LEADER 03528nam 22006612 450 001 9910136927903321 005 20230621140722.0 010 $a1-78138-455-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000684997 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781384558 035 $a(OCoLC)1138044934 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82848 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4803054 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11341566 035 $a(OCoLC)973830904 035 $a(OCoLC)973187839 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6dfaa23f-b029-4851-a98c-c7e792dc405e 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6898765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6898765 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31239 035 $a(PPN)266620043 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000684997 100 $a20170307d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVital subjects $erace and biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 /$fRhiannon Noel Welch$b[electronic resource] 210 $aLiverpool$cLiverpool University Press$d2016 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aTransnational Italian cultures ;$v1 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-286-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 234-261) and index. 330 $aSince World War II, Italy has struggled to recast both its colonial past and its alliance with Nazi Germany. For many years, pervading much intellectual and public discourse was the contention that, prior to the great influx of racialized migrants in the mid-1980s, and with the exception of the Fascist period, there simply was no race (racialized others, racist intolerance, etc.) in Italy. Vital Subjects examines cultural production-literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film-from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rather than a marginal afterthought or a Fascist aberration. Drawing from theorizations of biopolitics-a term coined by political theorists from Michel Foucault to Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and numerous others to address how the life and productivity of the population emerges as a distinctively modern political question-the book repositions discourses of race and colonialism with regard to post-Unification national culture. Vital Subjects reads cultural texts in a biopolitical key, arguing that the tenor of racial discourse was overwhelmingly positive, focusing on making Italians as vital subjects--robust, vigorous, well-nourished, and (re)productive. 410 0$aTransnational Italian cultures ;$v1. 606 $aBiopolitics$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aRace$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 610 $aPolitical Science 610 $aBiopolitics 610 $aCabiria 610 $aGabriele D'Annunzio 610 $aItaly 610 $aMaciste 615 0$aBiopolitics$xHistory. 615 0$aRace$xHistory. 676 $a945/.08 700 $aWelch$b Rhiannon Noel$0905278 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136927903321 996 $aVital subjects$92024583 997 $aUNINA