Recensione a: MAURO CERUTI, GUIDO FORMIGONI (a cura di), (S)confinamenti. Esperienze e rappresentazioni della globalizzazione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2020.

Covid-19: crisis of globalization and “revenge of the border”. The effects of the pandemic on the world economic and political future. – The rapid global spread of the Covid-19 virus has strongly highlighted, on multiple and transcalar levels, some problems that emerged worldwide after the end of bipolarism and the advent of the 21st century, i.e. the crisis of globalization and the “revenge of the borders”, which have clear repercussions on the world economic and political situation. The pandemic is entering a phase of global instability, linked to the tensions caused by the trade war between the United States and China, as well as the slowdown of the economy and the growth of populisms. In this sense, the consequences of the pandemic have caused the greatest shock to the international order since the Second World War.

The Impact of Covid-19 on “Tourism Globalisation”

Towards an ice age of globalization? The Covid-19 and the revenge of borders. – The main question of this contribution is if the Covid-19 has put in crisis also the globalization process in its fundamentals. Considering the globalization as the overpassing of the national borders – standing on some famous theories referring the post-Cold War period – the pandemic seems to correspond to a sort of revenge of borders at different scales: national, re-gional and even “domestic”. At the same time, the pandemic seems to be the extreme result of the globalization itself and for the forgotten mean-ing of the borders before the crisis.

Covid-19, from Venice to Wuhan: a historical recognition and potential mutations of globalization. – The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic follow an east-west direction (from Asia via Europe to the Americas) which matches the flow of Modernity. This work aims to assess how these events are resulting in a comeback of what we might envisage as modern measurable space in Geography, through a historical comparison with containment measures put in place in the 18th century by Venice, during the plague. Indeed, Venice may be considered an archetype of global powers dealing with risk management issues and struggling to harmonize public health policies with the „needs‟ of trade. After offering an overview of the most common containment measures put in place by the countries affected by Covid-19, we will see how some of the measures implemented by the Venetians are showing their effectiveness today, and we will assess the extent to which the space recovered in this process is likely to transform the idea of globalization as it was known up until very recently.

La globalizzazione contemporanea caratteristiche, conseguenze e sfide

In the course of the time, the concept of «uncertainty» has been investigated from different points of view. The aim of this article is to provide an interpretational key of present territorial process – first of all starting off by the example of Rome town in the real estate market, to make a comparison with other Italian cities – basing on the idea of «geography of uncertainty». Such a conceptual formulation will be associated with uneven developments and oscillatory movements of modern occidental economy.