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- Spijkerboer, Rozanne C., et al.
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Out of steam? : A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat and/or electricity depends on how it is deployed in specific contexts. Therefore, it is striking that there is only limited attention to geothermal energy from a social science and humanities (SSH) perspective. Geothermal energy is largely conceptualized as a technological and/or geological issue in both science and practice. This perspective article aims to go beyond such conceptualizations by positioning social science research as an important lens to explore the promises and pitfalls of geothermal energy. We first provide an overview of the current state of geothermal energy as a decarbonization strategy. Second, we move on to review the existing literature. This review shows that studies that do address geothermal energy from an SSH perspective tend to be of a descriptive nature and lack analytical diversity. Third, we discuss three complementary theoretical approaches that are used in the social sciences to observe and address other forms of energy and energy transition. We believe that socio-technical assemblages, systems, and imaginaries can provide fruitful analytical lenses to study the promises, pitfalls and spatialization of geothermal energy. We conclude the paper with a research agenda and call for further engagement with this topic in SSH research, with attention to specificities of global South and North contexts.
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A History of Environmentalism : Local Struggles, Global Histories
- 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Think globally, act locally’ has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories.Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste, contamination, nuclear energy and expropriation. A diverse range of environments and environmental actors are covered, including the communities in the Amazonian Forest, the antelope in Tibet, atomic power plants in Europe and oil and politics in the Niger Delta. The chapters demonstrate how these conflicts make visible the intricate connections between local and global, the body and the environment, and power and nature. A History of Environmentalism tells us much about transformations of cultural perceptions and ways of production and consuming, as well as ecological and social changes. More than offering an exhaustive picture of the entire environmentalist movement, A History of Environmentalism highlights the importance of the experience of environmentalism within local communities. It offers a worldwide and polyphonic perspective, making it key reading for students and scholars of global and environmental history and political ecology.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Ambiente
- 2020
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Ingår i: Una scuola per la cittadinanza. - : PM edizioni.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-, et al.
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Anthropocene: Victims, Narrators, and Revolutionaries
- 2017
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Ingår i: The South Atlantic Quarterly. - : Duke University Press. - 0038-2876 .- 1527-8026. ; 116:2, s. 345-362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The absence of a reflection on revolutionary practices and subjects is the main weakness of the radical critique of the Anthropocene. The risk is to envision the Anthropocene as a space for villains and victims but not for revolutionaries. It is crucial to challenge the (in)visibility and (un)knowability of the Anthropocene beyond geological strata and planetary boundaries. As the Capitalocene, the Anthropocene has left its traces in the bodies of people upon which the new epoch has been created. The traces of the Capitalocene are not only in geological strata but also in the biological and genetic strata of human bodies; exploitation, subordination, and inequalities are inscribed into the human body and experienced, visible and knowable by subalterns without the mediation of—many times actually in opposition to—mainstream scientific knowledge. This essay inflects the concept of Capitalocene with what we call Wasteocene, to stress the contaminating nature of capitalism and its perdurance within the sociobiological fabric, its accumulation of externalities inside both the human and the earth's body. The essay envisions the Wasteocene as a feature of the Capitalocene, especially adapted to demystify the mainstream narratives of the Anthropocene. To enhance these arguments, the essay builds on the findings of the Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) atlas of environmental conflicts and on in-depth research on the struggles against toxic contamination in Campania, Italy.
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- Armiero, Marco
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Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses:Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times
- 2020
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Ingår i: ecocene. CAPPADOCIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES. - online : Cappadocia University. - 2717-8943. ; 1:1, s. 147-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans arefacing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists havedecided to speak up, telling the scientific truth about climate change to decision-makers and the public. Althoughappreciating the commitment to intervene in the public arena, I discuss some limits of these interventions. I arguethat stating the reality of climate change does not prescribe any specific solution and sometimes it seems faint indistributing responsibilities. I ask whether unveiling/knowing the truth can be enough to foster radicaltransformations. Can knowledge move people towards transformative actions if power relationships do not change?Various environmental justice controversies prove that even when science is certain—and this is rarely the case inthat kind of controversies—knowing might be not enough in the face of power structures preventing free choices and radical changes. In the end of my article, I state that it is fair to recognize that scientists have done their parts, and it is now up to social movements to foster the radical changes in power relationships that are needed for transforming societies.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Climate Insurgency between Academia and Activism : An Interview with David N. Pellow
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Text. - : Duke University Press. - 0164-2472 .- 1527-1951. ; 40:1, s. 157-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This interview focuses on a spectrum of urgent challenges facing marginalized human and other-than-human communities, including the intersecting crises of global anthropogenic climate disruption and state and institutional racist violence. We discuss and consider the opportunities, limits, and contradictions of pursuing transformative, intersectional political change and scholarship through efforts to bridge community activism and academic labor. We also critically engage questions concerning the role of the state in the context of racial capitalism and the production of environmental and climate injustice, and how grassroots movements have responded to these concerns. Specific movement formations included in this discussion include the Central Coast Climate Justice Network of California, the Movement for Black Lives/Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion, and multispecies abolition democracy. The importance of radical, multi-issue politics and cross-movement solidarities is also given serious attention.
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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
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COVID-19, the World, and Me
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental History. - : Oxford University Press. - 1084-5453 .- 1930-8892. ; 25:4, s. 680-686
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Dal mondo all'Italia : Andata e ritorno
- 2015
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Ingår i: Ambientalismi. - Torino : Linaria. - 9788890701788 ; , s. 229-239
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Armiero, Marco
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Environmentalism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Companion to Environmental Studies. - : Routledge. - 9781138192195
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- Armiero, Marco
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Foreword
- 2023
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Ingår i: Basilicata and Southern Italy between Film and Ecology. - : Springer Nature. ; , s. 1-269
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Armiero, Marco
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From waste to climate
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Text. - : Duke University Press. - 0164-2472 .- 1527-1951. ; 40:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has often been said that the problem with climate change is its invisibility. People do not mobilize about climate change because they cannot see it; even less can they see CO2 emissions—that is, the most relevant material element causing climate alternations. Although I would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for others, it remains a global environmental problem not easily felt on the ground. On the other hand, waste appears to be an incumbent presence, almost impossible to avoid; it also seems more localized than global climate change. People mobilize around waste because it stands in front of their eyes and noses. This is how the story has been told so many times. This article instead tells another story, one in which climate activism is rooted in struggles against waste contamination. In Naples, Italy, twenty years of mobilization against toxicity—which, by the way, is much less visible and much more harmful than the urban garbage in the streets—has generated an epistemic community trained to understand the invisible connections linking local problems, global issues, and socioenvironmental inequalities. Their original elaboration of biocide as the theoretical framework explaining the production of toxic communities provided them with an equally original framework to understand climate change and its unequal impacts on people and ecosystems. In moving between waste and climate, local and global, those epistemic communities have not only changed the ways in which climate activism has been conceived but have also changed themselves.
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- Armiero, Marco
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Fronitere. passaggi sulle Alpi.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ambientare. idee, saperi, pratiche. - Milano : Edizioni Franco Angeli. - 9788891760715 ; , s. 17-23
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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, et al.
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Introduction : A world that is losing its margins
- 2022
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Ingår i: Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments. - London : Informa UK Limited. ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction reflects on processes of historical production of marginal environments. In particular, it pays attention to their political components - namely states, nationalism, and imperialism - and to continuities and ruptures. In the context of climate change and in the very years of the popularisation of the ‘conquest’ of the outer space, the following chapters adopt a new approach, stressing the interconnectivity of distant areas and their dialectical relationship and highlighting the colonial and extractivist matrix behind the historic and historiographical concepts of frontiers and exploration.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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INTRODUCTION
- 2014
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Ingår i: A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. - : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.. ; , s. 1-20
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
(författare)
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Introduction
- 2014
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Ingår i: A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. - : Bloomsbury Publishing. ; , s. 1-20
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Is there an indigenous knowledge in the urban North? : Re/inventing local knowledge and communities in the struggles overgarbage and incinerators in Campania, Italy
- 2014
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Ingår i: Estudos de Sociologia. - : Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Departamento de Sociologia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia. - 1415-000X. ; 1:20
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper deals with the narratives about environmental struggles over garbage facilities in Campania, Italy, a region which, in the last decades, has become the worldwide icon of the failure in the management of its own metabolism. In particular I analyze the narratives about the activists involved in the struggles and their creative interaction with scientific knowledge. My thesis is that ecological conflicts--at least in this specific case--have been producers of communities and knowledges. Instead of reinforcing the narrative about “natural” communities living in a space of radically otherness and oppressed by global villains, I would like to explore the interstitial South, mixed with the North and its science and contradictions. Using a collection of interviews and some grassroots documentaries about the crisis and the mobilization, I analyze the rising of a collective knowledge and the making of communities through the very experience of resistance to the governmentality plan of waste disposal.
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Migrants and the making of the American landscape
- 2017
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Ingår i: Environmental History of Modern Migrations. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 53-70
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter I will explore how migrants have adapted, fought with, and reshaped the environment they moved into, changing themselves and nature at the same time. Their tools, skills, knowledge, even their ethnic identities and solidarity, interacted with the local natural resources. Immigrants have looked at nature with different eyes; sometimes they saw natural resources where others could not see anything (for instance, in the case of urban commons); they adapted themselves or fought against the landscape they arrived in (as in the case of Southern plantations in the Mississippi Delta or the making of California’s agricultural landscape); their bodies became part of the capitalistic ecologies of industrial and mining production transforming both the external and the internal nature. While in the classical narrative pioneers entered, settled, and coped with a natural environment they heroically tamed, in this chapter I argue that immigrants’ environments were never only “natural.” Those were racialized landscapes, where class, law, and property rights were influential at least as much as soil, climate, viruses, or wild animals. Therefore, rather than speaking of how immigrants shaped or adapted to the “natural” environment, it seems more appropriate to analyze the metabolic relationships between immigrants and the socionatures in which they settled. I will do so employing several examples from the history of various immigrants’ groups, especially Italians, in the United States.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Mussolini's Nature. : An environmental History of Italian Fascism
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this first environmental history of Italian fascism, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg reveal that nature and fascist rhetoric are inextricable. Mussolini's Nature explores fascist political ecologies, or rather the practices and narratives through which the regime constructed imaginary and material ecologies functional to its political project. The book does not pursue the ghost of a green Mussolini by counting how many national parks were created during the regime or how many trees planted. Instead, the reader is trained to recognize fascist political ecology in Mussolini's speeches, reclaimed landscapes, policies of economic self-sufficiency, propaganda documentaries, reforested areas, and in the environmental transformation of its colonial holdings.The authors conclude with an examination of the role of fascist landscapes in the country's postwar reconstruction: Mussolini's nature is still visible today through plaques, monuments, toponomy, and the shapes of landscapes. This original, and surprisingly intimate, environmental history is not merely a chronicle of conservation in fascist Italy but also an invitation to consider the socioecological connections of all political projects.
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- Armiero, Marco
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Of Ghosts, Waste and the Anthropocene
- 2019
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Ingår i: Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene. - : Routledge. ; , s. 184-202
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Once there was a spectre haunting Europe and maybe the world. Now other fears and invisible presences have occupied the space of imagination, above all CO2 emissions and “the Anthropocene,” projecting their shadows and diminishing what we can imagine for the future. Building on my experience as a researcher on waste in Naples, Italy, I reflect on our own presence as radical scholars among activists and argue that the figure of the ghost might help to better understand the relation between theory, academic discourse, and activists’ storytelling practices. The hope is to contribute towards the every-necessary work needed to craft emancipatory imaginaries, yet again.
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- Armiero, Marco
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Of the Titanic, the Bounty, and Other Shipwrecks
- 2015
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Ingår i: Intervalla. - : Franklin University. - 2296-3413. ; 3, s. 50-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The metaphor of the ship has always been extremely powerful in the global narrative about the common fate of planet Earth. The famous image of the Blue Marble was instrumental in the construction of the imaginary of the planet as a spaceship roaming in the universe. The ship evokes the idea of both finiteness and unity. In many languages "to be in the same boat" means to share the same destiny, thereby, to collaborate in order to operate the ship. The corollary of that metaphor is the existence of the open ocean, that is, of a risky space in which the ship and its crew are navigating. I will discuss about what these metaphors say - and hide - about the ecological crisis, or the the collapse of modern civilization using the key concept of this workshop.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Political History and Environmental History in Italy
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ricerche di Storia Politica. - : Societa Editrice Il Mulino. - 1120-9526. ; 21:1, s. 63-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental history has grown greatly in various countries, in the last years, and has penetrated in Italy, too. At the same time, it remains in many ways a small sector, while political history, for its part, seems to be untouched by it, despite the relevance of the environment in political discourse. The forum, which closes this special issue on the relationship between politics and the environment, and involves both environmental and political historians, intends to give a contribution to the debate on the nature and fate of political and, more generally, contemporary history.
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments : From the Arctic to the Mountaintops
- 2022
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments.Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 – 1960, contributors to this volume show how environmental marginalisation has been discursively implemented and materially generated by foreign and local actors. It examines to what extent the status and identity of extreme environments has changed during modern times, moving them from periphery to the centre and discarding their marginality. The first section looks at ways in which societies have framed remoteness, through the lens of commercialization, colonialism, knowledge production and sport, while the second examines the reverse transfer, focusing on how extreme nature has influenced societies, through international network creation, political consensus and identity building. This collection enriches the historical understanding of exploration by adopting a critical approach and offering multidimensional and multi-gaze reconstructions.This book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in environmental history, geography, colonial studies and the environmental humanities.
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- Armiero, Marco, 1966-
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Ribelli : Naturalmente
- 2015
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Ingår i: La contestazione ecologica. Storia, cronache e narrazioni. - Napoli : La scuola di Pitagora. - 9788865424131 ; , s. 9-30
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- Armiero, Marco, et al.
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Rivoluzioni ecologiche lunghe tre secoli
- 2018. - Mulino
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Ingår i: Introduzione alla storia moderna. - Bologna : Il Mulino. - 9788815278579 ; , s. 43-54
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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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Teresa e le altre : Storie di donne nella Terra dei Fuochi
- 2014
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Sono vent’anni che la Campania è sommersa dai rifiuti. Una politica corrotta o incapace, poteri criminali e interessi economici hanno determinato un disastro ecologico di enormi proporzioni. Si è scelta una comunità «debole» per trasformarla nella discarica finale di ogni scarto. Ma la convinzione che quella comunità sarebbe rimasta apatica si è rivelata sbagliata. Si è formata, invece, una comunità resistente capace di battersi per la giustizia ambientale, di proporre soluzioni alternative, di gridare le sue ragioni. In Campania sono le donne a svolgere un ruolo di primo piano. Questo libro racconta le storie di alcune di loro nella convinzione che costruire la memoria significa lottare contro la fine della storia e il ricatto di un presente senza alternative. Raccontare le storie di Teresa e le altre è un antidoto potente, un tassello di una resistenza collettiva, un progetto di guerrilla narrative. Perché la resistenza ha bisogno di voci e di reti. Sulla munnezza campana si sono scritte enciclopedie, trattati scientifici, resoconti giornalistici, persino pièce teatrali. Questo libro vuole fare altro. Tanto per cominciare, si ispira allo slogan del movimento americano della giustizia ambientale: "we speak for ourselves", che qui non significa solo che attivisti e attiviste parlano in prima persona ma rimanda anche al carattere "narrativo" del movimento, alla volontà di sfidare il sistema che ha prodotto ingiustizia con la forza del raccontare. Scrive Marco Armiero nella sua introduzione al volume: «Io mi sono messo a cercare l’ingiustizia, ovvero ho provato a legge- re questa vicenda campana non tanto come una storia di inefficienze, di corruzione, di camorra, ma come una storia che mette a nudo le asimmetrie del potere, il sistematico scegliere comunità marginali, spesso già contaminate, come «zone di sacrificio» destinate ad accogliere ciò che nessuno vuole».
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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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