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Displaced children, silence, and the violence of humanitarianism in Cold War Italy

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Date
30/01/2021
Author
Pipyrou, Stavroula
Keywords
Silence
Cold War
Displacement
Children
Humanitarianism
Italy
GN Anthropology
T-NDAS
BDC
R2C
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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In early 1950s Calabria, South Italy, thousands of children were displaced as a consequence of severe flooding. Under the banner of humanitarianism, children were relocated by the political left and center-right to live with communist families in the north of Italy or to reside in summer camps and Church institutions. For the left, the humanitarian initiative was framed in terms of solidarity and a vision of the future based on close-knit family and party ties. For the centre-right, the humanitarian effort demonstrated “the caring state” and Catholic charity in action. Today, the events of the 1950s are shrouded in an interwoven veil of structural and embodied silence. From national historiography, through societal absence, to personal struggles with the traumatic past, the displaced children inhabit silence as a space in the world. This silence must be analyzed within the context of Cold War politics, the sedimenting of post-war collective consciousness, and the race between the left and center-right to claim the future generation of Italian citizens.
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Pipyrou , S 2021 , ' Displaced children, silence, and the violence of humanitarianism in Cold War Italy ' , Anthropological Quarterly , vol. 93 , no. 3 (Summer 2020) , pp. 429-459 . https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2020.0051
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Anthropological Quarterly
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2020.0051
ISSN
0003-5491
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://aq.gwu.edu/
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https://aq.gwu.edu/v93-3-articles.html
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21340

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