Puzzle: visual research in the industrialized territories of Sicily
You can look at the piece of a puzzle for three days in a row believing that you know everything about its configuration and its color, without having taken the […]
Power games. Industry, law and crime in south-eastern Sicily
Irene Falconieri Starting from the analysis of two criminal proceedings involving the city of Siracusa and the close municipality of Melilli, my research explores historical and performative connections between law, environment, […]
Images of coexistence and ecological frames in post-industrial narratives
Douglas Mark Ponton My research analyzes an area of Sicily (the province of Siracusa) where the petrochemical industry coexists with protected areas such as nature reserves, to reconstruct the narratives that […]
Heterotopias of Late Industrialism in the Siracusa Petrochemical Hub
Blurred by the fumes of petrochemical processing, the landscapes of Siracusa’s industrial hub are spaces where what seems incompatible coexists… as if different spatial-temporal dimensions overlapped in the same […]
Economic and environmental conflicts around the Plemmirio marine protected area
Luca Ruggiero Our research aims to highlight the differences between the two development models that characterize the Siracusa area: on the one hand the traditional Keynesian one, […]
Crisis, industrial reconversion and environmental activism in Gela
Alessandro Lutri The current late industrial landscape of Gela is characterized by a drastic reduction in jobs and extensive environmental degradation, in conjunction with the industrial closure of the Refinery in 2012, […]
Causal fields. Industry, health and heritage in an area of North-West Sicily
Andrea Filippo Ravenda The ethnography started in 2017 in the Milazzo and Valle del Mela area analyses some of the possible biological-environmental, socio-cultural and political-economic relations that exist, in the public […]
Capitalisation as commodification
Within the project I continued my research on the processes of patrimonialisation of the so-called cultural assets (immaterial and material) underway in various Sicilian areas, with particular attention to the […]