Distruzione, ricostruzione, memoria. La catastrofe come mito fondativo ed evento costitutivo di un nuovo ordine temporale

Abstract

Using research into post-disaster new towns in Italy as a starting point, this paper is a reflection on the relationship between destructive events and the social groups affected by them. In particular, this relationship is investigated with relation to collective memory, in other words, the complex relationship we have with the past, and that occurs within a community following and as a result of the destruction and trauma caused by a catastrophic event. Disasters reshape the history of the group and establish a new temporal order, so that this becomes the new pivotal point which corresponds to the disruption of the spatial coordinates caused by the disaster itself, as well as by the actual relocation of the inhabited space.