Giuseppe MUTI, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Gianluigi SALVUCCI, Istat, Italy
After the bloody Mafia massacres of the 1980s and 1990s, since the end of the 20th century more and more Italian municipalities have dedicated a street to the innocent victims of the Mafia. In the last 15 years, this trend has grown vigorously. However, this is not a centrally promoted naming policy. Instead, it is a policy of remembrance from below, promoted by activists and the galaxy of anti-mafia associations spread throughout the country. Rather than local history, therefore, the distribution of anti-mafia names responds to the spread and socio-cultural roots of civil anti-mafia instances.
Starting from the census of anti-mafia memory streets in Italy, the contribution intends to analyse the spatial dimension of anti-mafia memory policies in Italy, also from a theoretical perspective. If, in fact, the politics of street naming (and the production of memory places) is positioned between two theoretical extremes defined by the practices of elitist domination and those of claiming from below, (Rose-Redwood, 2008) the practice of naming streets in memory of the antimafia is placed in an original intermediate position.
Mots clés : Street name|territory|memory|civil movement|anti-mafia
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