Mariana Eugenia Califano and Jadel Andreetto
Since the birth of nation-states in Europe, the politics of memory and oblivion have played a decisive role in the construction of a national identity, presumably shared by the majority of citizens. The conflict generated between contrasting memories is also expressed in places and their odonyms, in the spaces crossed daily by the selves and others orphaned of a mutual recognition. The toponymy that celebrates a determined event, date, or character has different effects on those who cross the space based on multiple factors including gender, age, origin, training, awareness, etc., provoking a fracture between identity and complexity of diversity. By promoting a politics of shared chimerical memories, Resistenze in Cirenaica aims to eschew or soften the existing conflicts between the various subjectivities in search of a legitimacy, which simmer like lava in the bowels of a volcano seemingly extinct. What are the instruments to bring the magma to the point of eruption so that it can release the chthonic energy, ignite public discourse, vent toxic miasmas to then, finally, make the soil fertile? The article is published in Italian and English (translation by Magda I. Collazo Simonet).