Italy's Margins explores how certain places and social groups in
Italy have been defined as marginal or peripheral since
unification. This marginalization involves not only concrete
policies but also ways of perceiving people and places as outside
society's centre. The author looks closely at how photography and
writing have supported political and social exclusion and,
conversely, how they have been enlisted to challenge it. Five cases
are examined: the peripheries of Italy's major cities after
unification; its East African colonies in the 1930s; the less
developed areas of its south in the 1950s; its psychiatric
hospitals before the reforms of the late 1970s; and its 'nomad
camps' after 2000. Each chapter takes its lead from a symptomatic
photograph and is followed by other pictures and extracts from
written texts. These allow the reader to examine how social
marginalization is discursively performed by cultural products.
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