MODERN ITALY IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

INTRODUCTION
John A. Davis, Axel Körner, Commemorating the work of Percy Allum, Paul Ginsborg, Gianni Toniolo and Stuart Woolf, p. 1-2

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Luciano Brancaccio, Percy A. Allum (1933–2022), p. 3-15
Kate Ferris, Paul Ginsborg (1945–2022), p. 16-26
Giovanni Farese, ?Facts in search of a theory?. Gianni Toniolo?s economic history (1942–2022), p. 27-37
John A. Davis, Stuart Woolf (1936–2021), p. 38-49
Thomas Kroll, International historiography of modern Italy since 1945. Developments and trends, p. 50-66

Book Review, p. 67-92

WHAT IS LEFT OF THE ITALIAN LEFT?

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Rosa Mulè, Gianfranco Pasquino, Sofia Ventura, The Italian left at a critical juncture: disanchoring the past, embracing the present, p. 517-524
Gianfranco Pasquino, On the disappearance of leftist political idea(l)s, p. 525-537
Sofia Ventura, The Italian Democratic Party: the explanation for a ?quasi-failure?, p. 538-553
James L. Newell, The shifting landscape of the Italian left: Exploring its contemporary state, p. 554-569
Nicola Pasini, Luciano Mario Fasano, Giovanni Antonio Cerutti, Can the left respond to new cleavages in Italy?, p. 570-584
Fortunato Musella, How a left-wing political party fails to keep up with the times, p. 585-601
Rosa Mulè, Stefano Toso, The role of the left to the path to a minimum income policy in Italy, p. 602-617
Jorge del Palacio, The long and winding road. The ideological evolution of the Italian radical left in the Second Republic: the case of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, p. 618-634

Book Review, p. 635-648

FUTURES IN POST-DISPLACEMENT ITALY

INTRODUCTION
Emma Bond, Stavroula Pipyrou, Futures in post-displacement Italy, p. 403-414

ARTICLES
Marco Benoît Carbone, Migrants, refugees, invaders: responses to the Riace Model’s inclusive citizenship project, p. 415-432
Giuliana Sanò, Francesco Zanotelli, After institutional reception: time, im-mobility and social networks in Southern Italy, p. 433-450
Elena Miltiadis, Displacing displacement: narratives for a haunting history, p. 451-465
Salvatore Giusto, Morganne Blais-McPherson, Dalla Vostra Parte: populist irony, illiberal ventriloquism, and the rise of the Non Buono refugee in contemporary Italy, p. 466-482
Justin Randolph Thompson, Contradictory forces, facts and tendencies, p. 483-494

AFTERWORD
Pamela Ballinger, The futures of post-displacement, p. 495-502

Book Review, p. 503-516

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Giulia Simone, ‘A League of Minds’? Uses and abuses of the League of Nations’ internationalism by Fascist Italy, p. 259-277
Danielle Simon, ‘Lanciando la voce’: Gianni Schicchi, ventriloquism, and Italian radio, 1925-1940, p. 278-295
Simone Cinotto, The fascist breadbasket: food, empire, and modernity in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941, p. 296-322
Salvatore Mura, Towards an inadequately rational bicameralism. The Italian Senate ‘reform’ (1948-1963), p. 323-342
Daniela Saresella, Lega Nord: between mistrust of the Church, traditionalist sympathies and neo-pagan alternatives (beginnings), p. 343-361
Mario Trifuoggi, Francesco Sielo, My brilliant city: Naples, urban poverty and the ‘ethnographic imagination’ of Elena Ferrante, p. 362-379

Book Review, p. 380
Correction, p. iii

THE CHALLENGE OF RENEWAL IN THE 1980S: THE ITALIAN PARTY SYSTEM BEFORE THE CRASH INTRODUCTION Lucia Bonfreschi, Pepijn Corduwener, The Italian Party System before the crash: parties and the challenge of renewal in the 1980s, p. 153-158

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Lucia Bonfreschi, Against parties? The Radicals between anti-partitocracy and reform, 1979-87, p. 159-175
Martin J. Bull, The Italian Communist Party in the 1980s and the denouement of the Italian party system, p. 176-190
Paolo Carusi, The inner decline of the Christian Democrat Party. Mario Segni and the origins of the referendum movement for electoral system reform, p. 191-204
Pepijn Corduwener, The Italian Socialist Party and the crisis of party democracy. The transformation of the Italian socialists, p. 205-219
Paolo Mattera, The Long 1970s and 1980s of television and movies in Italy: new forms of de-legitimization Pages: 220-237 Gerardo Nicolosi, The Italian Liberal Party and the crisis of the First Republic. A long-term analysis (1968-1994), p. 238-252

CONCLUSION
Lucia Bonfresch, Pepijn Corduwener, Parties between continuity and change since 1980s – Italy and beyond, p. 253-257

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Gianfranco Pasquino, Marco Valbruzzi, The 2022 general Italian elections. The long-awaited victory of the right, p. 1-21
Azzurra Tafuro, ‘The Italian Maccabees’. Gender, the sacred and anticlericalism in the cult of the Cairoli family (1859-1871), p. 22-52
Marco Soresina, Milan riots of 1853: history and remembrance, p. 53-69
Francesco Buscemi, Rejecting the military to serve the Nazis. Italian conscientious objectors in Gaeta’s jail from 1948 to 1972, p. 70-89
Andrea Di Michele, The Fascist view of the ‘allogeni’ in the border regions, p. 90-112
Emanuela Scarpellini, Transnational beauty: Avon International and the case of Italy, p. 113-142

Book Review, p. 143

ANNOUNCEMENT
John A Davis, Editorial Announcement Page: 657

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Federico Fabbrini, Italy’s national recovery and resilience plan: context, content and challenges, p. 658-676
Ivan Paris, Building strategic infrastructure and managing scarce resources in a context with divergent interests. The transformation of Lake Idro into an artificial basin (1807-1934), p. 677-696
Valerio Torreggiani, The Italian members of staff of the International Labour Organization: a collective biography (1919-1939), p. 697-720 David I. Kertzer, Roberto Benedetti, Galeazzo Ciano’s Vatican Embassy, p. 721-748
Maurizio Avola, Employed but segregated: the exploitation of immigrant work in Mediterranean agriculture, p. 749-774
Alessia Donà, The rise of the Radical Right in Italy: the case of Fratelli d’Italia, p. 775-794

Review Article, p. 795
Book Review, p. 804
Note, p. 831
Response, p. 826

INTERVIEW
Mark Gilbert, Against the current: an interview with Elena Aga Rossi, p. 485-503

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Francesca Vella, Broadcasting the Italian voice’s broadcasting: opera and Italy on the air, 1920s-1930s, p. 504-527
John Foot, A micro-history of Fascist violence. Squadristi, victims and perpetrators, p. 528-549
Diana Garvin, Dollies for the Duce: the politics of playtime in Fascist Italy, p. 550-580
Paolo Carusi, The mindset of extreme right-wing youth in neofascist songs from the late seventies, p. 581-599
Danila Cannamela, Italian trans geographies: retracing trans/cultural narratives of people and places, p. 600-622
Giuliano Beniamino Fleri, The (Re)Birth of a Mediterranean Migration System. The Case of Tunisian Migration in Sicily, p. 623-642

Book Review, p. 643

THE ORIGINS OF THE CRISIS. ITALIAN POLITICAL CULTURES AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IN THE 1980s

INTRODUCTION
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, On the Origins of the Crisis. Italian Political Cultures and the Process of European Integration in the 1980s, p. 343-347

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Paolo Acanfora, The D.C. and the ‘European Question’ in the transformations of the Cold War, p. 348-365
Alessandro Santagata, A common altar? John Paul II’s European project within Italian Catholic political debate, p. 366-382
Gregorio Sorgonà, The Italian Right-Wing and the European Integration Process: The Case of the Italian Social Movement, p. 383-399
Gianluca Passarelli, Dario Tuorto, From the Lega Nord to Salvini’s League: changing everything to change nothing?, p. 400-415
Michele Colucci, Immigration and European policies: debate in Italy during the 1980s, p. 416-428
Matteo Marchetti, A European road to socialism? The P.C.I., the E.E.C. and Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War, p. 429-445
Marco Di Maggio, Eugenio Scalfari’s La Repubblica, the Italian Left and the ‘European Question’ 1984-1992, p. 446-461

Book Review, p. 462

POLICING REPUBLICAN ITALY

INTRODUCTION
Nicola Labanca, What Republic without police?, p. 163-177

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Molly Tambor, The origins of the Polizia Femminile, 1948-1961, p. 178-199
Enzo Fimiani, Occupying spaces, regulating bodies: a cultural history of the Celere and mobile police units in the Italian Republic, p. 200-223
Michele Di Giorgio, Police cultures. The construction of a collective imaginary for the guardie di Pubblica sicurezza, 1949-1960, p. 224-249
Laura Di Fabio, Policing and planning cross-border surveillance during the cold war. The South Tyrolean case, p. 250-271
Vittorio Coco, Criminalpol Sicilia and the mafia, 1966-1981, p. 272-293 Enrico Gargiulo, ‘Crowds are mad and criminal’: the notion of public order in Italian manuals for police mobile units, 2000-2008, p. 294-316
Francesco Landolfi, Law enforcement and academic studies in Italy and the United States: a comparison, p. 317-342

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Benedetta Luciana Sara Carnaghi, Mussolini’s Four Would-be Assassins: Emergency Politics and the Consolidation of Fascist Power, p. 1-18
Marco Marsili, The Servant of Two Masters: Italian Diplomats in World War II. Story of a Diplomatic Civil War and its Implications and Consequences on Post-war Foreign Policy, p. 19-40
Giovanni Farese, Linking finance, decolonization, and trade. Italy’s Mediobanca in sub-Saharan Africa, 1944-1971, p. 41-62
Mattia Granata, Planning in cold-war Italy, p. 63-91
Onofrio Romano, Antonella Coco, Lucio Palazzo, Pietro Sabatino, Southern Italian Peripheries at the Ballot Box. Continuity and Innovation in Electoral Behaviours in Three Southern Italian Cities during Post-Crisis Decade (2008-2019), p. 92-124
Antonio Vesco, The Neapolitan way to the commons: poetics of irony and ‘creative use of the law’ in the case of L’Asilo, p. 125-150

Book Review, p. 151

THE PRISM OF NEW MOBILITIES: THE MOBILITY TRAJECTORIES OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS OUTSIDE THE ITALIAN SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

INTRODUCTION
Francesco Della Puppa, Giuliana Sanò, The prism of new mobilities. The mobility trajectories of refugees and asylum seekers outside the Italian reception system, p. 503-527

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Stefano degli Uberti, Unveiling Informality through Im/mobility. Conceptual Analysis of Asylum Seekers and Refugees at the Margins of the Reception system in Italy, p. 528-551
Giuliana Sanò, Francesco Della Puppa, The multiple facets of (im)mobility. A multisited ethnography on territorialisation experiences and mobility trajectories of asylum seekers and refugees outside the Italian reception system, p. 552-568
Elena Fontanari, Time-out for the outsider refugees. Ten-years of im-mobility across EU borders and outside the reception systems, p. 569-588
Roberta Altin, The floating karst flow of migrants as a rite of passage through the Eastern European border, p. 589-607
Davide Filippi, Luca Giliberti, Luca Queirolo Palmas, From Lampedusa to the Susa Valley: solidarity networks in two border battlegrounds, p. 608-626
Gaia Cottino, ‘Vertical mobility’. Migrants’ trajectories within/between the western Alps and southern Italy, p. 627-643

Obituary, p. 644
Book Review, p. 645

ART, MARKET AND AGENCY AT THE VENICE BIENNALE, 1895-1993

INTRODUCTION
Clarissa Ricci, Marie Tavinor, Art, market and agency at the Venice Biennale, 1895-1993, p. 369-381

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Marie Tavinor, ‘God save Antonio Fradeletto’: Anglophilia and the consumption of British Art at the Venice Biennale, 1895-1914, p. 382-399
Davide Lacagnina, Through the lens of Vittorio Pica. Art criticism and collecting at the Venice Biennale, 1912-1926, p. 400-424
Cristina Beltrami, The Venice Biennale and the market for Murano Glass, 1895-1930, p. 425-441
Giuliana Tomasella, War Biennali in 1940 and 1942: taste and sales during the Fascist era, p. 442-458
Clarissa Ricci, To sell or not to sell? Attempts at reopening the Venice Biennale’s sales office after 1973, p. 459-481

Review Article, p. 482

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Michele Postigliola, Mauro Rota, Institutional shocks and social capital: evidence from the French domination in Italy, p. 237-260
Gianmarco Mancosu, Watching films in Italian East Africa (1936-41). Fascist ambitions, contradictions, and anxieties, p. 261-290
Fabio De Ninno, Italian civilian victims of war: assistance, legislation and war pensions from Fascism to Republic, p. 291-313
Andrea Carati, Mariele Merlati, Daniela Vignati, Freer when constrained? Italy and transatlantic relations during the cold war, p. 314-332
Galadriel Ravelli, Narratives of neo-fascist transnational trajectories: travellers, warriors or ‘national-tourists’?, p. 333-353

Book Review, p. 354

ITALY’S ORIENT

INTRODUCTION
Rolando Minuti, Italy’s Orient: Introduction, p. 105-109
Adrian Lyttelton, Italy’s Orient: Introduction, p. 110-115

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Ann Thomson, Filippo Pananti’s Algeria, p. 116-128
Guido Abbattista, Collecting Chinese things from social status to public use: an early nineteenth-century Italian example, p. 129-140
Stefano Turina, Beyond the silkworm eggs. The role of the Italian semai (silkworm eggs merchants) in spreading knowledge of Japan in Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century between art and science, p. 141-160
Francesca Tacchi, Everybody’s Orient. Fragments of images from illustrated travel journals (nineteenth-century Milan), p. 161-172
Claudio Zanier, Italy, East Asia and Silk. One hundred years of a relationship (1830-1940), p. 173-185
Filipa Lowndes Vicente, India in Florence: Angelo de Gubernatis and the shaping of Italian Orientalism (1860-1900), p. 186-207
Rolando Minuti, China and world history in Italian nineteenth century thought. Some remarks on Giuseppe Ferrari’s work, p. 208-219

Review Article, p. 220
Book Review, p. 227

ITALIAN MUSICAL MIGRATION TO LONDON

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Nicolò Palazzetti, From street musicians to divas. Italian musical migration to London in the age of diaspora, p. 1-10
Susan Rutherford, Vocal pedagogy and Italian musical migration in London, 1664-1914, p. 11-26
Massimo Zicari, Cultural stereotypes and the reception of Verdi’s operas in Victorian London, p. 27-40
Federica Nardacci, Constructing an English identity in London: Albert Visetti and Anglo-Italian musical exchanges at the end of the nineteenth century, p. 41-53
Alexandra Wilson, Opera for the ‘country lout’: Italian opera, national identity and the middlebrow in interwar Britain, p. 54-69
Andrew Holden, A slice of operatic life in the East End of London, 1880-1940: philanthropy, immigration and Italian opera, p. 70-87

Book Review, p. 88