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Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation

Italian Right-Wing Terrorism and Its Legacies

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-97814-7
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2025
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Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence – particularly terrorism – are staged, circulated, and remembered. It interrogates the role of spectacularity in shaping public discourse, tracing how power and media mobilise violence into a visual and rhetorical regime that leaves deep imprints on collective memory.

In response, this book proposes counterspectacularisation: a repertoire of critical strategies developed by the public and by performance-makers to resist or reframe the spectacle of terror. Through a mix of theoretical reflection, close analysis of performance case studies, and four original artworks created by the author, the text explores how performance can respond ethically to silences and fractures in memory. It advocates for cross-disciplinary approaches that challenge dominant representations of violence and that offer alternative frameworks for grappling with trauma, remembrance, and representation in an age of political spectacle.

This will be of particular value to researchers working on the afterlives of terrorism and state violence, especially within memory studies, media studies, and trauma theory. It will also speak to scholars in Italian studies, ethnography, and performance.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032978147
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-97814-7
  • Verlag: Routledge
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2025
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2025
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 511 g
  • Seiten: 228
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 17 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

AcknowledgementsIntroduction Part OneChapter One Performing (state) violence - "I remember images of this train ripped apart"Introduction The spectacular 1970s The aesthetics of stragisti The Italicus spectacleThe Bologna station spectacleSpectacularised trialsRepresentationConclusionChapter Two Performing resistance - "Bologna has a lot to teach"IntroductionThe influence of Nuovo TeatroThe state funerals and the resistance narrativeThe Italicus commemorationThe Bologna train station commemorative complexCounterspectacularisationConclusionChapter Three Bodies in remembrance - "They became collective dead. They are ours too"Introduction"Da ferito a morte"The two AntigonesFrom Cantiere 2 agosto to Un'altra vitaConclusion Part TwoChapter Four Methodologies of Encounter - "I don't have any particular memories"IntroductionWider contextMethodologyRecruitmentIntersubjectivity and power dynamicsResearch designFindingsConclusion Chapter Five Representing memory gaps - "It looks like a movie, but it was like this"IntroductionDevising counterspectacularisationConclusion ConclusionsBibliography