ABSTRACT

This article analyses the case of Italy and how the memory of World War II came to provide the ground for political legitimacy and the ideological foundations of post-war democracy. It focuses on the topos of the Resistance against Fascism as a ‘second Risorgimento’, e.g. a national and patriotic war of liberation supported by the entire populace. The article argues that the process of memory formation of the Resistance as a ‘second Risorgimento’ during the period of transition from Fascism to democracy shares the defining features of a rite of passage in the sense originally introduced by Arnold Van Gennep. The article develops a conceptual approach that brings together social science approaches to liminality, transition, and memory studies. Advancing a processual approach to memory formation, the article thus offers an alternative to the still dominant functionalist-presentist approaches to memory, heavily influenced by Durkheim society since the pioneering work of Halbwachs.

摘要

本文分析了意大利的案例，以及二战的记忆如何为政治合法性和战后民主的意识形态基础奠定基础。它侧重于作为“第二次复兴运动”的反法西斯抵抗运动的主题，例如全民支持的民族和爱国解放战争。这篇文章认为，在从法西斯主义向民主过渡的时期，作为“第二次复兴运动”的抵抗运动的记忆形成过程具有最初由阿诺德·范热内普引入的意义的成年礼的定义特征。本文开发了一种概念方法，将社会科学方法结合到阈限、过渡和记忆研究中。推进记忆形成的过程方法，