DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 2 (2020)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articoli

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Making a roundabout happen. Rondabout, unlilly location an autonomous politi-sation. – The article looks back at the daily experience of some sixty activists on a roundabout in the Isère region that was occupied continuously from November 2018 to March 2020. The ethnographic point of view assumes the double empirical posture of engagement in the yellow vest movement and a participatory observation methodology with about sixty interviews. On the roundabout, the yellow jackets show a constancy in participation, debates, popular education workshops, own actions or convergences with other organizations. The interaction between the development of the «no place» of the roundabouts and the construction of a new public space for living and deliberation is the source of a new creativity and political maturation opening up an instituting process of individual and collective autonomy in Cornelius Castoriadis’ sense.

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The Covid-19 emergency and the repositioning of tourism in the internal areas: first reflections on Irpinia. – The Covid-19 emergency, with lockdown, travel restrictions, fear of contagion, need for distancing, have changed the times and ways of taking holidays. This work aims to be a moment of reflection on territorial and tourism policies implemented as a response to the pandemic in for internal area. Through a focus on Irpinia, it wants to understand how much these investment opportunities are capable of transforming in lasting impacts for local communities, with propulsive and sustainable effects over time, and if they are able to support the trend of proximity tourism and to encourage a social and economic recovery of notably weak areas.

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Geographies of the Pandemic and Capitalism of Surveillance: Italian Reflections. – The current pandemic is therefore a geographic matter that must be addressed according to diverse scales, also including the bodies of single individuals as a primary and smallest dimension. Moreover, since the virus especially affects fragile people and communities, it is sensible to study these phenomena with an intersectional approach. Since national governments have made a massive use of digital instruments to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, the reflections of the present analysis will also be focused on digital issues, meant either as digital illiteracy and lack of access to digital technologies.
The aim of this study is thus to investigate the extent to which the digital weaknesses are affecting private and public spaces. The analysis provides a reflection on the new geographies that are emerging in Italy since February 2020.
More in detail, the reflection will focus on surveillance technologies devised to prevent the spread of the virus. In order to help limit people’s movements outside their private homes, national governments are often relying on digital technologies; these also include digital tracing systems useful to tackle infected individuals which are of great interest due to the many geographic implications.
Italy’s controversial contact tracing application, Immuni, has raised questions on the advance of surveillance capitalism, an issue that will be dealt with in the present analysis after an introduction on the geographic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

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Landscape as vocation: an exploration of the development strategies of some Italian inner areas. – Going beyond a limiting approach of the protection of landscape as constraining, this might be interpreted as an asset for development. Building on this background, this contribution, analyzing the local development strategies produced by some of the project areas included in the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas, investigates to what extent landscape is interpreted as a driver for development, or as vocation, in places where its preservation and protection are a matter of paramount importance.

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Covid-19 and tourism in Italy: from the devastating effects of the pandemic to the relaunch policy for a strategic sector. – The world is facing an unprecedented global health, social and economic emergency as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid-19 has gravely wounded the world economy with serious consequences impacting all communities and individuals. Moving rapidly across borders, along the principal arteries of the global economy, the spread of the virus has benefited from the underlying interconnectedness – and frailties – of globalization, catapulting a global health crisis into a global economic shock. Travel and tourism is among the most affected sectors with a massive fall of international demand amid global travel restrictions including many borders fully closed, to contain the virus. Looking at this context, the contribution aims to evaluate the pandemic effects on this strategic sector. The research, in the future, opens a direct focus on the impact of the virus on some specific sectors of Italian tourism, to identify priority and useful guidelines for relaunching the sector.

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For a model of governance of Cultural Routes: Territorial Business Systems. The case study of the Via Francigena between Monti Prenestini ed Ernici. – Cultural routes and way are gradually assuming a leading role in territorial planning policies because on the one hand they are capable of responding to the criteria of environmental, social and economic sustainability and, on the other, of favoring an expansion of the tourist offer with a strong connotation identity. The study aims to support the hypothesis that a geographical approach by aggregates can represent the indispensable premise for the development of a governance model which, through the itinerary and the way, guarantees the implementation of actions aimed at enhancing and managing extended coherent territorial areas.

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Interactive apps for the tourist enhancement of Oman. – Many tourist destinations are embracing ICT in order to become an STD (Smart Tourist Destination), a place that uses the available tools and techniques to allow demand and supply to co-create value, pleasure, and experiences for the tourist in addition to wealth, profits, and benefits for organizations and the destination. The main aim of this paper is to present the prototype of an application for smartphones to explore the territory of Oman in relation to its resources (natural and cultural), infrastructure and accommodation for tourism purposes sector. The methodology provided for: the collection of data from the main statistical sources, the acquisition of geographical maps, the georeferencing of a substantial number of natural, cultural and recreational resources, the use of the Arc-GIS and Google Earth tools for data processing, the compilation and addition of text information to feature locations in tables, and the use of specific software for programming the app. The main goal of the app is to meet the needs of experiential tourism through interactivity that allows the users to obtain itineraries that reflect their tastes, needs and preferences.

Agorà (Responsabili Giovanni Mauro, Maria Ronza)

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The Nagorno-Karabakh issue, between old enmities and new equilibria

 

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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis spreads to Eritrea and Sudan. The risk of humanitarian disaster

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Europe amidst global challenges and idealistic drives

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Cohesion. The New Geography of Social Pacts; General Problems of Geo-jurisprudence

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The Impact of Covid-19 on “Tourism Globalisation”

Kritiké (Responsabile Daniele Paragano)

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Recensione a 

Lida Viganoni (a cura di), Commercio, consumo e città. Quaderno di lavoro, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2017 (open access).

Lida Viganoni (a cura di), Commercio e consumo nelle città che cambiano. Napoli, città medie, spazi esterni, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2019 (open access).

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Franco Farinelli e Luciano D’Angelo, La lezione dell’Abruzzo, L’Aquila, Textus Edizioni, 2019.

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AUGUSTIN BERQUE, Ecumene. Introduzione allo studio degli ambienti umani, edizione critica a cura di Marco Maggioli, traduzione e glossario di Claudio Arbore, Simone Gamba e Marco Maggioli, presentazione di Angelo Turco, “Kosmos”, vol. 29, Sesto San Giovanni, Mimesis, 2020.

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Alessia A. Glielmi, L’Italia in Antartide. L’archivio di Carlo Stocchino pioniere della ricerca scientifica italiana, Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2020.

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Massimiliano Grava, Camillo Berti, Nicola Gabellieri, Arturo Gallia, Historical GIS. Strumenti digitali per la geografia storica in Italia, coll. “Studi Monografici” AIC, n.4, Trieste, EUT , 2020.

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Valentina Albanese, Teresa Graziano, Place, cyberplace e le nuove geografie della comunicazione. Come cambiano i territori per effetto delle narrazioni online, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2020.

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Luc Gwiazdzinski, Marco Maggioli, William Straw, Night studies. Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit, Seyssinet-Pariset, Elya Éditions, 2020.

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Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa, Le Pietre e il Potere. Una critica filosofica dei muri, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.

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Mariana Mazzucato, Non sprechiamo questa crisi, Torino, Edizione speciale per GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A. Pubblicazione su licenza di Gius. Laterza & Figli Spa, 2020.