The seminar aims at developing a comparative analysis among different narratives on inner areas, evaluating their impact on legal and political lexicon. Italian “inner areas” will serve as a case study. Given that specific strategies to combat depopulation in vulnerable territories have integrated social and territorial cohesion policies, a range of initiatives have enriched the narratives surrounding inner areas. Discourses on naturalistic landscapes, villages and historical heritage ultimately reflects different approaches to territorial cohoesion, to the promotion of regional develpment and to the contrast of depopulation.
Luisa Corazza is full professor of Labour Law at the University of Molise, where she currently directs the Research Centre for Inner Areas and Appennines (ArIA, Centro di Ricerche sulle Aree interne e gli Appennini). Since 2015, she is the Special Advisor for social affairs of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
After obtaining her PhD at the University of Bologna in 1998, she has been visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2000-2001) and worked as research fellow at the University of Trento (2001-2003) and Bologna (2004-2006). She is author of four books, edited four volumes, and published several articles in national and international journals (in Italian, English, German, Spanish and French language).