States of Emergency

Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978

By: Robert Lumley

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Paperback | 17 April 1990 | Edition Number 1

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The student protests of 1968, followed by the Hot Autumn factory strikes of 1969, shook the foundations of the Italian Republic. They also prepared the way for a whole decade of intense and widespread social conflict—a decade in which militant social movements arose with new aspirations, centered on protagonists such as women, young people and the unemployed. States of Emergency provides a vivid reconstruction of the events and movements of that period—from the students of 1968 to the Autonomists of 1977.

The book’s title evokes both the emergence of new social subjects and the crises they provoked in the social order. But Lumley also looks at the paradoxes and contradictions of the movements, their creative potential and ultimate failure. The political debates which they initiated soon became part of the agenda of the Left internationally.

Drawing on the work of theorists such as Umberto Eco, Alberto Melucci, Norberto Bobbio and Antonio Negri, States of Emergency is a vital contribution not only to Italy’s social history but to contemporary political discussion.

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"Shows an extraordinary capacity to combine cultural, intellectual and social history ... A fascinating account of the wonders and follies of the most important period of collective action in twentieth-century Italian history."--Paul Ginsborg "Of the utmost interest both for historians and for a larger public, in its capacity to look with a 'cultural eye' at transformations usually considered from a social or political point of view."--Luisa Passerini

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