All Outputs (35)

Afterword (2023)
Book Chapter

This afterword to the Ideas section starts by considering the role of ‘contact zones’, which are places of accumulation and organisation of differential knowledge that were already pronounced in early historical periods. However, from the expansion o... Read More about Afterword.

Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’ (2023)
Journal Article

This position paper argues for an interdisciplinary agenda relating crises to on-going processes of normalization of anti- and post-democratic action. We call for exploring theoretically and empirically the ‘new normal’ logic introduced into public i... Read More about Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’.

Architecture and Dictatorship: The Dialectics of Destruction and Creation (2023)
Journal Article

International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece (2022)
Journal Article

The rise and victory of Italian Fascism in the first half of the 1920s passed Greece by. Yet soon afterwards the international experience of 'fascism' found more receptive audiences within the prodigious dissident 'third spaces' where more and more m... Read More about International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece.

Editorial Introduction (2022)
Journal Article

There are few more challenging tests of fascist core-periphery topographies than the case of interwar Greece. Greece can claim no significant fascist movement in the interwar years; no significant fascist political party; and no dictatorial regime in... Read More about Editorial Introduction.

Recontextualizing the Fascist Precedent: The Ustasha Movement and the Transnational Dynamics of Interwar Fascism (2021)
Book Chapter

The transnational co-production of interwar ‘fascism’: on the dynamics of ideational mobility and localisation (2021)
Journal Article

Interwar fascism achieved sensational international reach through the appeal and circulation of a set of generic ideological norms and political practices. Therefore models of interpretations must accommodate alternative local interpretations, adapta... Read More about The transnational co-production of interwar ‘fascism’: on the dynamics of ideational mobility and localisation.

Working Across Bounded Entities: Fascism, ‘Para-Fascism’, and Ideational Mobilities in Interwar Europe (2020)
Book Chapter

Fascism has always challenged, transcended, and redefined bounded entities. Its histories were also forged in and through permanent movement—geographic and ideological alike. Mobility—a fascinating kaleidoscope of complex flows, diffusion, translatio... Read More about Working Across Bounded Entities: Fascism, ‘Para-Fascism’, and Ideational Mobilities in Interwar Europe.

‘Counter-spurt’ but not ‘de-civilization’: fascism, (un)civility, taboo, and the ‘civilizing process’ (2020)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Transnational Fascism: The Fascist New Order, Violence, and Creative Destruction (2019)
Book Chapter

Fascism and the Right in Interwar Europe (2019)
Book Chapter

‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Islamophobia in the United Kingdom (2018)
Book Chapter

Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State (2018)
Journal Article

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

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

Envisioning the New Man in 1930s Brazil (2017)
Book Chapter

Rome’s singular path to modernism: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the ‘rooted’ architecture of the Istituto Case Popolari (ICP), 1925-1930 (2017)
Journal Article

This article traces the extraordinary architectural production of the Roman branch of the Istituto Case Popolari (Institute of Public Housing, ICP) during the period between 1925 and 1930. This was the most prolific and creative period in the history... Read More about Rome’s singular path to modernism: Innocenzo Sabbatini and the ‘rooted’ architecture of the Istituto Case Popolari (ICP), 1925-1930.