Italian Mobilities

ISBN-13: 9780367869861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat; Stephanie Hom

Opis

This edited volume presents a first-of-its-kind study of modern Italy as a mobile construct. It offers a critical accounting of the histories, power, and politics specific to Italian mobile practices, and reflects upon Italy’s paradoxical status as both a space of transit and a signifier of heritage and fixity.

Spis treści

Foreword  Introduction  1. Beyond the Italies: Italy as a Mobile Subject?  2. Italian Mobilities and Circulating Diasporas in Neoliberal Times  3. Contact, Contagion, Immunization. Gianni Amelio’s Lamerica (1994)  4. Becoming Ospite: Hospitality and Mobility at the Center of Temporary Permanence  5. Italian Mobilities and the Demos  6. Migrating to the Colonies and Building the Myth of ‘Italiani brava gente’: The Rise, Demise, and Legacy of Italian Settler Colonialism  7. Imagining Lampedusa  8. Coasts, Blockades, and the Free Movement of People

O autorze

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University.

Stephanie Malia Hom is President’s Associates Presidential Professor of Italian at the University of Oklahoma.