Un'allegoria mistificata / A mystified allegory

In the industrial age, and particularly during the 20th century, a change of scale took place in terms of the impact of productive activities on the territory. The world, in its complex manifestation, was contaminated (Moore, 2015; Jarrrige and Le Roux, 2017). An environmental disparity remains, however, and while territories have inherited soils that are degraded, infrastructures that are potentially dangerous, the typology itself of these toxic legacies varies greatly (Keil, 2020; Pessina, 2022). So, what are the local specificities of these “negative commons” (Bennholdt-Thomsen and Mies, 2001)? How are they perceived by the various local, or even regional and national, players? How is the situation managed and transmitted as an inheritance to the future?