emigranti italiani tra confini e paesaggi di confine

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana ◽

10.36253/bsgi-1295 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 109-117

Author(s):

Flavia Cristaldi

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Differential Inclusion ◽

Economic Practices ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Relationship

In recent years a lot has been written about foreign migration in Italy, about the crossing of invisible borders that become liquid in the Mediterranean Sea, about the policies of exclusion that make Europe a fortress, about the narratives expressed by migrants and others actors who inform civil society of passages and invasions, less has been written on the crossing of borders by Italian emigrants. In this paper we want to analyze the relationship that has developed with borders by Italian emigrants, the role that these delimitations have assumed in the rhythms of life and socio-economic practices in the different national realities of the time, the importance of living on either side of a border in relation to being a desired or unwanted migrant and the representation of borders at the basis of some stereotypes, because borders, in the intertwining of their temporal, spatial and symbolic dimensions, have given life to numerous phenomena of differential inclusion.

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Cycling along a River: New Access, New Values?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12229311 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (22) ◽

pp. 9311

Author(s):

Matthieu Adam ◽

Marylise Cottet ◽

Sylvie Morardet ◽

Lise Vaudor ◽

Laure Coussout ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Local Population ◽

The Other ◽

Local People ◽

Natural Environments ◽

Lake Geneva ◽

Other Hand ◽

Preservation And Restoration ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Relationship

The ViaRhôna is an 815 km cycle route running along the Rhône River from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea. We examine the influence of this type of cycle route on the relationship between route users (including the local population, itinerant cyclists and foreign tourists) and the river landscapes. This relationship is approached from the angle of the use of the riverbanks as well as the perceived image, the value, and the knowledge associated with the river and its landscapes. Our survey based on interviews (n = 16) and questionnaires (n = 546) produced the following results. The features of the cycle route and the related activities that it makes possible drain a special segment of the population that, in spite of its diverse sociological composition, shares similar tastes. The creation of the cycle route has led to an increase in use of the riverbanks both by tourists and local people. The experience that it offers contributes to enhancing the value that users place on the river. This is due to a change in the image of the river following the (re)discovery of its natural environments. On the other hand, knowledge of one’s natural environments is not modified. These results raise the question of possible changes in the degree to which users support policies targeting the preservation and restoration of the river.

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Within the Borders but Not Really in South Africa

African Diaspora ◽

10.1163/18725465-01001007 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1-2) ◽

pp. 117-138

Author(s):

Admire Chereni

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Differential Inclusion ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Circular Migration ◽

Left Behind ◽

Economic Practices ◽

Eventual Return ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article explores the relationship between economic and social aspects of differential inclusion in South Africa as well as migrants’ notions and practices of home and belonging. It is based on narratives provided by Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, and considers what this relationship might imply for how we understand circular migration. It finds that, differential inclusion – emanating from migrants’ experiences of deportability, insecure residence, marginal economic practices, uncertain futurity and temporal disruptions, that punctuated their post-arrival everyday life – shapes migrants’ perceptions of home as a concrete site left behind to which migrants strive to return. Conversely, negative evaluations of livelihood opportunities in Zimbabwe fuel an orientation towards an imminent yet continually deferred eventual return.

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'Fuel Burns Mixed with Seawater': The Relationship Between the Refugee Tragedy and the Ecological Crisis in the Mediterranean Sea in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3802964 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ashwaq Basnawi

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Relationship

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Co-occurrence of a reef-building coral and canopy-forming macroalgae in the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Marine Science ◽

10.12681/mms.26967 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

ALÈSSIA PONS-FITA ◽

DIEGO K. KERSTING ◽

ENRIC BALLESTEROS

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Small Scale ◽

Case Scenario ◽

Worst Case ◽

Future Studies ◽

Cladocora Caespitosa ◽

New Information ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Relationship

Canopy-forming macroalgae are amongst the main competitors of corals by affecting coral recruitment, growth of recruits and adults, fecundity and in the worst-case scenario causing coral bleaching and necrosis. However, potentially reef-building coral Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) and canopy-forming macroalgae of the order Fucales (Cystoseira sensu lato) are known to concur in a few places of the Mediterranean Sea. Here we look at the small-scale relationships between Cladocora abundance and Cystoseira s. l. densities at three different places where they coexist. Relationships have turned out to be both species and site-specific even though most relationships are neutral, pointing to a predominant concurrence of corals and macroalgae at the small scale. These findings shed new information on the relationship between corals and fleshy macroalgae in a temperate environment and serve as a starting point for future studies addressing the interactions between C. caespitosa and Cystoseira s. l.

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First evidence of endemic Murinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) in the early Pliocene of the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean)

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756818000985 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 156 (10) ◽

pp. 1742-1750 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Enric Torres-Roig ◽

Pedro Piñero ◽

Jordi Agustí ◽

Pere Bover ◽

Josep Antoni Alcover

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Western Mediterranean ◽

Balearic Islands ◽

New Taxon ◽

Early Pliocene ◽

High Occurrence ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Additional Support ◽

The Relationship

AbstractA new insular species of Paraethomys (Muridae, Rodentia) with medium-sized hypsodont teeth is described from the Zanclean of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean). The m1 displays the most distinctive traits: hypsodonty, a high occurrence of an unusual anterior cingulum, a well-developed labial cingulum, high accessory labial cuspids resembling the Apodemus pattern and a funnel between c1 and the hypoconid. Paraethomys balearicus sp. nov. preserves traits close to those present in the earliest populations of Paraethomys meini from the upper Turolian, such as a developed posterior spur on t3 in the M1, a connection between t4 and t8 in the M1, a narrow connection between t6 and t9 in the M1 and the occasional presence of an individualized t9 and a t12 in some M2s. The relationship between the new taxon and its direct mainland ancestor gives additional support to a Messinian origin for the so-called Myotragus fauna, which became isolated after the refilling of the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 Ma ago. The absence of Paraethomys in other known younger Mallorcan sites suggests that its extinction most probably occurred at an indeterminate time during the Pliocene Epoch.

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Luigi Cosenza, Bernard Rudofsky and Gio Ponti and the Secret of the Mediterranean Sea

Proceedings Article ◽

10.38027/iccaua2021186n6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Concetta Tavoletta ◽

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Domestic Space ◽

Great Mother ◽

The Gaze ◽

Single Substance ◽

Innovative Idea ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Relationship

Landscape, cavity, courtyard, skin, pergola are some of the elements of the Mediterranean abacus that architecture tries to transfigure into a single substance but also as a derivation of a great mother, the Mediterranean Sea. However, we can suppose that all these elements come from an idea that acts as a trait d'union, an intuition that made the domestic space of the Mare Nostrum the place of the myth of living: the innovative idea of horizon summarized as the ability of the gaze to observe outward. Gio Ponti, Bernard Rudofsky and Luigi Cosenza are the architects of the materialization of this idea where the horizon is not only found in the relationship with the landscape but is present within the domestic space. In this space full of symbolism and origin, three houses are a body to be vivisected and rediscovered. Casa per Positano... and other shores, Hotel San Michele in Capri, Casa a Procida become autoptic and utopian spaces from which to steal the secret of the Mediterranean Sea.

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