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- Andersson, R., et al.
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The last European landscape to be colonised: A case study of land-use change in the far north of Sweden 1850-1930
- 2005
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 11:3, s. 293-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The agricultural colonisation of the interior of northern Sweden in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can be regarded as Europe's last colonising venture supported by an economy based on self-sufficiency. Nevertheless, nomadic Sami people have practised basic economic approaches to resources and environment in this region for thousands of years. The aim of this study was to analyse the swift land-use transition, from nomadic to agricultural, in the last colonised landscape of northern Sweden. Using historical documents and maps together with modern maps and a field survey, we wanted to link land-use patterns as strongly as possible to landscape features and ecosystems. Resource use of farmers and the native Samis showed many similarities with some important exceptions. Some obvious disparities seem to have evolved, mainly connected to the animal species that were domesticated. With the Sami people involved and interfering with the colonisation process, their use of resources contributed significantly to local economy and land use therefore became intensified. Interestingly, in the studied area the main driving force for establishment of new settlements was commercial forestry. However, in the last colonised landscape, forestry reached its physical limits, leaving mountain birch forests with evidence of traditional Sami land use and Sami historical traces.
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Confessions of an Enthusiastic Chair
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; , s. vii-xi
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Green Rhetoric in Blackshirts : Italian Fascism and the Environment
- 2013
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 19:3, s. 283-311
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In comparison with the significant historiographical work on the German case, specifically on Nazi environmental policies and ideology, studies on such issues for other Fascist regimes are still rather rare. This article attempts partially to fill this gap, at least as regards the Italian case, offering a general overview of the Fascist regime and its environmental politics and narratives. Analysing how Fascists appropriated Italian landscapes through both discourses and concrete policies, this paper examines the construction of a Fascist nature as a rhetorical, symbolic and geographical space. In particular, this essay explores the combined process of appropriation and expropriation through the analysis of two diverse but intertwined issues: firstly, Fascist rural ideology as a narrative on the mutual constituency of nature and people and secondly, the creation of the first Italian national parks, their successes and failures as institutions of nature conservation and their role as symbols of the nature/society divide. While blending the ideas of race, landscape, history, modernity and ruralism, Fascists shaped both the national environment and general ideas about nature in a narrative which affected the very object of the narration that is, nature itself.
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Something I Have Learned from COVID-19
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 26:3
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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The Nature of Mafia : An Environmental History of the Simeto River Basin, Sicily
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - Cambridge : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 26:4, s. 579-608
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article builds upon a rich scholarship that has proposed, though with different shades, the concept of socionatures, meaning by this the inextricable hybrid of ecological and social facts. In this article, we aim to explore how the Mafia produces particular socionatural formations, entering into landscapes, becoming rivers and cities, penetrating into the bodies of humans and nonhumans. We will develop our argument by exploring a specific geographical area, the Simeto River, and how the Mafia has become intertwined with its ecologies. We will analyse the appropriation of the river since the 1950s, illustrating various ways in which the Mafia has blended with its ecologies: the control of water, the touristification of the river’s mouth and the placement of waste facilities. We argue that one crucial feature of Mafia socionatures is the attack against commons, i.e. the attempt to subdue the (re)productive properties of human and more-than-human communities to Mafia economic interests. Therefore, we will propose the practices of commons and commoning – that is, the making of commons – as one of the possible strategies against the Mafia
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- Biasillo, Roberta, 1984-, et al.
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Seeing the nation for the trees : at the frontier of the Italian nineteenth century modernity
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - : White Horse Press. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 24:4, s. 497-508
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we analyse the emergence and the transformation of three different socio-natural spaces in a particular historical context – that is, the establishment of a modern state. We explore this issue by researching the relationship between forests and modernisation from Unification in 1861 to the 1890s. Over this period Italy experienced a radical change connected with the state-building process, and forests represented a material place where innovations in social and economic development were tested. Based on three case studies, this article explores how modernity was articulated through urban parks, ironworks, and infrastructures. The three cases speak of both depletion and conservation; they exemplify the patterns through which, in the very making of modernity, Italian society articulated its relationship to nature in an attempt to overcome customary rights and the traditional rural organisation of society. Forests were constructed as socio-ecological spaces reflecting Italy’s contested and heterogeneous modernisation process through which political tensions, social conflicts and economic development theories were inscribed on transformed landscapes.
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