Place and Metaterritory as space of relationships

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Elena Battaglini
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/127
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 119-136 File size 298 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2022-127010
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The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic is challenging paradigms that have so far informed the theoreti-cal and the defining apparatuses of the concept of territory. Therefore, the disciplinary statutes on which they relied are showing their inadequacy, so much so that reinterpretations and re-codifications are needed. In order to provide a semantically sharper definition to what is being experienced in living today, this article is attempting to circumscribe this concept in its "identi-ty" dimension, through which communities are coping with the biophysical and built environ-ment in relation to local and global challenges. In the strand of concept papers and hypothesis-building studies, this contribution does not purport to provide answers. It is aiming to pinpoint a new research-field for regional studies, circumscribing either a research agenda, or the level of an abstraction to which a spatial sociology (Mela, 2006; Mela, 2020) may hopefully confer its answers. In this perspective, this article attempts to reframe the concept of territory, as an experience of space-time processuality and it will introduce that of metaterritory, as a space for collaborative relationships.

Keywords: relational agency, place-attachment, place-identity, biocoltural turn, metaterritory, regional development

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Elena Battaglini, Territorio e metaterritorio come spazio di relazioni in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 127/2022, pp 119-136, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2022-127010