Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Antonio Bonatesta
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/303 Suppl. 1
Language English Pages 19 P. 157-175 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/icYearbook2022-2023-oa007
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Groundwater is an essential part of the planet’s water reserves. In modern times, this resource has become increasingly important in determining production methods, modernisation processes and urban settlement patterns, often with contradictory connotations: sometimes a complementary factor, other times a completely alternative resource to the large-scale water infrastructure projects promoted by the state and hydraulic technocracies. Yet, Italian and international historiography has so far paid little attention to groundwater as an object of study in its own right. From a methodological point of view, this requires a close dialogue with other scientific disciplines, involving categories such as the Anthropocene, the hydrosocial cycle and shadow waters, as well as a focus on international historiography, looking in particular at the national or subcontinental contexts that have had to deal with the presence of large underground aquifers.
Keywords: ; groundwater, the Anthropocene, hydrosocial cycle, shadow waters, hydraulic state, hydrocracies, historiography
Antonio Bonatesta, Invisible landscapes. Historical research and groundwater in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 303 Suppl. 1/2023, pp 157-175, DOI: 10.3280/icYearbook2022-2023-oa007