Autonomia in the 1970s: the refusal of work, the party and power. [Paper in: Italian Effects. Healy, Chris and Muecke, Stephen (eds.).]

The Italian new social movement of the 1970s, Autonomia, was a key collective actor in late twentieth-century Italian protest and social conflict. The experience of Autonomia has highlighted the changing nature of collective identity, political organization and social contestation in advanced, urban...

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Published in:Cultural studies review 2005-09, Vol.11 (2), p.77-94
Main Author: Cuninghame, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
'Italian Effect' Conference, Sydney, 9-11 September, 2004
Capitalism
Cultural identity
Europe: Social history
European history
Italians
Language history
Marxism
New Left
Organised Workers Autonomy
Politics
Power (Philosophy)
Social order
Socialism
Sovereignty
Trade unions
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Summary:The Italian new social movement of the 1970s, Autonomia, was a key collective actor in late twentieth-century Italian protest and social conflict. The experience of Autonomia has highlighted the changing nature of collective identity, political organization and social contestation in advanced, urbanized capitalist societies. Cuninghame argues that the academically imposed division between culturally oriented new social movements and political "class struggle" is false, as is the attempt to divide these movements into "bad" residual/violent/political and "good" emergent/non-violent/cultural elements.
ISSN:1446-8123
1837-8692