Overview
- Challenges the conventional distinction between pre-industrial and post-1789 collective forms of action
- Deals comprehensively with the history of European protest from the 19th to 21st century
- Examines the uses, meanings, imagery, functions, and revivals of protest movements in contemporary European political discourse
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)
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“This sparkling volume renews our understanding of the character of popular protest, from left to right, across modern Europe. The carnivalesque, the charivari, and other performative genres are drawn from the local past to try to overturn present injustice. Kudos to Ilaria Favretto and Xabier Itçaina for bringing together these essays, whose drama deepens our vision of political movements and their possibilities, even in our own day.” (Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto, Canada)
“This finely crafted and very important edited volume by Ilaria Favretto and Xabier Itçaina, returns to the classic concerns of the New Social History of the middle and late twentieth century but with the advantage of employing the insights gained by a half century of New Social Movement theory, practice and studies. Thus the chiarivari and other so-called early modern and early industrial social phenomena never died. They are present in the industrial struggles of1970s of Italy and indeed in the Alter-Globalisation, Occupy and Square movements of the early twenty-first centuries. In a series of invigorating chapters, this volume proclaims that the division between the pre-modern, modern and contemporary supply too much heat but not much light. Read and enjoy.” (Professor Carl Levy, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
“The history of social movements has taught us how in the nineteenth century trade unions and progressive parties, wanting to rationalize and impose order on popular dissent, waged war on the insults, satire, rowdiness and carnivalesque behaviours that had been rooted in popular tradition. These practices seemed relegated to the margins of protest action. However, the contributors to this volume describe the reinvention of an armoury of sedition, placing great emphasis on ridicule. This nuanced and rigorous enquiry into the resurgence of burlesque forms of protest makes for enthralling reading.” (François Ploux, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ilaria Favretto is Professor of Contemporary European History at Kingston University, UK. She has published on the British and the Italian Left after 1945; on memory and identity in post-war Italy; and most recently, on Italian factory protest in the period after 1945.
Xabier Itçaina is CNRS Research fellow-HDR in Political Sociology at the Centre Emile Durkheim, France, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, and a former Marie Curie Fellow (2012-2013) at the European University Institute, Italy. His research focuses on the politics of Catholicism, social economy and local development, political anthropology and identity politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe
Editors: Ilaria Favretto, Xabier Itcaina
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50737-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50736-5Published: 18 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50737-2Published: 10 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6559
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, Social History