CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Lectures, seminar activities, field lessons, screening of docufilms and any excursions that will be proposed by the teacher during the course.

Cultural Geography: the origins of Cultural Geography, territory and culture, Geography and religion, power and territory; Mediterranean and Europe: unifying traits of culture and civilization, the man at the center of the world, women and space; Urban Geography: the geographer and the city, the urban population, the urban environment, the shape of the city, the rank of cities, city maps; Geography and cartography: the maps in the Classical era, the Middle Ages "dark age" of cartography, mapping and discovery, topographic and chorographic mapping, cartography and technological innovation, GIS; Geography of the landscape: the concept of landscape, geographical landscape, agricultural landscape protection and landscape planning; Social Geography: homes, geography of poverty, inequality and geography, geography and health; Political Geography, Geography and communication, cultural territories and society; Geography of the Mediterranean: the "cracks" and the regional geopolitical system; Sicilian landscape: the evolution of the territory and the change in the landscape; Cultural Geography and Tourism: Cultural Heritage, Territoriality and Identity, Authenticity, Art, Traditions, Urban, Rural and Cultural Routes.

- C. GIOVANNINI, S. TORRESANI, Geografie, Mondadori, Milano 2004, pp. 1-197.

- S. CANNIZZARO, G.L. CORINTO, C.M. PORTO, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla frattura regionale al processo d’integrazione, Pàtron, Bologna, 2009 (Studiare il capitolo 1), pp. 1-72.

- S. CANNIZZARO, Per una geografia del turismo. Ricerche e casi studio in Italia, Pàtron, Bologna, 2011, pp. 1-227.

- S. CANNIZZARO, G.L. CORINTO, Paesaggio in Sicilia. Dialogo territoriale ed episodi paesaggistici, Pàtron, Bologna, 2013, pp. 1-109.

- S. CANNIZZARO, Cultura e creatività per la valorizzazione territoriale, Pàtron, Bologna, 2018, pp. 1-195.