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The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy

The Culture of Consent: Mass Organisation of Leisure in Fascist Italy

de Grazia, Victoria

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General European HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521526914
ISBN13: 9780521526913
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 25 2002
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The efforts of fascism to form a 'culture of consent, ' or shape depoliticized activities, in Italy between the world wars, make a unique portrait of fascist political tactics. Professor de Grazia focuses on the dopolavoro or fascist leisure-time organization, the largest of the regime's mass institutions. She traces its gradual rise in importance for the consolidation of fascist rule; its spread in the form of thousands of local clubs into every domain of urban and rural life; and its overwhelming impact on the distribution, consumption, and character of all kinds of recreational pursuits - from sports and adult education to movies, traveling theaters, radio, and tourism. The author shows how fascism was able, between 1926 and 1939, to build a new definition of the public sphere. Recasting the public sphere entailed dispensing with traditional class and politically defined modes of organizing those social roles and desires existing outside the workplace.

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