{"pk":40830,"title":"Rethinking Italy’s Margins Through Walking: Mobility, Activism and Positionality in Wu Ming 2’s Il sentiero luminoso (2016) and Giuliano Santoro’s Su due piedi (2012)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The article argues that Wu Ming 2’s \nIl sentiero luminoso\n (2016) and Giuliano Santoro’s \nSu due piedi\n. \nCamminando per un mese attraverso la Calabria \n(2012) describe walking as an activity which allows one to recognize the social modifications of space, and to rethink the geographies of suburban areas in Italy. This analysis resounds with Robert P. Marzec’s invitation to study how literature has represented the privatization and the capitalist and neoliberal organization of space, revealing forms of internal colonization which epitomize a pillar of colonial ideology.\n Il sentiero luminoso \nand \nSu due piedi\n reconfigure walking as an epistemological, ecocritical and postcolonial practice which allows one to cross paths with people who are marginalized in Italy, especially migrants. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s and David Pinder’s reflections about space and representation, the article suggests that \nIl sentiero luminoso\n and \nSu due piedi\n show how the direct experience of a place through walking is germane to understanding the effects of economic exploitation present in human-land relations.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Landscape"},{"word":"mobility"},{"word":"positionality"},{"word":"activism"},{"word":"walking"}],"section":"Vol.11, Issue 2: Open Theme","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34s0q954","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Simone","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brioni","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stony Brook University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-04-06T15:25:01+02:00","date_accepted":"2020-04-06T15:25:01+02:00","date_published":"2022-05-10T21:01:39+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40830/galley/30585/download/"}]}