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Geography of urban and locational conflicts in Valencia and its metropolitan area
2021
Aquest article fa una anàlisi sobre els conflictes territorials sorgits al llarg dels darrers anys, de principis de la dècada de 2000 fins a 2013, a l’àrea metropolitana de València. Amb aquesta anàlisi, volem realitzar una radiografia sobre la conflictivitat territorial d’aquest espai urbà i avançar hipòtesis amb referència a les causes que la van provocar, com també estudiar les connexions espacials que es van establir, de cara a una formulació posterior de recomanacions per a una planificació urbana i territorial i un govern de la ciutat millors. Aquest treball és el resultat d’una recerca sistemàtica sobre conflictes territorials, actors i estratègies en tota mena de disputes relacionad…
From urban vacancy to public green: A case of commoning in Partinico (Palermo)
2018
Considerare gli actually existing commons significa trattare i beni comuni non come prodotti a sé stanti o semplici azioni di reclaiming urbano, ma come processi di apprendimento collettivo sul bene comune. La letteratura mainstream sui commons, tuttavia, deve essere declinata rispetto alle specificità locali che divergono dai canoni standard, soprattutto in contesti deboli dal punto di vista istituzionale, come nel caso della Sicilia. Il caso di Villa San Pio a Partinico descrive proprio una situazione in cui non si può constatare una rivolta antiegemonica, narrata da buona parte della letteratura internazionale, ma piuttosto una latitanza degli attori istituzionali deputati a occuparsi di…
Holocene sea level change in Malta
2013
A multidisciplinary approach has been applied to study sea level changes along the coast of Malta using data collected from underwater archaeological remains. The elevation of archaeological markers have been compared with predicted sea level curves providing new bodies of evidence that outline the vertical tectonic behaviour of this region, allowing estimation of the relative sea level changes that occurred in this area of the Mediterranean since the Bronze Age. During the Roman Age, sea level was at −1.36 ± 0.1 m, while in the Midde Age it was at −0.56 ± 0.2 m, in agreement with previous estimations for the Mediterranean region. Data indicate that Malta was tectonically stable during the …
Geografie marginali: la mappa e il tempo del piccolo globo virale (Dialogo tra AB e GdS)
2022
A partire dal Meridiano di Paul Celan, tra geografia e retorica, si stabilisce un rapporto tra la fase virale del capitalismo e la virale pandemia. Sul versante della retorica, il meridiano si connette al linguaggio dei media e delle comunicazioni ufficiali che utilizza il termine mappa per mettere in immagine la diffusione del Covid-19. Termine che per i geografi significa tecnicamente panno del mondo, ossia qualcosa che avvolge e circonda il mondo con pieghe e intensit�� in un registro temporale di crisi irriducibile alla ragione reticolare e allo spazio sincronico contemporaneo (Olsson, 2007). �� la proiezione di una simile ���mappamundi virale��� a ridisegnare il contenuto del globo att…
Shooting borders. Per una geogafia visuale delle migrazioni
2017
Our perceptions of events in the Mediterranean are strongly influenced by a range of visual practices that impact on both the emotional and the political. In this paper, I set out to critically explore the visual geographies underlying photographic images of contemporary migration flows across the Mediterranean Sea. I argue the need for a methodological shift from a content analysis approach to a critical investigation of the spatial interweaving of images, gazes and aesthetic regimes that governs both the production and reception of such photographs. Given these theoretical premises, I focus on three images of migrants being rescued in the Mediterranean to illustrate how photography can ac…
Visual Methodologies and Geography's education in the pandemic time: notes on geopolitics of migration in the "Mediterranean Complex"
2022
<abstract> <p>The relationship between Geography and the Visual has always been strong intertwined. As it is true that Geography has always operates through images (in the form of pictures, creative representations and above all cartographies), in the last two years, with the distance learning due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, this phenomenon has not only increased, but it also became necessary. "The classroom as the most radical space", in the words of bell hooks, had to turn into a virtual space, where images have a fundamental role in the teaching/learning process. This paper wants to analyse the relationship between Geography and the Visual by analysing three image…
Le politiche di contrasto al rischio da maremoto: il caso di Stromboli
2020
This chapter, intending to be part of the reasoning on the perception of risk from extreme natural events, intends to describe the main contents of the National Emergency Plan for volcanic events of national importance on the island of Stromboli (ME) prepared in 2015 by the Department for the Civil Protection (DPC). The volcanic island of Stromboli is in fact largely exposed to the risk associated with the activities of the volcano of the same name, especially that of the tsunami. The effusive activity of the Stromboli in fact causes a marked instability of the slope known as Sciara del Fuoco which can induce, as happened at the end of 2002, a tsunami. The contribution, starting from a desc…
Monitoring of erosion on two calanchi fronts – Northern Sicily (Italy)
2011
In the present research, two neighbouring calanchi fronts have been monitored by means of repeated readings on erosion pins, that were carried out between November 2006 and October 2008. During the monitoring period, a gauge station has been recording rainfalls, allowing us to compute the Rainfall-Runoff Erosivity Factor of the USLE model. The research highlighted: i) a general correspondence between rainfalls temporal trends and surface variation rhythms; ii) alternating erosion and deposition phases result in a retreat of the “calanchi” fronts.