Moral Structures: the Value of Place in Contemporary Basque Poetry (I)

Abstract

This paper introduces an inquiry launched in 2014 in the Basque Country. The research question concerns the value attached to landscape, understood broadly as a territorial configuration that can be experienced in everyday life and art. Action-research is used to capture some ethically relevant themes in selected contemporary poems written in Basque and selected by a participatory procedure. The paper describes the theoretical background and methodology; the results will be fully discussed in a forthcoming publication.