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Title: The myth of planning. The Allied Control Commission and the UNRRA in the Italian laboratory
Authors: Pulvirenti, Chiara Maria
Keywords: UNRRA;Planning;Mediterranean;Anti-party attitudes;Planificación;Mediterráneo;Antipolítica;Pianificazione;Mediterraneo;Antipolitica
Issue Date: 2021
Citation: Pulvirenti, C. M. (2021). The myth of planning. The Allied Control Commission and the UNRRA in the Italian laboratory. Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK, 6(1), 35-58. DOI: 10.26409/2021JMK6.1.02
Abstract: The article, through the study of sources from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Allied Control Commission archives analyses, in a transnational perspective the use of the American myths of planning and technical expertise during the second world war. Allied military authorities and the UNRRA agents, using Italy as a laboratory of experimentation of their policies, played an essential role in integration of the Mediterranean area, buildinginfrastructural, social, economic and cultural premises for a new geopolitical order, and giving their contribution to the rise of an anti-party attitudes in some Republican Italian élites.
El artículo analiza, en perspectiva transnacional, el uso de los mitos norteamericanos de la planificación y de la competencia técnica durante la segunda guerra mundial, por medio de las fuentes de la Administración de las Naciones Unidas para el Auxilio y la Rehabilitación (UNRRA) y del Consejo de Control Aliado. Las autoridades militares aliadas y los equipos de la UNRRA utilizaron a Italia como un laboratorio para experimentar sus políticas, desempeñaron un papel fundamental para la integración del área del Mediterráneo, construyeron las premisas infraestructurales, sociales, económicas y culturales de un nuevo orden geopolítico y ofrecieron su contribución para el nacimiento de una actitud antipartido en algunas de las élites de la Italia republicana.
L’articolo, basato su fonti della United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration e della Commissione alleata di controllo, analizza in prospettiva transnazionale l’uso del mito americano della pianificazione e delle competenze tecniche durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Le autorità militari alleate e il personale dell’UNRRA, usando l’Italia come un laboratorio sperimentale delle loro politiche, giocarono un ruolo essenziale nell’integrazione dell’area mediterranea, costruendo le premesse infrastrutturali, sociali, economiche a culturali per un nuovo ordine geopolitico e contribuendo a far sorgere un atteggiamento antipartitico in alcune élite della Repubblica italiana.
URI: https://www.mediterraneanknowledge.org/publications/index.php/journal/issue/archive
http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/9087
http://dx.doi.org/10.26409/2021JMK6.1.02
ISSN: 2499-930X
Appears in Collections:Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Interaction and Exchanges between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic

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