Autore
Galiano, Angelo

Titolo
Scienza e cultura a confronto nella crisi Xylella: saperi, epistemologie e conflitto nel Sud Salento
Periodico
Cambio
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 15 - Fascicolo: 29 - Pagina iniziale: 77 - Pagina finale: 101

The article examines the Xylella fastidiosa crisis in Southern Salento as an emblematic case of knowledge conflict, in which the legitimacy of scientific expertise comes into tension with local knowledge and alternative epistemic practices. Drawing on a qualitative approach based on autoethnographic reflection and in-depth interviews with activists from the Popolo degli ulivi movement, the study explores the epistemic and political dynamics emerging at the intersection of science, media, and governance of emergency. The analysis shows how the technocratic management of the crisis – grounded in a reductionist paradigm and in the performative use of the category of "emergency" – produced the marginalization of local knowledges, while fostering a counter-narrative centered on the demand for "open" and participatory research. Through the analytical categories of cultura dell'avidità and cultura meridiana, the article interprets the conflict not merely as a scientific dispute, but as a political and symbolic confrontation between models of development, epistemic regimes, and forms of environmental justice. In this perspective, the Xylella crisis becomes an arena in which broader tensions emerge between agricultural modernization, extractivism, and the claim for a plural and territorially rooted knowledge.



SICI: 2239-1118(2025)15:29<77:SECACN>2.0.ZU;2-T
Testo completo: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/17438/14611

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