On the country of the future.
Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Worse, it's a country without a Left. How did the populist right come to triumph? What is the relationship between high emigration and hostility to immigration? And how were the seeds sown 30 years ago with the collapse of the First Republic, Europeanisation, and Berlusconi's rise? Is there now a possibility of 'Italexit'?
Readings:
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, David Broder, Verso
/420/ Fertility Freefall & Gender Strife in South Korea ft. Hyeyoung Woo (sample)
/419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford (sample)
/418/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown System, German-Style ft. Gregor Baszak (sample)
/RE-RELEASE/ Silvio Berlusconi: An Oral History
/417/ Has India passed peak Modi? ft. Achin Vanaik
/416/ Aufhebonus Bonus (sample)
/415/ Left-Populism That Works? (II) ft. Juan David Rojas
/414/ Zone of Banality or the Authority of Evil?
/413/ Left-Populism That Works? (I) ft. Roger Lancaster
/412/ No Future But Future Music ft. Simon Reynolds
/411/ What Kind of American Are You?
/410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin
/409/ Palestine, Protest, Repression: The Wider Context
/408/ Was It Raining When You Fled Paris? ft. Peter Gourevitch
/407/ Beyond Bare Life ft. Dustin Guastella
/406/ AufheBonus Bonus (sample)
/405/ Size Queen Nation ft. Christie Offenbacher & Benjamin Fife (sample)
/404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
/402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)
/403/ Reading Club: Habermas on Social Media (sample)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free