Marialuisa Menegatto

La violenza collettiva e il g8 di Genova. trauma psicopolitico e terapia sociale della testimonianza

Generalmente la violenza di Stato e associata a sistemi totalitari e a dittature che violano i diritti umani. Carente e invece la letteratura scientifica in merito alla violenza di Stato esercitata in societa democratiche. Il presente articolo cerca di colmare questa lacuna, analizzando gli eventi del G8 di Genova del 20-22 luglio 2001, durante i quali, secondo osservatori internazionali, si e verificata la piu grave sospensione dei diritti umani in un Paese occidentale dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. Criticando la diagnosi di disturbo post-traumatico da stress (PTSD), e articolando i concetti di delegittimazione sociale, trauma psicopolitico e terapia della testimonianza, viene proposta un’analisi contestuale del trauma subito dalle vittime durante le violenze del G8 di Genova.

Giving Voice to Silence: A Study of State Violence in Bolzaneto Prison during the Genoa G8 Summit

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the legal narratives produced during hearings at the trial for violence that took place inside the Bolzaneto prison at the Genoa Group of Eight Summit (G8) of 2001. First we summarize the events of the G8, during which, according to international observers, there occurred the most serious violation of human rights in a Western country since the Second World War. Then comes the empirical research conducted on Bolzaneto prison during the trial, adopting three perspectives of analysis: courtroom narrative, social delegitimization, and therapeutic jurisprudence. The research on courtroom narrative analyzes the relationship between social structure and power on the one hand and linguistic patterning and use on the other. On the basis of the qualitative analysis of the storytelling, we elaborate our conception of delegitimization, distinguished into definitional, behavioral, and environmental. Finally, we outline the role of the law as a therapeutic agent in reducing the negative consequence of delegitimization, which in the case of Bolzaneto prison turns out to be a practice of state violence as exercised within a sociopolitical context.

The Social Construction of “Indebted Man”: Economic Crisis, Discursive Violence and the Role of Mass Media in Italy

It is well known that since the fall of 2008, the world has entered into the deepest recession since the 1930s. The origin of this recession was a financial crisis that began in the USA in the summer of 2007, and which spread rapidly in Europe and across the rest of the world. The main cause was to be found in the collapse of the financial market as a result of colossal debts that were accumulated by major European and US banks, and the consequent institutionalised fraud and financial manipulation. In fact, the “bank bailouts” were implemented on the instruction and support of governments and the political class, which took place through the transfer by lending of the largest amount of money in recorded history, and at the same time created an insurmountable public debt (e.g. Chossudovsky and Marshall, 2010; Gallino, 2013).