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Cultural Roots of Slow Food

Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement during World War II.This book looks to the hinterlands to demonstrate that peasants, by sharing their knowledge of the land and traditional practices, produce their own organic intellectuals. Some examples examined are Alcide Cervi, Nuto Revelli, and Ermanno Olmi. Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan argues that their work, personal experiences, and visions of resistance foreground the cultural roots of the Slow Food international grassroots movement. She posits that today, Slow Food and the food communities of Terra Madre in Italy and around the world represent one of the many examples of these new organic intellectuals committed to rebuild a more harmonious and sustainable relationship with the land.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-10-24
Mått158 x 237 x 19 mm
Vikt467 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEcocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor172
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793639493

Tillhör följande kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik

Table of ContentsMap of Italy AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans and the Landscape of Italian ResistanceChapter 1: A Story of Peasant Resistance: The Cervi FamilyChapter 2: Nuto Revelli and the Disappearing Voices of Peasant ResistanceChapter 3: The Silenced Resistance: L'Agnese va a morireChapter 4: Ecological and Cultural Landscapes in Ermanno Olmi’s DocumentariesConclusion: Slow FoodBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

In this highly original book, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan has prepared a precious recipe to relish the complex and beautiful texture of the Italian landscape. On a solid Gramscian cooking basis, she blends Slow Food and the Resistance against the nazi fascist regime, the subaltern stories of farmers, and their representations into Italian cultures. The Cultural Roots of Slow Food is an excellent example of the power of environmental humanities to go beyond disciplines while nurturing the readers with the healthy food of stories of resistance and transformation.