WHAT IS INPACT?
INPACT is a project funded by the European Union through a Marie Curie Action-Individual Fellowship Grant which aims to investigate how the relationship between local communities and their environment changed as rural areas became industrialized, by analysing material evidence from archaeological and environmental perspectives.
The project will question the concept of ‘modernity’ as a one-way passage from ‘traditional’ to ‘modern’ societies, in which rural landscapes and societies are seen as passive subjects rather than active agents of change.
The project’s basic hypothesis is that the process of industrialization entailed a complex process of transformation of the rural communities involved, with a far-reaching local and material dimension that has thus far been undervalued, but played a key role in creating and reproducing social and gender inequalities and in the transformation of the landscape. INPACT is carried out by Carlos Tejerizo-García at the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (LASA), at the Università degli Studi in Genoa (UniGe).
