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This event will highlight contemporary approaches to the study of eco-systems and the importance of keeping human, more-than-human and mechanical components within the same frame of analysis. Whether defined as anthropo-, capitalo- or plantationo-cene, these understandings of the current epoch emerge from the inextricable intertwining of multiple (spatial, symbolic, affective, material) dimensions, and immediately summon geological as well as human temporalities. In this symposium, we propose to approach such topical issues from the vantage point of the bonifiche, as a series of discourses, assemblages and interventions that took shape in Italy (including its colonial possessions) since the end of the 18th century. Mobilizing multiple bodies of knowledge (from hydraulic science and agronomy to criminology and racial anthropology), plans to redeem, cleanse, reclaim and exploit land, water, flora, fauna as well as people have left significant (if at times unintended) marks on todays’ landscapes, memories and imaginaries. With this symposium we aim to identify and understand a few instances of such traces, opening up a conversation about how to speculate on possible alternative futures.
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Between 2004 and 2015, after a decade of research and publications, four books on environmental history were published in Italy. The word 'short' appears in all their titles. Starting from this curious coincidence, this essay analyses, via the use of such books, the way through which the new historical paradigm has been addressed in Italy. It focuses on a wide range of issues, including epistemological definition, historical periodisation, fields of research, and the relationships between environmental history and other areas of history and natural sciences.
G. BIANCHI, R. HODGES (a cura di), Origins of a new economic union (7th-12th centuries). Preliminary results of the nEU-Med project: October 2015-March 2017
Investigations at Carlappiano. New archaeological findings in anthropic and natural landscapes2018 •
L’indagine archeologica condotta nei mesi di settembre ed ottobre 2016 sul sito di Carlappiano (Piombino, Livorno) si inquadra all’interno di un ampio progetto multidisciplinare di ricerca Erc-Advanced 2014 dal titolo Origins of a new economic union (7th-12th centuries): resources, landscapes and political strategies in a Mediterranean region (nEU-Med) . Il territorio campione interessato è quello della Maremma settentrionale ed in particolare l’area compresa fra le pianure di Follonica e Piombino ed i rilievi collinari interni del Massetano; quest’area nel corso del Medioevo era contraddistinta da una varietà di ambienti naturali (paludi costiere; colline; rilievi montuosi) che rendevano praticabile una articolata serie di attività economiche, quali la silvicoltura, l’allevamento, la cerealicoltura, le attività minerarie e la produzione di sale. Lo scavo di Carlappiano in particolare ha apportato interessanti elementi di novità in relazione a quest’ultimo aspetto. La strategica posizione del sito, che veniva a trovarsi a ridosso delle acque salmastre della laguna, a breve distanza dalla foce del fiume Corniaccia e da un importante asse viario che almeno dalla metà del II secolo a.C. attraversava la pianura retrostante (la via Aurelia), ha fatto ipotizzare una sua possibile funzione principale di carattere commerciale e produttivo. Lo scavo 2016 ha voluto indagare meglio questi aspetti e definirne cronologia e natura. Le indagini hanno inquadrato la vita del sito fra XII e XIV secolo, e precisato la funzione, legata alla produzione e commercializzazione del sale.
Cultural Anthropology
Mathews, Andrew S. 2018 Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Chestnut Worlds: Thinking Dramatically About the Anthropocene. Cultural Anthropology 33 (3 August).2018 •
The pine and chestnut forests of the Monti Pisani, only five kilometers south of Lucca in central Italy, feel very far from the tourist sights of the city center and from the industrial sprawl of paper, furniture, and shoe factories that spreads across the plain. As in many Mediterranean places, mountains and valleys are near each other, but in many ways they constitute different worlds (Braudel 1972 A). These are certainly not the landscapes that most people think of when I tell them I am working in northern Tuscany. The few human visitors are mushroom pickers, hunters, the occasional mountain biker, sometimes volunteer firefighters or road maintenance crews. Although these forests are often empty of people, they are empty in a particular way; evidence of former human use is omnipresent. This is a place where people, trees, and other nonhumans have been entangled for a very long time. Traces of these past relationships are visible in the forms of trees, areas of forest, banks, terrace walls, and drainage systems. Through my practices of walking, looking, and wondering, I have been tracing the ghostly forms that have emerged from past encounters between people, plants, animals, and soils. From such practices of A Please add the cited work to the References list.. DONE.
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Questo articolo presenta una breve rassegna della storiografia storico-ambientale, un settore di studio che stenta ad affermarsi all'interno dell'accademia italiana. Dopo un breve periodo (tra la seconda metà degli anni '90 del Novecento e il primo decennio di questo secolo) in cui sembrava prendere forza, la storia dell'ambiente ha perso slancio ed oggi è divenuta una sorta di periferia storiografica. Il saggio discute alcuni problemi epistemologici e di metodo che, secondo l'autore, contribuiscono alla marginalizzazione della materia: la difficile ibridazione dei saperi tecnico-scientifico e storico-sociali; la prevalenza di un approccio ecocentrico, fortemente ideologizzato; l'esiguità di istituzioni interessate all'approccio storico-ambientale e la difficoltà a reperire le fonti e i materiali su cui lavorare.
Ai prodromi dell’attivismo ambientale: le critiche all’avidità dei fiorentini come causa dell’alluvione del 1333
Cultural Anthropology
Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds: Thinking Dramatically about the Anthropocene2018 •
Phenomenological descriptions of landscapes, trees, and terraces, combined with oral history and historical ecology, find traces of industrialization, plant disease, and forest fires in central Italian forests. Plant form, landscape form, and forest structure can be described through drawings that give resolutely partial descriptions of more-than-human encounters. This kind of knowledge of the landscape is potentially unstable and remade by the details that it contains. By using multiple methods for attending to more-than-human landscapes, we can learn to notice multiple throughscapes, landscape patterns that overlap and lie through each other, but which are linked to different histories. Multiplying histories means that rather than being seen as a single era, the Anthropocene can be understood as having many beginnings and coexisting histories that give rise to multiple futures.
in 'Landscape as architecture: Identity and conservation of Crapolla cultural site,' ed. Valentina Russo (Florence: Nardini Editore, 2014), 161—8
[EXCERPT] Linda Miedema, Alfredo Roccia, Riccardo Rudiero, Alberto Talarico, and Sara Varanese, "The environmental context"2014 •
Knowledge of the direct role humans have had in changing the landscape requires the perspective of historical and archaeological sources, as well as climatic and ecologic processes, when interpreting paleoecological records. People directly impact land at the local scale and land use decisions are strongly influenced by local sociopolitical priorities that change through time. A complete picture of the potential drivers of past environmental change must include a detailed and integrated analysis of evolving sociopolitical priorities, climatic change and ecological processes. However, there are surprisingly few localities that possess high-quality historical, archeological and high-resolution paleoecologic datasets. We present a high resolution 2700-year pollen record from central Italy and interpret it in relation to archival documents and archaeological data to reconstruct the relationship between changing sociopolitical conditions, and their effect on the landscape. We found that: (1) abrupt environmental change was more closely linked to sociopolitical and demographic transformation than climate change; (2) landscape changes reflected the new sociopolitical priorities and persisted until the sociopolitical conditions shifted; (3) reorganization of new plant communities was very rapid, on the order of decades not centuries; and (4) legacies of forest management adopted by earlier societies continue to influence ecosystem services today. Published in: Scientific Reports 8 (2018) 2138 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20286-4
Academia Biology
Academia Biology: community-based publishing in the biological and biomedical sciences2023 •
El Cohete a la Luna
Anzelini Eissa La historia como farsa y como tragedia2024 •
Facta Universitatis, Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History
Social Trauma and Emotional Attachment2019 •
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa
Răzvan Perșa, ”A Canonical and Theological Reconsideration of the Document “The Importance of Fasting and Its Observance Today” of the Holy and Great Council of Crete”, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, 63, 2 (2018), pp. 105-1372018 •
Chemical Engineering Communications
Continuous Dosing of a Fast Initiator during Suspension Polymerization of Vinyl Chloride for Enhanced Productivity: Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Study2016 •
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Innovative scientific researches: European development trends and regional aspect
Historical and Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching Foreign Languages of Future Pre-School and Primary School Teachers in Ukraine2020 •
Advanced Materials
Mxene Photodetectors: Beyond Gold: Spin‐Coated Ti <sub>3</sub> C <sub>2</sub> ‐Based MXene Photodetectors (Adv. Mater. 43/2019)2019 •
International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
Grid technologies to support B2B collaboration2009 •
Evolutionary Biology
How Changes in Functional Demands Associated with Captivity Affect the Skull Shape of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)2020 •
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Case Reports in Oncology
New Primary Ipsilateral Metachronous Breast Tumor: A Case Report