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The Cultural Roots of Slow Food
Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance
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2023
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The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance focuses on the work of a variety of intellectual activists, related food justice literature, and documentary films, and argues that contemporary forms of environmental activism, as they are rooted in local food and sustainable farming, are built on Italian peasant culture and its contributions to the Resistance movement during World War II.
This book looks to the hinterlands to demonstrate that peasants, by sharing their knowledge of the land and traditional practices, produce their own organic intellectuals. Some examples examined are Alcide Cervi, Nuto Revelli, and Ermanno Olmi. Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan argues that their work, personal experiences, and visions of resistance foreground the cultural roots of the Slow Food international grassroots movement. She posits that today, Slow Food and the food communities of Terra Madre in Italy and around the world represent one of the many examples of these new organic intellectuals committed to rebuild a more harmonious and sustainable relationship with the land.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3949-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3950-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
160
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter One. A Story of Peasant Resistance: The Cervi Family No access Pages 13 - 42
Chapter Two. Nuto Revelli and the Disappearing Voices of Peasant Resistance No access Pages 43 - 70
Chapter Three. The Silenced Resistance: L’Agnese va a morire No access Pages 71 - 100
Chapter Four. Ecological and Cultural Landscapes in Ermanno Olmi’s Documentaries No access Pages 101 - 128
