13.03.2023, 11:00-Historical geography between theoretical developments and applied research perspectives
Module of lessons “Historical Studies”
Lesson on demand or blended
On site-Geohistory laboratory, building C, stairway C20, third floor
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Abstract
How can historical geography be useful? A question that many people – geographers and others only – for a long time have been asking themselves, searching for its place in the ranks of the scientific disciplines. Between two extremes, between two paradoxes, the discipline has laid its foundations theoretical: from "pastime for young ladies of good family," as defined by Paola Sereno in the 1981 Italian edition of Alan Baker's Progress in Human Geography (1972), to a perspective science with a clear design vocation. A long path aimed at the acquisition of temporal evolution (the diachronic dimension), at the awareness of the territory as an active subject, of the local dimension in spatial planning, the historicization of landscapes, etc. These are the themes that will be covered in the doctoral lecture, in an attempt to probe the process of epistemological renewal of the discipline which, in acquiring the need for a method with integrated scales and sources, will be able to grasp spatio-temporal change and, therefore, understand the different stages of spatial transformation from a perspective of perspective.
Speaker
Luisa Spagnoli
CNR of Rome
Coordinator
- Pierluigi De Felice
University of Salerno - Silvia Siniscalchi
University of Salerno
