Il 10 e l’11 novembre 2022 si è tenuto a Firenze il convegno internazionale Cultural Heritage in Fragile Contexts. Development Cooperation in Afghanistan and Neighboring Countries, un momento di confronto tra ricercatori e operatori della cooperazione sulle relazioni tra tutela del patrimonio culturale e possibili attivazioni di processi di sviluppo sostenibile in contesti fragili. Le discussioni svoltesi in quell’occasione e le ricerche sul terreno, soprattutto in Afghanistan, sono all’origine del libro.

Marginal places and resistance in the filmography of Djibril Diop Mambéty. – The filmography of Djibril Diop Mambéty allows reflection on the manner in which urban Senegal takes part in the narrative through a form of decolonial representation. The director focuses on the peripheries of Dakar, a territory marked by colonialism. As the camera explores the urban environment, images and sound become instruments with which to control heterotopic spaces. By redirecting power through a painful negotiation between colonial legacy and a new, deviant focus, these tools show the irreducible otherness of places within the filmic discourse. Mambéty’s critical gaze is also manifested through his protagonists, who belong to a human universe that remains on the fringes of society. These are subaltern figures who, through their sense of se débrouiller, implement practices of resistance within a social and territorial framework permeat-ed by the informal economy.

Hyper-places. The new geography of globalization