Abstract
The emerging local development approach is centred on categories such asthose of governance, network, activation, and trust. This change in the developmentdiscourse can be intended as an attempt to give political relevance tothe local ruling networks while making civil society responsible. The authorsbuild from the actor-oriented perspective as defined by Norman Long, in orderto compare the rhetoric of the local government network, and the coping practicesdeveloped by a specific category of actors: self-employed workers andsmall entrepreneurs active in sectors - traditional craftsmanship, wellness,tourism - seen as relevant for the post-industrial development in a peripheralregion of southern Italy, namely Irpinia.
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