Risk and Vesuvius. Relationship between global and local
Résumé
Despite the succession of eruptive events, it has always been built and inhabited on the black earth of Vesuvius. Yet currently volcanologists, warning against the danger of a future violent eruption, underline the absence of a collective memory capable of facing the danger. The local people would no longer know what volcanic activity is and above all they would not be able to identify the signs of danger. The volcano has been dormant for fifty years now. But how can the inhabitants of the Vesuvian villages forget the presence of this "great mountain" when a series of seismic phenomena periodically remind us of the type of land they live on? The study of catastrophes proves insufficient to study this process since it is interested in the acute phases of the phenomenon, thus isolating one aspect from the complex relationship that the inhabitants have developed with their space. Instead, if we admit that the sense (meaning and value) for those who experience disasters is different from that of technical, political and administrative personnel [Signorelli, 1992] we can easily make the hypothesis that the relationship with an area at risk is different it depends on whether you study it or live it. The anthropological approach will allow us to consider the complexity of this cultural process and to understand how a long history of eruptions, rains of lapilli and ash, mud flows and lava is incorporated into the present temporality of the inhabitants