetrated by the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), two far‐right parties which, taken together, command the support of roughly 40% of Italian voters at the time of writing (Termometro Politico, 2023) and hold a majority stake in the current Italian government.…”

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Political violence in far‐right memory: Fratelli d'Italia's remembrance of the Primavalle arson

Marchese,

Tortola

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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The relationship between the (populist) far right and the past is the subject of increasing scholarly interest. The deployment, reassessment and at times manipulation of historical memory, in particular, is an important factor in the politics and mainstreaming of the European far right. The latter has a lot to gain from any shifts in collective memory placing nations' dark and shameful past in a more benevolent light. At the same time, far‐right actors play an active role in such shifts, by routinely (ab)using the memory of the past for electoral gain. This article contributes to the research agenda on the memory politics of the far right by examining how Fratelli d'Italia – Italy's foremost far‐right party – remembers and narrates the ‘years of lead’, a tumultuous and hotly contested chapter in the country's political history. More precisely, our analysis zooms in on the powerful trope of ‘secular martyrdom’ attached to the memory of that period, and looks at how this idea is mobilised by Fratelli d'Italia via the examination of a particularly tragic episode of the years of lead, namely, the 1973 Primavalle arson.

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Political violence in far‐right memory: Fratelli d'Italia's remembrance of the Primavalle arson

Marchese,

Tortola

2024

Contemporary European Politics

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“…as a radical right party (R.R.P.) (Zulianello 2020;Griffini 2021Griffini , 2022 with elements of populism and Euro-scepticism (Rooduijn et al 2019). The research is based on a diachronic analysis of the F.d.I.…”

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The rise of the Radical Right in Italy: the case of Fratelli d’Italia

Donà

2022

Journal of Modern Italian Studies

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The emergence of the Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia [F.d.I.]) in Italian politics has raised debate on the party's core ideologies. This article addresses these questions on the basis of a qualitative content analysis of its party manifestos and discourses since its foundation in 2012. The development of the F.d. I.'s party ideology is analysed through the categories derived from the literature on the European radical right phenomenon. The findings confirm that F.d.I.'s ideology is based on a combination of nationalism, sovereignism, authoritarianism and Euro-scepticism. The article demonstrates that the party's ideology turned to radical right positions after 2017 and explains this shift in light of the instability affecting the Italian party system and the recurring European Union's (E.U.) crises during the last decade. RIASSUNTOL'ascesa di Fratelli d'Italia (F.d.I.) all'interno della politica italiana ha aperto un dibattito circa l'esatta natura ideologica di questo partito, la cui fondazione risale al 2012. Il presente articolo affronta questo tema attraverso l'analisi qualitativa del contenuto dei programmi e dei manifesti elettorali che sono stati prodotti nel periodo 2012-2019. Lo sviluppo ideologico di F.d.I. è esaminato attraverso le categorie analitiche derivate dalla letteratura accademica circa le caratteristiche della destra radicale in Europa. I risultati confermano che l'ideologia di F.d.I. è basata su una combinazione di nativismo, sovranismo, autoritarismo e Euroscetticismo. L'articolo sostiene che le posizioni di destra radicale sono state abbracciate da F.d.I. a partire dal 2017 e dimostra quanto questo cambiamento sia riconducibile all'instabilità politica italiana e alle molteplici crisi dell'Unione Europea che insieme hanno caratterizzato l'ultimo decennio. KEYWORDS radical right; Italian politics; Brothers of Italy (F.d.I.); nationalism; Euro-scepticism PAROLE CHIAVE destra radicale; politica italiana; Fratelli d'Italia (F.d.I.); nazionalismo; euroscetticismo

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Vassallo,

Vignati

2024

Brothers of Italy and the Rise of the Italian National Conservative Right Under Giorgia Meloni

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‘How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly’: colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Political violence in far‐right memory: Fratelli d'Italia's remembrance of the Primavalle arson

Political violence in far‐right memory: Fratelli d'Italia's remembrance of the Primavalle arson

The rise of the Radical Right in Italy: the case of Fratelli d’Italia

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