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Invisible Presences and Visible Absences

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  • Michele F. Fontefrancesco

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Since 2008, Valenza, one of the World's largest jewellery production centres, has experienced a period of profound economic uncertainty. In four years, about a third of the jobs and workshops of the city were lost. The paper investigates the practices and the form of knowledge Valenza people used to speak and understand the crisis. While economic data were marginally known by the population, the crisis emerged in the words of Valenzani as a visual experience of the city landscape. 'Invisible presence' and 'visible absence' emerged as the fundamental keywords used by the community to describe the industry, its normality and change. The paper investigates these concepts, indicating the analysis of the sensorial experience and its rhetoric expression as a rich ground for an alternative, human understanding of economy. In so doing, it aims at aim at providing an example of a possible different way of writing economy that does not starts from econometric data, but from the very perception of the social life and space as experienced by its actors.

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  • Michele F. Fontefrancesco, 2015. "Invisible Presences and Visible Absences," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(5), pages 597-612, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:8:y:2015:i:5:p:597-612
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.974656
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    1. Dario Gaggio, 2007. "Introduction to In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns," Introductory Chapters, in: In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns, Princeton University Press.
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