Title: Rebuilding Group Identities on the Far Left
Abstract: On 12 March 2011 this slogan reverberated through the streets of the city of Bologna, more than 30 years after Francesco Lorusso was shot dead. Clearly Lorusso's disputed and unresolved death, as well as the violent incidents that subsequently kept Bologna in a state of high tension over the following days and weeks, made a deep wound on the city, in particular among Lorusso's former companions and friends. During the 34th anniversary of the incident, the latter a protest march through the city centre, where the slogan above, one of the most popular and well-known slogans of the extra-parliamentary left in the 1970s, imbued the event with nostalgia for a lost political cause. This third and final chapter dealing with memory communities in Bologna thus looks at Lorusso's companions and the way they have commemorated Lorusso and negotiated his memory over the past 30 years. It analyses commemorative practices, the rhetoric of commemoration, tensions within the former student movement and the transference of this memory to other generations.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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