Search results for "Cultural geography"
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Terrorism and the Allegory of the Lone Wolf: From 9/11 to COVID-19
2021
The lone wolf is a personality type that symbolizes individualism and a deep yet sometimes dangerous quest for self-search. At its very extreme, this search turns out to become hatred for anything that these wolves cannot identify themselves with. In this regard, even some societies are lone wolves. We have lone wolf groups, communities, societies, and even nation-states. By analysis, terrorists carry certain traits of lone wolves, although not every lone wolf would be(come) a terrorist. Some rather grow into hermits and saints. Globalization, a central theme of this book, has a lot to do with the development of the lone wolf trait the way we see it now. Instead of flattening the world’s cu…
The dimensions of social dynamics in comparative studies on higher education
2013
This article discusses social dynamics of higher education which is one of the most crucial but neglected perspectives in comparative studies of higher education. We pay attention to the importance of time, space and contexts—both geographical and socio-cultural ones—to reveal how they influence on different social dynamics in various systems of higher education. The article focuses on the national higher education system level. Theoretically we approach higher education systems from a relational perspective paying attention to dynamics created by changing relationships between different actors in cultural, geographical and historical contexts. peerReviewed
The Rise and Fall of the Aizjomi Landscape†
2012
Jurmalciems, an ancient fishing-farming village on the Baltic Sea coast in southwestern Latvia, provides the setting for this article. In this setting I focus on the notion of dwelling in a landscape that comes to reflect the residents' lifeworld. The holistic notion of "dwelling" incorporates the complex and multiple dimensions of human life spent in the physical landscape, where time and space, nature and culture, are bound together and where local and macrolevel historical and social circumstances determine them both. This study is my attempt to understand a visible reality: the aizjonii landscape that is etched into the topography in the form of fields carved and embosomed into sandbank…
Representation and videography in linguistic landscape studies
2017
AbstractMuch Linguistic Landscape scholarship relies on visual data collection, primarily the use of still photography; however, the field has yet to address the theoretical underpinning of such visual and spatial representation. Furthermore, digital video is currently as easy to capture and share as digital photographs were when Linguistic Landscape studies first became prominent in the early 2000s. With these two points in mind, this article first grounds the documentation and analysis of the Linguistic Landscape in a theory of visual representation; it then provides a framework for videographic methodologies drawing on recent work in the related fields of anthropology and cultural geogra…
Espaces du quotidien et dynamiques de l’altérité pendant le confinement
2022
This study is the first result of the research entitled "Mon Espace Vécu" (My Lived Space) conducted in Italy during the first lockdown of 2020 (March-June), which was imposed by the government to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. During that period, the authors collected hundreds of textual testimonies from volunteers experiencing everyday spaces during the pandemic. The reflection, conducted from the perspective of cultural geography and cultural anthropology, develops from the analysis of some of these testimonies. Specifically, this paper focuses on the forms of semantization of space and the relationship between the body, space, and dynamic identity/otherness.
Viaggio e immaginario: il Sud America di Sepúlveda
2021
L'odeporica costituisce un genere particolarmente fecondo per la prospettiva geografica: la costruzione di spazialità e immaginari passa per specifiche forme di testualizzazione che riconducono a complesse (ri)produzioni culturali. A partire dall'analisi geoculturale di alcuni brani significativi de Patagonia Express di Luis Sepúlveda, questo contributo intende mostrare alcune modalità attraverso le quali l'autore cileno ricostruisce, nel suo racconto di viaggio in forma di appunti, spazialità, paesaggi e interazioni visitando luoghi particolarmente ostili del continente Sudamericano, come la Patagonia e il deserto di Atacama. L'analisi di tali brani si concentra sulla narrazione dell'es…
Stones, maps and cities
2021
Il presente contributo, articolato in tre paragrafi, propone una riflessione sulla prospettiva che, all'interno dell'approccio geografico, sottolinea il valore della rappresentazione cartografica. Dopo aver sintetizzato brevemente il contesto teorico attraverso una serie di spunti ed episodi, si propone una riflessione sugli spazi urbani contemporanei, che intreccia i discorsi geografico, urbano e letterario, sulla necessità inalienabile di risolvere la complessità nel segno cartografico. La mappa, intesa come modello di conoscenza, accompagna da sempre l'uomo nella rappresentazione dei luoghi ma, soprattutto, nella rappresentazione del sé nello spazio. Può la città contemporanea, apparente…
Di miele, alberi e altri (in)canti
2020
Presentazione critica di due saggi di Girolamo Cusimano in un volume dedicato alla sua attività di ricerca: “Aspetti geografici della apicoltura italiana” e “Growing up with trees. Autobiography of a research study” Critical presentation of two essays by Girolamo Cusimano in a volume dedicated to his research activity: "Geographical aspects of Italian beekeeping" and “Growing up with trees. Autobiography of a research study”
Ultreya, suseya, Santiago!” Viaggio e spazialità ne La ballata dei pellegrini
2020
Per studiare dal punto di vista della geografia culturale alcuni aspetti del pellegrinaggio a Santiago de Compostela, in Spagna, il capitolo prende in considerazione un testo letterario, il romanzo autobiografico "La ballata dei pellegrini" della scrittrice francese Edith De La Héronnière, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1993 e tradotto in italiano nel 2004. Il romanzo racconta l’esperienza del pellegrinaggio giacobeo effettuato dall’autrice negli anni Novanta assieme a tre compagni di viaggio partendo da un cammino francese. In particolare, attraverso l’analisi di alcune parti del testo, si indagano le modalità attraverso le quali la narrazione costruisce e descrive lo spazio fisico e si…
On the Bride’s side? Fra politica della dislocazione ed etica del posizionamento
2016
This paper aims at critically exploring the network geographies underlying the production, distribution and consumption of the Italian docu-film "On the Bride’s side". Through a successful crowdfunding campaign and hundreds of screenings throughout Europe, the docu- film has given rise to a wide diasporic public sphere. It is here that mainstream practices and alternative imaginations combine each other and unveil the complex and contested production of the cultural field