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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.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Map of Italy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans and the Landscape of Italian Resistance
Chapter 1: A Story of Peasant Resistance: The Cervi Family
Chapter 2: Nuto Revelli and the Disappearing Voices of Peasant Resistance
Chapter 3: Nuto Revelli and the Disappearing Voices of Peasant Resistance
Chapter 4: Ecological and Cultural Landscapes in Ermanno Olmi's Documentaries
Conclusion: Slow Food
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan
Summary
This book considers Italian peasant culture, its impact on intellectual activism, and its significance in shaping the Slow Food international grassroot movement.
