Unfinished projects: Representing abandonments and reattributions of value in the Tortona valleys

Authors

  • Amina Bianca Cervellera Università di Milano-Bicocca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14672/ada20232pp89-108

Keywords:

Piedmont’s Apennine, Marginality, Modern ruins, Value of abandonment, Incompleteness

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reflect on the relationship between territorial marginality and potentiality starting from a case study related to the valleys of Piedmont’s Apennine. If on the one hand the presence of unfinished buildings begun thanks to developmental funds introduces a dissonance in the narratives of relaunch of the territory, on the other hand it configures a particular liminal situation, suspended between a lost past and a still uncertain future, which proves propitious to focus on the possibility to live in a margin and on the voids produced by depopulation in not strictly anthropocentric terms.

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Published

2023-12-15

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023)

Section

Special Focus. Mountains Gazes: Viewpoints for an Upland Anthropology

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