{"id":48440,"date":"2019-05-03T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T06:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=48440"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:22:04","slug":"impermanent-fixity-of-the-nation-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=48440","title":{"rendered":"Impermanent fixity of the nation-state."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While the ridgeline of the Alps\u2019s ice caps is on the move today, many of the place-names Tolomei imposed remain, and they are likely to outlast the border that the Italian government wanted to imagine into permanence. Taking the long view of Italy\u2019s northernmost boundary from the vantage point of its colonial history shows how this border is, in a way, the opposite of what it appears to be in atlases and Italian textbooks: an arbitrary outer border to a new state, rather than a destined marker for all time. The border seems etched in the mountaintop, but it is\u00a0as impermanent as other landmarks of nature are, especially those touched by climate change; with it, so too is the symbolic fixity of the nation-state that tied its boundary to the Alpine crests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Mia Fuller, Associate Professor in Italian Studies at <\/em>Berkeley,<em> in<\/em> Laying Claim \u2013 Italy&#8217;s Internal and External Colonies. <em>Fuller is a cultural anthropologist and urban-architectural historian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">C\u00ebla enghe:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"The Restoration of Minority Toponyms.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=32082\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Toponimi: Bene collettivo o compimento dell\u2019opera colonialistica del Tolomei?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=32583\"><code>02<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"La toponomastica inventata vista da Nicol\u00f2 Rasmo.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=31429\"><code>03<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Wiederauferstehung von Ettore Tolomei.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=48096\"><code>04<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"I tempi che ancora ci umiliano.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=34108\"><code>05<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"Secessione, cittadinanza, scuola unica.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=44992\"><code>06<\/code><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;\">||<\/span> <a title=\"Innere und \u00e4u\u00dfere Kolonien.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=64527\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00\"><code>01<\/code><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the ridgeline of the Alps\u2019s ice caps is on the move today, many of the place-names Tolomei imposed remain, and they are likely to outlast the border that the Italian government wanted to imagine into permanence. Taking the long view of Italy\u2019s northernmost boundary from the vantage point of its colonial history shows how [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","issue-quotation","location-italy","location-sudtirolo","language-english","person-ettore-tolomei","topic-colonialismi","topic-ecologia","topic-faschismen","topic-geschichte","topic-grenzen","topic-nationalismus","topic-ortsnamen","topic-politik","topic-wissenschaft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76437,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48440\/revisions\/76437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}