Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Romain Bonnet
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/299
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 100-124 File size 198 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2022-299005
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This article proposes an original analysis of Pierre Bourdieu’s system of thought,problematizing the State through the conceptual tryptic capital-habitus-field. In order tobetter understand the imbrication of the State with violence, this essay examines a case ofbrutalization that took place in the aftermath of World War One. On July 1, 1920, at aroundnoon, a landlord from Gioia del Colle (in the province of Bari) ordered a group of fellowlandowners, armed and hidden, to fire on several peasants that were returning from workto receive their wages. In the summer of 1922, the perpetrators of this aggression (aroundfifty) were acquitted by a verdict declaring - paradoxically - their "self-defense". In orderto understand how these forms of physical violence were possible, along with the symboliccover-up by institutions, this article looks at the transformation of the Italian State from theturn of the century to the rise of Fascism. It argues that the case of Gioia del Colle highlightsthe shift from prewar brutality to postwar forms of brutalization.Key words: brutalization, political violence, State, rural worlds, fascism, case-thinking
Keywords: brutalization, political violence, State, rural worlds, fascism, case-thinking
Romain Bonnet, Pierre Bourdieu, lo Stato e la violenza politica in Italia. Il caso di Gioia del Colle (1920-1922, provincia di Bari) in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 299/2022, pp 100-124, DOI: 10.3280/IC2022-299005