Tracce di cosmopolitismo e costruzioni di identità nel mondo minerario sardo = Traces of cosmopolitanism and constructions of identity in the Sardinian mining world

Felice Tiragallo

2022-01-01

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Abstract

In the Sardinian mining districts, during the 20th century, important dynamics of social, material and cultural integration took place. Many of the protagonists of life in the lead-zinc mines of the Iglesias area, or in the coal mines of Serbariu, Seruci and Nuraxi Figus, came from outside, with life plans that were sometimes intentional, sometimes the result of fortuitous choices. Among their communities Iglesias and Carbonia, were made up of people of different origins. They animated ties with deep and lasting traces. Miners’ voices studied here, can begin to establish a discourse on these biographical singularities, linked to the great mechanism of homologation of the cultural dialectics of the modern mine as a producer of economic meaning, social relations and power, and new collective cultural identities.