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The End of the City of Gold? Industry and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town

By: Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

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The End of the City of Gold? Industry and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town

By: Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

How does Europe’s economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and cultural challenges Italy and Europe will face in the future.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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ISBN 10

1443852783

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9781443852784

Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy

A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology

By: Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

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Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy

A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology

By: Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas? How can these celebrations pave the way to a better future for the local communities? This book is addressing these questions contributing to the ongoing debate about the future of rural peripheries in Europe. The volume is based on the ethnographic research conducted in Italy, a country internationally known for its food tradition and one of the European countries where the gap between rural and urban space is most pronounced. It offers an anthropological analysis of food festivals, exploring the transformational role they have to change and develop rural communities. Although the festivals aim mostly at tourism, they contribute in a wider way to the life of the rural communities, acting as devices through which a community redefines itself, reinforces its sociality, reshapes the perception and use of the surrounding environment. In so doing, thus, the books suggests to read the festivals not just as celebrations driven by food fashion, but rather fundamental grassroots instruments to contrast the effects of rural marginalization and pave the way to a possible better future for the community

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