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The paper deals with the issue of responsible and sustainable tourism starting from a series of Italian (and only partially French) cases of ecomuseums of pastoralism and transhumance as potential drivers for development and territorial regeneration, as well as for the promotion of experiential tourism with low environmental impact, capable of triggering participatory processes of inclusion and social innovation. Through the analysis of two Italian regions (Piedmont and Molise) and three cases (Ecomuseum of Pastoralism in Pontebernardo, Cuneo; Ecomuseum Itinerari Frentani, Larino; and the ongoing program of the Institutional Contract of Development in Campodipietra, Molise) the authors propose an interpretative model based on three main issues: the awareness, agenda, and action of a responsustainable tourism concept and on the three different subjects of local actors, tourists and policy-makers, obtaining as the main result the pre-eminence of intangible actions for development over environmental recovery and conservation activities.
Angelo Belliggiano; Letizia Bindi; Corrado Ievoli. Walking along the Sheeptrack…Rural Tourism, Ecomuseums, and Bio-Cultural Heritage. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8870 .
AMA StyleAngelo Belliggiano, Letizia Bindi, Corrado Ievoli. Walking along the Sheeptrack…Rural Tourism, Ecomuseums, and Bio-Cultural Heritage. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8870.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAngelo Belliggiano; Letizia Bindi; Corrado Ievoli. 2021. "Walking along the Sheeptrack…Rural Tourism, Ecomuseums, and Bio-Cultural Heritage." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8870.
Based on an ethnography of the shepherds in an area of central-southern Italy, the chapter outlines representations of this traditional breeding practice—the seasonal movements of shepherds and herders with their animals in search of grazing land. Ethnographic accounts and narratives evoke the Deleuzian themes of the rhizome, “nomadic thought” and “becoming animal” as well as socio-anthropological concerns, such as the notion of “two sides of historicity” and the ethnographic construction of the “sense of places.” Pastoral routes are somehow represented as flows of narrations while walking human-animal rhythms resemble punctuation in the narration of this deeply embodied experience of a cultural landscape. At the same time, the chapter analyzes representations that the process of “heritagization” produce, and that recently transformed transhumance into a cultural and fascinating object. Traditional and vagrant pastoralism is useful for thinking and narrating in the new global heritage framework.
Letizia Bindi. Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations. A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging 2020, 19 -46.
AMA StyleLetizia Bindi. Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations. A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging. 2020; ():19-46.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLetizia Bindi. 2020. "Take a Walk on the Shepherd Side: Transhumant Narratives and Representations." A Literary Anthropology of Migration and Belonging , no. : 19-46.