The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence

Revolution and Restoration
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-77692-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection with the society at large. The BR’s worldview and the dominant ideology(ies) mediated by the press are treated as competing responses to structural issues of Italian history: the structural weakness of the nation state, the contradictions of an uneven economic development, and the consequent struggle of the bourgeois class to achieve hegemonic rule.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briziarelli, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Past, Present, and Future 3. Competing Voices 4. An Italian Narrative (1943-80) 5. Operation Sunflower 6. Operation Fritz 7. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Marco Briziarelli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.