Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi
Geoff Andrews
Language: English
Pages: 214
ISBN: B01FEOV3MA
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
'I know of no book in English dedicated with such focus and depth on Berlusconi’s politics. ... Geoff Andrew's grasp of political culture is profound and reflective.' Gino Bedani, Research Professor in Italian, University of Swansea
'[Andrews provides] unusually penetrating insights ... Beautifully written.' Jim Newell, Reader in Politics, University of Salford
Not a Normal Country explores Italian politics and culture in the era of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s richest man and one of its longest serving prime ministers. Geoff Andrews argues that the ‘Berlusconi phenomenon’ was a populist response to widespread cynicism towards politics. Berlusconi posed as an ‘anti-politician’, and based his appeal on his virtues as a salesman rather than a statesman.
The second part of the book discusses the varied opposition to Berlusconi. This ranges from the anti-global demonstrations in Genoa in 2001 to unconventional protests such as the Girotondo movement led by the film director Nanni Moretti. According to Andrews, this new associationism has helped rebuild Italian politics.
Finally, Andrews looks to the future and, through the examples of anti-mafia protests in Sicily as well as opposition to the Americanisation of Italian culture, considers the prospects for the new post-Berlusconi Italy.
Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere
According to Italian law the only way a pardon could be given for war criminals was for the families of the victims to give their assent. Bottonelli therefore invited the families of the victims to a special meeting of the town council in Marzabotto in order to decide whether a pardon would be granted. The vote was 282 against and four in favour of the motion, with one abstention. The subsequent statement of the Marzabotto town council described a pardon as ‘unthinkable’: For the families of the.
Told the crowd. ‘It is because the situation has been made too serious to do nothing.’ THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM The three movements gave energy and new confidence to a lacklustre opposition. The European Social Forum (ESF), held in Florence in November 2002, brought the new movements together, as well as a range of activists from beyond Italy, to discuss opposition to neo-liberalism and war and exchange ideas on new forms of democratic participation that could be alternatives to the models of.
Path leading to the bottom. The narrow path wound its way down and around, passing over the roofs of houses, if houses they could be called. They were caves, dug into the hardened clay walls of the gully, each with its own facade, some of which were quite handsome, with eighteenth century ornamentation. These false fronts, because of the slope of the gully, were flat against its side at the bottom, but at the very top they protruded, and the alleys in the narrow space between them and the.
Among the examples Marquand uses in his discussion of populism and its effects on public life. Like Berlusconi, Thatcher also filled a political vacuum, in this case the one that followed the decline of the postwar Keynesian consensus. Yet there are significant differences between Thatcherism and the Berlusconi phenomenon. Thatcherism represented a major ideological critique of the postwar consensus, and in its place proposed a more elaborate neo-liberal way of understanding the world, one that.
Had been elected in 1999 on the ‘civic list’, namely an independent slate, though following his election he received the support of the main right-wing parties, notably the National Alliance and Forza Italia. Guazzaloca, a local butcher and entrepreneur, made much of the fact that he was not a member of a party. He always maintained that he had been elected as a ‘Bolognese’. He knew the local culture and had direct experience of local business. He could be described as a ‘provincial populist’,.