UN MOSAICO FRANTUMATO: IL PARADIGMA VITTIMARIO NELL’ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA

The article aims to analyze the construction of the Victim Paradigm in Republican Italy, with particular attention to the overlap between collective memory, socio- cultural identities and public policies. The hypothesis is that the Victim Paradigm is the combination of grassroots initiatives taken by multiple political and social actors and the top-down impulse from several institutions. The historiographic methodology adopted offers a different perspective aimed at questioning some prevailing interpretations within philosophical and political sciences that support the homogeneity and verticality of the victim’s paradigm process building. On the contrary, it was a disrupted and discontinuous process over time. The victim status appears in fact as a shattered mosaic, a mirror of the multiple identities and difficulties encountered by Italians in recognizing themselves in a sense of shared citizenship.