Experiencing Council Socialism in Liberal Sardinia
In this essay I discuss how a unique experience of local government with socialist
ambitions instigated a process of political socialisation in a small town of
Ha conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca in Sociologia del territorio e sviluppo
rurale presso l’Università degli studi di Palermo. Ha collaborato con la cattedra di
Storia contemporanea presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia di Catania. Ha insegnato
cultura italiana presso l’Università Michel de Montaigne di Bordeaux, Département
Etudes italiennes, Ufr Le-Lea (lingua straniera applicata). Per L’epos ha
pubblicato Caltanissetta e la Sicilia dell’interno: un ecomuseo nel cuore dell’isola,
in Aa.Vv., Il territorio come bene culturale, Palermo 2002.
Liberal Sardinia (Terralba), which gave its inhabitants the confidence to communicate
with both local institutions, central government and associated political
powers. It resulted in an innovative council project thanks to the apt political and
administrative strategies of the mayor and the latter’s election as a socialist member
of the national parliament in 1913 made it subsequently possible to modernise
the territorial organisation of the council in such ways that attracted industrial
capitalists and legislative state support.