Place and Politics in Modern Italy

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University of Chicago Press, 2002 - 299 pagina's
How do the places where people live help structure and restructure their sociopolitical identities and interests? In this book, renowned political geographer John A. Agnew presents a theoretical model that addresses the relation of place to politics and applies it to a series of historicogeographical case studies set in modern Italy.

For Agnew, place is not just a static backdrop against which events occur, but a dynamic component of social, economic, and political processes. He shows, for instance, how the lack of a common "landscape ideal" or physical image of Italy delayed the development of a sense of nationhood among Italians after unification. And Agnew uses the post-1992 victory of the Northern League over the Christian Democrats in many parts of northern Italy to explore how parties are replaced geographically during periods of intense political change.

Providing a fresh new approach to studying the role of space and place in social change, Place and Politics in Modern Italy will interest geographers, political scientists, and social theorists.
 

Inhoudsopgave

Mapping Politics Theoretically
13
Landscape Ideals and National Identity in Italy
36
Modernization and Italian Political Development
59
The Geographical Dynamics of Italian Electoral Politics 194887
77
Red White and Beyond Place and Politics in Pistoia and Lucca
111
The Geography of Party Replacement in Northern Italy 198796
140
The Northern League and Political Identity in Northern Italy
167
Reimagining Italy after the Collapse of the Old Party System in 1992
188
Place and Understanding Italian Politics
216
Notes
221
Bibliography
259
Index
287
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Pagina 9 - ... dialogical character. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
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John A. Agnew is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or coauthor of a number of books, most recently Geopolitics: Re-visioning World Politics and The Geogrpahy of the World Economy, third edition.

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