By Thomas J. Puleo

ISBN-10: 0739173464

ISBN-13: 9780739173466

Global in scope and transdisciplinary in procedure, this paintings examines the method in which neighborhood old landscapes turn into worldwide historical past websites. The Valtellina, a valley within the Italian Alps, is understood for being surprisingly fertile for its elevation and range, and for the dry stone terraces on its steep hillsides that make this fertility attainable. ProVinea, a neighborhood nonprofit, has utilized to UNESCO to inscribe those landscapes onto its international background checklist, representing the development and use of the terraces because the heroic transformation of barren slopes into fertile fields. Drawing on Michel Serres’ thought of serial parasitism, this research demonstrates how ProVinea discursively and materially remakes the landscapes via culling the positive, getting rid of the damaging, and assembling the dispersed. A casualty of this strategy is a extra complicated and whole fact, person who this booklet goals to revive, whereas additionally acknowledging the validity of global Heritage’s efforts to construct a world tradition and ProVinea’s wish to hook up with it.

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