‘Landscape of exception’: Power inequalities and ethical planning challenges in the landscape transformation of south-eastern Sicily

IF 3.4 2区经济学 Q1 REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING

Planning Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-06 DOI:10.1177/14730952211000400

Francesco Lo Piccolo, Vincenzo Todaro

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Abstract

In some marginal contexts of Southern Italy, in light of specific economic, political and social conditions, certain relationships between ‘strong powers’ and ‘weak powers’ produce a suspension of norms/rights that is, paradoxically, ‘normalised’. This creates a particular spatial variation of Agamben’s (2005) state of exception concept: the ‘landscape of exception’. With respect to the possible conditions of ‘exception’, this article describes the ‘landscape of exception’ of the greenhouse system in South-Eastern Sicily. This ‘landscape of exception’ is generated by the greenhouses, in particular those dedicated to vegetable production, through an effective mechanism of spatial manipulation of the landscape and social control of migrant workers. In relation to these considerations, this work reflects on the ethical challenges and responsibilities of planning, highlighting (explicit and latent) conflicts and power inequalities in the ‘landscapes of exception’, where issues of environmental sustainability, social justice and the suspension of norms are closely intertwined.

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“例外景观”:西西里岛东南部景观转型中的权力不平等和伦理规划挑战

在意大利南部的一些边缘环境中，鉴于特定的经济、政治和社会条件，“强国”和“弱国”之间的某些关系产生了规范/权利的暂停，这是矛盾的，“正常化”。这创造了Agamben(2005)的例外状态概念的特殊空间变化:“例外景观”。关于“例外”的可能条件，本文描述了西西里岛东南部温室系统的“例外景观”。这种“例外景观”是由温室，特别是那些专门用于蔬菜生产的温室，通过对景观的空间操纵和农民工的社会控制的有效机制产生的。与这些考虑相关，这项工作反映了规划的伦理挑战和责任，突出了“例外景观”中的(明确的和潜在的)冲突和权力不平等，其中环境可持续性，社会正义和暂停规范的问题紧密交织在一起。

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