Italian Neofascism : The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation

Bull, Anna Cento

Berghahn Books（2011/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 196 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780857451743
• DDC分類 945.092

Full Description

During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in Milan, on 12 December 1969, and culminating with the massacre in Bologna, on 2 August 1980. Making use of the literature on national reconciliation and narrative psychology theory, this book examines the fight over the 'judicial' and the 'historical' truth in Italy today, through a contrasting analysis of judicial findings and the 'narratives of victimhood' prevalent among representatives of both the post- and the neo-fascist right.

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I: VILLAINS? THE JUDICIAL TRUTH

Introduction to Part I

Chapter 2. The Role of Italian Neofascism in Stragismo and the Strategy of Tension

Chapter 3. The Role of the Armed Forces and Intelligence Structures

Chapter 4. Interpretations of the Strategy of Tension in Accordance with Judicial Findings

Conclusion to Part I

PART II: VICTIMS? THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO THE NEO- AND POSTFASCIST RIGHT

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 5. Narratives of Victimhood: The Right's Reconstructions and Interpretations of Stragismo

Chapter 6. The Self-narratives of Extreme-right Protagonists of the Political Conflict

Conclusion to Part II

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index