This book, inspired by the thought of Giacomo Becattini, reflects on why local communities continue to exist and spread. Why does the planet not become one place without borders? Why instead do we humans preferentially group ourselves into communities that are neither 'too wide' nor 'too narrow'? What characterizes today's form of community? Why are these communities rooted in places? What is peculiarly 'local' about places? Together with Becattini, we answer that the foundation of local communities is social culture. In its material and symbolic dimensions, social culture animates various forms of proximity between people and between groups: in addition to territorial proximity, social proximity (also online) and institutional proximity matter a lot. This implies that today a local community is not only a place where social culture makes us physically close, but where at least some of the major forms of proximity intersect.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3809-3455
Book Title
La forza delle comunità locali
Book Subtitle
Giacomo Becattini e la teoria della cultura sociale
Authors
Nicolò Bellanca
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
212
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0177-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0176-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0177-3
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0178-0
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919