Spaces of resilience: Irpinia 1980, Abruzzo 2009, in Sociologia urbana e rurale 111. 2016, pp. 64-83 ( ISSN 0392-4939)

Focusing on the 1980 and 2009 Italian earthquakes, the essay proposes an analysis of the social dynamics taking place in the crater areas. The study considers two levels: one refers to the Mayors in charge at the time of the events and the other to the people who lived the earthquakes. The capability of local societies to create organized forms of interaction will be also investigated. We will reconstruct actors point of view through the individual and collective memory of the events. The essay highlights the effects of different strategies of disaster’s governace on territories and local communities.