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De Spuches Giulia
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Per un rinnovato ruolo pubblico della geografia: una premessa al Manifesto
2019
The debate on the public role of Geography in Italy has been reopened after the presentation in Padua of a "manifesto" that makes the Italian version of "public geography" coincide with the so-called "third mission". The contribution proposes a different approach to the issue, one that privileges diversity and openness in the face of a perspective of narrowing relations within the discipline and between it and 'civil society
Between Wakes and Waves: An Anti-Geopolitical View of a Postcolonial Mediterranean Space
2020
The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay aims to explore the Mediterranean Sea as a geopolitical space of conflict and dominion through the lens of border and diasporic studies, and to look for those voices coming from “the colonial” as a process that put in crisis the Western hegemonic narration. In this postcolonial and diasporic sea, different powers, interests, dominions, but also voices, dissonances, trajectories, coexist and intersect. Following Paul Gilroy’s argument in The Black Atlantic, today the Mediterranean is both a reduced Middle Passage with the migrant’s routes, and a counter-archive of the contemporaneity. Indeed, the…