| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 128 pages) |
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Protest, culture and society ; v. 1 |
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Protest, culture and society ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Title page-voices of the valley, voices of the straits; Contents; Acknowledgments; Ch 1-Local conflict between interest and identity; Ch 2-Networks and cross-fertilisation; Ch 3-Protest and identity; Ch 4-In movement; Ch 5-Voices of the valley, voices of the straits; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the production |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-125) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Protest movements -- Italy
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Communities -- Italy
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Environmentalism -- Italy
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High speed trains -- Environmental aspects -- Italy -- Susa Valley
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Bridges -- Environmental aspects -- Italy -- Messina, Strait of
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Bridges -- Environmental aspects
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Communities
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Environmentalism
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High speed trains -- Environmental aspects
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Protest movements
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Italy
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Italy -- Susa Valley
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Mediterranean Sea -- Strait of Messina (Tyrrhenian Sea)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piazza, Gianni, 1963- author.
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| LC no. |
2008026633 |
| ISBN |
9781845458621 |
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1845458621 |
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1282627309 |
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9781282627307 |
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9786612627309 |
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6612627301 |
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