{"pk":40991,"title":"L’Italia, è ancora un paese mediterraneo?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The title of this essay may seem provocative, but in light of recent developments in Italian history, it is a legitimate question to ask. Italy has changed. Italy’s own sense of \nmediterraneità\n – and other people’s understanding of this identity – as well as the representations of memory and politics of and in the Mediterranean, beg further discussion. In an Italy increasingly defined by mass culture and a mass media that focuses on “cultural conflicts” and the “culture of fear,” discourses hinging on economic competition, production, profit, and neo-liberal victories, have increasingly obfuscated real and profound problems. This essay discusses how recent socio-economic, cultural, political and racial discourses have pushed Italy towards a place in which the original idea of \nmediterraneità\n no longer seems to have any value. Therefore the question remains: can this term be redeemed?","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99r9m42v","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Toni","middle_name":"","last_name":"Maraini","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00","date_accepted":"2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00","date_published":"2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40991/galley/30666/download/"}]}