Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics: Inventing the Padania: Lega Nord and the Northern Question

ISBN-13: 9780367604783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Margarita G Cachafeiro

Opis

Employing primary sources and interviews with protagonists of the rebellion of the Italian North, this book explores the invention of the Padanian nation and the construction of identity politics in Northern Italy. It reveals the connection between the ethnic wave in European party politics in the 1970s and the rise of a new radical right nationali

Recenzje

’Margarita Gómez-Reino has written a very well informed book on the Lega Nord and relates the electoral successes of the Italian Leagues to other attempts to mobilize ethnicity. By combining political opportunity structure - and social cleavage theories she takes a step forward in the field of social movement research.’ Professor Meindert Fennema, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'The originality of Gomez's approach is the outcome of her accurate use of new methodological devices as well as of her impressive fieldwork...Moreover, Gomez succeeds in overcoming the interpretations of the Northern League as the unique product of a typical Italian subculture - i.e. one of industrial districts and of catholic solidarity - as well as those ones which cancel its specificity and its roots in the particular geographical situation and historical moment.' Regional and Federal Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Perspectives on peripheral nationalism in Europe; New political mobilization in Northern Italy; Manufacturing a united north; Lega Nord and the political construction of otherness; Party mobilization and symbolic resources; An ethno-territorial cleavage in the Italian party system?; Conclusions; References.

O autorze

Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro