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Nel mondo anglofono, la prima traduzione inglese de La production de l’espace (1974), pubblicata nel 1991 dalla casa editrice Blackwell muta radicalmente il dibattito degli studi spaziali, tanto che nel campo delle scienze sociali e umane si inizia a parlare di “svolta spaziale”. L’obiettivo di questo articolo è di restituire al lettore l’analisi dell’origine e dello sviluppo della “svolta spaziale” e i suoi legami con il postmodernismo, dimostrando gli errori teorici che hanno portato alcuni autori a leggere Lefebvre in chiave postmoderna.

The research applies the analytical model of the ‘Geography of Discontent’ to examine the populist vote in the Bassano area. The findings suggest that the relationship between territory and populist voting is not as strong and clearcut as argued by the literature. Furthermore, the study focuses on an emerging new ‘conurbation’ that goes beyond the Bassano area to include also those of Cittadella and Castelfranco. This may represent a novel case for placesensitive policies.

Mentre le politiche di supporto alle PMI considerano raramente l’artigianato nello specifico, quelle rivolte alla tutela ed alla valorizzazione dello stesso come insieme di tradizioni e/o come patrimonio culturale trascurano spesso la dimensione aziendale di tali imprese. Attraverso sei casi studio tra Veneto e Normandia (Francia), il nostro contributo evidenzia quali sono gli attori coinvolti e gli strumenti con le quali le politiche pubbliche intervengono con riferimento all’artigianato.

Il terziario logistico sopravanza nel mercato immobiliare e si espande oltre le aree metropolitane verso la diffusione insediativa degli impianti su suoli agricoli. A partire da una ricerca sul campo, l’articolo indaga le ricadute spaziali e le esternalità su ambiente, società e qualità della vita della logistica in provincia di Piacenza, dove dal 1980 si assiste al riflesso locale di tendenze globali e alla trasformazione delle norme urbanistiche, del governo della mano pubblica e del paesaggio.

The growing popularity of far-right groups in the global political landscape has led to a substantial rise in the number of studies on neo-fascism in recent years. However, these studies contain several flaws, partly because the very category of neo-fascism is problematic and has been used excessively in public debates to describe a wide range of personalities and parties. Nonetheless this literature review argues that the quality of research on neo-fascism has improved through the adoption of certain good practices in recent scholarship, including the tendency to reinterpret the turning point of 1945, to move beyond an event-driven analysis and to adopt a transnational approach.

This article provides an evaluation of studies on maritime security in the Italian Republic, as well as an initial interpretative framework. Specifically, it highlights the shift from a national maritime security model to an international/supranational model, which is typical of postmodern states. This shift is the result of the Italian maritime sector’s transformation during the Cold War. This transition was driven by globalisation and the sector’s integration into economic and military systems such as the EEC/EU and NATO.

The publication of Alessandro Stanziani’s Tensions of Social History provides a useful opportunity to reconsider the global field of ‘social history’, a topic that continues to be a fertile area of research. As the author suggests, adopting a ‘social history’ perspective on historiographical practices by focusing on the dialogical construction (in terms of social actors and geographical locations) of crucial junctions in historical research (archives, data, categories and models) could reinvigorate the debate in Italy as well.

The historiographical legitimacy of oral history has yet to be recognised in Italian academia. Scholars of contemporary history rarely use this methodology, and existing oral archives are overlooked by the very researchers who should be consulting them. Recent histories of the Italian Republic written by Italian authors neither draw on oral sources nor cite the historiography that has employed them. There are also no Italian books that systematically use oral sources to analyse the country’s long-term social history, and even when ego-documents are used in Italian historiography, ‘autobiographical writings’ (e.g. letters, diaries, memoirs) are considered much more legitimate than oral sources. There are at least three possible explanations for this situation. Firstly, sound studies have barely developed in Italian historiography, and many contemporary historians tend to prioritise institutional political history over social history and the history of collective subjects (women, workers, suburbs). Secondly, there is a problem relating to the preservation of oral history archives, which are difficult to access and do not have the tools to facilitate their use, such as catalogues, indexes, files and transcripts. Thirdly, there is a lack of proven and shared experience in the historiographical reuse of archival oral sources, that is, interviews conducted in the past with individuals and social groups who are no longer available.

This review of recent Italian publications on the public use of antiquity in post-unification Italy pays particular attention to the myths of romanità during the Fascist era. Significant changes in the historiographical debate in recent decades are highlighted, including the fact that the study of antiquity has become a privileged means of understanding broader political, cultural and social processes relating to the legitimisation of power, the role of images and exhibitions, urban space and the importance attributed to architecture, archaeology and art. The discussion on the public uses of antiquity and the myths of romanità reveals the many
complexities of this issue, from the protagonists via the tools used to transmit history to the lines of continuity and rupture between liberal Italy, Fascist Italy and republican Italy.

This article presents an analysis of a file concerning the racial assessment and contestation of a denaturalisation proceeding held in the Demorazza collection at the Central State Archive in Rome. The file relates to the naturalisation and subsequent denaturalisation of Giuseppe Blinderman, a ‘stateless’ individual of Jewish origin (first formerly Russian and then formerly Italian) in Fascist Italy. Focusing on Blinderman’s actions and skills in shaping his public identity according to the authorities’ criteria, the article aims to reconstruct Fascist denaturalisation policies and assess the relationship between the event triggered by the anti-Semitic denaturalisation measure and the previous naturalisation process. As with most cases of denaturalisation due to anti-Semitic legislation, the latter also occurred under the Fascist regime, but before the turning point of 1936–38. Adopting a bottom-up perspective, the article thus raises questions about the continuities and discontinuities represented by Fascism and, particularly, with regard to Fascist anti-Semitic policies on citizenship, revealing the interplay between ‘race’ and ‘nativeness’.

This article describes the history of Italian anti-fascism in Scotland between the two world wars. Drawing extensively on unique archival sources such as files of emigrants registered in the Central Political Register, consular reports, British naturalisation records and contemporary press, it highlights the peculiarity of the Italian Scottish case. Unlike other cases examined by historians, this one is characterised by a ‘silent’ anti-fascism. Accordingly, the article analyses the reasons for the absence of overt opposition to the Fascist regime and its local branches in Scotland. The article thus contributes to broadening the horizon and the debate on anti-fascism in Great Britain, which has so far focused on London and prominent antifascists and exiles residing in the metropolis. Furthermore, by shedding light on the experiences of ordinary ‘subversives’ in Scotland, it reveals internal community dynamics and the relationship between the centre and the periphery, reflecting the contradictions of the Fascist totalitarian system.

This article examines the cultural policies developed by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Italy during the Cold War, from the initial contact established after the Second World War until the end of the 1960s. An important transformation occurred during this period. Although initial exchanges were limited, both states began to actively pursue cultural policies in the mid-1950s. This gradually turned into open competition, particularly during the 1960s, which is reflected in the relationship between the two most influential German institutions based in Rome: the Deutsche Bibliothek, overseen by the West German embassy and the West German Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the Thomas Mann Centre, led by Italian intellectuals and supported by the GDR and the Italian Communist Party. The article will focus on the activities of the two institutions, drawing on a variety of German and Italian sources, ranging from the respective foreign ministries to those of the institutions themselves.

Gianluca Bei, Giacomo Spanu
Seguire le tracce: nuove prospettive geografiche tra cultural political eco-nomy e social fix

Edoardo Esposto, Giulio Moini, Barbara Pizzo
Il regime urbano di Roma alla prova della knowledge economy: rifles-sioni a partire dalla ricerca di Tommaso Fasciani sul Rome Technopole

Barbara Brollo
La conoscenza dell’economia della conoscenza: percorsi critici per Roma

Cesare Di Feliciantonio
Un’incursione femminista nel lavoro di Tommaso

Ernesto d’Albergo, Giorgio Giovanelli, Tiziana Nupieri
Dentro l’ecosistema dell’innovazione: proseguire l’analisi sociologica del Rome Technopole

Che cosa c’è di italiano nell’ambito della geografia letteraria? Si possono immaginare parametri linguistici, posizionali o socioculturali per classificare l’italianità di una pubblicazione? Quali attributi sono rilevanti in tale senso: il fatto che una pubblicazione «sia uscita in Italia», «sia scritta in italiano», «abbia un’autorialità italiana»? I limiti di tali categorie sono evidenti, soprattutto nell’epoca della glocalizzazione. In questo commentario, diversi autori e autrici si confrontano su questo tema, proponendo riflessioni sia su una determinata tematica, sia sulla condizione della geografia letteraria nella sfera italofona, individuando sfide e punti di forza.