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Embodying the Map: Tourism Practices in Berlin
Full text linkMaps are often considered by tourism scholars as superimposed representations that reduce
visitors to passive executors of pre-designed routes. Combining new post-representational
perspectives in map studies with a concept of tourism as a corporeal, vividly lived and active
experience, this article highlights the tensions between representation/power and practice/
resistance within tourism cartography. The case study of the German capital is used to illustrate
the concept that tourists can experience a ‘flirtatious’, intentional and enriching encounter
with their destinations ‘dwelling in’, rather than passively enacting or subverting cartographic
representations. Through an autoethnographical account and a cinematic-cartographical reading,
the author explores the role of actual and virtual embodiment in the experiencing of map spaces,
suggesting that Berlin’s ‘cartographic anxiety’ need not be understood as a form of tourism’s
power of seduction
Terreni transculturali. Gli spazi verdi dei migranti
No full textL'articolo riflette sulla recente attenzione teorico-critica dedicata al rapporto tra migranti e aree verdi, non tanto in termini di processi di esclusione (già a fondo indagati) bensì di potenziale interazione culturale e di manifestazione autonoma di creatività rese possibili da contesti quali ad esempio parchi e orti urbani
‘Mappy' imageries of the watery city: The cartographic figure of the Venice Lagoon across epochs and media
Full text linkAdopting a cultural approach to cartographic repertoires, this carto-essay highlights the immense visual heritage of the Venetian Lagoon in order to extrapolate a series of ‘mappy’ images that have given shape to the cartographic figure of the city on water. In light of the current convergence of visual culture and cartography, and by adopting visual juxtapositions, the article evokes different cartographic variations of the watery city: from
the city sitting on the sea to the city sitting on the lagoon, from the port city to the archipelago, from the maritime city to the (wet)landscape city par excellence. This contribution thus proposes a journey across a range of Venetian cartographic imageries, which include different media and epochs, as well as different genres and registers, from the majestic to the banal, and from the dramatic to the ironic, thus also moving across the different cartographic moods associated with the watery city. As Juergen Schulz used to say during the 1970s while he was investigating modern-age Venetian cartography, the map is not always a map: in past times, the map was often a vehicle for nongeographical ideas. Even today, maps are ideas, they are ways of knowing, thinking and acting, they hold cultural meaning and political messages, but also hopeful imaginings. Indeed, cartographic representations of and rhetoric about the Venetian Lagoon are carried out by different actors, thus contributing to a process of continuous re-figuration and de/re-centralisation of the lagoonal space
Vibrant cities. Declinazioni di un'atmosfera discorsiva
No full textIl termine 'vibrant', sistematicamente associato alla parola 'city' nelle retoriche del 'city marketing', si insinua oggi spesso nelle narrative del 'city branding', il quale tende ad associare alle città precise 'etichette'. Attraverso casi di studio internazionali l'articolo discute l'insinuante e spesso contraddittoria presenza della parola 'vibrant' entro le retoriche urbane della 'green city' e della 'multicultural city'
La fotografia come mediatore didattico in geografia
No full text1. L'immagine fotografica nell'insegnamento geografico: una lunga tradizione in cerca di rinnovamento; 2. Nuovi valori dello strumento fotografico nel progetto educativo in geografia; 3. L'immagine per la mediazione culturale: un'esperienza didattica sulla percezione dei "paesaggi ordinari
Berlino e il confine relitto: tracce di una voluptas cartografica fra letteratura e turismo
Full text linkL’articolo si apre con una premessa teorica che prende in considerazione il paradigma emergente della cosiddetta “cartografia post-rappresentazionale”. Basandosi, secondo una prospettiva umanistica, su tali recenti acquisizioni teoriche nell’ambito degli studi cartografici, nonché su fondamentali lavori dedicati alla cartografia letteraria e alla cartografia turistica, l’articolo perviene in seguito ad affrontare il caso di studio di Berlino e della “memorializzazione” del Muro per suggerire l’opportunità di indagare l’immaginazione e l’esperienza cartografica attraverso testi e pratiche di ambito letterario e turistico.
The article opens with a presentation of the theoretical framework, referring to the
emergence of the so called “post-representational cartography”. Taking into consideration
recent theories developed within a humanistic perspective in the field
of map studies and at the same time some seminal works in literary cartography
and tourism cartography, the present essay introduces the memorialisation of the
Berlin Wall as a case study, in order to suggest the opportunity of researches on
cartographic imagination and map experience through texts and practices of literature
and tourism
Semantic ruminations on ‘post-representational cartography’
No full text‘Post-representational cartography’ is a term currently used to describe an emerging shift within map theorization. Yet some misunderstanding, confusion and ambiguity may arise when trying to grasp the meaning of the phrase ‘post-representational’ in recent literature. This conceptual article discusses varieties of ‘post-representational cartography’ and seeks to contribute to some semantic clarification by comparing these different, similar or distant conceptions with the broader, well-established debate on the ‘post-/more-than-/non-representational’ within cultural geography. The paper also briefly hints about possible further developments on a more extreme ‘non-representational cartography’. ‘Map studies’ belong to an emerging, highly heterogeneous and transdisciplinary arena. Thus, reflections on words and phraseologies which are glowingly circulated among scholars of different backgrounds appear to be of some aid in gaining a deeper awareness of the terminological ambiguity that every interdisciplinary practice inevitably has to face
Fotografare per la ricerca geografica. Note sull'esperienza di Marcello Zunica
No full textL'articolo riflette sul rapporto tra fotografia e disciplina geografica attraverso l'esperienza del geografo padovano Marcello Zunica, il quale non solo ha diffusamente impiegato lo strumento fotografico come ausilio nella ricerca sul campo, ma ha avuto modo di riflettere sulla fotografia stessa, in particolare nel breve scritto dal titolo 'La fotografia per la ricerca'. L'articolo pone in evidenza quanto l'indagine sulla fotografia geografica non possa essere confinata all'analisi dei prodotti finiti (le fotografie), ma debba essere arricchita dalla ricerca sugli atteggiamenti intepretativi, sulle pratiche del mezzo, sull'autoriflessione dei geografi-fotografi
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