Learning objectives
To offer a synthetic overview of the key concepts of the discipline, in order to understand the specific contribution of the geographical approach within an interdisciplinary perspective
Course unit content
The course aims at offering the basic notions related to the contemporary geographical research. The first part of the course will be devoted to a synthetic overview of the most important fields of investigation in current geographical studies, with a particular emphasis on the most urgent global problems. In the second part we will discuss topics such as the sense of belonging to places and the new forms of citizenship. Within a panoramic overview of the current international situation, we will study the new emerging tendencies at the local level, the new meanings acquired by the regional scale, the weaknesses of the traditional national geopolitical level, the growing importance of the international institutions.
Bibliography
Handbook (for everyone):
J. D. FELLMANN, M. D. BJELLAND, A. GETIS, J. GETIS, Geografia umana. Second Italian edition by S. Aru, G. de Spuches, V. Guarrasi, N. Mancini, M. Picone, A. Rondinone, G. Silvera, B. Vecchio, Milan, McGraw-Hill, 2011
One book chosen among the following tites:
1) Giacomo CORNA PELLEGRINI, Geografia diversa e preziosa. Il pensiero geografico in altri saperi umani, Rome, Carocci, 2007
2) Claudio CERRETI, Nadia FUSCO, Geografia e minoranze, Rome, Carocci, 2007
3) Cristiano GIORDA, La geografia nella scuola primaria, Rome, Carocci, 2006
4) Maria Luisa GENTILESCHI, Geografia delle migrazioni, Rome, Carocci, 2009
5) Alessandra SPADA, Che cos’è una carta geografica, Rome, Carocci, 2007
6) Armand FRÉMONT, Vi piace la geografia?, Rome, Carocci, 2007
7) SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, Atlante dell’immigrazione in Italia, Rome, Carocci, 2008
8) SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, Atlante dei trasporti in Italia, Rome, Carocci, 2008
9) SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, Atlante dell’Italia nel Mediterraneo, Rome, Carocci, 2008
10) Armando MONTANARI, Turismo urbano. Tra identità locale e cultura globale, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2008
11) Armando MONTANARI, Ecoturismo. Principi, metodi e pratiche, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2009
12) Armando MONTANARI, Turismo e sistemi di informazione geografica, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2010
13) Giacomo CORNA PELLEGRINI, Geografia dei valori culturali, Rome, Carocci, 2004
14) Franca CANIGIANI, Ambiente e paesaggio. Idee per i corsi di geografia e discipline ambientali, Florence, Nicomp, 2007
15) Elisa BIGNANTE, Geografia e ricerca visuale. Strumenti e metodi, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2011
A third text will be a fiction work chosen by the student, who will presenta geographically oriented reading (landscape desciptions, treatment of spatial themes, role of geographical maps in the development of the plot, etc.)
Teaching methods
Lectures, Power Point Presentations, class discussions
