Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Fiorella Dallari
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-GGR/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, students wille able to:

- have a classification of the main concepts and paradigms of territorial interpretation with specific attention to the social and cultural geography;

apply geographical concepts and paradigms for understanding of emerging issues in local and global development processes;

develop a territorial- multiscalar perspective;

- able to distinguish some geographic search methodologies for the fiedwork;

evaluate critically between the various geographic search tools in the analysis of the territorial system;

know the characteristics of the main sources of information and data base;

- know the basic elements of this discipline;

- use the basic concepts of this discipline.

Course contents

Methods and methodologies in the practice of the geographer
presenting student projectsThe geographical perspectiThe first part of the course will address the issues of alternative and sustainable development, the contribution of the social geography with special reference to the German school, as an aid to development planning.

The sustainable and responsible tourism will be proposed as a potential policy in cooperation, as a new philosophy that aims to minimize the negative impacts and maximize the positive ones on the environment and local communities, turning them into protagonists of their own development.

It will be explored the theme "cooperation and tourism" with use of case studies, its role in international cooperation and in the fight against poverty with a focus on the framework of Italian foreign policy in a logic responsible tourism and climate change (seminars and workshops cycle).

The theories of the development and evolution of international development cooperation will complete the preparation with a seminar dedicated to the Emilia-Romagna Region as actor of cooperation and international relations and the international negotiation.

In dialogue with the international debate of cultural geography they are treated some of the most important geographical themes: space, place, land, landscape, city, region, state nation, globe, heritage, tangible and intangible cultural heritage and identity.

The student at the end of the course acquires knowledge of social geography in different cultural spheres, with particular focus on the German, responsible tourism and climate change as a shared political strategy development and social participation.

Syllabus

 1. lecture (monday November 6, h 15.00/17.00)

Checking the students' knowledge level. From the cultural to inclusive turn: a new interpretative paradigm of development?

2. lecture (monday November 13, h 15.00/17.00)

By developments to the end of the development, to the future and sustainability. The sustainable development from the international vision to local-territorial dimension. The gender development. The tourism contribution to the sustainable development.

3. lecture (tuesday November 14, h 15.00/17.00)

The different conceptions of space: absolute space, relative space, space as a social product. The key concepts of geography: location, place, territory.

4. lecture (wednesday November 15, h 15.00/17.00)

The key concepts of Geography: landscapes and cities. 

5. lecture (thursday Novemb 16, h 17.00/19.00)

The geographical approach: region, state and nation, globe. Globalization and transcalarity (rescaling gaze)

6. lecture (monday November 20, h 15.00/17.00)

Seminar with Filippo Pistocchi, PhD Political and Economic Geography (Adjunct Professor)

Migration as a geographical phenomenon to define and / or redefine the space: urban migration, urbanization, suburbs.

7. lecture (tuesday November 21, h 15.00/17.00)

Seminar with Filippo Pistocchi, PhD Political and Economic Geography (Adjunct Professor)

Boundary and border sense and their perception and role in the territorialisation (or fragmentation) of collective identity.

The key concepts of Cultural Geography for Cultural Diplomacy: heritage, tangible and intangible heritage and identity. World Heritage Sites of UNESCO and European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR).

8. lecture (wednesday November 22, h 15.00/17.00)

Seminar "Cooperation between the sustainable development and tourism " with Maurizio Davolio, president of Italian Association of Responsable Tourism (AITR)

The tourism policy of the Italian Cooperation: What scenario for the cooperation and the development?

9. lecture (thursday Novemb 23, h 17.00/19.00)

Seminar "Cooperation between the sustainable development and tourism " with Maurizio Davolio, president of Italian Association of Responsable Tourism (AITR)

The role of tourism in the NGOs approach. The document of Tatouine

10. lecture (monday November 27, h 15.00/17.00)

Seminar "The evolution of international development cooperation" The evolution and the actors of international development cooperation from the aide to the post-aid: reflections on Law 125/2014 on Reform of Italian Cooperation with Silvia Grandi, PhD Political and Economic Geography (Ministry of Economic Development)

11. lecture (tuesday November 28, h 15.00/17.00)

Tourism and Memory: Heritage as a Local Development Tool for Africa. Heritage for human rights

12. lecture (wednesday November 29, h 15.00/17.00)

The key concepts of Cultural Geography for Cultural Diplomacy: heritage, tangible and intangible heritage and identity. World Heritage Sites of UNESCO and European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR).

13. lecture (thursday Novemb 30, h 17.00/19.00)

Methods and methodologies in the practice of the geographer

The student projects

14. lecture (monday December 4, h 15.00/17.00)

Seminar Tourism in the South of the World: a form of neocolonialism or an opportunity for development?
Carlo Cencini, former professor of Geography

15. lecture (tuesday December 5, h 15.00/17.00)

Schools of Social Geography (regulation, structuring and social systems).
The German School of Social Geography. Groups and social strata in space relations: geographically relevant groups. Social articulation of space. The sociogeographic space.Groups and social class of territorial relationships: the geographically relevant groups and social segments

16. Workshops (wednesday December 6, h 15.00/17.00)

The Millenium goals

"Gender Equality and sustainable tourism for development: strategic paths for a desirable future?"

with Elisa Magnani, Silvia Grandi, Carlo Cencini, Filippo Pistocchi, Gabriele Manella

17. lecture (thursday December 7, h 17.00/19.00)

Student projects

18. TEXT (monday December 11, h 15.00/17.00)

 

Readings/Bibliography

Compulsary books

1) Magnani E.,Turismo, memoria e tratta degli schiavi, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2013

2) Grandi S., Sviluppo, geografia e cooperazione internazionale. Teorie, politiche e mappamondi, La Mandragora, Imola, 2013.

3) Davolio M., Somoza A., Il viaggio e l'incontro. Che cos'è il turismo responsabile, Altraeconomia, Milano, 2016.

4) Teaching materials for the Syllabus

Recommended but not compulsory books

Moyo Dambisa [http://www.ibs.it/libri/moyo+dambisa/libri+di+dambisa+moyo.html], La carità che uccide. Come gli aiuti dell'Occidente stanno devastando il Terzo mondo, Rizzoli, Milano, 2010.

Berruti A., del Vechio E., Povertà, sviluppo e turismo resposabile, Cantalupa (TO),Effatà editrice, 2009

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminars, and workshops.

Assessment methods

The exam will consist of a written and an oral part; they are both based on the recommended books.
As regards the written part, students attending classes will have two tests, one in late October and one at the end of the course. If they pass these tests, they will have their oral part in the ordinary exam sessions. Students who are not attending classes, or the ones who do not pass the written tests, can make/remake them in the ordinary exam sessions, before doing the oral part.

With regard to the evaluation criteria, a language appropriate to course contents and the skill to learn and link together the main course concepts will result in excellent grades. A proper language, a mnemonic content knowledge and a good skill to link the concepts will result in good grades. Inappropriate language, some training gaps but a minimum of knowledge on the course topics will result in passing grades. Lack of guidance on the course issues, inappropriate language and training gaps will result in negative grades.

Teaching tools

Workshops and thematic debates chosen by students.

Office hours

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