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Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n°31/2023

Gênes 2001. Histoires, mémoires et futurs d'un événement politique

Edited by Maxime Boidy, Marie Fabre, Alice Leroy

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Genoa 2001. Narratives, memories and perspectives of a political event

The G8 Summit held in Genoa on 19, 20 and 21 July 2001, is one of the political events that inaugurated the 21st century. The global mobilisation that took place in the Italian city six weeks before 9/11 marked both the apogee and the beginning of the decline of the alter-globalisation movement that appeared on the international scene just a few years earlier. The protests organised on the sidelines of the meeting of Heads of State were met with police repression that was unprecedented in Europe and the Western world since the 1970s. Demonstrators were plunged into mourning by the death of Carlo Giuliani, a young protester shot twice by the Italian police as photographers looked on. Whether they are considered a founding moment or a turning point, for all these reasons these days of protest are an important memorial marker: the "Genoa 2001" event. To coincide with its 20th anniversary, a three-day conference was organised at the ENS of Lyon on this subject, combining arts, social sciences and political science. Some papers have been assembled here along with unpublished contributions. In short, this issue invites us to review "Genoa 2001" over the longer term, through its present and past implications.