Valuing place/placing value
The elusive normativity of landscape in rural Tuscany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12547830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dario Gaggio (0000-0003-4947-1383, University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 556-569 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1354571x.2014.962255 |
| OpenAlex | W1998169419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Rural Tuscany has become both a paragon of harmonious beauty and a terrain of legal conflict and recrimination. When they do not resort to essentialist notions of taste, many commentators are prone to explain the ‘preservation’ of Tuscany's countryside as the outcome of locally rooted legislative interventions meant to prevent ‘speculation’ and ‘debasement’ (scempio). Tuscany is indeed the site of layers of normative constraints and guidelines, ranging from local zoning regulations to the expectations associated with UNESCO's World Heritage Site status. Far from being self-evident, however, these normative constructs have been debated in Tuscan society over decades of rapid and often chaotic change. The reinvention of rural Tuscany as a paragon of beauty emerged from the search for an elusive form of coherence and meaning, whose features generated both conflict and accommodations. By focusing on a valley in southern Tuscany which obtained the status of World Heritage Site in 2004 (the Orcia valley), the article shows the power of the circumventions, negotiations and reinterpretations in which rural Tuscans have engaged while navigating the alternative temporalities of global validation, national legitimation and local belongings
Beauty · Environmental ethics · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · French Urban and Social Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |