Author: Gasparini A. (ed.)
Year: 1999
Publisher: Franco Angeli, Milan Pages: 272
Language: Italian
Content: The issue of Futuribili begins with the proposition of questions about Italy and Italians asked to non-Italians who are familiar with one and the other: English, French, American, Lebanese, Czech, Russian, Iranian, Norwegian; these opinions are joined by those of the Italian who lives far from Italy. The next section collects some reflections on the “forms for Italy”: aspects of the relationship between republicanism and citizenship; issues of the future between autonomism, regionalism and federalism; the Leghist phenomenon in relation to political localism; and the constitutional framework considered from both sociological and legal perspectives. “Italy as it could have been” tells how Italy after 1945 could have been reduced again to a geographical expression if subjected to occupations by the victors . Then the issue of how Italy carries into the future its being a nation, its soul between national and localist-universal, is addressed. In conclusion, a section analyzes Italy’s approach to globalization, in relation to both the mobility of economic, social and political boundaries and its economic unity vis-à-vis increasingly real planetary interdependence.
