{"id":116,"date":"2017-11-14T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:24:48","slug":"into-the-fascist-forest-a-real-italian-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2017\/11\/into-the-fascist-forest-a-real-italian-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the fascist forest \u2013 a real Italian controversy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fire recently tore through an Italian memorial to Mussolini made of trees. Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This post is re-posted from\u00a0https:\/\/theconversation.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Can a forest be fascist? This may seem a facetious question, but it is one that Italians have been discussing of late due to a fire that occurred at the end of August.The fire, allegedly started accidentally by someone cooking tomato sauce, burned down part of a historic and controversial forest on the slopes of Mount Giano, about 100km north-east of Rome. The 20,000 fir trees here, spread over eight hectares, were planted between 1938 and 1939 by recruits studying at the academy of the forestry corps in the small town of Cittaducale. They were an homage to Mussolini: planted in such a way so that from afar, they read DUX, the fascist leader\u2019s title in Latin. And some want to replant it.This story brings effectively together two major recent issues of debate: forest fires and the removal of inappropriate, \u201cdisturbing\u201d monuments. In this instance a politically incorrect monument has been (partially) destroyed by one of the many forest fires that, every year, hit central and southern Italy. This past summer was particularly dramatic, with more than 70,000 hectares of Italian forest destroyed by fires.However, this forest is not just any forest, but a prime example of the fascist appropriation of landscapes to mark a regime\u2019s domination on both the country and its nature. The fact that this forest survived decades of neglect and a first attempt at getting rid of it in the 1950s has allowed it to become a powerful symbol for neo-fascist groups, who gather publicity by defending its historic value.So should we see the forest first and foremost as a forest, a natural landscape that perhaps should be restored, or as a disturbing memory of Mussolini? Ought we to recreate the forest, as a preservation of the memory of the country\u2019s history? Or should we leave it to its destiny and forget about it?<\/p>\n

Read the full blog post by Marco Armiero and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (originally posted on the 9th of October, 2017) : Into the fascist forest \u2013 a real Italian controversy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is re-posted from\u00a0https:\/\/theconversation.com. Can a forest be fascist? This may seem a facetious question, but it is one that Italians have been discussing of late due to a fire that occurred at the end of August.The fire, allegedly started accidentally by someone cooking tomato sauce, burned down part of a historic and controversial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ehl","tag-environmental-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173,"url":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2017\/12\/be-sure-to-check-out-the-entitle-blog-a-collaborative-writing-project-on-political-ecology\/","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":0},"title":"Be sure to check out the ENTITLE blog \u2013 a collaborative writing project on Political Ecology","author":"Sofia Jonsson","date":"2017-12-18","format":false,"excerpt":"Entitle blog is a collaborative writing effort that looks at the world through the lens of political ecology. 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