Emanuele Toscano

Emanuele Toscano is a researcher at “Sapienza” University in Rome and associate fellow at Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) at the University of Warwick, UK. He teaches Sociology at University l’Aquila and is editor of New Cultural Frontiers

Berlusconi’s politics of an eternal present

Berlusconi dictates an idea of the eternal present based upon a model of eternal youth and embodied in the narcissistic cult of the self. But there is a democratic affirmation of the individual that can replace this with a narrative that builds our collective future

By Emanuele Toscano

/ 12 Dec 2010

I'm my personal revolution: the Purple Movement in Italy

What has allowed Italy's 'purple movement', growing out of a relatively small number of web users, to mobilise dissatisfaction across the country from north to south? The answer holds up a cruel mirror to the old collective forms of resistance, as well as sending a warning to Italy's governing cla

By Emanuele Toscano

/ 26 May 2010