INVITATION TO THE CYCLE SEMINAR: YOUNG PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Organized by CNR-ISMed with SISAm (Italian Society of Environmental History):

Portovesme
From aluminum hub to contaminated area

January 18, 2024 10 a.m.

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (VI floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice, 8
80134 Naples

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The global financial crisis of 2008 exacerbated existing inequalities between different regions of the world. Europe witnessed the progressive impoverishment of already peripheral areas, partly due to the ultimate closure of highly energy-intensive industrial activities, relocated to where the cost of energy was lower. Today, some of these polluted and impoverished areas in Mediterranean Europe are at the center of an intense “just transition” debate. A close look at their material conditions and some highlights of their development trajectories, however, leads to questions about the effectiveness of ongoing projects and programs for the revitalization of these areas.

Gloria Pessina’s speech will focus on the case of the last existing primary aluminum production hub in Italy, the industrial and port area of Portovesme (South Sardinia), formerly part of the Site of National Interest “Sulcis Iglesiente Guspinese” and recipient, together with the other municipalities of the SIN, of a share of the Just Transition Fund (JTF) provided by Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of June 24, 2021. Questioning the reasons for the current fragmentation of properties, interests and rationales, some persistences (material and non-material), as well as processes of different territorialization of enterprises in the territory, the talk will highlight the fragility of the transition governance system in peripheral territories and the weight of past development logics.

THE SPEAKER. Gloria Pessina is a researcher (RTDa) in Urban Technique and Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Politecnico di Milano and an associate at CNR-ISMed in Naples. She has conducted research on sociopolitical and infrastructural aspects of water management in India and is currently working on energy territories and the spatial dimension of state intervention in the management of territorial crises in Italy. Since 2023 he has animated a collective research and discussion project on the relationship between urban studies and environmental history in Italy and France.

SPEAKER

Gloria Pessina
Politecnico di Milano
CNR-ISMed

INTRODUCE E MODERA
Valerio Caruso
CNR-ISMed

FINAL DEBATE.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Alessandro Agosta, Valerio Caruso, Gabriella Corona, Giovanni Ferrarese, Walter Palmieri
CNR-ISMed

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC until seats are available
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INFO AND CONTACTS
valerio.caruso@ismed.cnr.it
www.ismed.cnr.it
www.storiaambientale.it

In annex seminar flyer and 2023-2024 program