Value in post-conflict landscapes

Paola Filippucci

Chapter 2 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 14-18 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Applying notions of ‘value’ to spaces and landscapes transformed through the agency of war destruction and the subsequent reconstruction is a complex intervention. At first sight, mass destruction and mass death turn them into sites of disvalue, however, this entry argues that mass violence towards land and landscape transforms people's ability to derive value(s) from them in profound and perhaps indelible ways. The example of the Western Front is used to demonstrate that war destruction can, in fact, intensify the production of value through landscape, including material, commodity value and immaterial, symbolic values. If war destruction is regarded as one of the ways in which political violence is inscribed, it can be argued that it alters landscape's identity enduringly and over the long term.

Keywords: Value; Landscape; War; Mass destruction; Post-conflict; Violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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