Rethinking Italy’s Margins Through Walking

Mobility, Activism and Positionality in Wu Ming 2’s Il sentiero luminoso (2016) and Giuliano Santoro’s Su due piedi (2012)

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ID22005378
AuthorsSimone Brioni (0000-0003-1973-5317, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume11
Issue2
Publication date2022-05-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCalifornia Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2155-7926 • E-ISSN: 2155-7926
PublisherCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5070/c311247586
OpenAlexW4281663850
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The article argues that Wu Ming 2’s Il sentiero luminoso (2016) and Giuliano Santoro’s Su due piedi . Camminando per un mese attraverso la Calabria (2012) describe walking as an activity which allows one to recognize the social modifications of space, and to rethink the geographies of suburban areas in Italy. This analysis resounds with Robert P. Marzec’s invitation to study how literature has represented the privatization and the capitalist and neoliberal organization of space, revealing forms of internal colonization which epitomize a pillar of colonial ideology. Il sentiero luminoso and Su due piedi reconfigure walking as an epistemological, ecocritical and postcolonial practice which allows one to cross paths with people who are marginalized in Italy, especially migrants. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s and David Pinder’s reflections about space and representation, the article suggests that Il sentiero luminoso and Su due piedi show how the direct experience of a place through walking is germane to understanding the effects of economic exploitation present in human-land relations

Archaeology · Colonialism · Humanities · Ideology · Pillar · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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