I Terroni in Città: revisiting southern migrants militancy in Turin's hot autumn
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Pizzolato, N. 2012. I Terroni in Città: revisiting southern migrants militancy in Turin's hot autumn. Contemporary European History. 21 (4), pp. 619-634. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777312000409
Type | Article |
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Title | I Terroni in Città: revisiting southern migrants militancy in Turin's hot autumn |
Authors | Pizzolato, N. |
Abstract | This article proposes a revision of the predominant view of southern Italians during the ‘Hot Autumn’ of 1969 in Turin, one of the most remarkable moments of working-class mobilisation in modern European history. The representation of southern Italians as ‘primitive rebels’ and ‘spontaneous’ radicals has its roots in an earlier notion of southerners as social deviants and has obscured a much more complex historical reality. This image, endorsed by historians and popularised in fictional accounts, contradicts contemporary evidence which points to southerners’ singular mix of radicalism and conservatism, resistance and integration. |
Keywords | Labour migration, radicalism, social protest |
Research Group | Work and Learning Research Centre |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Journal | Contemporary European History |
ISSN | 0960-7773 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 29 May 2013 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777312000409 |
Language | English |
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