Grillo and the Vacuum: Understanding the Project of the Five Stars Movement
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Title
Grillo and the Vacuum: Understanding the Project of the Five Stars Movement
Description
The article investigates the persistence on the political sphere of the peculiar Five Star Movement in Italy. It does so by analyzing how the support base was mobilized on the ground in order to provide important insights on the contemporary Italian (and European) crisis of representation. The 5SM responded to the political vacuum caused by the decline of the traditional mediating role of the Italian party system with another vacuum. The absence of a traditional political plan in favour of a platform whose issues are supposedly decided by the 5SM activists, supported by a complex structure comprehensive of both vertical and horizontal features as well as an original style of communication and an ideology that officially try to capitalize on the participative side of web 2.0, offered the 5SM’s activists the hope of being in control of their future. Such perception made fortunes of the 5SM.
Creator
Pazzini, Eugenio
Source
Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019); 21-37
2562-8429
10.22215/cjers.v13i1
Publisher
Centre for European Studies, Carleton University
Date
2020-05-29
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Identifier
Citation
Eugenio Pazzini, Grillo and the Vacuum: Understanding the Project of the Five Stars Movement, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, 2020, accessed November 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/2794