Books by Leonardo Cecchini
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.
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Books by Leonardo Cecchini