I conti col Novecento. Le violenze di massa tra riconoscimento e diniego

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Alessandreo Colombo (ed)
Università degli Studi di Milano
ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4811-6689
Keywords: Violence, Recognition, Denial, Memory, War

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This volume deals with the political, legal and cultural issue of the recognition and denial of mass violence. But instead of dealing with the issue in general, it focuses on a specific issue, the one that arose at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, with recognizable anticipations already in the previous decade and even more impressive fallout in the following decades. This historical and political entrenchment is the topic of the first part of the book. Which revolves around two closely associated questions. First, and foremost: what can explain the emergence of a new sensibility for “mass violence” (past and present) starting in the 1980s and 1990s - but with significant and, arguably, decisive precedents already in the previous decade? And what made this rewriting of the memory of the past and this growing sensitivity to the mass violence of the present take the characteristic form they have taken, structuring themselves around the three typical subjectivities of victim, perpetrator and savior? Instead, the second part of the volume turns to some historical cases of this post-twentieth-century reworking of the recognition and denial of mass violence, different from each other not only in historical location but also in the ways in which they rethink the past.

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Author Biography

Alessandreo Colombo, Università degli Studi di Milano

Alessandro Colombo teaches International Relations at the University of Milan. He is the author of numerous publications, including: The Suicide of Peace. Why the Liberal International Order Failed (Cortina 2025), The World Government of Emergency. From the Apotheosis of Security to the Epidemic of Insecurity (Cortina 2022), Civil War and Political Order (Laterza 2021), Decisive Times. Nature and Rhetoric of International Crises (Feltrinelli 2014), The Disunity of the World. After the Global Century, (Feltrinelli 2010), The Unequal War. Peace and violence in the twilight of international society (Il Mulino 2006).

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July 31, 2025

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