About Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara. Intellectual and research interests mainly fall within the areas of politics and culture. More specifically, she is concerned with studying the political as a site of cultural discourse, cultural identity, and cultural production. She is the author of Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy and Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie.
Articles by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
For
politics not to be a dirty word that reflected the failing political class’s
capacity for endless debates and conservative behaviour, it had to play a role
much more active and daring; politics was supposed to change a society’s whole
way of living and thinking.This week's guest editors
Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:
Our guest editors James Ron, Leslie Vinjamuri, Sophie Arie and Archana Pandya introduce this week's theme of:
A Turkish Spring?
Woolwich - terror or conflict?
Palestinian borders
Nobel Women's Initiative
Europe from the bottom up
The media in Europe
Mali: the plot thickens
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Remote control war
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