Organization studies provide descriptions and theories in which actors are caught in nets (structure, interest, motives) that determine them. The author's words order a multiplicity into a coherent whole that gives it one meaning. Some would say that this is the price to pay for constituting knowledge. If this has been avoided for example with non-...
Faire l’histoire du fascisme italien a toujours été une tâche difficile. Dès sa naissance,dans les cendres de la guerre, l’idéologie fasciste a été l’objet de nombreuses interrogations. Particulièrement instable idéologiquement et politiquement le fascisme italien a longtemps renvoyé l’image d’un mouvement, vaporeux, voire même sans contenu. Cepend...
In recent years, the rise of right-wing ideologies has been a growing concern for me. Across the world, a worrying and alarming increase in support for far-right political parties and movements is taking place. Several signals of a broader shift towards nationalist and populist politics are currently emerging. The recent national elections held bet...
The years 1920-1930 are times associated in the popular imagination with a contagious joy in a Western Europe that aimed to leave behind the sadness and difficulties of the First World War. However, these two decades also represent the rise of reactionary ideas that oppose the established political order (liberalism) that is accused of being ineffe...
In the contemporary era, university residences in Italy have been important centers of aggregation for students, and a relevant subject in the broader national debate on the development of universities, also with regard to the relationship between center and periphery, and the issue of public and private funding at the local and national levels, in...
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en Italie, le jusnaturalisme renaissant a engagé le procès du positivisme juridique, accusé d’avoir permis, ou pire, favorisé l’avènement du fascisme. D’autres critiques venant des écoles sociologique et réaliste ont également mis en cause le positivisme, sur un plan toutefois plus épistémologique que moral. Au cœu...
This paper examines the discourse surrounding Italian gastronationalism throughout the previous four European Parliament elections to gain a deeper comprehension of the escalating significance of gastronationalism over the past two decades. In this examination, the notion of gastronationalism, situated within the wider context of banal nationalism,...
The main research question of this thesis is how history is used for political gain by the far-right in Finland. The aim is to study not only the use of history but, rather, specifically, the patterns of that use. Two theories have been utilized. The first is the far-right as a milieu, as presented by Colin Campbell in the cultic milieu theory, whi...
The roots of the fascist movements in Belgium are found in frustrations that stemmed from the First World War. Fascist movements in French-speaking Belgium were divided and alienated on the eve of the Second World War. Their loyalty to the Belgian king and fatherland was a hindrance to their further expansion. During the First World War, the German...
This dissertation examines cults of personality from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Focusing on the cults of Benito Mussolini of Fascist Italy (in power 1922-1943) and Nicolae Ceauşescu of communist Romania (in power 1965-1989), it offers a novel framework for understanding and accounting for longstanding observations regarding such cult...
