Ethnography in Italian inner areas. Critical boundaries and analytical categories for ethnographic research in fragile rural areas
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Enrico Mariani
Online First 2/13/2025 Issue 2025/Online First
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 1-21 File size 161 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2025-17124
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The article argues that ethnography can make a decisive contribution to various perspec-tives on the study, research, and understanding of the processes and changes affecting the Italian inner areas. Defining the critical perimeter of the category of “inner areas” allows for identifying how this category implies a tension between the general issue of Italy's inner ar-eas and specific, area-related issues. Reviewing the main social science contributions on Italian inner areas is therefore necessary to identify the different theoretical and methodolog-ical perspectives with which ethnographies engage. From this perspective, field research contributes to the study of the ambivalent and interconnected processes affecting Italian in-ner areas through a processual, situated, and critical lens.
Keywords: ethnography, inner peripheries, methodology, analytical framework, marginality, territorial inequalities
Enrico Mariani, Etnografia nelle aree interne italiane. Perimetri critici e categorie analitiche per la ricerca etnografica nelle aree rurali fragili in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" Online First/2025, pp 1-21, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2025-17124