Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Elena dell’Agnese
At the beginning of the Twentieth century, geography used to be described as «the science of landscape». Now, such a definition seems to be out of fashion. All the same, the two words, «geography» and «landscape» still share a close connection, since they both may refer to «the thing» (to the geo-structure), and also to the «representation of the thing» (to the meta-geography). And representation is a form of power. So, while the popularity of landscape as an objective analytical tool has been fading away, the significance of landscape as a way of representing things is proving to be more and more relevant. Not only landscape is no more supposed to be «objective» reality, it does not even have to be an objective representation or to have an indisputable aesthetic quality. All the same, it is a way of seeing, and of retelling, regional, and geopolitical, stories. Thirty years after the Rumley and Minghi’s seminal book on «the geography of border landscape» (1991), the new geo-graphies of border landscapes are aimed at analysing different ways of «speaking about» and of «visualizing» border relations, from cinema to art, to literature and photography, music, cartoons.
Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Laura Grazi
EEC Regional Studies in the Sixties This essay, which belongs to the field of research on the history of European regional policy, focuses on the regional studies launched by the EEC and the ECSC in the Sixties, with specific reference to certain Italian cases: the region of Umbria and its steel industry, the Piombino area, the touristic destination of Calabria and the Bari-Taranto-Brindisi development hub. In particular, it highlights Italy’s position, characterized by its «Southern question» and by its commitment to bringing this topic to the attention of the Community, in order to obtain additional support for its policy of extraordinary intervention, which was mainly implemented through the «Cassa per il Mezzogiorno». The participation of Italian experts and officials in Community studies was closely related to the debate on planning that began with the preparation of the Vanoni Plan and continued with the economic programs of the center-left governments. Issues and new development strategies, with particular reference to the theories of development hubs (growth poles) and integrated development, passed from the national to the European level, paving the way towards the drafting of an EU cohesion policy for the future.
Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Enrico Chapel
At the time of more and more perfect measure and representation of the territory follows trivialization and proliferation of plans. In Nineteenth century appear Atlases that dissect the image of the city, and statistical mapping that allows to represent structural dimensions of the urban phenomenon: population density, hygiene and functionality of spaces, services allocation, traffic flows, etc. The paper aims to show that urban planning was born during this process of cartographic production and statistical measurement of urban context. This course introduce a new form of urban design which records concepts such «standard» and «prediction» in the iconic order of planning. To what extent accumulation of maps and numbers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century gave rise to modern urban project?
Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Carla GiovanniniAn overview of the new geographical discipline and the most interesting thematics. The switch from the numerical datum to the cultural plan and the need for a dialogue between two apparently distant languages. Methodological issues and …
Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Franco FarinelliGlobalization means the end of modern perspective, i.e. of the Euclidean space as it was perceived, represented and produced in the modernity. The attempt to work out new occurring reality requires the genealogical reconstruction of thi…
Juli 16, 2014, 10:00 am, Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of MEMORIA E RICERCA (45/2014), Allgemein.
Eveline G. Bouwers
Well before the Risorgimento’s cult of heroes took a flight, sculptor Antonio Canova commissioned a series of busts of ‘illustrious Italians’ for the ancient Pantheon in Rome. Started in 1809, when Rome was under French control, the project was developed in agreement with the Roman Curia until, in 1820, Pope Pius VII ordered its removal to the Capitoline Museums. This article probes the origins, form and function of the Canovian pantheon. It analyses the sculptor’s incentives in commemorating artists, scientists and men of letters of Italy’s past, and queries the project’s public reception. Moreover, it evaluates the selection of men and contrasts these to Canova’s predilections, both artistic and personal. Finally, it assesses the pantheon’s impact on the commemoration of illustrious men in post-1848 Rome, specifically in relation to the pantheons on the Pincian and Janiculum hills.
Juli 15, 2014, 7:48 pm, Christian Roith,
article.
Paedagogica Historica, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 631-650, October 2014.
The article deals with the commission made out by the Portuguese merchant-banker António da Fonseca to Baldassarre Croce to decorate his family chapel in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome, the national church of Castille […]
Juli 15, 2014, 4:00 pm, Reuveni, G., Allgemein.
<span class=“paragraphSection“>Today concepts such as political consumerism and consumer citizenship have been developed in order to identify and display the significance of consumption both as an activity and as a site of political action.1<sup>1</sup> As substantiated, for example, in Lizabeth Cohen’s work on the emergence of the Consumers‘ Republic in the United States, this approach represents an epochal claim about the changing relationship between state, society, and consumption after World War II. According to Cohen, in the second half of the twentieth century a unique alliance was formed in the United States between policy makers, business, and labour leaders, along with many ordinary Americans, all adopting a strategy for reconstructing the nation’s economy and reaffirming its democratic values by promoting the expansion of mass consumption.2<sup>2</sup> Victoria de Grazia develops a similar argument for post-war Europe. In her study <span style=“font-style:italic;“>Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through Twentieth Century Europe</span>, she suggests that the struggle between American free market ideology and the planned economy of the Soviet Union gave way to a new European regime of mass consumption that was mainly conceived as a political matter involving rights and democracy.3<sup>3</sup> Thus the so-called Consumers’ Republic epitomizes a state in which national interest not only became bound up with mass consumption, but the very notion of citizenship was interlaced with consumership. As Cohen cogently observes, the postwar era witnessed the triumph of the “ideal of the customer as citizen who simultaneously fulfilled personal desire and civic obligation by consuming.”4<sup>4</sup> Yet the history of what Cohen, de Grazia, and others identify with the concept of consumer citizenship is based on a century-long trend of entwining these notions and making them central to the guiding principle of a market-oriented society in which the members of modern states are expected to realize personal desire and civic obligation by, amongst other things, consuming.</span>
Nationalities Papers, Ahead of Print.