Papers by Leonardo Cecchini
Narrative Models of Political Violence
Discursive Framings of Human Rights
This paper investigates the way in which victims, relatives of the victims and victims associatio... more This paper investigates the way in which victims, relatives of the victims and victims associations use the human rights discourse in developing discursive and social practises to transform victimhood in active and committed citizenship, struggling to obtain the right to truth, if not justice, in the aftermath of the ‘Years of Lead’, i.e. the wave of political terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, in Italy. It examines therefore the relationship between victimhood and political agency and how human rights influence their struggle to overcome the violent conflict of the past through a profound societal transformation. It analyzes victims’ self-narratives, practices and narrative modes established by victims associations to promote victims’ rights and memory activism practices in social media. These narratives will be analysed with the aim of identifying the narrative and thematic modes in play and especially what type of identity they transmit: it is not that of traumatized, self-absorbed victims, but rather that of citizens who assert their right to truth, justice and memory and place their claims in the name and to the benefit of a national community of belonging.
MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research, 1996
Videocrazia - TV-magt - et er nøgleord i italiensk mediepolitik. I Italien er medierne og den pol... more Videocrazia - TV-magt - et er nøgleord i italiensk mediepolitik. I Italien er medierne og den politiske magt tæt sammenvævet. Cecchini fortæller de italienske mediers historie fra 70´ernes cowboy-deregulering til mediemag- naten Berlusconis fremkomst i 80´erne og forvandling til politiker, partiejer og ministerpræsident i 90´erne. Han beskriver kampene og sejrene på det liberaliserede TV-marked, TVs politiske betydning bl.a. i Berlusconis valg- kamp, og den manglende politiske mulighed for at gribe ind overfor mono- poldannelse. Artiklen rummer også et rids af udviklingen i den trykte pres- se, radio og film og et kig ind i fremtiden for de italienske medier.
Autobiografismo e autoreflessività in Tomasso Landolfi
Testo Studi Di Teoria E Storia Della Letteratura E Della Critica, 2012
Memorie a confronto: Somiglianze e differenze tra le memorie di un passato violento in Spagna e in Italia
Roberto Savianos culture wars: notes on a literary quote
Roberto Saviano (b. 1979), the author of bestseller Gomorrah (2007; ed. orig. 2006), is arguably ... more Roberto Saviano (b. 1979), the author of bestseller Gomorrah (2007; ed. orig. 2006), is arguably the most influential contemporary Italian writer and an icon of resistance to the perceived political and moral decline of the country. This success can be understood against the background of the current state of affairs in Italy and as part of a wave of 'postmodern commitment' (Antonello & Mussgnug, 2009) among Italian artists and intellectuals. Interestingly, Saviano has earned the respect of people with different political views, which is a remarkable achievement in a country traditionally plagued by ideological division. This paper investigates the connection of form and content in Saviano's public communication by focusing on one single example that we deem representative of his poetics and politics. In a TV-show by title Dall'inferno alla bellezza [From hell to beauty], Saviano performed a two-hour long monologue focused on stories of resistance against evil. A num...
Paradokset Italien: Kilder til Italiens historie 1861-1995
From passive victimhood to committed citizenship: storytelling by victims of the ‘years of lead’ in Italy – in search of justice and truth in spite of the state
Narrative Models of Political Violence: Vicarious Experience and'Violentization'in 1970s Italy
… Terrorism. The Rhetoric and Representation of …, 2009
Una faccia. Cos'è questa faccia da Kirchner? Questa faccia disperata, gli occhi affondati ne... more Una faccia. Cos'è questa faccia da Kirchner? Questa faccia disperata, gli occhi affondati nelle orbite, gli zigomi che vengono fuori da guance che sembrano aspirate da una pompa? La faccia del vietminh sparato in testa dal capo della polizia di Saigon? No. È il piccolo algerino ...
K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Visions of Europe: An IntroductionThe European Union has been an incredible success for more than... more Visions of Europe: An IntroductionThe European Union has been an incredible success for more than 40 years, but the economic crisis and the problems witnessed before the final agreement on the Lisbon treaty have recently questioned any further expansion of the Union, economically as well as politically and geographically.In this article the authors argue that the actual problems in the EU reflect a deeper crisis, concerning the lack of clear values and / or principles that should lead Europe into the future. Although Europe is, and has always been, a heterogeneous entity, many different voices and discourses have for centuries sought to define Europe as a unified and stable cultural subject. The single most important challenge of the Human Sciences in the on-going negotiation of the future of the European project is to assure that the cultural richness, the semiotic ambiguity and historical depth in the conception of what Europe has been, is and might be in the future, is not sacrif...
K&K - Kultur og Klasse
Dante’s Christian Universalism and Islam:During the years 2001-2004, when the establishment of a ... more Dante’s Christian Universalism and Islam:During the years 2001-2004, when the establishment of a Constitution for Europe was on the EU’s agenda, the suggestion to include a reference to the ‘Christian roots’ of Europe in the Constitution’s Preamble lead to an animated debate. Some Italian Catholic intellectuals (Anna Maria Chiavacci, Giuseppe Reale) took part in the debate and used Dante to illustrate the essential significance of Christianity in the European culture, thereby involving themselves in this debate. Referring to T.S. Eliot’s famous quote (»the culture of Dante was not of one European country but of Europe«), they claimed that Dante’s work was one of the greatest expressions of a Christian European cultural identity which took form in the Middle Ages and drew impulse from a synthesis of the two great Mediterranean cultural traditions: the Greek-Roman and the Jewish-Christian; a cultural identity they identified tout court with our present ‘European’ or ‘Western’ culture....
in: Studi di Italianistica Nordica, a cura di Stefano Rosatti, Marco Gargiulo, Margareth Hagen, A... more in: Studi di Italianistica Nordica, a cura di Stefano Rosatti, Marco Gargiulo, Margareth Hagen, Aracne editrice, Ariccia 2014
Antonio Tabucchi is one of the present-day Italian writers to who most frequently is assigned the... more Antonio Tabucchi is one of the present-day Italian writers to who most frequently is assigned the label of postmodern; despite he has often expressed his scepticism about such a classification. But Tabucchi has equally expressed his scepticism about the traditional notion of impegno (social-political commitment) in literature. However this has not prevented him from taking position in his writing on important civil and social-political issues in Italy and Europe. This paper focuses on Tabucchi’s stance about the question of impegno, - particularly as discussed by him in La gastrite di Platone and L’oca al passo – and proposes to locate Tabucchi’s work within the category of ”postmodern impegno” , a category proposed by scholars as P. Antonello, F. Mussgnug and others. Tabucchi doesn’t propose an antagonistic reading of reality, but he places himself within the ambiguity of the postmodern condition and from her he is carrying on his emancipatory discourse. His impegno is more open and fragmented, ethical and post-ideological, aiming to turn literature into an open debate between writer, characters and readers, a debate that doesn’t want to provide answers but to disturb consciences.
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