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Old, Lost, and Forgotten Rural Materialities: Old Local Irrigation Channels and Lost Local Walking Trails

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  • Angel Paniagua

    (IPP, CSIC, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, 28037 Madrid, Spain)

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Geo-historical studies have essentially focused on analyzing the historical evolution of the landscape and the processes of material resistance of rural landscapes against the dynamics of rural change. Historical landscapes are cumulative life micro-worlds. In the present contribution, the historical evolution of lost and disappeared rural roads and caceras—old local irrigation channels—is analyzed in a comparative way. The case studies were the Berbedillo river cacera system in the north of the province of Guadalajara and the Bustar path in the municipality of Bustarviejo in the province of Madrid. The methodology was based on a variety of research sources: written and archival documents, oral testimonies of the elderly, and micro-territorial recognition. The roads and caceras are lost but can continue to be represented, even if they can no longer be used for the life of rural communities. A new history of depopulation, restructuring, and loss is possible to (re)write based on spectral agrarian (im)materialities.

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  • Angel Paniagua, 2022. "Old, Lost, and Forgotten Rural Materialities: Old Local Irrigation Channels and Lost Local Walking Trails," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:8:p:1358-:d:893714
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    1. Katrín Lund, 2012. "Landscapes and Narratives: Compositions and the Walking Body," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(2), pages 225-237.
    2. Simon Swaffield & J�rgen Primdahl, 2014. "Editorial: Pathways towards Local Scale Policy Integration in Agricultural Landscapes," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(2), pages 101-106, April.
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    1. Veronika Peřinková & Hana Vavrouchová & David Kovařík & Tomáš Mašíček & Antonín Vaishar & Milada Šťastná, 2022. "Extinct Settlements and Their Reflection in the Land-Use Changes and Historical Landscape Elements," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-17, December.

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