The Year of Living Dangerously

After a decade of social and political turmoil in Italy, popular protest reached a peak in 1977. Young people took to the streets to demand a future in which bosses, borders, and compromise would be consigned to history. The Year of Living Dangerously retells the movement's origins, ideals, and visual culture, exploring the ongoing debates about its legacy. Alongside the analysis and history, Jacopo Galimberti and Steve Wright have compiled an extensive anthology of crucial annotated texts, many appearing in English translation for the first time. These materials illuminate the richness and complexity of this extraordinary chapter in Italian history, capturing a defiant, joyful movement that briefly threatened to upend the political establishment's consensus around sacrifice and economic discipline.