Book ID: CBB022333357

Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism (2022)

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Armiero, Marco (Author)
Biasillo, Roberta (Author)
Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von (Author)
James Sievert (Translator)


James Sievert
MIT Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 208
Language: English

In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable. Mussolini's Nature explores fascist political ecologies, or rather the practices and narratives through which the regime constructed imaginary and material ecologies functional to its political project. The book does not pursue the ghost of a green Mussolini by counting how many national parks were created during the regime or how many trees planted. Instead, the reader is trained to recognize fascist political ecology in Mussolini's speeches, reclaimed landscapes, policies of economic self-sufficiency, propaganda documentaries, reforested areas, and in the environmental transformation of its colonial holdings. The authors conclude with an examination of the role of fascist landscapes in the country's postwar reconstruction: Mussolini's nature is still visible today through plaques, monuments, toponomy, and the shapes of landscapes. This original, and surprisingly intimate, environmental history is not merely a chronicle of conservation in fascist Italy but also an invitation to consider the socioecological connections of all political projects.

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Authors & Contributors
Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von
Piccolino, Marco
Alfonso De Nardo
Havlick, David G.
Munira Khayyat
Greco, Pietro
Concepts
Fascism
Science and politics
Environmental history
Science and society
Landscape; landscapes
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Italy
Africa
Apennines
Gran Paradiso National Park
Lebanon
Genoa (Italy)
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