{"product_id":"modernity-and-secession-the-social-sciences-and-the-political-discourse-of-the-lega-nord-in-italy-9781845450618","title":"Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe northern Italian, ‘Padanian’ identity, fostered by the \u003ci\u003eLega Nord\u003c\/i\u003e, is rooted in the long-standing tradition, in political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy’s (real or presumed) inadequacies – such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime – this imagined geography acquired political centrality in that the North became associated with the virtues of modernity and the South with the vices of un-modernity. It was not only politicians but also social scientists, who fostered and perpetuated this conceptualization of the North-South divide, thus imposing a normative hierarchy between the two parts of the country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIn response to this discourse many scholars, both in Italy and abroad, have started to question this perception of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society. Starting from this critical tradition, Michel Huysseune provides a new, systematic, and interdisciplinary approach that re-interprets the premises behind Italy’s imagined geography of modernity. He moves beyond an understanding of the South as a “backward” and implicitly inferior society and problematizes normative notions of modernity, thus offering a new perspective on the North-South divide, which has a significance well beyond the case of Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Modernity, National Identity and the Social Sciences: An Interpretative Framework\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of Italy’s Incomplete Modernisation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Theories on Italy’s Modernisation: Explaining the Italian Sonderweg\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Representations of Northern and Southern Italy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Political Discourse of the Lega Nord\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Anti-Secessionist Discourses in Italy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042962833751,"sku":"9781845450618","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845450618.jpg?v=1750956420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernity-and-secession-the-social-sciences-and-the-political-discourse-of-the-lega-nord-in-italy-9781845450618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}