14028 - Cultural Geography (1)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is able to understand the critical relationship between space, culture and geographical knowledge and deconstruct the political, cultural and economic paradigms of geography.

Course contents

The course will cover the concept of landscape, and this concept will be understood not as a geographical object to see and describe, but as a process whose construction is social, cultural, political and economic.
Closer it is to consider a piece of Italian geographical thought that, before the birth of the New Cultural Geography, made its own tools, and methodologies of critical thinking of contemporary geography.
The authors will be Lucio Gambi, for which "culture is to strive for the society and this can not be said for Italian geographers", and Emilio Sereni, whose rural history is trying to force" the Cartesian and linear esprit de clarté linear " of the French  school  in order to deepen the internal dialectic of the Italian agricultural landscape. This will be re-reading from the reflection of the new cultural geography, of which will be provide the conceptual tools and methodological core.

Readings/Bibliography

L. Gambi, Una geografia per la storia, Einaudi, Torino, 1973;

E. Sereni, Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1986.

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written examination

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Bonazzi