In recent decades, Italy has been struck by a wave of xenophobic nationalism. With slogans like “Italians First!” (as per Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant Lega) or “Let’s Defend Italy!” (a slogan of Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia), right-populist forces have succeeded in repoliticizing national belonging. Now cast in ethnocultural terms, Italian identity is today brandished against […]

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