Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence - Revolution and Restoration

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marco Briziarelli, Marco (University of New Mexico Briziarelli, Briziarelli Marco
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 12.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138776920
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77692-0
• Pagine: 190
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Teorie politiche e storia delle idee; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General