DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 2 (2018)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articoli

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La Geografia e il nuovo. – La Geografia, “condannata” all’oggi, al presente, da uno statuto disciplinare che la vorrebbe impegnata nella lettura del mondo qual è, mentre il mondo si restringe, si rattrappisce o, addirittura, si barrica nell’angustia dell’hic et nunc, si presta ad interpretarne le modificazioni. Mentre il mondo appare sempre più come la dilatazione del presente e come tale viene letto e interpretato, con la distanza annullata e l’altrove dismesso, la Geografia può, a buon diritto, rivendicare di essere il sapere più attrezzato per dare profondità di conoscenza all’incontro con il nuovo. Il presente contributo intende mostrare come, in particolare, la Geografia culturale sembri connettere bene il notum al novum, il mundus notus al mundus novus, a dar conseguenza, cioè, alla brama di sfondare il muro del tempo.

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The Invisibles of the Cities. Urban Marginality beyond the Ghettos. – Urban marginality can assume many spatial distributions. Besides the common spatial concentration of marginality – such as ghettos, slums etc. – it is possible to identify many situations of widespread marginality. In these situations, people appear, and sometimes are considered, invisible for the society. By, living this widespread marginality, people reduce their possibilities to be included in social relathionships and network and, are rarely involved in any marginality reduction process. Laying on this framework the paper aims to suggest a conceptual approach to marginality, analyzing how the urban transformations impact on marginalization processes, and the relative spatial and social distribution of marginality.

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Abandonment, doubling, musealization: A Geography of the Grecanic Area from the 18th century to today. – The Grecanic Area occupies the most remote strip of the Ionian coast in Calabria. Since the beginning of the contemporary age, it has undergone a deep and steady process of depopulation which has led the original villages to different destinies. In this article, we investigate the case of Pentedattilo, a small village which after a permanent abandonment is now moving along a path of musealization, and two cases of “doubling”: Bova-Bova Marina and Africo-Africo Nuovo. While the first case concerns two villages still extant and playing a significant role for the entire area, the latter is a case in which the ancient village has disappeared. These three cases give us a spectrum of types within which we can include most other villages in the area. Specific focuses are then dedicated to the development of communication routes; to the main aspect of the Area’s identity, the Greko language; and to its most prestigious economic production, the bergamot.

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Minimum reflections on the responsibility of the hotel owners. – The two forms of liability of the hotelier, object of these brief considerations, integrate a special discipline with respect to the bailment contract, because of the conditions, the factual circumstances and the extent of the damage that the hotelier is liable for in case of damage to the hotel guest. The peculiarity of this liability regime emerges clearly in the legal limitation of the damage – the entity of which is determined by reference to the rental price of the accommodation –, in the typical causes of exemption from liability – such as that regarding the damage caused by guest’s deeds –, and in the function of the criminal complaint of the damage filed by the guest. The special discipline also extends to different cases, which present an identity of ratio with that of the hotelier.

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Tourism in Malta archipelago: between the mass phenomenon and new sustainability hypotheses. – The territorial repercussions linked to the tourist practice can characterized as a source of stress for the destination, such as to undermine its territorial integrity. Therefore, forecast the effects are of fundamental importance to better understand the future developments of the phenomenon in order to prepare new and sustainable development strategies. Starting from the analysis of the latest tourism trends, the paper intends to focus attention on the characteristics that the phenomenon has taken in the Maltese archipelago. More specifically, will analyze the various forms that tourism has taken over the last decades, from the mass phenomenon to new hypothesis of sustainable models, and how they are sufficient or not to ensure the integrity of material and immaterial heritage on which the tourist appeal of the affected area is based.

Agorà (Responsabili Giovanni Mauro, Maria Ronza)

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Where the past meets the future: the contribution of universities and research centers in Europe.

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The geographic revolution of the Cardinal College and the redistribution from the center to the peripheries of the power to elect the Pope, between cities, nations and continents.