Author profile: Paolo Heywood

Paolo Heywood is an Assistant Professor of social anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory (Berghahn 2018) and the co-editor of Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (Cornell, forthcoming). He is working on two other books: the first, for Cornell University Press, is an ethnography of Predappio, the Italian town in which Mussolini was born and in which he is buried; the second, for Cambridge University Press, is about the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein on social anthropology.

Who’s Afraid of Mussolini’s Ghost?

Paolo Heywood • Feb 27 2023 • Articles

Much is rightly made in discussions of Italian attitudes to fascism of its post-war failures to ‘de-fascistise’ in the way that Germany was ‘de-nazified’.

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