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Walking among the ghosts of colonialism. The haunting onomastic of Palermo
No full textThis article aims to reflect on the ghosts of the city of Palermo through the experience conducted during Manifesta 12: the first Great Walking Ritual against Colonialism conceived by Wu Ming 2 and the collective Fare Ala. It is a matter of reconstructing walkscapes to bring out the urban silences that surround us: a path of apprehension capable of creating, metaphorically, a feeling of fear but, at the same time, of knowledge (Careri, 2006). This state of ambiguous apprehension is revealed in the streets of the city through toponymy, and the absence or presence of symbols and signs.
This article – which follows the schematic tripartite division proposed by Vanolo (2018) – intends to reflect on a political understanding of the ghost. In particular, the idea of the ghost analyses elements of the past that are visible and, at the same time, invisible in the present
I do not intend to speak about; just speak nearby. Riflessioni di Geografia culturale per Lidia Curti
No full textThis article introduces a reflection on personal journeys, of dialogues and readings, with Lidia Curti. What is feminine writing? And, what lies behind the screen of representation? These aim at highlighting their political and positional nature within a way of thinking inspired by geographical studies and the feminist thought. So, an attempt to create the bonds for a reflection on the meaning of writing and translation, and on the sense of identity and alterity is made through the voices of authors like Morrison, Devi, and Spivak. It is in the border writing of postcolonial authors that we find a ‘space of in-between’ that allows what has been removed – a testimony of the Mediterranean matter – to emerge
Ça marche. Creare uno spazio collettivo camminando per Palermo
Full text linkThe paper analyses two marches of resistance in Palermo with references to the public space as in Goheen’s (1998) theses. In the first one, the public space gradually loses relevance and presents the citizens as consumers; in the second one, it remains an arena of the fights of those groups that claim to visibility and recognition. The itinerant ritual of Wu Ming 2 and the last Gay Pride in Palermo are the two kinds of march capable of creating collective spaces. In the former case, the itinerary has made the forgotten traces of history resurface and has linked them to our contemporary themes. In the latter, the attention to the precariousness of bodies has been claimed in a consenting Palermo. On the other hand, the institutional
politics of pedestrianisation of the historical centre, by supporting a deep transformation of the public space, have produced a population that is passive and lured by consumption.L’article analyse deux marches résistantes à Palerme et reprend la thèse de Goheen (1998) sur l’espace public. L’espace public, dans la première thèse, perd progressivement de son importance et fait des citoyens consommateurs; dans la seconde, il continue à être une arène de luttes de groupes qui revendiquent visibilité. L’article analyse le rituel de marche de Wu Ming 2 et de la Gay Pride, deux marches capables de créer des espaces collectifs. Le premier cas a mis en évidence les traces oubliées de l’histoire et les a reliées à des thèmes contemporains. Le second, l’attention sur la précarité des corps a été revendiquée dans une Palerme concernée. La contrepartie de ces « mouvements » se trouve dans les politiques institutionnelles de piétonisation du centre historique qui ont favorisé une profonde transformation de l’espace public et produit une population passive attirée par la consommation
Il brand «Palermo arabo-normanna» e le sue geografie immaginarie
No full textIn 2015, Unesco included the Arab-Norman itinerary of Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale in its list of World Heritage Sites. The application dossier states: “is the international confirmation of the beauty and cultural, artistic and historical greatness of Palermo [...] it will represent (...) a stimulus of tourism development and new economy”. The intentions of the promoting committee are immediately stated: it will be the cultural lever that will set in motion the new foundations of the experience economy (Pine e Gilmore, 1999), now dominant since the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century.
The underlying question will be “who possesses the powers of imagination – and – where they are materially deployed” (Daniels, 2011). And again, how is culture shaping our spatial imaginaries and material understandings of the landscapes around us
Introduzione. Disfigurare il genere
No full textLa mobilità come esperienza transitoria e instabile sembra avere nel concetto di genere la sua versione teorica più pregnante. Un concetto difficile perché azzera le rassicuranti categorie binarie moltiplicando i soggetti e obbligandoci a riflettere sulla fluidità delle identità. La mobilità assume, così, una dimensione politica non solo lungo le rotte di un mondo in diaspora ma anche nella sua sfera più domestica.
La call si chiede come la fluidità dei generi definisca e sfidi le rappresentazioni consolidate dei corpi, della casa, della città, aprendo verso possibili forme di ricerca che riconfigurino la mobilità e la transitorietà come chiave di lettura dell’esistenza e della relazione con lo spazio.Mobility as a transitory and unstable experience seems to have its most pregnant theoretical version in the concept of gender. A difficult concept because it eliminates the reassuring binary categories by multiplying the subjects and forcing us to reflect on the fluidity of identities. Thus mobility takes on a political dimension not only along the routes of a world in diaspora but also in its more domestic sphere.
The call asks how the fluidity of genres defines and challenges the consolidated representations of bodies, the house, the city, opening towards possible forms of research that reconfigure mobility and transience as a key to understanding existence and the relationship with space
Between Wakes and Waves: An Anti-Geopolitical View of a Postcolonial Mediterranean Space
No full textThe Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay aims to explore the Mediterranean Sea as a geopolitical space of conflict and dominion through the lens of border and diasporic studies, and to look for those voices coming from “the colonial” as a process that put in crisis the Western hegemonic narration. In this postcolonial and diasporic sea, different powers, interests, dominions, but also voices, dissonances, trajectories, coexist and intersect. Following Paul Gilroy’s argument in The Black Atlantic, today the Mediterranean is both a reduced Middle Passage with the migrant’s routes, and a counter-archive of the contemporaneity. Indeed, the old mare nostrum, as it has always been thought by the Western eye, is a geopolitical laboratory where the contemporary capitalism experiments his necropower in the name of the Nation-State, and where the Fortress Europe exercises its killability extended through borders, walls, confinement, racial devices. The image of a black man left for days floating dead in July 2020 represents the all Mediterranean left-to-die boats; it speaks for the comeback of the removal: the colonial past. In this crossing, the Black Mediterranean let emerge the deep relationship always existed between Africa and Europe.
“The sea is history” wrote Derek Walcott. The Mediterranean Sea is indeed also an open and fluid archive of migrants’ stories, lives and narratives, too long dehumanized and turned into mere numbers, deprived of their identities and their names. This counter-archive can interrupt the dominant and hegemonic narration of that part of world that let “the colonial” drawing on the Mediterranean Sea. The right to narrate means the right to be: literature is in this sense the key to have access to the narratives of today’s migration, a pris-de-mot to deconstruct “the danger of the single story”. In this scenario, a new Afroitalian awareness is raising with the aim to subvert the Italian gaze about its colonial history. Some of these writers, mostly women, through their narratives, their arts, their activism, let emerge those Black Italy voices which are silenced and removed
Per un rinnovato ruolo pubblico della geografia: una premessa al Manifesto
No full textThe debate on the public role of Geography in Italy has been reopened after the presentation in Padua of a "manifesto" that makes the Italian version of "public geography" coincide with the so-called "third mission". The contribution proposes a different approach to the issue, one that privileges diversity and openness in the face of a perspective of narrowing relations within the discipline and between it and 'civil societ
"Conclusion. Turbulences urbaines: outil de lecture et métaphore du montage"
No full textLe città odierne sono strette continuamente tra due estremi: salvaguardare le perenità o favorire le metamorfosi. Le turbolenze che la città subisce/agisce ci hanno da tempo abituato a pensare l''urbano senza ordine anche se questo ci continua a provocare disorientamento.Bisogna, dunque, immaginare che le perennità non sono sinonimo di immobilismo piuttosto è necessario riflettere sugli attori che entrano in gioco in modo da comprendere le strategie e le finalità di cui questi attori sono portatori. Uno strumento utile per studiare la città contemporanea è quello della metafora del montaggio. Il montaggio a cui si fa riferimento non è quello invisibile del cinema classico americano bensì quello ideologico di Eseinstein. Allo stesso modo rendere visibile le discontinuità della città ha permesso e permette di risemantizzare gli spazi urbani. Non pensiamo più la città come a pezzi che si susseguono ma come tessere che scontrandosi producono nuovi risultati, nuovi ambienti che si adattano alle nuove sfide della globalizzazione
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