Mussolinis Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism Armiero Marco
Mussolinis Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism Armiero Marco This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime invites readers to consider the…
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Mussolinis Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism Armiero Marco
This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects. 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. "We might think we see a mountain while it was a war; a forest can actually be an engine; a monument to workers might reflect the violence of a colonial empire."--extracted from Mussolini's NatureIn this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable.
The book does not pursue the ghost of a green Mussolini by counting how many national parks were created during the