DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 2 (2014)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articoli

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Mountains, cities inland areas in Italy: a challenge for a public policies. – From the analysis of the national project about "inland areas" started by Fabrizio Barca in 2012, ex minister of the Territorial Cohesion, we will want to know the importance of the different meaning of the terms "inland areas" and "mountains" because very frequently we flatten the differences between the two. It is not only two reality that not coincide geographically, are also two concept really different.

The first part of this article will be dedicated to define this characters and their relevance for cohesion policies. The second part will consider the relations of interdependence of the cities with their hinterland mountains as a possible subject of political relations based on a reciprocity artificial ecosystem.

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Territoriality, rurality and rural-urban relationship. – Analyzing currents changes in Brazilian countryside becomes mandatory. Besides performing traditional roles – being a reference of activities permanence, providing urban areas with workforce and raw materials, and consuming urban goods –, rural areas are becoming more and more a place of activities other than farming ones. Industrial activity and tourism service activities exemplify it. In addition to making nature features stand out, tourism linked activities point out the change tendency.

This paper seeks to present some of these changes in Rio do Janeiro's countryside, where, besides cattle raising, numerous non-farming activities are taking place, especially tourism.

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The CAR (Central African Republic) crisis. Transcalarity between violence and resilience. – The Central African Republic has been experiencing a sequence of political-military crisis starting from its constitution (with the death of B. Boganda) to the collapse of Séléka regime (2013) and the current transitional phase, which is leading by K. Samba Panza. The ingredients of this crisis are cross-scale, with mobile factors that easily pass from a scale to another. On the "domestic" scene, as it is in itself very complex and marked by a plurality of actors even foreigners, take place regional, pan-african and global dynamics. Facing this changing framework plagued by violence, the development of a cultural resilience assures the endurance of Central African Republic as political and social entity.

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The crisis of the city in the age of the privatization urbanism. – We are seeing an unprecedented crisis that is sweeping many Italian cities and will affect also the urbane welfare. Health care was the first victim of this vision. Cancellation of hospitals, health centers and clinics and then the closing of the courts, of the Post Office and of the decentralized State's structures. Today even the primary schools of smaller municipalities risk of disappearing . Some cities go out, entire populations living an unprecedented setback and they lose their social integration prospects.

So if we want to maintain an acceptable standard of living and socializing in our cities we have to identify the real causes that led to the financial meltdown of italian municipalities and find the solutions to restore a perspective to the system of local governments. Otherwise, we risk to close a millenary urban history.

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The problem of the failure and/or unsatisfactory development of Southern Italy recurs insistently and from various point of view in the political and scientific debate. The contributions range from the analysis of the determinants of political ineffectiveness in promoting a better development path, to the proposition of formulas capable of correcting this situation and thereby establish paths of interregional convergence or catching-up. In this framework, is useful to studying Sardinia as a "laboratory" to examine the main institutional trends and variables at the base of the north-south dualism that characterizes the Italian economy, as well as to deepen and explore new approaches and solutions to the problem of interregional imbalances. The paper, moving from this assumption analyze the causes underlying the disappointing socio-economic development promoted in Sardinia. Moreover suggests possible reforming paths of political institutions and new economic measures of intervention with particular reference to the need for a re-enactment of the federalist principles and the idea of the guaranteed minimum income.

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Qualche considerazione su concentrazione spaziale e segregazione degli immigrati a Napoli. – Il contributo si propone di evidenziare – con riferimento alla distribuzione spaziale delle principali comunità straniere residenti e attraverso l'elaborazione di taluni indicatori di segregazione – la complessità di forme della polarizzazione sociale e della segregazione residenziale, e, più specificamente, la loro struttura ed organizzazione spaziale in un contesto urbano particolare quale quello napoletano. Importante polo di attrazione per gli immigrati, catalizzatore degli stranieri che decidono di stabilirsi in Campania, Napoli offre ampie possibilità di lavoro sommerso, assicura una rete di rapporti all'interno delle varie comunità, garantisce la presenza di centri di accoglienza e servizi. Qui, d'altra parte, proprio l'esistenza di un tessuto socioeconomico fortemente segnato dall'irregolarità e dall'informalità e, insieme, il richiamo delle reti comunitarie sembrano caratterizzare particolarmente le dinamiche di territorializzazione del fenomeno migratorio.

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Ennio Flaiano, The discontented traveler. – Ennio Flaiano appears to have had an adverse relationship with travel. In much of his work he was often skeptical and not interested in the idea of travel, but, in contrast he was a tireless traveler who has visited Europe, America and Asia and, towards the end of his life, he wrote and starred in a documentary search for the secrets of Canada. Rediscovering this person is a way to learn more about one of the most subtle and forgotten intellectuals that Italy has produced.

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Nelle società di oggi i conflitti stanno diventando sempre più influenti a livello mondiale e per questo è necessario che i mass media siano in grado di descriverli. Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di evidenziare il crescente utilizzo delle carte geografiche: si stanno diffondendo sempre di più all'interno della società, sia per il crescente utilizzo delle stesse da parte degli esperti in materia, dei mezzi di comunicazione di massa, sia attraverso un processo di democratizzazione che ha permesso la produzione delle stesse anche da parte dei cittadini. Le carte si mostrano, quindi, come un potente strumento di comunicazione, la cui interpretazione, tuttavia, deve sempre essere effettuata attraverso un'analisi molto attenta e dettagliata: le rappresentazioni cartografiche non sono mai ingenue. Le Dessous des cartes, la trasmissione che è oggetto di questa analisi, rappresenta la nuova frontiera della comunicazione geopolitica, mettendo insieme differenti discipline e strumenti multimediali diversi, per un sapiente uso delle cartografie a scopi informativi.