Dalla remoteness all’attrattività turistica. Un’analisi di discorsi nazionali e locali sulle aree interne

Considering the processes of territorialization as an interweaving of material and symbolic aspects, the article discusses how the National Strategy for Inner Peripheries has initiated a new season of discourse and intervention on these territories. Based on the Foucauldian concept of discourse, the article analyses the Strategy guidelines, discussing how these territories are signified between a certain vision of peripherality - or remoteness - and of tourist attractiveness. Finally, the discourses of some mayors of the inner peripheries - partly collected in the fieldwork, in the Sicani area in Sicily - are considered to understand how they relate to the imaginary codified by the Strategy.