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This book explores the commodification of nature with a particular emphasis on how this process is perpetrated by capitalist societies.
Through the example of Italy, the book presents another lens to observe landscapes and natures and the different actors, both human and non-human, involved in their production. It draws on critical geography perspectives to unveil the socionatural dynamics that form the basis of the commodification of Italian natures. It examines how the social construction of nature in Italy produces peculiar effects on ecologies and landscapes as well as on human and non-human bodies, and how alternative socionatures emerge.
The book is written primarily for scholars, particularly in human, cultural and critical geography, political ecology, cultural studies as well as heritage, tourism, sustainability and urban studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers and planners in nature conservation, landscape planning and heritage management.
Contents
Introduction: Geographies and natures: facing the social construction of nature in Italy Part I: Heritagisation of nature. Building the Italian brand of nature. 1.National parks, nationalism, and the construction of the idea of nature in Italy. Reflections on the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park 2.Transcending nature conservation in Italian UNESCO biosphere reserves 3.Rewilding natures in the Ligurian mountains 4.Nature in food and food in nature. Representing, inventing and practising naturalness and mountainness 5.Authenticity (re-)naturalised. The mise-en-scene of raw meat in the heritagized city of Florence Part II: Narratives of nature in the contemporary environmental crisis 6.The vanishing shapes of Dolomitic ice. Temporalities and aesthetics of the Marmolada glacier at the threshold of its extinction 7.The commodification of mountain natures in the eco-climate crisis: the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics and Dolomites 8.The co(a)sts of beauty: from the construction of the tourist imaginary of attractiveness to increased exposure to risk 9.The expansion of agrivoltaics in Italy: a sustainable panacea or a new form of green grabbing? PART III: More-than (peri)urban natures 10.Urban socionatures and climate strategies: the cases of three medium-sized cities in Northern Italy 11.Greening the "void": brownfield redevelopment and soil desealing in two Italian cities 12.(Peri)urban and regional protected areas: structure and prospects of the sociopolitical nature of conservation in Lombardy 13.Wild Encounters: toward a reinterpretation of urban green policies by the rivers in Rome and Cagliari 14.Performing animality in city branding: the case of the Sartiglia in Oristano (Sardinia) PART IV: Geo-literary representations of Italian natures 15.Il Bel Paese by Antonio Stoppani: a geoliterary approach 16."Mare crespo, vento fresco". Evaluation of the seascape in I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga 17.The Italian countryside between rurality and nature: wandering around Cesare Pavese's hills and novels Conclusion Italian socionatures Index
