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The Valtellina and UNESCO
Global in scope and transdisciplinary in method, this work examines the process through which local historic landscapes become global heritage sites. The Valtellina, a valley in the Italian Alps, is known for being unusually fertile for its elevation and latitude, and for the dry stone terraces on its steep hillsides that make this fertility possible. ProVinea, a local nonprofit, has applied to UNESCO to inscribe these landscapes onto its World Heritage list, representing the construction and use of the terraces as the heroic transformation of barren slopes into fertile fields. Drawing on Michel Serres’ theory of serial parasitism, this study demonstrates how ProVinea discursively and materially remakes the landscapes by culling the advantageous, eliminating the detrimental, and assembling the dispersed. A casualty of this process is a more complex and complete truth, one that this book aims to restore, while also acknowledging the validity of World Heritage’s efforts to build a global culture and ProVinea’s desire to connect to it.
Geographies of Mediterranean Europe
This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent decades. This thematically arranged book takes into account the national differences of the authors, but also highlights the main contributions of Mediterranean geographies on a global scale. It reinforces a perception of common problems and debates in Southern Europe. This book appeals to the institutionalized geographical community of Mediterranean countries but also to a global audience of scholars of geography, territorial and spatial studies, social sciences and history.
The Return of Proserpina
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed. Using the myth of Proserpina as a through line, Sarah Spence charts the relationship Western empire held with its myths and its own p...
Built Heritage in post-Disaster Scenarios
It is assumed that the impact of natural and man-made hazards on society in terms of damage cannot be avoided. To reduce potential disaster levels and to assess which policies have had a positive outcome, a careful comparison should take place on the procedures implemented in the management of crises. The experiences with the earthquakes in the Pianura Padana area and central regions of Italy in the last ten years have been incorporated in the 'After the Damages' advanced training project. This project aims to showcase recent innovations and advancements in post-disaster management, so as to take a more proactive role in post-disaster management, and to respond more effectively when disaster...
The Economics of Heritage
Based on the assupmtion that without understanding institutions, economists cannot make satisfactory policy prescriptions, this title draws conclusions on the strengths and limitations of applied economics in the field of heritage. Sicily provides an interesting backdrop against which the study is set, demonstrating the economic complexities of heritage and the range of economic tools and concepts which can be employed to analyse it. The book is a compilation of various approaches that economists trained in different branches of economics have brought to bear on heritage. It considers the political economy of heritage policy from a variety of perpesctives. It also discusses the public choice of fiscal federalism and looks at the problems of assessing the efficiency of policy measures. Finally it provides an overview of the national experiences in France, Scotland and Italy in terms of heritage policy.
Sicily and the Mediterranean
The island of Sicily has for centuries been a meeting point where civilizations transformed one another and gave life to the cultural developments at the foundation of European modernity. The essays collected here explore Sicily as a place where these cultural interactions have produced conflict but also new material and intellectual exchange.
ciudad y el consumo tras la globalización, La. Perspectivas internacionales del comercio urbano
La ciudad es producto y centro de los flujos debidos a la globalización, un proceso que no solo ha generado nuevas formas de desarrollo urbano, sino que también ha cambiado los hábitos de vida de los ciudadanos y los modelos de negocio. Fruto de las investigaciones de especialistas del Mediterráneo europeo y América Latina, este libro analiza desde diversas perspectivas la ciudad y lo urbano en los tiempos de las crisis contemporáneas, centrando la atención en las actividades ligadas al comercio y el consumo como principales funciones de la economía y de la vida cotidiana. Geógrafos, economistas, sociólogos, urbanistas, estudiosos de las artes y de la comunicación exponen sus conocimientos y experiencias para explicar el mundo que nos rodea y, a la vez, aportar soluciones que mejoren las políticas de gestión.
Entornos virtuales para la educación en tiempos de pandemia: perspectivas metodológicas.
El continuo y rápido avance de las Tecnologías de Información y la Comunicación (TIC) ha influido a diferentes niveles (económico, cultural, político,…), y, por tanto, también en el ámbito educativo. De manera natural los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje se han ido adaptando a las necesidades que la sociedad plantea, dando respuesta a las mismas para permitir la actualización y formación a lo largo de la vida de las personas. Un ejemplo de ello han sido las numerosas adaptaciones metodológicas que se han venido realizando en educación a raíz de la pandemia de la COVID-19 y la consiguiente declaración del estado de alarma en España. El profesorado ha tenido que formarse y especializarse a gran velocidad para adaptar cada una de las materias al entorno virtual a través de diversas herramientas y plataformas, improvisando en muchas ocasiones distintas estrategias de enseñanza para adecuarse a esta nueva situación. Con ello, han aparecido nuevas metodologías de aprendizaje que han influido tanto en el propio alumnado como en el clima de aula, suponiendo una innovación de los centros educativos.
