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La rilevanza sistemica della biodiversità e, di riflesso, le prospettive connesse alla sua progressiva compromissione a seguito delle intense e spesso irreversibili pressioni antropiche contemporanee, costituisce oggi un nodo centrale di riflessione scientifica e politica, che si riflette anche nell’ampio orizzonte simbolico ed espressivo della cultura popolare, attraverso un articolato e polisemico sistema di rappresentazioni.

Semper Kant: thinking space as geography. A permanent seminar on Immanuel Kant on the tricentennial of his birth (Cagliari, October 3-4; Milan, November 14-15; Lecce, December 16-17, 2024).

“No More Nature?”. An Ecocritical Theatre and Drama-Based Research Experience. – The paper presents a site-specific, theatre and drama-based research experience exploring social perceptions of biodiversity loss. Grounded in ecocritical geography, the participatory process activated post-anthropocentric relational practices, highlighting the potential of performative methods in geographical research and in imagining multispecies coexistence.

Strategic planning and local tourism: the case of Grecìa Salentina. – The XXVI edition of the Report on Italian Tourism from the Institute of Sciences of Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council (CNR ISPC) revealed that in 2022 (Marasco et al., 2023), out of the 70.1 billion euros spent by Italian tourists within the country, only 15.2 billion euros remained within the visitors' home regions. This marked a decrease of about 0.5 percentage points compared to 2019, showing a negative trend for local tourism. Despite this, proximity tourism shows strong potential, especially in marginal and inland areas, which can contribute to these places' development and cultural awareness. To achieve this, it is important to integrate local tourism into a long-term process led by the local community, emphasizing environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability as outlined in Agenda 2030. This approach is exemplified by the Strategic Plan for Tourism Development for the Union of Municipalities of the Grecìa Salentina, which aims to promote sustainable tourism.

From “Italia dei barconi” to “Italia dei balconi”. National identity at the time of Covid-19. - This work is part of the debate known as «Media Geography» (Zimmermann, 2007; dell‟Agnese, 2011) and it aims to critically investi-gate the collective processes of identity narratives produced by the crisis developed by the Covid-19 emergency in Italy. These processes are identified in the media mainstream narratives of the sense of a common belonging and representation (Foucault, 1980; Schwartz, 2008). The survey takes into consideration the period February-April 2020 and it has identified a chronology of “Us”, structured as follows: “Us and Them”, “Us”, “Us and us”, through a semiotic and visual approach, a structure that encourages us to reflect on the contrast between local and global. Finally, the close link between politics and identity narration is highlighted: through the media, it tends to build images that activate and orient collective narration, confirming that «the ideological mobilization of identity concerns the images of identity rather than identity itself» (Pollice, 2005).