TY - JOUR PY - 2014 SN - 1971-8446 T1 - Retorica dello sviluppo e pratiche di coping in un’area periferica dell’Italia meridionale JO - SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE DA - 1/15/2015 12:00:00 AM DO - 10.3280/SR2014-105003 UR - http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=52890 AU - Maddaloni, Domenico AU - Diana, Paolo SP - 86 EP - 114 IS - 105 VL - XXXV LA - IT AB - The emerging local development approach is centred on categories such asthose of governance, network, activation, and trust. This change in the developmentdiscourse can be intended as an attempt to give political relevance tothe local ruling networks while making civil society responsible. The authorsbuild from the actor-oriented perspective as defined by Norman Long, in orderto compare the rhetoric of the local government network, and the coping practicesdeveloped by a specific category of actors: self-employed workers andsmall entrepreneurs active in sectors - traditional craftsmanship, wellness,tourism - seen as relevant for the post-industrial development in a peripheralregion of southern Italy, namely Irpinia. PB - FrancoAngeli ER -