TY - BOOK ID - 5557036 TI - Modernity and secession : the social sciences and the political discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy PY - 2006 SN - 9781845450618 1845450612 PB - New York : Bergahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Regionalism KW - Secession KW - Régionalisme KW - Sécession KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Lega nord KW - Italy, Northern KW - Italy KW - Italie (Nord) KW - Italie KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Éducation et État KW - Nationalisme KW - Italie (nord) KW - Politique sociale KW - Régionalisme KW - Sécession KW - Sovereignty KW - Separatist movements KW - Lega nord. KW - Northern League (Lega nord) KW - Liga Norte (Italy) KW - Lega lombarda (Political party) KW - Lega per l'indipendenza della Padania KW - Northern Italy KW - Lega KW - Sécession. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5557036 AB - "The northern Italian, 'Padanlan' identity, fostered by the Lega Nord, is rooted in the long-standing tradition. In political and scholarly discourse, of casting regional differences within Italy in terms of a North-South geographic divide. Trying to come to terms, in the late 1980s and 1990s, with Italy's (real or presumed) inadequacies such as inefficient government, corruption, and organized crime - the North became associated with the virtues of modernity and the South with the vices of un-modernity. It was not only politicians but also social scientists, who fostered and perpetuated this conceptualization of the North-South divide, thus imposing a normative hierarchy between the two parts of the country. The author provides a new, systematic and interdisciplinary approach that reinterprets the premises behind Italy's imagined geography or modernity."--BOOK JACKET ER -