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The Valtellina and UNESCO
Making a Global Landscape
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2012
Summary
Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. The Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, is known for being unusually fertile for its elevation and latitude, and for the dry stone terraces on its steep hillsides that make this fertility possible. ProVinea, a local nonprofit, has applied to UNESCO to inscribe these landscapes onto its World Heritage list, representing the construction and use of the terraces as the heroic transformation of barren slopes into fertile fields. Drawing on Michel Serres’ theory of serial parasitism, this study demonstrates how ProVinea discursively and materially remakes the landscapes by culling the advantageous, eliminating the detrimental, and assembling the dispersed. A casualty of this process is a more complex and complete truth, one that this book aims to restore, while also acknowledging the validity of World Heritage’s efforts to build a global culture and ProVinea’s desire to connect to it.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7346-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7347-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
A Note on the Text No access
Chapter 01. Prupusiziùn No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter 02. Föiaröla, Pizzöl, e Cambrìn No access Pages 27 - 40
Chapter 03. Fùndech e Alpisèl No access Pages 41 - 60
Chapter 04. Al Témp del’Üga No access Pages 61 - 82
Chapter 05. Disùrdan No access Pages 83 - 104
Chapter 06. Livèl No access Pages 105 - 122
Chapter 07. Folsc, Furscèl, e Rampilìn No access Pages 123 - 142
Chapter 08. Risc dal Coc No access Pages 143 - 162
