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From Slow Tourism to Slow Travel: An Idea for Marginal Regions
No full textTourism represents a strategy that can be used to imagine the development
of marginal areas. But what type of tourism? Slow tourism is considered in literature
and by themain development policies ofmarginal areas as one of the forms of tourism
that best lends itself to the specific context of these territories. There are three factors
whose possible relationship and interaction will be studied: tourism, slowness, and
marginal areas. In this piece, the matter of marginal areas is not discussed, and it is
taken as fact. What is discussed is the combination of slowness and tourism, often
identified with the idea of “slow tourism”. The article proposes its own definition
of slow tourism, where slowness, as a conscious and alternative attitude, invests in
and modifies the economic sector of tourism. We therefore identify the attitudes
of slowness that bring meaning to a territorial project, useful to the development
(not only financial but also cultural and social) of marginal areas. From tourism, we
move on to travel, a free and discovery-based approach, in line with the lessons that
slowness can provide
La genesi del volume: passione e curiosità
No full textQuesto volume nasce come contributo al dibattito italiano e internazionale sul tema della marginalità, degli squilibri territoriali e delle politiche pubbliche di intervento a supporto di quelle aree definite “interne”, “periferiche”, “in declino”, “fragili”, ecc. Si tratta di un argomento ampiamente discusso, soprattutto nell’ambito degli studi economici e urbani, tanto in passato, quanto in tempi recenti. L’urgenza di scrivere questo testo non nasce, dunque, da una pretesa di innovazione o per la volontà di approfondire un tema inesplorato. Si tratta, invece, della necessità di rielaborare e di diffondere gli esiti di quell’acceso dibattito nato proprio a ridosso del tema.
La storia di questo volume nasce a settembre 2019, quando noi, un gruppo di dottorandi e assegnisti del Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani del Politecnico di Milano, abbiamo per la prima volta immaginato una rete che unisse i giovani ricercatori italiani attorno al tema delle aree interne. Il perché sia nata questa idea è facile a spiegarsi
Marginality: From Theory to Practices
No full textThe essay tackles the concept of regional marginality, by presenting the main open fields of discussion regarding: the criteria by which to identify the marginal regions, how to measure marginality and the nature of the dynamics between center and periphery. Focusing on these three aspects, the paper concentrates on the relation between theories and consequent practices. Indeed, it is demonstrated how starting from different ideas it is possible to arrive at completely different hypothesis of actions. The paper aims at providing a critical reading about answers given to these complex questions. What makes a region marginal in respect to another? How to measure and represent this phenomenon? Can the unbalanced relationship between core and periphery change in time? If yes, should public policies try to rebalance such relationship? In which way? In the conclusion, an approach to face the issue of marginality is proposed, in the form of “line-based projects”, in opposition to the traditional “point-based projects”
Slow Travel Project for Enhancing Territories: Motivations and Directions
No full textEvery project should follow an idea, a theoretical and intentional framework
orienting the sense of its practical actions. Nevertheless, in many cases the
project comes before then the motivations. This can be a mistake, especially in cases
of regional projects affecting policies, people and territory.Giving priority to the idea
makes the project more effective and people and institutional stakeholders involved
more aware. This is the reason why the project VENTO, the proposal of a long
cycle-tourist path in Italy, is born firstly by elaborating its motivations and objectives
and, later, by designing the bike track. VENTO has the precise aim of regenerating
marginal areas thanks to the introduction of the paradigm of the slow travel: it is a
model of sustainable development with the shape of a cycle path. This paper analyses
motivations and goals of the project and explains in which sense VENTO can be
considered as a project of territory, as a way to increase local green jobs, as a political
manifesto, as a new deal for investing in infrastructures, as a proposal for travelling
and not for spending just few hours, as a vernacular opportunity, as a anti-fragility
policy. These ideas have sustained the process of realization of the project
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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