Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

AvJaro Stacul

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries and private property form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood. In suggesting that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property, he provides an alternative to theories of nationalism that overlook the articulation between official ideologies and discourses at the local level.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-12-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Anthropology
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571814630

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Finansiering inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Jaro Stacul obtained a Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea, and currently is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

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"This is all fascinating, well documented, and the relationship between local activism and the larger political movements is sensibly analysed…Overall this is a revealing study of the power of locality in framing experience and action." · JRAI"...in focusing attention on the importance of deconstructing localisms, Stacul issues an important challenge to students of any aspect of Italian society." · Modern Italy

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsNote on LanguagePreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introducing LocalismChapter 2. The Setting and its Historical BackgroundChapter 3. A Private Space: The Present-day Organisation of Village LifeChapter 4. Knowing One’s Land: Hunters and PoachersChapter 5. The View from Below: Constructions of OthernessChapter 6. Natural Time, Political Time: Representations of HistoryChapter 7. Local Politics in Theory and PracticeChapter 8. Conclusions: Localism RevisitedAppendicesReferencesIndex