Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism
(2021)
Journal Article
Heywood, P. (2022). Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 64(1), 91-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417521000402
This paper examines the ways in which ‘ordinariness’ can come to be exemplified as a virtue. It does so by comparing the status of ordinariness in historical and present-day Predappio, the village in which Mussolini was born and is buried. It describ... Read More about Ordinary exemplars: cultivating the everyday in the birthplace of fascism.