La natura del duce esplora le ecologie politiche fasciste, ovvero le pratiche e le narrative attraverso cui il regime ha costruito ecologie, tanto immaginarie quanto materiali, funzionali al suo progetto politico. Il libro non insegue dunque il fantasma di un Mussolini verde, magari contando quanti parchi nazionali siano stati creati durante il regime o quanti alberi piantumati. Diversamente da quanto affermato dalla storiografia internazionale, gli autori non credono che il fasci...

This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects.“We might think we see a mountain while it was a war; a forest can actually be an engine; a monument to workers might reflect the violence of a colonial empire.”—extracted from Mussolini’s NatureIn this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Rob...

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments.Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between ...