TY - CHAP
T1 - Landscape of Exception as Spatialand Social Interaction Between High-Quality Agricultural Production and Immigrant Labour Exploitation
AU - Lo Piccolo, Francesco
AU - Todaro, Vincenzo
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This Chapter analyses the spatial and social interaction phenomena between high-quality agricultural production and immigrant labour exploita- tion that produce the landscape of exception, a particular declination of the Agambenian (2005) “state of exception” concept. The landscape of exception construction mechanism is generated within South-Eastern Sicily through the productive system of greenhouses, finalised to the vegetables production. Green- houses, in particular, represent an effective tool for spatial manipulation over the landscape and social control of migrant workers. In relation to these considerations, this work reflects on ethical challenges and dilemmas of planning, highlighting (both explicit and latent) conflicts and power inequalities in the landscapes of exception, where issues of social justice, environmental sustainability and suspension of norms are strictly intertwined.
AB - This Chapter analyses the spatial and social interaction phenomena between high-quality agricultural production and immigrant labour exploita- tion that produce the landscape of exception, a particular declination of the Agambenian (2005) “state of exception” concept. The landscape of exception construction mechanism is generated within South-Eastern Sicily through the productive system of greenhouses, finalised to the vegetables production. Green- houses, in particular, represent an effective tool for spatial manipulation over the landscape and social control of migrant workers. In relation to these considerations, this work reflects on ethical challenges and dilemmas of planning, highlighting (both explicit and latent) conflicts and power inequalities in the landscapes of exception, where issues of social justice, environmental sustainability and suspension of norms are strictly intertwined.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/481196
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-030-64468-0
T3 - UNIPA SPRINGER SERIES
SP - 147
EP - 164
BT - Urban Regionalisation Processes : Governance of Post-Urban Phenomena in Sicily
ER -