In 2015 Milan hosted the Universal Exposition with the theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’. Even if characterized by various scandals and problems, the edition was narrated by the mainstream media as a political and economic success. Critical voices were almost completely obscured by favorable propaganda and the ideas of development and the future proposed by the Expo rhetoric was presented as inevitable, configuring ‘the best of all possible worlds’ in a more general post-political frame. In this profile I first present the main characteristics of the No Expo Network, e.g. the actors that composed it and the main critiques that they advanced. I will then focus on the reasons for its defeat, which is then contextualized in relation to the election of the Chief Executive Officer of Expo 2015 as new Mayor of Milan. Here, we can see the continuation and structural strengthening of the neoliberal politics of Expo2015 beyond the mega event itself.

No Expo Network: a failed mobilization in a post-political frame / Bertuzzi, Niccolo. - In: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 1474-2837. - 16:6(2017), pp. 752-756. [10.1080/14742837.2017.1348943]

No Expo Network: a failed mobilization in a post-political frame

Bertuzzi, Niccolo
2017-01-01

Abstract

In 2015 Milan hosted the Universal Exposition with the theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’. Even if characterized by various scandals and problems, the edition was narrated by the mainstream media as a political and economic success. Critical voices were almost completely obscured by favorable propaganda and the ideas of development and the future proposed by the Expo rhetoric was presented as inevitable, configuring ‘the best of all possible worlds’ in a more general post-political frame. In this profile I first present the main characteristics of the No Expo Network, e.g. the actors that composed it and the main critiques that they advanced. I will then focus on the reasons for its defeat, which is then contextualized in relation to the election of the Chief Executive Officer of Expo 2015 as new Mayor of Milan. Here, we can see the continuation and structural strengthening of the neoliberal politics of Expo2015 beyond the mega event itself.
2017
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Bertuzzi, Niccolo
No Expo Network: a failed mobilization in a post-political frame / Bertuzzi, Niccolo. - In: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 1474-2837. - 16:6(2017), pp. 752-756. [10.1080/14742837.2017.1348943]
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