The Swamp of East Naples
White Horse Press (Verlag)
978-1-912186-21-1 (ISBN)
East Naples' contemporary history is not special, or unique: its processes shaped a mostly grey suburb nestled in the immediate vicinity of the great southern city, sharing its limits and feeding its needs. An imaginary tourist would search in vain for the ancient natural landscape, formerly a splendid threshold between coastal and marshy ecosystems, now humiliated by the sedimentary accumulation of bricks, fumes, oil and poisons generated by the main actors of the area's contemporary history - manufacturing and housing. Across the globe, peripheral areas have experienced the same deep environmental changes under the processes of energy transitions, economic development and urbanisation. The historian must interrogate the human choices, the material context and the different perceptions of nature, health or production that led to these changes as part of an environmentally-focused perspective on two of modernity's distinctive global processes: industrialisation and deindustrialisation. The resultant narrative of relations between human choices and East Naples' environmental limits is marked by the transition from an actual swamp to a metaphorical one, an ambiguous space characterised by chaos and disorder, hostility and risks, but also resistance, dignity and hope. This book reconstructs the discursive and physical factors that created the East Naples 'swamp', from the late eighteenth century to the present, analysing hygienist thought and urbanisation, industrialisation and deindustrialisation, ecological risks and urban requalification attempts.
Valerio Caruso studied late modern history and graduated in Historical Sciences at the University of Naples 'Federico II' in 2019. He studied contemporary environmental change and economic transformations as part of the deindustrialisation process in the eastern suburbs of Naples, through the lenses of urban planning, economic analysis and oral history. He has published essays on the subject of deindustrialisation in East Naples in Italian academic journals such as Meridiana. Rivista di Storia e Scienze Sociali and Italia Contemporanea; in the international journal Global Environment. A Journal of Transdisciplinary History; and in local newspapers. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Social and Political Change, enrolled in a partnership between the University of Turin and the University of Florence. His research interests comprise the analysis of urban environmental issues in the Mediterranean area, Middle East studies, oral history, industrial history and deindustrialisation studies.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Sara Ferraioli |
| Verlagsort | Knapwell |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-912186-21-7 / 1912186217 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-912186-21-1 / 9781912186211 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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