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‘Counter-spurt’ but not ‘de-civilization’: fascism, (un)civility, taboo, and the ‘civilizing process’ (2020)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2020). ‘Counter-spurt’ but not ‘de-civilization’: fascism, (un)civility, taboo, and the ‘civilizing process’. Journal of Political Ideologies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1825278

Norbert Elias described the rise of fascism and the violent spasm of the Holocaust as examples of extreme ‘counter-spurts’ towards ‘re-barbarisation’ in his overall schema of recent human history as a ‘civilizing process’. But the shift towards the n... Read More about ‘Counter-spurt’ but not ‘de-civilization’: fascism, (un)civility, taboo, and the ‘civilizing process’.

‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella (2020)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2020). ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella. Journal of Urban History, 603-621. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218821336

At the twelfth congress of the International Federation of Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP), held in Rome in September 1929, a set of thirteen “model” affordable houses situated in the garden suburb of Garbatella were presented to the delegates. Whi... Read More about ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella.

From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM (2020)
Journal Article
Kallis, A. (2020). From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM. Planning Perspectives, 36(1), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2019.1711446

In comparison to the historiographical interest in the founding meeting at La Sarraz (1928) or its fourth congress (1933), less attention has been accorded to the role of CIAM’s previous two congresses in Frankfurt (1929) and Brussels (1930) in shapi... Read More about From ‘minimum dwelling’ to ‘functional city’: reappraising scale transitions in the early history of CIAM.

Fascism and the Right in Interwar Europe (2019)
Book Chapter
Kallis, A. (2019). Fascism and the Right in Interwar Europe. In The Oxford Handbook of European History, 1914-1945. Oxford University Press (OUP)

‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella (2019)
Journal Article
Kallis. (in press). ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella. Journal of Urban History, 46(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218821336

At the twelve congress of the International Federation of Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP), held in Rome in September 1929, a set of thirteen ‘model’ affordable houses situated in the garden suburb of Garbatella were presented to the delegates. Whil... Read More about ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella.

Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11, 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0233-z

In the last three decades, the rise of a populist challenge to the liberal political mainstream exposed how shallow the supposed victory of global liberalism was, even in its heartlands in Europe and North America. Exclusive nationalism and nativism,... Read More about Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State.

Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy. Fascism, 45-79. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00701004

During the late 1920s and 1930s, a group of Italian modernist architects, known as 'rationalists', launched an ambitious bid for convincing Mussolini that their brand of architectural modernism was best suited to become the official art of the Fascis... Read More about Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy.

Envisioning the New Man in 1930s Brazil (2018)
Book Chapter
Kallis, A. (2018). Envisioning the New Man in 1930s Brazil. In The "New Man" in Radical Right Ideology and Practice, 1919-45. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing