Perhaps there is no such thing as an ‘Italian cultural geography’. Although it would be more correct to say that within Italian academic geography, there is no clearly identifiable sub-discipline that could possibly correspond to this label. There is nothing in the Italian geographical tradition that matches, for instance, the body of reflection that emerged in British geography in the 1980s and 1990s, following the pioneering work of scholars such as Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels and Peter Jackson. There are no Chairs in Cultural Geography, and few university courses of that name. Several years ago, Venetian geographer Fabio Lando (1995: 495) would remark, indeed, on the invisibility of cultural geography in the various disciplinary histories produced in recent times (e.g. Corna Pellegrini 1987; Corna Pellegrini and Brusa 1990).
Minca C. (2005). Italian cultural geography, or the history of a prolific absence. SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 6(6), 927-949 [10.1080/14649360500353400].
Italian cultural geography, or the history of a prolific absence
Minca C.
2005
Abstract
Perhaps there is no such thing as an ‘Italian cultural geography’. Although it would be more correct to say that within Italian academic geography, there is no clearly identifiable sub-discipline that could possibly correspond to this label. There is nothing in the Italian geographical tradition that matches, for instance, the body of reflection that emerged in British geography in the 1980s and 1990s, following the pioneering work of scholars such as Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels and Peter Jackson. There are no Chairs in Cultural Geography, and few university courses of that name. Several years ago, Venetian geographer Fabio Lando (1995: 495) would remark, indeed, on the invisibility of cultural geography in the various disciplinary histories produced in recent times (e.g. Corna Pellegrini 1987; Corna Pellegrini and Brusa 1990).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
