Wild Sardinia Heatherington, Tracey; Sivaramakrishnan, K
07/2011
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Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous ...peoples against the state and international environmental organizations, eroding local autonomy while "saving" rural land for animals and tourists.Wild Sardinia's examination of the cultural politics around nature conservation and the traditional Commons on an Italian island illustrates the complexities of environmental stewardship. Long known as the home of fiercely independent shepherds (often typecast as rustics, bandits, or eco-vandals), as well as wild mouflon sheep, magnificent eagles, and rare old oak forests, the town of Orgosolo has for several decades received notoriety through local opposition to Gennargentu National Park.
Interweaving rich ethnographic description of highland central Sardinia with analysis grounded in political ecology and reflexive cultural critique,Wild Sardiniailluminates the ambivalent and open-ended meanings of many Sardinians' acts and memories of "resistance" to environmental projects. This groundbreaking case study of the tension between living cultural landscapes and the emerging ecological imaginaries envisioned through policy discourses and new media -- the "global dreamtimes of environmentalism" -- has relevance far beyond its Mediterranean locale.
This work provides insights into the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex, varied, changing and often hidden features. The title, ..."Surrounded by Water", recalls the identity of a land whose coastlines and surrounding seas have symbolically represented social, economic, political, cultural bridges or walls, meeting or colliding places, over its long and difficult history. Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes are presented and analysed, together with other aspects, through a descriptive focus and original contributions provided by some local experts, in order to offer scholars and students across the globe a complex and multi-dimensional view of the reality of Sardinia through the lens of its geography. Each chapter of the book offers an in-depth and concise analysis of a specific topic, through the description of its characteristics and its current variations within the territory of the island. These descriptive aspects will be complemented with insights related to the research experiences and findings provided by the authors. This book will contribute to stirring new and modern interest about Sardinia, about further regional geographic studies, and about academic, scientific and cultural exchanges, among peoples and countries with both similar and different histories, identities, issues and hopes.
Sardinia on Screen Bonaria Urban, Maria
2013, 2013-01-01, Letnik:
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This volume explores how Sardinians and Sardinia have been portrayed in Italian cinema from the beginning of the 20th century until now, starting from the examination of Sardinian tropes in a wide ...range of texts - travel writing, fictional sources, essays and academic works. The purpose is to shed light on the cultural construction of the Sardinian character and to reveal the ideology that is behind this process. Hence the volume challenges topics such as the dynamics between verbal and visual imagery, and the intertwining between discourse, images and audience. It addresses the following questions: how was the Sardinian character translated from texts into films? Which strategies were developed to define Sardinian images on screen? For whom were these images intended? Which ideology lies behind the images? Focusing on cultural images within film and literature, this volume is of interest to those working in imagology, comparative, cultural and Italian studies.
The Church of Solitude tells the story of Maria Concezione, a young Sardinian seamstress living with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century. Overwhelmed by the shame of her diagnosis, she ...decides that no one can know what has happened to her, but the heavy burden of this secrecy changes her life in dramatic ways and almost causes the destruction of several people in her life. This surprising novel paints the portrait of a woman facing the unknown with courage, faith, and self-reliance, and is the last and most autobiographical work of Grazia Deledda, who died of breast cancer in 1936, shortly after its publication. An afterword by the translator offers additional information on the author and examines the social and historical environment of that time.
Rad predstavlja doprinos u oblikovanju migracijskih politika povratka koje nastoje iskoristiti stečene vještine iseljenika te usmjeriti njihove uštede u otvaranje malih poslova (businessa) unutar ...programa lokalnog razvoja. U formuliranju mjera koje mogu stvoriti pozitivne mogućnosti za povratak migranata u njihova rodna mjesta koristeći njihove vještine stečene u industriji zemalja primitka i ulažući uštede u svoju zemlju, autori su se oslonili na iskustva iseljenika povratnika prikupljenih na Sardiniji i u provinciji Marakeš u Maroku. Te mjere iseljenicima povratnicima također trebaju ponuditi i mogućnost naseljavanja u urbanim sredinama. Studija slučaja bavi se inicijativom za pokretanje seoskog turizma u priobalnim i unutrašnjim predjelima kao alternativom za nautički i obalni turizam. Pod pretpostavkom da samo krajevi s prirodnom i kulturnom baštinom pružaju dobre mogućnosti za razvoj seoskog turizma, ponuđeni su sljedeći zaključci: a) čini se da bi bilo korisno kada bi vlasti u zemljama primitka organizirale tečajeve osposobljavanja za radnike migrante unutar okvira suradnje za pomoć migrantima za povratak u domovinu; b) bitno je da lokalne vlasti u zemlji podrijetla migranata općenito poboljšaju sustav prijevoza, te popratne pogodnosti i turističke usluge; c) u zemljama podrijetla jednako je tako važno usvojiti mjere kojima je cilj prepoznavanje, obnova i povećanje arheološke baštine, materijalne kulture i tradicije općenito, zajedno s prirodnim/ekološkim resursima kako bi se stvorio integrirani turistički proizvod.
The paper provides a contribution to the formulation of return migration policies that seek to harness the skills gained by emigrants and channel their savings into the creation of small businesses ...within a local development scheme. We have drawn from experiences described by return emigrants, gathered in Sardinia and in the Marrakech province in Morocco, to formulate measures capable of generating positive opportunities for encouraging the return of migrants to their home areas, utilizing the skills gained in the hospitality industry in Europe and investing their savings in their country. The measures are also designed to offer return migrants an alternative to settling in urban destinations. The case study is concerned with a rural tourism initiative in subcoastal and interior areas as an alternative to marine and coastal tourism. Based on the premise that only those areas with a natural and cultural heritage offer good potential for the development of rural tourism, the following conclusions are presented: a) one seemingly useful form of action is for the authorities in the host countries to organise training courses for migrant workers, within the cooperation framework for assisting migrants to return to their home countries; b) it is essential for local authorities in the migrants’ home countries to improve transportation systems, facilities and tourist services in general; c) equally important in the home countries is the adoption of measures aimed at the recognition, rehabilitation and enhancement of the archaeological heritage, material culture and of traditions in general, together with the natural/ environmental resources for an integrated tourist product.
Rad predstavlja doprinos u oblikovanju migracijskih politika povratka koje nastoje iskoristiti stečene vještine iseljenika te usmjeriti njihove uštede u otvaranje malih poslova (businessa) unutar programa lokalnog razvoja. U formuliranju mjera koje mogu stvoriti pozitivne mogućnosti za povratak migranata u njihova rodna mjesta koristeći njihove vještine stečene u industriji zemalja primitka i ulažući uštede u svoju zemlju, autori su se oslonili na iskustva iseljenika povratnika prikupljenih na Sardiniji i u provinciji Marakeš u Maroku. Te mjere iseljenicima povratnicima također trebaju ponuditi i mogućnost naseljavanja u urbanim sredinama. Studija slučaja bavi se inicijativom za pokretanje seoskog turizma u priobalnim i unutrašnjim predjelima kao alternativom za nautički i obalni turizam. Pod pretpostavkom da samo krajevi s prirodnom i kulturnom baštinom pružaju dobre mogućnosti za razvoj seoskog turizma, ponuđeni su sljedeći zaključci: a) čini se da bi bilo korisno kada bi vlasti u zemljama primitka organizirale tečajeve osposobljavanja za radnike migrante unutar okvira suradnje za pomoć migrantima za povratak u domovinu; b) bitno je da lokalne vlasti u zemlji podrijetla migranata općenito poboljšaju sustav prijevoza, te popratne pogodnosti i turističke usluge; c) u zemljama podrijetla jednako je tako važno usvojiti mjere kojima je cilj prepoznavanje, obnova i povećanje arheološke baštine, materijalne kulture i tradicije općenito, zajedno s prirodnim/ekološkim resursima kako bi se stvorio integrirani turistički proizvod.
