“We Need a Bit of Trumpism”: Anger and Resentment in Austerity Italy
In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reactions to the perception of state failure in tackling social disparities. I adopt a perspective that articulates the anthropological study of the state with the Gramscian theorization of the integral state...
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In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reactions to the perception of state failure in tackling social disparities. I adopt a perspective that articulates the anthropological study of the state with the Gramscian theorization of the integral state. I examine how anger and resentment shape the everyday perceptions of politics in the urban periphery of Brindisi. I organize my analysis around the examination of a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of the mayor, which I deploy as the prism to explore popular relatedness to the state, highlighting the “disconnection of feeling” between the political elite and popular classes. I argue that by framing the resentful feelings of the latter through the idea of disconnection, we can advance a useful description of people’s relatedness to the state in the current historical conjuncture.
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| spelling | doaj-art-1c07ca71f93d4f8490b008b96485f31a2025-08-20T03:15:39ZengLedizioniAntropologia2281-40432420-84692021-11-018310.14672/ada20211831119-138“We Need a Bit of Trumpism”: Anger and Resentment in Austerity ItalyAntonio Maria Pusceddu0Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal In this article, I look at anger and resentment as intertwined feelings underlying popular reactions to the perception of state failure in tackling social disparities. I adopt a perspective that articulates the anthropological study of the state with the Gramscian theorization of the integral state. I examine how anger and resentment shape the everyday perceptions of politics in the urban periphery of Brindisi. I organize my analysis around the examination of a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of the mayor, which I deploy as the prism to explore popular relatedness to the state, highlighting the “disconnection of feeling” between the political elite and popular classes. I argue that by framing the resentful feelings of the latter through the idea of disconnection, we can advance a useful description of people’s relatedness to the state in the current historical conjuncture. https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/1831austerityclientelismcorruptionitalyrelatednessstate |
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| title | “We Need a Bit of Trumpism”: Anger and Resentment in Austerity Italy |
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| title_sort | we need a bit of trumpism anger and resentment in austerity italy |
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