The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Bibliographic Data

ID19978314
AuthorsJaro Stacul (corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages224
Publication date2003-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBounded Field (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books, Incorporated (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3167/9781571814630;10.2307/j.ctt7hbhn2
OpenAlexW578457718
Open LibraryOL53254887M
ISBN9781785339141
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Regionalism is one of the most debated issues in contemporary western Europe. Yet why the region, rather than the nation state, can have such a strong appeal for the construction of social and political identity remains largely unexplored. Drawing on data collected in the mountainous Trentino region of northern Italy, the author investigates how ideas about village boundaries and private property form the background against which regionalist ideologies are understood. In suggesting that ideas about regionalism largely reflect views about private property, he provides an alternative to theories of nationalism that overlook the articulation between official ideologies and discourses at the local level

Aesthetics · Art · Bounded function · Field (mathematics) · Identity (music) · Index (typography) · Linguistics · Localism · Mathematical analysis · Political science · Politics · Pure mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Central European national history · Computer Science · Educational Leadership and Practices · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Historical and Environmental Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Rural development and sustainability · Ethnicity · History · Italy · Social life and customs · Trentino-Alto Adige · Villages