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Dimoranza: Manifesto for a Ubiquitous Civilization

Dimoranza: Manifesto for a Ubiquitous Civilization

Cervadoro, Luca

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN13: 9798184018485
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 24 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is a word the English language had not yet pronounced. Now it exists.

DIMORANZA is the condition by which a place keeps inhabiting a person from within, and their children, and their children's children, across the ocean and across the centuries. It is not nostalgia, and it is not exile. It is the quiet power of a small town to write its own code into the nervous system of all who descend from it, even those who have never seen it.

In this ambitious treatise, the fruit of ten years of research, Luca Cervadoro argues that the small villages of Italy, and of every land touched by emigration, are not dying peripheries but identity servers, always running, in the lives of millions of descendants scattered across the world. From a single town in Calabria, Maida, he builds a theory that speaks to anyone who has ever felt they belong to a place they cannot fully explain.

Across ten essays, DIMORANZA moves from the senses to the soul:

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