Search results for "CAPES"

Mapping the Idea of Europe : Cultural Production of Border Imaginaries through Heritage

2021

In contrast to recent reinforcements of Europe's internal and external borders due to the refugee situation on the Mediterranean and the Covid-19 outbreak, talk of European borders has in the past decades focused on the freedom of mobility guaranteed by the Schengen treaty. In many senses, free intra-European mobility has become a recited truth in the EU discourse: a phrase that hides under its repetition the gap between its implied content and empirical realities of many of those who are affected by European borders’ exclusive tendencies. Through the concept of borderscape, this article focuses on the role that cultural products – especially maps exhibited at heritage sites – have in recit…

How Universal Is the Relationship between Remotely Sensed Vegetation Indices and Crop Leaf Area Index? A Global Assessment

2016

This study aims to assess the relationship between Leaf Area Index (LAI) and remotely sensed Vegetation Indices (VIs) for major crops, based on a globally explicit dataset of in situ LAI measurements over a significant set of locations. We used a total of 1394 LAI measurements from 29 sites spanning 4 continents and covering 15 crop types with corresponding Landsat satellite images. Best-fit functions for the LAI-VI relationships were generated and assessed in terms of crop type, vegetation index, level of radiometric/atmospheric processing, method of LAI measurement, as well as the time difference between LAI measurements and satellite overpass. These global LAI-VI relationships were evalu…

Practical Movements: Kinetic rituals in the Ancient Western Mediterranean

2011

Scholars have studied the long-distance movements of people and goods in Phoenician and Punic society between the eighth and the second centuries BC in considerable depth. However, little attention has been paid to travelling, walking and sailing as common activities in their daily lives. it was through living in and moving through landscapes and seascapes that people constructed their sense of place. Sacred places may have been nodal points in these settings and everyday movements may well have become ritualized. This article develops the idea that journeys to shrines might be considered as pilgrimages and stresses the kinetic aspect of these practices. I suggest that trips to shrines were…

Void Zone: Readings of Fear and Solitude in the Post-industrial/Post-modern City

2009

The explosion of the city consequent to the industrial revolution and, even more, the sprawling diffusion arising in Europe from the post-industrial transformations let us talk about the disappearing of the border of the city. A diffuse urbanization cancer wastes the landscape and finally the city can be defined more for what it's not (it's no country, it's no natural landscape, it's no nature) than for a definite urban space. If the city is configured principally by its surplus (interstices, spaces under, undefined extensions of un-urban urbanization, infrastructural nets...), in a different sense we may, finally, talk about the thickening of the border of the contemporary, postmodern, Eur…

1968 And Rural Japan as A Site of Struggle. Approaches to rural landscapes in the history of Japanese documentary film

2021

In the twentieth century, Japan produced an extraordinary documentary film heritage around the rural world which has not received sufficient attention. This article identifies three different approaches to the rural in Japanese film history: first, the wartime interest in place as providing an 'authentic essence' of a national identity. Second, the post-war representation of the rural in public relations films (PR eiga), mainly interested in geography. And third, the release of Ogawa's Summer in Sanrizuka in 1968 which brought a new dimension to a countryside transformed into both a battlefield and an icon of the political protest of the era.

Derek Mahon's Literal Littorals

2012

International audience; A transversal reading of Derek Mahon's poems reveals his predilection for coastal landscapes: vistas of sea and seashore, harbour towns or seaside resorts. Suffused as they are with elemental symbolism (waves, wind, rain and storm, rocks, cliffs and misty piers), those liminal spaces take on a metaphysical dimension. The landscapes that the poet invests are the objective correlatives of his sense of alienation and vulnerability; they are mindscapes (paesagio mentale or reflections of the inner self) as much as territories to be paced and explored. This paper thus examines how the natural and the urban, the visual and the acoustic, the a-temporal and the modern or pos…

L'épreuve des Faits de Langue à l'oral du CAPES d'espagnol.

2007

National audience

FEARSCAPES. SENTIMENTI DI PAURA, RETORICHE SULLA SICUREZZA E PIANIFICAZIONE URBANA NELLA CITTA' CONTEMPORANEA.

2012

Cibo in città. Dalla foodification al delivery

2021

Many historical centres of our cities have been turned into gastronomic villages en plein air. The food outlets have multiplied and the traditional restaurant has exploded, giving life to a myriad of formats. These formats are increasingly linked to the relaunch offered by Instagram pages, to the apps that manage reservations, to the reviews sites. Linking themselves to the possibilities offered by the web, restaurants have transformed their relationship with the city, the practices of food consumption and the rituals of everyday life. We propose to explore this set of processes, starting from the traditional restaurant, and then moving on to the different forms of food consumption that we …

Premessa

2021

Reading the city sub specie gastronomica means observing the multiple relationships that the language of food and that of space entertain each other. What is highlighted in thie volume is the social value that founds, by merging them, the links between food and cities in the different branches that the authors propose to us. We therefore speak of restaurants and markets, kitchens and dining rooms, supermarkets and taverns, street food and fast food, food and wine tourism and domestic imprisonments.