Simonetta Falasca Zamponi is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a a cultural sociologist engaged in comparative-historical research utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. Focusing primarily on the first half of the twentieth century, her work examines the production and circulation of meaning in historical experience. She has received grants and awards from the American Philosophical Society, the European University Institute, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center.

• Introduction


• 1: A Short, Long Summer


• 2: Interpretive Ghosts


• 3: Every Day in the Everyday


• 4: The Diary as Alibi


• 5: The Personal and the Political


• Conclusions


• Methodological Appendix


• Table


• Bibliography

By bringing to life the cultural imaginaries and practices of the past, Fascism, the War, and Structures of Feeling in Italy, 1943-1945 raises ostensibly intractable questions on the epochal impact of what often appears as inconsequential: the typically unseen and seemingly banal power of everyday experiences.