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Landscape as mediator, landscape as commons: an introduction
Get PDFIl contributo propone una trattazione dei due temi chiavi che si intersecano nel volume, andando a costituire non solo una introduzione ai saggi ivi contenuti, ma una più ampia trattazione delle questioni attorno a cui questi si muovono: le potenzialità del concetto di paesaggio considerato come intermediario/mediatore e come bene comune/commons. Il volume raccoglie i migliori contributi internazionali presentati nelle sessioni sul paesaggio del congresso Eugeo 2013 (Roma) coordinate dai curatori dell'opera, e si conclude con una approfondita postfazione redatta da Kenneth R. Olwig, che ha partecipato come discussant ai lavori congressuali
Promesse democratiche ed esiti tecnocratici. Gestione sociale delle pandemie e produzione pubblica di spazio = Democratic Promises and Technocratic Achievements. Social Management of Pandemics and Public Production of Space
No full textThis article reads the technological management of complex and global events, including SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, as part of the transition of European democracies towards control and surveillance models imposed by normal emergencies following one another with increasing frequency. The text reflects on pandemics along history, on the technocratic and digital trajectory of contemporary societies, and concludes by outlining local-based forms of self-government
Landscape as mediator, landscape as commons. International perspectives on landscape research.
No full textThe book concerns and associates two issues of great relevance
in the scientific debate on landscape that emerged from the
discussion in the thematic sessions of the fourth EUGEO
Congress, held in Rome in September 2013. The first question
refers to the ability of the landscape to mediate, which is always
suspended between performativity and allusion, materiality and
symbolic function, knowledge and action; the second regards the
need to interpret the landscape not only as a commodity or a
public good, but also as a collective resource essential for the
well-being of local societies. The essays here proposed address
and intersect the two issues moving within diverse and plural
theoretical and methodological perspective
"La nouvelle agriculture dans la steppe du sud est-tunisien et la mort annoncée de l'oasis de Gabès ; Ou quand la dépossession et la marginalisation sociale transforme les paysages"
No full textIn this paper Habib Ayeb, Université Paris 8 à St-Denis Social Research Center (SRC) - American University in Cairo (AUC) reflects on the social and landscape's transformations induced in southeastern Tunisia from economic liberalization that those responsible
Tunisians have chosen as a development policy. It also, an essay on their "living space"
The landscape as relationship between places and societies. Issues (and tools) for spatial planning
No full textIs landscape a commons? Paths towards a metabolic approach
No full textIs landscape a commons? And if it is, is it like air, water, earth and all those shared
resources which we habitually manage (such as woods and pastures) and which we normally
classify as ‘civic use’ or ‘collective property’? We use the term commons with referenceto Elinor Ostrom’s theories of an alternative paradigm to the neoliberalist model, where
small-scale shared resources are viewed as a valuable set of goods which are not traded
commodities, and are neither exclusive nor in competition with one another.
We speculate here that there are at least three good reasons to consider landscape as
a commons.
Firstly, because, as noted by the Italian scholar Giovanna Ricoveri, there is no single
definition of commons. Rather, such notion is heuristically fertile, owing to its ability to
intersect a wide range of meanings and variables in time and space.
A second reason is deeply rooted in landscape polysemy. This may be called a liquid
concept as it shifts shape depending on the cognitive, discursive and cultural vessel into
which it is poured, and may thus carry multiple meanings. As a result, there is not one, but
numerous senses to landscape-commons, which shift and vary on the basis of superimposed
signifieds (or ‘vessels’ into which we pour it).
Finally, the commons – with their ecological and historical components – form the ‘raw
matter’ essential for the metabolism of all organic life and for the conservation of human
cultural and territorial identity. Consequently, when such components appear as landscape,
we may consider them as commons which all living beings need, including humans.
Landscape is a commons in many-fold senses. Its most obvious definition identifies
it as a ‘collective visual asset’, ‘framework of land’, ‘panorama’, ‘tour d’horizon’ and so
on, that is to say, as a visible object which can be observed externally and at a distance by
anyone. In other words, landscape belongs to anyone and everyone. The main limitation of
such a tenet (as spread by the media and holiday marketing) is that it equates landscape to
a postcard, thereby turning our experience of it into a selective, static, passive and external
one.
In order to overcome such limitations we must think of landscape not just as an imago
loci, but rather ‘enter it’ and look at it as the product of material and non-material practises,
which, in time, have come to shape the territory. Thus landscape is an integral part of a
historic-environmental, territorial heritage, and, as such, it is a ‘commons’ to be protected
and looked after, so as to preserve the collective memory of the past, as well as the historical
identity of the places.
It is also true, however, that all natural landscape components which have not, as it
were, been ‘reprogrammed’ are not always necessarily dominant in social representations.
It is indeed the dearth of natural contexts, coupled with privatization and diminished
dwellers’ contribution, which has led us to raise the question of landscape as either a
recognisable or not-recognisable commons. Following on some of Hannah Arendt’s theories
(further developed by Bernard Debarbieux), we identify two opposite poles whereby we
may acknowledge landscapes as commons: a ‘renewable’ landscape and a predominantly
‘industrial’ one.
The former is based on metabolic labor between human beings and nature (sharing
common traits with John Brinckerhoff Jackson’s Vernacular Landscape). It links the
conservation of sustainable biological systems as well as horizontal, self-sufficient social
practises.
The latter is a sort of ‘grade zero’, where the intertwines of landscape are virtually
all artificialised by human work as they are modelled by machinery (which usually is not
compatible with the integrity of life metabolism on earth).
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is landscape a commons?
Landscape is a ‘common resource’, as it is not simply a beautiful view to be admired
or the product of territorial practises from a more or less recent past. It is primarily a
common resource for it can function as precious intermediary between a territory and its
people. In other words, when a community responsibly takes charge of it, landscape is, or
can be taken as commons. Upon the auspices of the European Landscape Convention,
it is vital that local communities be actively involved in and collaborate with landscape
governance. We must therefore look at those local communities who are actively working
towards a locally developed reappropriation of both land and common resources as well as
the recovery of self-centered, endogenous territorialization
Entre la géographie et l’éthique: le paysage et la question du bien-être
No full textThe landscape is the result
the decisions of a central power. It coincides with the
realization of an ideal social, religious and moral and its manifestation
is even more marked when it is centralized. this landscape
makes visible the power that it embodies through planning
of a number of places capable of manifesting: squares,
gardens, public places and monuments. The political landscape is before
the landscape of the large scale, which expresses the views of the power
and extends through a space perceived as homogeneous and
as an extension controllable. around us.
Welfare issues in relation to the landscape is likely to play in the open space between the political dimension and the dimension of vernacular
landscapes
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