摘要：The "chestnut civilization" is often used to qualify agrarian inland Corsica. Based on a criticalreview of historical sources and research on present dynamics, we show how this "civilization" has builtup on a long series of resistance and adaptation to external political forces, from Genovese and Frenchdomination up to the present period of independence claims. The construction of the castagnetu, the Corsicanchestnut (Castanea sativa mill.) forest, as a social-ecological system is based on a constantly evolvingcompromise between wild and domestic attributes, but also on socio-political resistance, incorporation,and innovation. We argue that the castagnetu's resilience, beyond its social-ecological qualities and itseconomic profitability, is closely linked to a constant incorporation of identity and cultural values intochestnut trees and gardens, but also to the role assigned to the castagnetu by its supporters in the politicalpositioning of their relations to both central power and outside actors
关键词：chestnut; Corsica; political ecology; resilience; social-ecological systems
