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Duančić, V.: Geography and Nationalist Visions of Interwar Yugoslavia
No full textDuančić’s monograph represents a very significant and important contribution in investigating nation building processes in their connection with geographical knowledge, related to the context of South Slavic regions. The research is well situated in the interdisciplinary debate concerning the contribution of geographical knowledge and cartography in shaping the idea of nation and in naturalizing the spatial dimension of modern, territorial state, as well in contributing to the personification of nation state, thus strengthening the bound between the territorial state and the national community
Spazio e tempo nella geografia di Cesare Battisti: confini storici e geografici del Trentino
No full textCesare Battisti’s geographic work is the outcome of complex theoretical approaches interaction related to the context of European geography in late 19th century. His thinking was shaped by Giovanni Marinelli’s teaching, which stressed the importance of positivist data and the pre-eminence of statistics and cartography in geography. In this perspective geography is a synchronic performance that, like photography, describes the reality of a territory. Not by chance Marinelli had defined geography as the discipline of «how and where»: regional geography was therefore dedicated to geographical phenomena localisation and distribution on the earth surface (chorology) and to its exterior depiction (morphology) by means of comparison. Another contribution to Battisti’s geographical understanding is related to Friedrich Ratzel. In Ratzel’s perspective historical movements played a fundamental role in determining phenomena distribution, upon genetic and organicistic precepts of anthropogeography. These different aspects allowed Battisti to put into question the difference between a natural and an historical region, the first almost secure upon mountain relief and hydrology, the second mutable in space and time, enlarged or circumscribed by wars, conquests and migrations
L’emergere del Political nei processi di rigenerazione urbana a Bologna: movimenti e spazi di dissenso
No full textNegli ultimi decenni, nel quadro della teoria post-politica, si è sviluppato un ampio dibattito sui concetti di Politics e Political,
discutendone la loro natura divergente e l’epistemologia conflittuale e avanzando una maggiore concettualizzazione del
Political, dei relativi spazi e attori. Nel contesto della città neoliberale, i processi di rigenerazione urbana si possono ricondurre
alla nozione di Politics, in riferimento alla loro natura tecnocratica e all’utilizzo di strumenti partecipatori di governance volti
alla deliberazione del consenso. Nonostante l’apparente carattere inclusivo, le pratiche di rigenerazione tendono a marginalizzare
il dissenso e perciò sono messe in discussione da esperienze sociali che possono ricondursi all’ambito del Political. Nell’ambito
del dibattito della teoria post-politica, l’articolo mira a riflettere sulle politiche di rigenerazione urbana promosse nella città di
Bologna e ad analizzare l’emergere del Political focalizzandosi su due movimenti sociali: il collettivo Labas e il movimento
socio-ambientale Rigenerazione NO Speculazione. Se Labas è emerso come spazio urbano radicato nella comunità locale volto
a promuovere una visione alternativa di città attraverso la difesa e valorizzazione dello spazio pubblico, Rigenerazione NO
Speculazione ha rivendicato la democratizzazone dei processi di rigenerazione urbana promuovendo istanze quali la giustizia
spaziale, ambientale e climatica. L’analisi di pratiche, posizioni, spazi e visioni dei due movimenti urbani ci permette di riflettere
sulla natura eterogenea del Political in contrapposizione alle politiche urbane contemporane
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
No full textThis article provides a critical reading of the literatures on spaces at the margins of different polities and state/non-state forms of authority in political geography asking how infrastructures of violence are governed. In this ambit, weapons and military means have been poorly defined and conceptualised, while the ways they are actually governed (beyond a mostly instrumentalist perspective), as well as the effects this govern-mentality activity generates for the reproduction of (dis)orders at the margins, have not been directly investigated. Drawing from studies on biopolitical governmentality, and Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of the
immunitary apparatus in particular, we explore how relations of alterity, as well as attendant political spaces, are terraformed through violence and infrastructures of governing weapons and military means. Our approach is attentive to the role of materiality and non-human elements in shaping socio-spatial relations but it highlights also how there exists a close link between (1) weapons and armed humans, (2) space, and (3) identity/alterity which is articulated via the act of governing infrastructures of violence. Building upon empirical insights from Myanmar’s borderlands and frontiers, the paper shows that weapons and war-making are governed
through infrastructures made of technical objects codifying violence materially, techniques of managing human-non-human entanglements, and rationalities.
Conducting the conduct of violence contributes to reproduce the political space at the margins and to construct identity/alterity categories founded on the identification of less-than-human forms of life
Representing the territory: the layer The landscape as it was of WebGIS visualversilia.com
No full textIl presente contributo illustra la metodologia messa in atto durante la realizzazione del progetto di ricerca VisualVersilia, condotto dal centro e-GEA, per la creazione di una guida multimediale su WebGis (visualversilia.com), in grado di mappare, studiare, leggere e conoscere il territorio, ricostruirne la storia e le trasformazioni, restituire la complessità e la ricchezza del patrimonio culturale attraverso la documentazione scritta e archeologica, la cartografia storica e contemporanea, le fotografie d’archivio e moderne, le immagini satellitari, i progetti urbanistici, le pitture e i disegni di artisti che hanno ritratto il paesaggio versiliese. La metodologia di ricerca adottata e l’impiego delle nuove tecnologie hanno dunque consentito di creare una guida in grado di fornire un modo nuovo di visualizzare, raccontare, valorizzare il territorio della Versilia, di condurre l’utente alla scoperta di un territorio e delle sue realtà culturali attraverso il tempo e lo spazio; lo strumento del WebGis consente di localizzare, rappresentare e gestire i dati relativi agli elementi storico-culturali del territorio, attraverso una mappa interattiva che presenta una serie di livelli informativi divisi per temi ed epoche. Nello specifico il livello “Il paesaggio com’era”, a sua volta articolato in sottolivelli e caratterizzato da ricostruzioni della geografia e delle infrastrutture della Versilia in età preromana, romana, medievale, moderna e contemporanea, permette di muoversi in uno spazio/mappa, di immergersi in realtà temporali diverse e di contestualizzare i siti culturale presenti sul territorio nello spazio geografico relativo all’epoca alla quale appartengono
Geography and the ICT. New Technologies & Geographical Research
No full textNew technologies are introducing important changes in all scientific objects, especially in the field of Geography.
Ubiquity of media, above all new media, provides top down and bottom up generated contents. These contents can be produced everywhere and at any time. An increasing use of new media brings about an overproduction of texts and images that, furthermore, puts a greater emphasis on the Territory. Large volumes of accessible forms of narration, are increasingly available. Known as web generated content, despite being almost impossible to verify often have an extremely strong influence both in and over territorialisation processes. This change is highly significant and calls into question social relationships and the subjectivities.
Online experience tends to be totalizing, it meets needs in terms of: security, socialization, communication, information and self-esteem, and are now used to generate a new territorial understanding and representation
In this contemporary communicative context, territory becomes a narrated subject and assumes new configurations that readjust and balance its significance with new semiological suggestions.
Digital communication is a tool with a strong impact both in storytelling and territorial representation, a tool that poses new theoretical and practical questions. In recent years research has focused on this tool as a media to represent and recount territorial complexity and cultural heritage.
According to post-representational theory cartography must be understood as a dependent expression, strongly associated with the context that produces and exploits it. This perspective attempts to reach a compromise between those who consider maps as a technical instrument, related to an applied knowledge and those who understand maps as a form of power/knowledge, subjected to an ideological structure. This contest reveals the necessity to investigate the role that new technologies play in geographical research and how deeply they can modify geographical perception.
Our question is, to what extent are these new technologies of representation and narration influencing the creation of a sense of territory
Introduction
No full textNew technologies are introducing important changes in all scientific objects, especially in the field of Geography.
Ubiquity of media, above all new media, provides top down and bottom up generated contents. These contents can be produced everywhere and at any time. An increasing use of new media brings about an overproduction of texts and images that, furthermore, puts a greater emphasis on the Territory. Large volumes of accessible forms of narration, are increasingly available. Known as web generated content, despite being almost impossible to verify often have an extremely strong influence both in and over territorialisation processes. This change is highly significant and calls into question social relationships and the subjectivities
Geo-based technology in support of creating a seamless free-choice learning experience on minor water-heritage sites. Lessons learned from the EUWATHER project.
No full textTourism has the potential to persuade people to adopt pro-environmental principles and practices. Nature-based tourism, or ecotourism, particularly aims to influence tourists’ behaviour in their home environments by offering a free-choice environmental learning experience. The academic body of literature on the impact of ecotourism practices on cognition, attitudes, and behaviours of tourists confirms the positive correlation between travel and learning. However, the permanence of free-choice environmental learning experiences has been debated. We argue that geo-based technologies provide multiple opportunities for encouraging knowledge acquisition and experiences on ecological landscapes. These technologies can, if employed in a well-organised manner, contribute to a seamless free-choice learning environment, and as such, to a better understanding and appreciation for nature and local culture. The ecotourism project European Water Heritage (EU.WAT.HER) investigates how the use of geo-based technology can contribute to tourists’ connectedness with the landscape and how it can stimulate pro-conservation values and attitudes toward the ecological landscape. This paper provides an overview of the current lessons learned in using geo-based technology to promote minor water-heritage sites. It explores literature on the connections between tourism and informal learning, especially the promotion of pro-conservation values and attitudes, and how geo-based technologies can contribute to this field
Sardinian Territories as Told By Google Street View: the “ISPERIADAS” Project
Full text linkIn this paper, I would like to consider some geographical implications of Google Street View and more precisely of Isperiadas - Sardigna Street View a photographic project about the contemporary Sardinia began on 2012. The peculiarity of Isperiadas – the use of Google Street View as a source to tell the contradictions and trans-formations facing Sardinian territory – triggers questions concerning the possibility that the new technologies can help us build original narratives, which are different from the official ones and at the same time respectful of the complexity of the territories. These are clearly open matters (to which it is unthinkable to give a final and complete answer), and with which we have been dealing for not long
River Frames. Fluvial territories and riverscapes in Geography and Cartography (Northern Italy)
No full textIl progetto si propone di ripensare un approccio complesso che restituisca la realtà dei paesaggi fluviali nella loro dimensione molteplice. Le discipline coinvolte sono la geografia storica, la geografia sociale ed economica, l’archeologia, le scienze ambientali e la geomatica
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