ISBN10: 1845450612, ISBN13: 9781845450618, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Many scholars, both in Italy and abroad, question the perception of the South as a 'backward' and implicitly inferior society. Starting from this critical tradition, this book provides a systematic, and interdisciplinary approach that aims to re-interpret the premises behind Italy's imagined geography of modernity.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 1845450612, ISBN13: 9781845450618, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 1845450612, ISBN13: 9781845450618, [publisher: Berghahn Books] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The northern Italian, 'Padanian' identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy's (real or presumed) inadequacies - such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime - this imagined geography acquired political centrality in that the North became associated with the virtues of modernity and the South with the vices of un-modernity. It was not only politicians but also social scientists, who fostered and perpetuated this conceptualization of the North-South divide, thus imposing a normative hierarchy between the two parts of the country.In response to this discourse many scholars, both in Italy and abroad, have started to question this perception of the South as a 'backward' and implicitly inferior society. Starting from this critical tradition, Michel Huysseune provides a new, systematic, and interdisciplinary approach that re-interprets the premises behind Italy's imagined geography of modernity. He moves beyond an understanding of the South as a 'backward' and implicitly inferior society and problematizes normative notions of modernity, thus ...
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