Insularity, Mongiu: "It's the solution, not the problem."

"Insularity as self-determination, in a Sardinia where even "traditions are reduced to a spectacle," says Maria Antonietta Mongiu.

The antiquarian. A long-time intellectual and scholar. A Commander a year ago by order of Sergio Mattarella. And before that, in 2017, an Officer of Merit for scientific and cultural reasons. "We are in the phase of self-colonization," is one of the steps in the reasoning that sees geography as an opportunity.

From today for tomorrow. The perspective is reversed. Insularity is no longer just the cause of slow development, but above all becomes the solution. The path to salvation. Even with respect to that decay of the times traced outside Sardinia. By the OECD Pisa, to be precise.

And the international survey that measures the skills of fifteen-year-old students. "Our island is last in Europe." In the middle of the Mediterranean, with Cagliari as its capital.

Alessandra Carta's interview in L'Unione Sarda, on newsstands and on the Digital App today.