Dehumanization is one of the main strategies to delegitimize the other, to exclude him/her from the circle of those who are considered human, justifying measures of extreme cruelty. There are animalistic and mechanistic forms of dehumanization, which it may also take the form of demonization, biologization, objectification, and invisibility. After a brief review of the psycho-social studies on dehumanization, the present work focuses on the dehumanization of Jews in the Fascist propaganda through the analysis of images that appeared in La Difesa della Razza ("The Defense of the Race"), an Italian magazine published from August 1938 to June 1943 with the aim to convey racist and anti-Semitic ideas to the Italian population. Copyright © FrancoAngeli.
Volpato, C. (2013). Denying the other: The forms of dehumanization [Negare l'altro. La deumanizzazione e le sue forme]. In A. Burgio, A. Zamperini (a cura di), Identità del male. La costruzione della violenza perfetta (pp. 139-156). Milano : Franco Angeli.
Denying the other: The forms of dehumanization [Negare l'altro. La deumanizzazione e le sue forme]
Volpato, C
2013
Abstract
Dehumanization is one of the main strategies to delegitimize the other, to exclude him/her from the circle of those who are considered human, justifying measures of extreme cruelty. There are animalistic and mechanistic forms of dehumanization, which it may also take the form of demonization, biologization, objectification, and invisibility. After a brief review of the psycho-social studies on dehumanization, the present work focuses on the dehumanization of Jews in the Fascist propaganda through the analysis of images that appeared in La Difesa della Razza ("The Defense of the Race"), an Italian magazine published from August 1938 to June 1943 with the aim to convey racist and anti-Semitic ideas to the Italian population. Copyright © FrancoAngeli.
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