Margarita G?mez-Reino Cachafeiro
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2002
Employing primary sources and interviews with protagonists of the rebellion of the Italian North, this book explores the invention of the Padanian nation and the construction of identity politics in Northern Italy. It reveals the connection between the ethnic wave in European party politics in the 1970s and the rise of a new radical right nationalism in the 1990s, and highlights the way in which the discourse of national minorities was instrumental in the rise of a new political agenda that links territory, identity and cultural rights to create new boundaries of exclusion.
Ashgate
Hardback
242
2002
Employing primary sources and interviews with protagonists of the rebellion of the Italian North, this book explores the invention of the Padanian nation and the construction of identity politics in Northern Italy. It reveals the connection between the ethnic wave in European party politics in the 1970s and the rise of a new radical right nationalism in the 1990s, and highlights the way in which the discourse of national minorities was instrumental in the rise of a new political agenda that links territory, identity and cultural rights to create new boundaries of exclusion.