Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism - Rilegato

Heatherington, Tracey

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ISBN 10: 029598998X ISBN 13: 9780295989983

Casa editrice: Univ of Washington Pr, 2010

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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 Sardinia illuminates 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.

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Reveals the complexities of environmenral stewardship by examining local resistance in the small Sardinian upland town of Orgosolo to the creation of Gennargentu National Park in an area used by many generations as pastureland. --Tracey Heatherington is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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• Editore: Univ of Washington Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 029598998X
• ISBN 13: 9780295989983
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314