The Cultural Roots of Slow Food
Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:24th Oct '23
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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.
In this highly original book, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan has prepared a precious recipe to relish the complex and beautiful texture of the Italian landscape. On a solid Gramscian cooking basis, she blends Slow Food and the Resistance against the nazi fascist regime, the subaltern stories of farmers, and their representations into Italian cultures. The Cultural Roots of Slow Food is an excellent example of the power of environmental humanities to go beyond disciplines while nurturing the readers with the healthy food of stories of resistance and transformation. -- Marco Armiero, Icrea Research Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Tabusso-Marcyan’s volume illustrates, with historical flair, that practices associated with food production, in other words, the acculturation of our relationship with the earth, consist of acts of resistance. Alongside resistance movements for liberation and freedom, the struggle against genetically modified foods, food additives, and food processing that undermines its basic nutritional value, is a territory of struggle Slow in name only. -- Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California, San Diego
ISBN: 9781793639493
Dimensions: 237mm x 158mm x 19mm
Weight: 467g
172 pages