Civilizers Versus the Barbarians: Power Relations Between Centre and Periphery in Italy (From Terrorism, Protest and Power, P 138-151, 1990, Martin Warner and Roger Crisp, eds. -- See NCJ-130873)

• NCJ Number: 130883
• Author(s): M Bull
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 14 pages
• Sale Source: Avebury Publishing Co
• Publication Type: Survey (Cross-Cultural)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

The relationship between a society's power center and its periphery is examined with respect to Italy and the implications of three conceptual approaches to issues of power relations, conflict, and protest.

Abstract

Italy has two types of cleavages of center and periphery. The first is the centralized government that was established after extensive intellectual and political debates regarding whether to make the country a regional, Federal, or centralized nation. The other cleavage is between the prosperous and rapidly developing North and the poor and underdeveloped South. The conflictual relationship between the center and the periphery in Italy can be viewed in terms of three models. The first views the development of society as a process by which the center's values spread to the periphery; the second as a process in which the center dominates the periphery; and the third as an interactive process in which the periphery is an active agent. Notes