Books by Giulia de Spuches
La città cosmopolita. Altre narrazioni
Atlante virtuale (vol. III)
Atlante virtuale (vol. II)
Papers by Giulia de Spuches
Nelle politiche di rappresentazione urbana, i legami tra i luoghi del patrimonio e la rigenerazio... more Nelle politiche di rappresentazione urbana, i legami tra i luoghi del patrimonio e la rigenerazione urbana sono tra i primi ad essere reinterpretati ed esibiti, sia dagli attori privati sia da quelli pubblici. Esse parlano un linguaggio sia materiale-visibile e sotto gli occhi di tutti-sia discorsivo e dunque incarnato dalla loro natura performativa. La costruzione dei significati che la rigenerazione urbana veicola attraverso il patrimonio storico esistente o innovativo produce nuovi immaginari e, per dirla con le parole di Hall e Robertson ha «un'aura di qualità» che si traduce in attrazione d'investimenti, in promozione del turismo culturale, in aumento dell'occupazione, in forme di riconoscimento (o contestazione) di carattere identitario e/o affettivo e, infine, in forme di trasformazione e crescita degli spazi urbani 1. Come si può notare da queste prime righe, i processi di rigenerazione coinvolgono diversi domini teorici e metodologici che sono rintracciabili nella già citata pratica discorsiva che innesca visioni e immaginazioni 2 ; nella rappresentazione 1
Confin(at)i Mediterranei e Afroamericani. Una performance geografica sulla disumanizzazione
Studiare la questione mediterranea soltanto dentro le aule universitarie non ci permette di resti... more Studiare la questione mediterranea soltanto dentro le aule universitarie non ci permette di restituire una realt\ue0 sfaccettata che viene proposta all\u2019opinione pubblica con un\u2019unica parola d\u2019ordine: invasione. La performance E l\u2019Europa disumanizz\uf2 se stessa mi ha permesso di presentare la storia di schiavi e fuggitivi per un\u2019audience pi\uf9 vasta. Incentrata sul libro di Toni Morrison, Beloved, rimbalza tra gli effetti delle storie dell\u2019Atlantico Nero e quelli dell\u2019odierno Mediterraneo. Il saggio si propone di tracciare alcune direzioni che possano aiutare a indagare le diverse linee di confine che segnano la rugosit\ue0 della modernit\ue0 del nostro globo. Per fare questo, si prova a rispondere a tre questioni fondamentali: possiamo parlare di uno spazio politico nazionale che tenga conto dei diritti universali? Conseguentemente, possiamo parlare di etica quando analizziamo le migrazioni? E infine, possiamo parlare di migrazioni come termine m...
Il paesaggio e la nazione plurale: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The article is part of the volume Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediat... more The article is part of the volume Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediato. The book asks to question the relationship between the landscape and its worlds (literary, cinematographic, virtual). The fundamental question of the article is how one can grasp the sense of the landscape of the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994). Therefore, analyzing the famous film, the essay wants to correlate the sense of the landscape and the idea of nation. The landscape as a symbol is the frame of reference that will be examined, in particular the line of thought that imagines the landscape as the mental construction of a subject. In this way it will be possible to highlight the relationship between landscape cinema and Australianness. Finally, since the journey is, according to tradition, a place of encounters and clashes, exchanges and experiences, we will follow the adventures of the three protagonists along the road from Sydney to Alice ...
Between Wakes and Waves: An Anti-Geopolitical View of a Postcolonial Mediterranean Space
The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay ... more The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay aims to explore the Mediterranean Sea as a geopolitical space of conflict and dominion through the lens of border and diasporic studies, and to look for those voices coming from \u201cthe colonial\u201d as a process that put in crisis the Western hegemonic narration. In this postcolonial and diasporic sea, different powers, interests, dominions, but also voices, dissonances, trajectories, coexist and intersect. Following Paul Gilroy\u2019s argument in The Black Atlantic, today the Mediterranean is both a reduced Middle Passage with the migrant\u2019s routes, and a counter-archive of the contemporaneity. Indeed, the old mare nostrum, as it has always been thought by the Western eye, is a geopolitical laboratory where the contemporary capitalism experiments his necropower in the name of the Nation-State, and where the Fortress Europe exercises its killability extended through borders, wall...
Memorie Geografiche, 2020
Certificazione scientifica delle Opere Le proposte dei contributi pubblicati in questo volume son... more Certificazione scientifica delle Opere Le proposte dei contributi pubblicati in questo volume sono state oggetto di un processo di valutazione e di selezione a cura del Comitato scientifico e degli organizzatori delle sessioni della Giornata di studio della Società di Studi Geografici Hanno contribuito alla realizzazione di questo volume:
Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediato, 2021
The article is part of the volume Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediat... more The article is part of the volume Configurazioni e trasfigurazioni. Discorsi sul paesaggio mediato. The book asks to question the relationship between the landscape and its worlds (literary, cinematographic, virtual).
The fundamental question of the article is how one can grasp the sense of the landscape of the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994). Therefore, analyzing the famous film, the essay wants to correlate the sense of the landscape and the idea of nation.
The landscape as a symbol is the frame of reference that will be examined, in particular the line of thought that imagines the landscape as the mental construction of a subject. In this way it will be possible to highlight the relationship between landscape cinema and Australianness.
Finally, since the journey is, according to tradition, a place of encounters and clashes, exchanges and experiences, we will follow the adventures of the three protagonists along the road from Sydney to Alice Springs. Priscilla, the coach containing stories, represents the metaphor of the search for one’s own fluid identities under a present Australian landscape that reveals the construction of an ideological landscape, of a process of appropriation of spaces and, finally, still reveals the various identity and cultural differences.
Unipapress, Collana del Dipartimento Culture e Società, 2021
The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay ... more The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay aims to explore the Mediterranean Sea as a geopolitical space of conflict and dominion through the lens of border and diasporic studies, and to look for those voices coming from “the colonial” as a process that put in crisis the Western hegemonic narration. In this postcolonial and diasporic sea, different powers, interests, dominions, but also voices, dissonances, trajectories, coexist and intersect. Following Paul Gilroy’s argument in The Black Atlantic, today the Mediterranean is both a reduced Middle Passage with the migrant’s routes, and a counter-archive of the contemporaneity. Indeed, the old mare nostrum, as it has always been thought by the Western eye, is a geopolitical laboratory where the contemporary capitalism experiments his necropower in the name of the Nation-State, and where the Fortress Europe exercises its killability extended through borders, walls, confinement, racial devices. The image of a black man left for days floating dead in July 2020 represents the all Mediterranean left-to-die boats; it speaks for the comeback of the removal: the colonial past. In this crossing, the Black Mediterranean let emerge the deep relationship always existed between Africa and Europe.
“The sea is history” wrote Derek Walcott. The Mediterranean Sea is indeed also an open and fluid archive of migrants’ stories, lives and narratives, too long dehumanized and turned into mere numbers, deprived of their identities and their names. This counter-archive can interrupt the dominant and hegemonic narration of that part of world that let “the colonial” drawing on the Mediterranean Sea. The right to narrate means the right to be: literature is in this sense the key to have access to the narratives of today’s migration, a pris-de-mot to deconstruct “the danger of the single story”. In this scenario, a new Afroitalian awareness is raising with the aim to subvert the Italian gaze about its colonial history. Some of these writers, mostly women, through their narratives, their arts, their activism, let emerge those Black Italy voices which are silenced and removed.
Etnografie del contemporaneo, 2021
This article introduces a reflection on personal journeys, of dialogues and readings, with Lidia ... more This article introduces a reflection on personal journeys, of dialogues and readings, with Lidia Curti. What is feminine writing? And, what lies behind the screen of
representation? These aim at highlighting their political and positional nature within a way of thinking inspired by geographical studies and the feminist thought. So, an attempt to create the bonds for a reflection on the meaning of writing and translation, and on the sense of identity and alterity is made through the voices of authors like Morrison, Devi, and Spivak. It is in the border writing of postcolonial authors that we find a ‘space of in-between’ that allows what has been removed – a testimony of the Mediterranea matter – to emerge
Le esposizioni universali : spazialità e politiche di rappresentazione
Le esposizioni universali : spazialità e politiche di rappresentazione, 2015
Public Geographies: per una geografia felicemente inutile, ma socialmente e politicamente rilevante
Il dibattito sul ruolo pubblico della Geografia in Italia \ue8 stato riaperto dopo la presentazio... more Il dibattito sul ruolo pubblico della Geografia in Italia \ue8 stato riaperto dopo la presentazione a Padova di un "manifesto" che fa coincidere la versione italiana della "public geography" con la cd. "terza missione". Il contributo propone un diverso approccio alla questione, che privilegia la diversit\ue0 e l'apertura davanti a una prospettiva di restringimento delle relazioni interne alla disciplina e fra la stessa e la "societ\ue0 civile"
Considerare gli actually existing commons significa trattare i beni comuni non come prodotti a sé... more 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 1 Benché il testo sia il risultato del comune lavoro dei tre autori, Giulia de Spuches ha curato in particolare il paragrafo "Beni comuni nelle dinamiche urbane"; il paragrafo "Villa San Pio: storia dell'appropriazione di un vuoto urbano" è una collaborazione tra i tre autori, mentre Marco Picone ha curato il paragrafo "Il terzo spazio di Villa San Pio". Il lavoro svolto a Partinico, nella ricerca sul campo, si deve unicamente a Noemi Granà.
GEOGRAFIE CHE HANNO FATTO STORIA Grandi libri nella geografia italiana contemporanea I – Gli anni 1980 27 febbraio 2014
Ricezione dell'opera, scuole, riproduzione del personale scientifico: riflettendo su tre libr... more Ricezione dell'opera, scuole, riproduzione del personale scientifico: riflettendo su tre libri che hanno cambiato il modo di pensare la Geografia Coordina Franco Farinelli 10:30 – Saluti di apertura 11:00 – Claudio Cerreti e Claudio Minca presentano l'incontro 11:30 – Clara Copeta e Giulia de Spuches dialogano su Realtà sociali e paesaggio simbolico, di Denis Cosgrove (1984) 12:30 – Pausa e buffet 14:00 – Claudio Minca e Mario Neve dialogano su Le metafore della Terra, di Giuseppe Dematteis (1985) 15:00 – Claudio Cerreti ed Elena dell'Agnese dialogano su Per una geografia del potere, di Claude Raffestin (1981) 16:00 – Dibattito generale aperto al pubblico
Brancaccio come terreno d'azione. Sguardi geografici su un quartiere delle periferie di Palermo
ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI, 2007
Provare a seguire la storia urbana di Palermo significa cogliere le tra-sformazioni della città d... more Provare a seguire la storia urbana di Palermo significa cogliere le tra-sformazioni della città da diversi punti di vista. Vorrei cominciare la rifles-sione dallo sguardo più istituzionale: il ritaglio amministrativo. La Palermo del XIX secolo si presentava attraverso una divisione delle ...
Per una didattica della geografia sociale: sopralluoghi ed esplorazioni urbane
Geography Notebooks
This article analyses a didactic experience in the Borgo Ulivia neighborhood (Palermo), which ori... more This article analyses a didactic experience in the Borgo Ulivia neighborhood (Palermo), which originates from a research on council housing’s requalifying as a planning laboratory. In particular, its aim is to answer three questions: which choice guides the research in the field? What kind of didactic approach can we use? What kind of didactic restitution should be used? Within the didactic framework, answering these questions has three roles. First of all, we identify places capable of talking about tensions present at the local level but also in other geographical areas. Secondly, we reflect on the possible methods of research. Finally, we show how teaching is practiced both in the reflective approach and in the process of sharing with the class.
Le due Algeri di Pontecorvo: spazi sociali nella lotta all’indipendenza
Geography Notebooks
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Mediterraneo in diaspora. Soggetti plurali e nuove pratiche del domestico
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The fundamental question of the article is how one can grasp the sense of the landscape of the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994). Therefore, analyzing the famous film, the essay wants to correlate the sense of the landscape and the idea of nation.
The landscape as a symbol is the frame of reference that will be examined, in particular the line of thought that imagines the landscape as the mental construction of a subject. In this way it will be possible to highlight the relationship between landscape cinema and Australianness.
Finally, since the journey is, according to tradition, a place of encounters and clashes, exchanges and experiences, we will follow the adventures of the three protagonists along the road from Sydney to Alice Springs. Priscilla, the coach containing stories, represents the metaphor of the search for one’s own fluid identities under a present Australian landscape that reveals the construction of an ideological landscape, of a process of appropriation of spaces and, finally, still reveals the various identity and cultural differences.
“The sea is history” wrote Derek Walcott. The Mediterranean Sea is indeed also an open and fluid archive of migrants’ stories, lives and narratives, too long dehumanized and turned into mere numbers, deprived of their identities and their names. This counter-archive can interrupt the dominant and hegemonic narration of that part of world that let “the colonial” drawing on the Mediterranean Sea. The right to narrate means the right to be: literature is in this sense the key to have access to the narratives of today’s migration, a pris-de-mot to deconstruct “the danger of the single story”. In this scenario, a new Afroitalian awareness is raising with the aim to subvert the Italian gaze about its colonial history. Some of these writers, mostly women, through their narratives, their arts, their activism, let emerge those Black Italy voices which are silenced and removed.
representation? These aim at highlighting their political and positional nature within a way of thinking inspired by geographical studies and the feminist thought. So, an attempt to create the bonds for a reflection on the meaning of writing and translation, and on the sense of identity and alterity is made through the voices of authors like Morrison, Devi, and Spivak. It is in the border writing of postcolonial authors that we find a ‘space of in-between’ that allows what has been removed – a testimony of the Mediterranea matter – to emerge