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ERIC Number: EJ1282174
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0362-6784
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Palimpsestic Pedagogies: Mapping Fascist Violence against Children from Mussolini's Dictatorship to Present Day Italy
Salvio, Paula M.
Curriculum Inquiry, v50 n4 p291-308 2020
This essay focuses on the disavowed histories of Italy's fascist past with a specific focus on how select historical disavowals reverberate in the present through the law of restricted citizenship, policies governing the lives of migrants, and recent pro-natal campaigns. I take as the occasion for my discussion, the 2017 exhibit at the "Museo della Shoah" in Rome, entitled "The Enemy Race: Nazi and Italian Fascist Propaganda." Through representations of the child during Mussolini's reign, the exhibit represents Mussolini's investment in the Italian child, conceived of as Catholic, Aryan, and born on Italian soil. His regime aimed to cultivate a future generation that would purify the nation through physical vitality, a belief in racial elitism, and loyalty to the nation state, while casting Jewish and "non-Italian" children as enemy subjects. I argue that the pedagogical impulse of the "Museo della Shoah" aims, not only to represent life histories that have been imperfectly erased from post-war memory, but also to recognize such a project as an interminable process of reflection that unfolds in a country that continues to suffer under the weight of its disavowed colonial and anti-Semitic history.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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