A comprehensive analyses of contemporary Italy, this book is a provocative and innovative collection of essays that highlights the current 'crisis' of the country.
A comprehensive analyses of contemporary Italy, this book is a provocative and innovative collection of essays that highlights the current 'crisis' of...
Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims to highlight the current 'crisis' of the country through an analysis of several different 'dark shadows' of contemporary Italian society.
Italy already had a long history of 'unsolved' issues, several chronic problems and contradictions that have been ignored for a very long time, during which they have assumed dramatic proportions and gravity. The peninsula has now become the 'Sick Man of Europe', a country facing a veritable...
Italy Today represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of contemporary Italy. It is a provocative and an innovative collection that aims...
In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe. After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal,...
In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapp...
In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe.
After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,...
In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe.
This volume begins with a portrait of Bruce Kapferer, whose complex and rich contributions to the study of religion and ritual have had an influence that extends far beyond his own research concerns. His interests encompass many of the themes in this volume, including the political dimensions and potentialities of religion through ritual, rituals as generative events, ritual time, and the intersection of psychoanalysis and anthropology. Also in this volume, the 2012 buzz surrounding the Mayan calendar conjures a debate concerning the intersection of religion and environmental apocalypticism;...
This volume begins with a portrait of Bruce Kapferer, whose complex and rich contributions to the study of religion and ritual have had an influence t...
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century. Featuring contributions from many leading scholars in the field, this Handbook is comprised of 28 chapters which are organized to deliver unparalleled analysis of Italian society, politics and culture. A wide range of topics are covered, including:
Politics and economy, and their impact on Italian society
Parties and new politics
Regionalism and migrations
Public memories
Continuities and...
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy provides a comprehensive account of Italy and Italian politics in the 21st Century. Featuring contribu...