In:Borderscapes: The de/construction of borders as an everyday practice in contemporary Italy
Stefania Tufi
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 58] 2026
► pp. 161–199
Chapter 6Writing the Self, writing the landscape
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Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2The regional contexts
- 6.2.1The Ladin valleys
- 6.2.2South Tyrol
- 6.3Theoretical perspectives
- 6.3.1Writing the Self as a diffractive approach to research
- 6.3.2Affect and materiality
- 6.4Methodology
- 6.5Writing the Self, writing the landscape
- 6.5.1Growing up in Ladin
- Keeping Ladin alive
- The duty of survival
- S.’s hupomnemata
- The materiality of memories
- Recomposing valley subjectivities
- 6.5.2Italian as the object of desire
- Advocating border undoings
- A.’s hupomnemata
- Moving out of place, moving out of fear
- 6.5.3Landscapes of affect
- 6.5.1Growing up in Ladin
- 6.6Conclusion
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