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Moroccan Dreams: Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy
No full textMorocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by travellers, explorers, writers and artists. It is just these images and imaginings that are now being reconstructed for nostalgic consumption. In Moroccan Dreams, Claudio Minca examines this aestheticised re-enactment of the colonial, exploring the ways in which Moroccans themselves have become complicit in the re-writing of their homes and lives. Richly illustrated, the book provides a fascinating journey that will engage and delight all those enamoured of Morocco and its extraordinary geographies
“A Healthy Person is a Happy Person”. Biopolitical Reflections on the Promotion of Favignana as a COVID-free Island
No full textThis chapter discusses the experiment of ‘COVID-free’ island, promoted as an enclavic immunised space by the Italian government during the pandemic. The idea of an experimental tourist community placed in an enclavic space located on an island draws from a long tradition of tourist ‘laboratories’ in which tourist bodies may be closely governed and monitored. In a time in which ‘COVID-free’ spaces and travel corridors have become a new putative horizon to be explored by the relevant industry, some islands have been advertised as potentially shielded from contamination and available for close and continuous monitoring of individual and collective behavior of ‘the guests’ and their move-ments. As the analysis of the island of Favignana developed in this chapter demonstrates, the attempt to promote this destination as an immunized COVID-free space has resulted in the arrival of an almost unmonitored mass of tourists in the summer 2021, in a relatively poor respect of the protective measures and in the exposure of the tourist workers to the frequent possibility of been contaminated
Exploring Biopolitical Tourism Spatialities in Pandemic Times
No full textThis chapter briefly discusses how biopolitics has been variously conceptualized in social theory and how biopolitics relates to tourism. Reflecting on the outbreak and development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the chapter also provides a critical review of the literature on the role of tourism as a key form of governance that impacts contem-porary politics of mobility. The chapter concludes with an outline of the structure of the book
Tourism and tourism studies: 25 years of 'thinking-alike', from Calgary to Tokyo
No full textThis paper aims at celebrating Professor Kazuo Murakami’s retirement by reflecting on some of the key research themes that during his career he has shared with the author. Writing in a deliberately biographical mode, the article recalls some of the key passages of their collaboration and put them in relation to the development of their respective research interest. From the early conversations in Calgary about Banff, to the most recent encounters in the Netherlands, this brief essay discusses how the engagement with tourism as a source of social transformation and as an analytical framework to interpret broader cultural change may be identified as the red thread accompanying 25 years of fruitful and exciting collaboration
Walking the Balkan Route. The archipelago of refugee camps in Serbia
No full textThis chapter is focussed on the ways in which Serbia has responded to th refugee crises in 2015 , and in particular on how its archipelago of refugee camps has played, and continues to play at present, a fundamental role in the country’s provision of humanitarian aid to the flow of migrants entering from its southern borders in their attempt to move to the European Union. Serbia, during the time in which the Balkan informal route was open, has become a key transit country, with its capital Belgrade playing the role of major transportation hub in this new geography of mobility across the Balkan region
Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the project of a spatial history
No full textReview of 'Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the project of a spatial history ' by Stuart Elden (2001). London: Continuum
Thinking space
No full textReview of 'Thinking Space', edited by Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift (2000). London: Routledge
Touring
No full textIl presente articolo è un contributo alla riflessione geografica sull’evoluzione del turismo contemporaneo. Nel mondo moderno, sempre più improntato alla mobilità, analizzare il viaggio nelle sue varie forme significa analizzare la natura stessa della teoria moderna e, in un certo senso, della geografia moderna. Il soggetto moderno che viaggia costruisce la propria identità attraverso le quotidiane pratiche di viaggio. Turismo e viaggio rappresentano dunque fondamentali processi di formazione dell’identità soggettiva, processi che si sviluppano attraverso una serie di tensioni e paradossi propri delle “materialità” e delle prassi del moderno viaggiare. I comportamenti dei turisti, di chi “visita” e di chi “è visitato”, la loro idea di “qui” e di “altrove”, le tensioni tra standardizzazione e differenza, tra dimensione esistenziale e dimensione logistico-organizzativa del viaggio, tra rappresentazione e pratica, tra “vita reale” ed esperienza turistica, tra mobilità e immobilità, tra turismo e terrorismo sono tutti aspetti fondamentali per comprendere come il turismo oggi contribuisca in modo significativo a formare le nostre identità collettive attraverso una continua ridefinizione dei confini tra ciò che è “appartenenza” e “casa” e ciò che non lo è
Tra cosmopolis e nazione
No full textThis article analyzes the relationship between the concepts of cosmopolis and nation, inspired by recent theoretical reflection within the fields of postcolonial and cultural studies. In particular, it focuses on the need for - and on the implications of - a novel way of understanding the cosmopolitan subject and a reconceived cosmopolitan project. While addressing the geographical dimensions of cosmopolis, it also argues that a cosmopolitan city ought to be theorised as a limes, a threshold in the definition of "the political", but also as both a metaphorical and a material space; as a modern laboratory where an endless negotiation over the nature and the functioning of the very principles of citizenship and cultural identity takes place
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