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Rossano Pazzagli

Economics and Knowledge. School and agriculture in the south of Italy in the years of the Unity of the Nation During the 19th Century an intense debate about agricultural training led to the birth of agricultural schools and other ways of imparting technical knowledge such as farming contracts, farming rallies and mobile schools. There was a big cultural push to improve Italian agriculture, linked with the advances in science and the role of the state. Even during the reign of the Due Siclie, the 1840s seem to mark a change, with reforms to education and the creation in 1847 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce. During the 1850s there were more decentralised initiatives such as the introduction of teaching farming at secondary schools. Studies on how knowledge was imparted seem to show that Southern farming culture was not isolated but rather it was integrated with both European and Italian and in particular with that of Tuscany. There was no lack, therefore, of either human resources or ideas which nonetheless had to clash against a political structure which was largely insufficient and a limited amount of capital available for funding innovation.

Roberto Parisi

Factories and territory: the role of the building industry in the south of Italy For little more than a decade, the Italian construction sector has been the focus of a renewed interest in historiography. For Southern Italy, this area of study is very important today, because we can grasp with greater cultural and environmental awareness the outcome of a long history of economic policies and business strategies which have become stratified into the landscape and in its visible forms to achieve the industrial and social unification of the whole country. This study should be read from the point of view of industrial architecture, therefore the factory, through which design, processing and control practices of the anthropic space have been experimented on, both at an architectural and territorial level, in order to achieve a better understanding of some of the some of the many aspects of the building history of Southern Italy, which are still poorly investigated.

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Gabriella Corona

The Planners, the Environment and the City. Technique and politics in Italy during the last forty years of the twentieth century Beginning in the Sixties, a trend in town-planning studies known as reformist developed in Italy, largely revolving around the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (national institute for town-planning studies). This trend marked a deep change in land management concepts. Its adherents sought to reform rather than merely rationalize the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact. This was to be achieved by controlling the real estate market and the regulation of land rent processes. Thanks to the strong ties they formed with public administrations and left-wing parties, many exponents of this trend (including Guido Alborghetti, Pier Luigi Cervellati, Giuseppe Campos Venuti, Edoardo Detti, Vezio De Lucia, Edoardo Salzano, Alberto Todros, and many others) became leading figures in the public debate on cities of the Seventies and early Eighties, and were responsible for many institutional decisions adopted in this period at the national as well as the local level (e.g., the land law of 1977 and the ten-year housing plan of 1978). In the Eighties and Nineties, in spite of the spread of a private conception of urban planning the so-called contrattata (negotiated) urban planning the exponents of this trend were still able to carry out programs and plans e.g., in Bologna, Rome, and Naples aimed at safeguarding the physical integrity of the land. This was achieved through a juridical and legislative evolution (as in the case of the Galasso law of 1986 and subsequent measures) that provided public administrations with new instruments for the protection of natural resources and the landscape, even within urban areas.
Gino Massullo

Agricultural issues The study synthetically traces the history of agriculture in Molise during the last two and a half centuries, identifying its changes and continuities. From the mid-eighteenth century to the infamous battle of the grain of the fascist era, agriculture in Molise has been characterized by the enormous spread of cereal. Its modernization starts up after World War II, albeit largely confined to territorial infrastructure. This occurred within special policies of exceptional measures for the South (Intervento straordinario) and the land Reform financed by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno. In Molise, the final step in the primary sector modernization occurs only as late as in the last twenty years of the twentieth century. In this period the previous gap with the rest of the South and of the country, in terms of productivity, employees and company size, is at least partly filled. However, the author emphasizes the strong persistence of a number of problems, from the past to the present days. Among them: the excessive

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spread of cereals resulting in the further worsening of hydrogeological instability , sputtering enterprises, fragmentation of property, the ageing of manpower, the difficulties of accessing credit, the lack of social cohesion, the abandonment of mountainous inland areas. These problems seem today within the framework of the global market even more urgent, in view of the new challenges set by the European Community which invites the local agriculture to compete on the market, to manage environmental resources in a sustainable manner, to engage in a real governance of rural areas; all of that in a glocal dimension able to contextualize the European agricultural policy within specific local strategies.
Rosa Maria Fanelli

The food industry The aim of this paper is to highlight the structural and operational features of the first two components of the agro-food system in Molise: the agricultural sector and the food industry. Regarding the first component, data from Istat make it possible to draw the main patterns of development over the period 2000-2007. In particular, from 2000 to 2007 the situation of the primary sector was almost unchanged in Molise. At the moment, it is still characterized by the same elements of backwardness: small firms, high rate of senility of employees, high production costs, low competitive products in foreign markets. These factors generate a strong impact on the economic and productive efficiency, especially for firms located in mountain and marginal areas of the region. However, these firms are still able to survive thanks to the introduction in Agenda 2000 of the concept of multifunctional agriculture. Special attention is paid to the food industry and to food chains characterized by specific factors depending on the local context in which they operate. A more updated picture of the agricultural production and of the production process is built on the basis of data provided by the Chambers of Commerce of the two provinces in Molise. Data make it possible to identify, as for the agriculture sector, the patterns of growth concerning the production process in the food industry in the last decade. More specifically, data show that companies operating in the manufacturing sector were 2,815 in 2008. Of these companies, 811 (i.e. 28.8 per cent) operated in the food and beverage sector. Moreover, the incidence of firms operating in Molise on the total number of firms operating in the food sector in Italy is 0.8 per cent. In terms of the number of employees, value added and exports the incidence is, respectively, equal to 0.7, 0.5 and 0.2 per cent. To sum up, from the analysis it can be inferred that, as for the agricultural sector, the food industry shows some weaknesses: fragmentation, family-based ownership of firms, difficulty in accessing credit, difficulty in managing trade relationships. From a more disaggregated analysis of the data, it can be inferred that the most important branches of the food industry in Molise are: milk, oil and fats,

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pasta and meat. These products are usually produced by firms operating in areas of the territory which are particularly suitable for the production of traditional products and which are characterized by a high level of integration between the first and the second phase of the production process (i.e. the production of raw materials and the firms and second transformation of products).
Ilaria Zilli

Looking for an industrial vocation For a large part of the last century, Molise has remained on the fringes of development in our country and not only in terms industrial development. The three islands of industrialisation of the region (the indiustrial hubs of Termoli-Rivolta del Re, Isernia-Pettoranello and Campobasso-Bojano) emerged only at the beginning of the seventies thanks to heavy investment by the state in infrastructure and also thanks to incentives from the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno for the establishment of new companies in the regions of Southern Italy. However industrialisation by the state, in Molise or the rest of the South of Italy, has not been able to change significantly the entrepreneurial culture in the region nor moreover has it been able to guarantee the independent growth of local business. The example of Molise appears to be a model in this sense: that after two decades of passion for industrialisation, today its economy is divided between agriculture and the service sector, more or less advanced, whilst heavy industry has not been able to put down its roots nor create sustained periods of employment. In the face of ever clearer signs of the economic crisis in the world, perhaps the real challenge is to lead Molise away from the classic routes of development and make it a guinea pig for models of growth that not only re-establish the relationship between man and the environment, still very positive in the region, but which also increase the value of local areas making them more prominent in building their own future.
Massimiliano Crisci

What future for the working-age population of Molise? After a long period of strong depopulation and some decades of demographic stagnation, in the last years Molise has avoided a slight decrease of population only thanks to foreign immigration. Labour forces are ageing because the people born during the baby boom are now reaching adulthood and maturity and because a restricted generation born in low fertility periods is reaching working age. In the future, we can foresee that such trends are going to trigger off a workforce decline, particularly intense in the youngest age groups. Work placement in Molise is very difficult for young people. The mismatch between their occupational expectation and the local market supply

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continues to indicate territorial mobility as a necessity. Labour market flexibility stimulates temporary and intermittent migrations to the CentralNorthern regions of Italy, not as strong as they used to be, but still substantial. These are silent migrations affecting the quality of life of migrants and their families, but they are difficult to trace through official sources and impossible to analyse without using ad hoc surveys.
Ilenia Pasquetti

The modernization of Molise region in the WW II postwar period through the records of Svimez In the WW II postwar period, Svimez (Bureau for the industrialization of Southern Italy) considered the State aids as the only way to solve the problems pertaining to the underdevelopment of Southern Italy. In the case of the Molise region, Svimez has pinpointed the lack of infrastructures as the main reason for its socio-economic depression. Svimez also considered the development of an agricultural economy as the first step towards the modernization of Molise. In the 1950s the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno (a programme for exceptional projects for the development of Southern Italy) started to establish a general plan for the civic and economic exploitation of the Biferno river. At the same time, the Cassa assisted the local manufactures. In the 1970s the Cassa supported the industrialization of Molise through the industrial clusters. The new firms, a produce of the top down system of industrialization did not establish a connection with local manufactures. The industrialization of Molise has not become a model of propulsive development.
Marinangela Bellomo

The first steps of Tourism Molise: the fascist era Fascism gave the travel industry its first real recognition on the economical, social and cultural level. The regime established state bodies for the control and development of the sector, produced a framework legislation which remained enforced in its basic features beyond the Eighties of the Twentieth century and finally promoted Italian tourism to such an extent that the nation reached the top of world rankings for tourism offer. Molise tried to keep up with the policy of tourism development imposed by the Regime: special bodies were established to manage and control the sector, efforts were made to set off the existing assets of the region in order to attract tourists, and to spread advertising material locally as well as nationwide. Efforts to follow the guidelines were enormous as were the major issues to be addressed in a region where the facilities, the routes of communication and access to finance were the elements that did not allow the start of a regional

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tourism development. Except for enthusiastic local administrators enthusiasm, proud of their municipalities and of their beauty, the rest of the population did not seem particularly eager to engage in developing tourism, intent as they were mainly on surviving. The outbreak of the war froze every project and every effort to modernize the touristic framework of the province.
Angelo Presenza

Tourism: a lever for local development The successful emergence of a tourist destination depends primarily on the structural components of the local system and, secondly, on the way they interact to create value for different stakeholders, balancing their strategic objectives. The offer of a place, therefore, must be built. If weconsider the Italian tourism industry we can easily find a confirmation of what has just been stated so much so that, despite a unique heritage, there is often a lack of development models that can synergistically combine competitiveness, innovation and sustainable development. Starting from these premises, the work presents a thorough examination of theories and management practices concerning destination management and goes on to examine the issue of destination competitiveness with a Molisebased case study. The focus is on the City of Termoli and the analysis of the Integrated Urban Development Project (Pisu). The Pisu is a financial instrument made available by the Region of Molise to implement participatory integrated and sustainable approaches addressed to the economic, environmental and social needs of urban settlements. The case study has enabled us to outline interesting insights, including the importance of special issues, such as local governance, innovation and community participation.
Maria Iarossi

Breaking isolation: the transport network between 1800 and 1900 The absence of an efficient transport network is a constant element in the history of the region. The Molise geomorphological characteristics are the principal causes of this long lasting infrastructure weakness. When Italy became united, the interest in the infrastructure network increased and finally the possibility emerged for Molise to build roads, railways and even a port. However there were considerable financial and technical obstacles to overcome. In addition other problems occurred and made it more difficult to reach this objective. The case of Castelverrino is typical: until the Great War it was isolated (like Concasale, Monacilioni, Montemitro, Roccavivara, S. Polo Matese), and the documents tell us the story of this failure. The difficulties to connect Castelverrino with the nearby town of Agnone are typical of the serious problems that municipalities, especially the one located in the mountain area, had to face

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to be integrated into an intra-regional transport network. Only in the second post war period, in fact, were problems of isolation, which had lingered on from the previous century, solved. Still today, however, internal connections are difficult and, unlike what happened in the past, the attention given to this problem has dwindled.
Letizia Bindi

Selling assets, enjoying places The paper focuses on the relationship between the intangible cultural heritage and the consumption of places. Valorisation and commodification of the territories, of traditional practices, of local know-how is today an interesting subject for ethnography. Ethnographers analyse them as a complex area of interaction between institutional subjects, private actors and managers, local communities and translocal, or more often transnational cooperation and interaction (European Projects, Unesco Protocols, media). The author critically approaches the relation between tradition and the market; she goes on to discuss some case studies where intangible and tangible cultural heritage are presented in the public sphere as contested objects, within a web of economic and political relations and interests.
Paolo di Laura Frattura

Molise: socio-economic condition and prospects about its territorial developement The following analysis aims at stimulating some reflections about the perspectives of growth and development of the Molise region. Firstly we will analyze the impact and the position of our region in the national economic system and in relation to the wider frame of the international relationships to understand the development differential compared to the other areas of our Country; the foundations on which it is possible to build the future of our region, considering the current situation, and, finally, we will analyze how we can stimulate the development course. To do this we will use numbers, economic data as a tool to understand and outline complex phenomena and human, economic and social conditions. The analysis of a number of social-economic variables (such as population, work and employment, income and available wealth, entrepreneurial dynamics and economic sectors, training, research, innovation, infrastructures) will enable us to make some remarks about the responsibilities of the local administrators, at different levels, and to decide on which field it would be useful to intervene, with farsightedness and common purposes, to lead to the future our territory, the present and the forthcoming inhabitants, the social and economic activities which people will be able to carry out.

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Antonio Ruggieri

Molise and the cure for crisis The economic crisis, which started in the United States in 2008, is still sweeping over the old continent and is making it extremely difficult for the economy of every State. In the past weeks, Greece has been at risk of default, and prospects appear bleak for Ireland, Portugal and Spain, in a domino effect with an unpredictable outcome. Outstanding experts on Molise economy have had a thorough, close confrontation with glocal minded representatives of the academic and institutional world, have assessed the consequences that such an unstable and pernicious global situation will have on Molise. Under the coordination of mr Antonio Ruggieri, the meeting was attended by Professor Giovanni Cannata, Chancellor of the University of Molise, Mr Gianfranco Vitagliano, Spokesman for Regional Planning, Ms Erminia Mignelli, secretary of CGIL trade Union, Mr Gianfranco De Gregorio and Mr Franco Di Nucci, entrepreneurs, Ms Ilaria Zilli, expert of History of Economy and Mr Norberto Lombardi, immigration historian.

Massimiliano Crisci

What future for the working-age population of Molise? After a long period of strong depopulation and some decades of demographic stagnation, in the last years Molise has avoided a slight decrease of population only thanks to foreign immigration. Labour forces are ageing because the people born during the baby boom are now reaching adulthood and maturity and because a restricted generation born in low fertility periods is reaching working age. In the future, we can foresee that such trends are going to trigger off a workforce decline, particularly intense in the youngest age groups. Work placement in Molise is very difficult for young people. The mismatch between their occupational expectation and the local market supply continues to indicate territorial mobility as a necessity. Labour market flexibility stimulates temporary and intermittent migrations to the CentralNorthern regions of Italy, not as strong as they used to be, but still substantial. These are silent migrations affecting the quality of life of migrants and their families, but they are difficult to trace through official sources and impossible to analyse without using ad hoc surveys.

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Norberto Lombardi

Criticism of the Pleasure island. The karst route of Proposte in the modernization of Molise Between the second half of the 60s and the second half of the 80s, publisher Enzo Nocera issued some publications about the modernisation of the Molise Region and of Southern Italy: Proposte the first series of Proposte Molisane, the second series with the same title, and Molise. These reviews tried to propose a critical overview of the societal changes in the region and at the same time the gathering and organization of a new generation of intellectuals from Molise aimed at creating a different perspective for the economic and cultural development. The background of this process was the vision of Southern Italy, which was no longer conceived as a region with a homogenous delay in its growth, but as a varied and dynamic reality: In this context the so called Molise case according to the opinion of authoritative researchers was arising, and many representatives of the political world described it as an oasis of happiness. The scholars publishing on those reviews put forward a different picture, dramatically influenced by mass emigration and ill-concealed contradictions of an unquestionable development process. At the same time, these scholars pointed out mass education as an occasion for real modernisation and contributed to the great battles for the civil rights of those years, such as the struggle for the right to divorce. Going over those experiences today can be an occasion to reflect upon the fragile modernisation of Molise and a reason to go deeper into the present struggles.
Petrocelli

Molise after the 70s development model fell into crisis The model for development which had been refined after Molise had gained regional autonomy has been in crisis for about twenty years. The ruling class has yet to understand the gravity of the situation and they have to deal with the many contradictions that thwart the improvement of policies in this sector. Proposals, ideas and understanding are not lacking but should be tested and updated to make them suitable for the new diverse challenges of the global crisis. This small region has a greater disadvantage than others because of its size and because increasingly, it has to measure itself against European or interregional infrastructures and choices which require a suitable economic or political clout. The solutions hampered by the territorial dimensions are characterised by a dangerous improvisation which does not help planned future choices, especially because of the lack of certainty of the catchment area to be taken into consideration. The timings and methods used to redesign Molise follow general institutions lines but such a wait does not justify the inertia or the uncertainty of powers and of the community at local level.

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Sebastiano Martelli

25 years of fiction The Paper presents analytically the 28 titles which make up the series Authors from the South, which appeared in Edizioni Enne of Campobasso from 1981 to 2005. In line with the brave approach taken throughout in editorial policy, the series has works that represent effectively both a thread of continuity and the changes made by the social and cultural transformation seen in contemporary Molise. By careful literary criticism of the texts of new writers and well known authors as well established writers (like Francesco Jovine and Felice Del Vecchio) not only is a rich and ordered panorama sketched in which it is easy to view significant parts of the regions identity but it also gives the suitable prominence to a type of literature which, in Molise has known mature expression only after the second world war.

Valeria Cocozza

Livestock traders and farmers: notes about gypsies living in Molise between 1700 and 1800 The latest studies of historical demography are slowly rediscovering the paradigm of a sedentary lifestyle. The population was not immobile. There were different mobility patterns, therefore, it could be defined as a regional endemic mobility, that cannot be fixed into a specific pattern: either mobility or immobility. The study analyzes the complementarity between mobility and immobility of a group of gypsies, who were important cattle traders in the fairs of Southern Italy in the XVIII and XIX centuries. Their mobility was limited in space and concerned short or long periods, making them become part of the local fair economy. In this sense, their mobility was not affected by anthropological factors or exclusion, but was instrumental to the activities that they themselves chose to carry out. The obligationes penes acta have represented a privileged point of view and a starting point to trace the profiles of some gypsies, such as their experiences and their social integrations with other populations. They moved across Molise and the surrounding regions following the rhythm of fairs. Through the study of their activities, their movements, their genealogy we have reconstructed some models of cultural, social and economic integration.

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Rossano Pazzagli professore associato di storia moderna presso la Facolt di Economia dellUniversit del Molise e direttore dellIstituto di Ricerca sul Territorio e lAmbiente Leonardo di Pisa. autore di numerose pubblicazioni di storia economia e sociale e fa parte della redazione di Ricerche storiche e di Locus. Rivista di cultura del territorio, oltrech cel direttivo di Glocale. Roberto Parisi insegna Storia della citt e del paesaggio e Storia del patrimonio industriale presso lUniversit del Molise. Visiting Professor nel 2003 presso lUniversit di Marsiglia Aix-en-Provence, dal 2007 vicepresidente dellAipai, Associazione Italiana per il Patrimonio Archeologico Industriale. Attualmente direttore scientifico della rivista Patrimonio Industriale, membro del Comitato di Direzione di Ricerche Storiche e del Comitato direttivo di Glocale. Ha svolto ricerche in ambito nazionale e internazionale sulla storia dellarchitettura e del territorio, con particolare riguardo alledilizia storica di carattere produttivo, alle infrastrutture del paesaggio, alliconografia della citt, alle trasformazioni urbane e territoriali indotte dal processo di industrializzazione nel Mezzogiorno dItalia. Tra le sue principali e pi recenti pubblicazioni: Ferrovie e tranvie in Campania. Dalla Napoli-Portici alla Metropolitana regionale, Giannini, Napoli 2006 (con F. Assante, M. de Luca, G. Muto, S. de Majo); Percorsi del Patrimonio Industriale in Italia, Crace, Perugia 2008 (con M. Ramello); Paesaggi del lavoro in Molise. Itinerari culturali tra storia e valorizzazione, Aracne, Roma 2009. Gabriella Corona primo ricercatore presso lIstituto di studi sulle societ del Mediterraneo del Cnr di Napoli dove coordina il gruppo di ricerca Le risorse naturali e le fonti storiche. Dirige Global Environment. A Journal of History and Natural and Social sciences ed condirettore de I frutti di Demetra. membro delle redazione di Meridiana e di Glocale. Oltre a numerosi saggi di storia dellagricoltura e dellambiente su riviste e volumi collettanei nazionali ed internazionali, ha pubblicato: Demani ed individualismo agrario nel Regno di Napoli, Esi, Napoli 1995; I ragazzi del piano. Napoli e le ragioni dellambientalismo urbano, Donzelli, Roma 2007; (con D. Fortini), Rifiuti. Una questione non risolta, XL edizioni, Roma 2010. Ha curato (con P. Bevilacqua) Ambiente e risorse nel Mezzogiorno contemporaneo, Meridiana libri, Corigliano calabro 2000 e (con S. Neri Serneri), Storia e ambiente, Carocci, Roma 2007. Gino Massullo storico della societ rurale italiana. Ha pubblicato numerosi studi dedicati al storia del mondo contadino relativi alle tecniche agrarie, la propriet fondiaria e la riforma agraria, lemigrazione. Molte anche le sue

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pubblicazioni riguardanti il Molise, tra cui si ricordano Storia del Molise, Laterza 2000 e Storia del Molise in et contemporanea, Donzelli 2006, da lui curate e scritte insieme ad altri studiosi. stato membro del comitato esecutivo dellImes e del comitato di redazione di Meridiana. Divide da sempre il suo tempo di lavoro tra didattica e ricerca; ha insegnato in diverse scuole medie e nelle universit Sapienza e Roma Tre; ha tenuto corsi in universit straniere. Attualmente dirigente scolastico in un istituto romano. Rosa Maria Fanelli, professore aggregato presso la facolt di Economia dellUniversit degli Studi del Molise, insegna Economia delle aziende agroindustriali e Economia e sociologia delle aziende agroalimentari presso la stessa facolt. autrice di circa quaranta pubblicazioni su tematiche che da anni sono oggetto dei suoi studi: il sistema agroalimentare, il commercio con lestero dei prodotti agroalimentari, i sistemi agricoli territoriali, i consumi alimentari, le filiere agroalimentari, la qualit e la sicurezza alimentare. Buona parte di tali pubblicazioni riguarda il Molise. stata titolare di quattro borse di studio, ha conseguito il titolo di Dottore di ricerca in Economia e politica agraria presso lUniversit degli Studi di Siena e il Master in Economia agraria presso il Centro di Studi e Ricerche Economico Agrarie per il Mezzogiorno di Portici (Na). Ilenia Pasquetti ha vinto una borsa di ricerca presso lIstituto regionale per gli studi storici del Molise V. Cuoco di Campobasso. Ha conseguito il Master scientifico-culturale in Conservazione, gestione e valorizzazione del Patrimonio industriale istituito dallUniversit di Padova, dallo IUAV di Venezia e dal Politecnico di Torino e la Laurea in Lettere presso lUniversit di Roma La Sapienza, discutendo una tesi in Storia contemporanea con il prof. Giovanni Sabbatucci. Marinangela Bellomo si laureata in Scienze Turistiche presso lUniversit degli Studi Del Molise e specializzata in Progettazione e Gestione dei Sistemi Turistici presso lUniversit degli Studi di Teramo. Attualmente tesoriere dellAIPAI, Associazione Italiana per il Patrimonio Archeologico Industriale e collabora alla cattedra di Storia della citt e del paesaggio e di Storia del patrimonio industriale allUniversit degli Studi del Molise. Ha partecipato alla realizzazione dellAtlante delle emergenze culturali del Molise a cura del Centro di Cultura dellAteneo molisano. autrice di Tra monti e mare. Appunti per una storia della promozione turistica del Molise nel periodo fascista, Almanacco Del Molise 2011, Il Molise nel Ventennio storia, cultura, societ, Habacus Editore, Campobasso 2011. Angelo Presenza ricercatore in Organizzazione aziendale presso lUniversit degli Studi G. DAnnunzio di Chieti-Pescara, dove insegna Progettazione organizzativa. Collabora anche con lUniversit degli Studi del Molise dove

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insegna Event management presso il corso di laurea specialistica in Archeologia, Beni culturali e Turismo e partecipa alle attivit di ricerca del Centro Studi sui Sistemi Turistici. laureato in Economia del Turismo e ha il titolo di dottore di ricerca in Organizzazione, Tecnologia e Sviluppo delle Risorse Umane. Svolge attivit di ricerca sui temi del turismo con particolare riferimento al destination management e allanalisi degli stakeholder. Ha pubblicato, tra laltro, con Antonio Minguzzi, Destination building. Teorie e pratiche per il management della destinazione turistica, Franco Angeli, Milano 2010. Maria Iarossi, dottore di ricerca in Storia economica, funzionario tecnico presso larea storica del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Gestionali e Sociali dellUniversit degli Studi del Molise. Studiosa delleconomia molisana fra Otto e Novecento, tra i suoi lavori: Mercato e commercio tra Otto e Novecento, in Gino Massullo (a cura di), Storia del Molise in et contemporanea, Donzelli, Roma 2006; Le acque minerali in Molise tra passato e presente, in Ilaria Zilli (a cura di), Il turismo tra teoria e prassi, Esi, Napoli 2007; Strade e ferrovie, in Roberto Parisi, Ilaria Zilli (a cura di), Il patrimonio industriale in Molise. Itinerari di un censimento in corso, Crace, Terni 2011. Letizia Bindi professore di Antropologia Culturale e Antropologia del Turismo presso lUniversit degli Studi del Molise. Si formata a Roma La Sapienza, presso lE.H.E.S.S. di Parigi e alla Johns Hopkins University di Baltimora (USA). Ha insegnato presso la facolt di Sociologia dellUniversit di Roma La Sapienza, lUniversit Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli, lUniversit degli Studi di Trieste. Da molti anni collabora alla progettazione e realizzazione di programmi radiofonici basati sugli archivi delle Teche RAI e su cicli di trasmissioni di interesse storico e antropologico. Da questa esperienza di lavoro derivato il volume Bandiere Antenne Campanili. Comunit immaginate nello specchio dei media, Roma 2005. Dal 2005 la sua ricerca etnografica si concentrata in Molise con particolare riferimento al sistema festivo e cerimoniale di questa regione e sulle strategie di patrimonializzazione dei beni culturali immateriali. Autrice di numerosi contributi nazionali e internazionali, ha pubblicato Volatili Misteri. Festa e citt a Campobasso e altre divagazioni immateriali, Roma 2009, vincitore del Premio Scanno dello stesso anno per la sezione Tradizioni Popolari. Paolo di Laura Frattura presidente della Camera di commercio di Campobasso e di Unioncamere Molise dal 2003. Architetto libero professionista, sin da subito ha mostrato interesse per lattivit dimpresa impegnandosi nei settori dellingegneria, dellimmobiliare e dellenergia da fonti rinnovabili. Segue direttamente diverse societ operanti proprio in questi settori. Al vertice del sistema camerale molisano che fa della propria modernit il punto di

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partenza per lo sviluppo competitivo del territorio, attualmente ricopre anche gli incarichi di Amministratore Unico di Mondimpresa Agenzia per la mondializzazione dellimpresa S.c.a.r.l. e di presidente del Patto Territoriale per lOccupazione del Matese. Massimiliano Crisci ricercatore presso lIstituto di ricerche sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Ipps-Cnr), si occupa di studi di popolazione, con particolare interesse alla variabilit territoriale con cui si sviluppano le dinamice demografiche. I suoi interessi si concentrano soprattutto sulla mobilit territoriale, linvecchiamento della popolazione e lo studio della demografia dellarea romana. Per il Molise autore di Migrazioni oggi: tra emigrazione persistente e immigrazione straniera, in Gino Massullo, a cura di, Storia del Molise, Donzelli, Roma 2006; Recenti tendenze della mobilit territoriale in Renato Lalli, Norberto Lombardi, Giorgio Palmieri, Campobasso capoluogo del Molise, Campobasso 2008 (entrambi con Oliviero Casacchia). Norberto Lombardi, dopo unattivit di insegnamento nelle scuole superiori e una prolungata esperienza istituzionale e politica in Molise, negli ultimi decenni si dedicato ai rapporti con gli italiani allestero e alla conoscenza dellemigrazione molisana, visitando direttamente e ripetutamente le comunit dorigine formatesi in ogni parte del mondo. stato fondatore e coordinatore internazionale del Forum per gli italiani nel mondo, fa parte del Consiglio Generale degli Italiani allestero, stato componente della Commissione nazionale per la promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo, ha contribuito alliniziale progetto del Museo dellemigrazione italiana. Ha promosso il Centro di studi sui molisani nel mondo, operante presso la Biblioteca provinciale P. Albino di Campobasso, di cui uno dei coordinatori, e cura tre collane editoriali dedicate alle migrazioni presso leditore Cosmo Iannone. Ha pubblicato diversi saggi sulla storia dellemigrazione italiana e soprattutto molisana, sui musei delle migrazioni, sulla transumanza ed stato di recente uno dei curatori di unopera in tre volumi sulla storia di Campobasso. Edilio Petrocelli ha studiato Storia dellArte, Sociologia e Giornalismo. stato consigliere regionale e deputato. Ha scritto su LUnit, Il Bene Comune, Urbanistica informazioni, Op. Cit., Riforma della scuola, Cooperazione educativa, Corriere del Molise, Molise oggi, Il Mattino, Proposte molisane. Ha collaborato alla Storia del Molise, Donzelli 2006. Alcune sue monografie sono: Il divenire del paesaggio molisano, Campobasso 1984, Il Molise nelle immagini cartografiche, Isernia 1995. Ha curato: Dallautonomia territoriale al sistema Molise 1799-2007: dossier, Campobasso 2007; Civilt della

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transumanza, Isernia 1999, Pinocchio contro Pinoccchio (Saggio sulla disobbedienza e il conformismo), Campobasso 1981; Dossier sulla istituzione della Provincia di Isernia, Isernia 1992. Sebastiano Martelli professore ordinario di Letteratura italiana presso lUniversit degli studi di Salerno. stato visiting professor presso le universit di Rennes, Johannesburg, Albany e Stony Brook-New York. condirettore della rivista Misure critiche, Associate Editor di Forum Italicum (Universit di Stony Brook-New York), fa parte del Comitato scientifico della Rivista di studi italiani (Universit di Toronto) e di Studi di Italianistica nellAfrica Australe (University of South Africa), della redazione di Gradiva (Universit di Stony Brook-New York), del Comitato direttivo di Glocale. Dirige la collana Mappe/letteratura delleditore Laveglia e, insieme a Piero Bevilacqua, la collana Segnature per leditore Avagliano. Fa parte del Direttivo e dellEsecutivo dellAdi, Associazione degli Italianisti italiani. Ha pubblicato numerosi saggi e volumi dedicati alla circolazione delle idee illuministiche nellItalia meridionale, al dibattito culturale e alla letteratura degli anni cinquanta del Novecento, alla letteratura italiana di emigrazione con particolare attenzione alla produzione in Italiano degli scrittori italo-americani. Valeria Cocozza, dopo aver conseguito la laurea specialistica in Scienze dei beni archeologici e artistici presso lUniversit degli Studi del Molise, dal 2010 sta svolgendo presso la medesima Universit il corso di Dottorato di ricerca in Storia della societ Italiana (XIV-XIX secolo). Gi cultore della materia in Storia del Mezzogiorno dItalia nella facolt di Scienze Umane e Sociali della stessa Universit, da tempo si sta dedicando allo studio della storia del Regno di Napoli nella prima et moderna.

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