‘The blood of martyrs is the seed of progress’. The role of martyrdom in socialist death culture in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1880–1940

Spiegeleer, Christoph De

doi:10.1080/13576275.2014.894009

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“…The term ‘martyr’ was part of this quasi-religious culture, and many slain socialists including Matteotti were remembered as such. In his work on the socialist death cultures of Belgium and the Netherlands, De Spiegeleer (2014: 200) addresses commemoration of foreign martyrs as a means of galvanising support for the global movement, ‘for the imagined community of socialist martyrs was an international one’, proof that the movement’s ideological aims were applicable around the world.…”

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The battle for influence: Commemoration of transnational martyrs in the Italian diaspora of the U.S. under fascism

King

2021

Memory Studies

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This article analyses the role commemoration of Fascist and anti-fascist martyrs played in the battle for political influence in the Italian diaspora of the United States during Mussolini’s early rule. It is structured around two case studies: the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, killed in Rome in 1924, and Giuseppe Carisi and Michele Ambrosoli, two Blackshirts killed in the Bronx on their way to the Memorial Day parade of 1927 in New York. Through an examination of sites of memory and commemoration ceremonies held in both Italy and the U.S., it adds a transnational element to the study of the role of secular martyrdom in the construction of collective identity, concluding that the transnational exchange evident in commemoration of both case studies added to the propagandistic power of the martyrological narrative by drawing meaning from geographical distance from Italy.

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The battle for influence: Commemoration of transnational martyrs in the Italian diaspora of the U.S. under fascism

King

2021

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“…El sufrimiento físico culmina con la muerte violenta producida a causa de sus creencias y provocada por un tercero. Son los dirigentes, partidos políticos, movimientos sociales, algunos gobiernos, quienes ofician de "emprendedores morales" al postular y sostener en el decurso del tiempo, siempre post-mortem, a sus mártires que condensan los valores que se aspiran a imponer al grupo y/o los ciudadanos (Casquette, 2009;DeSoucey, Pozner & Fileds, 2008;de Spiegeleer, 2014). No es el caso de Eva Perón, que murió a los 33 años a causa de un cáncer de útero cuando su marido, Juan Domingo Perón, era presidente de la nación y el hombre más poderoso de la Argentina.…”

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La otra cara de la felicidad: dolor y martirio en el peronismo clásico

Gayol

2020

Anu. Inst. Hist. Argent.

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El artículo estudia el proceso de construcción del martirio de Eva Perón desde su aparición en el espacio político argentino hasta su muerte. Destaca el rol de Eva tanto como el de los “emprendedores morales” en la modelación del martirio y pone el foco en los valores y emociones que a través de él propiciaron tanto una comunidad emocional como una identidad política distintiva en la argentina contemporánea.

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“…2 See Khalili 2007Allen 2006;Allen 2009;Fierke 2013. 3 Key works on martyrdom includeBowersock 2002;Boyarin 1999;Castelli 2004; Wicker 2006;Cook 2007;Middleton 2011;Mitchell 2013. 4 See Middleton 2011Hung 2008;McWilliam 1995;Spiegeleer 2014. 5 See Krass 2008 Horsch 2011; Pannewick 2004; Weigel 2007a.…”

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State Martyr

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2019

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The politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organisation the Red Brigades. The media then stylised Moro as a ‘state martyr’. This volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity of this concept in the tension between democratic states and terrorism and reconstructs a crucial phase of post-war policy in Italy on the basis of media sources on the Moro case. What role does a term from Christian antiquity play within modern sociopolitical discourses? What changes has the term ‘martyr’ undergone in European religious and cultural history? On the basis of these questions, this study opens up an interdisciplinary theoretical horizon in order to understand the role of religious motifs in sociopolitical contexts. It brings a central new dimension to the secularisation debate, which sees secularisation as a new configuration of politics and religion.

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‘The blood of martyrs is the seed of progress’. The role of martyrdom in socialist death culture in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1880–1940

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

The battle for influence: Commemoration of transnational martyrs in the Italian diaspora of the U.S. under fascism

The battle for influence: Commemoration of transnational martyrs in the Italian diaspora of the U.S. under fascism

La otra cara de la felicidad: dolor y martirio en el peronismo clásico

State Martyr

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