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Videos by Fabrizio Eva
The video put together videoclips taken from fictions, movies, TVnews services and documentaries,... more The video put together videoclips taken from fictions, movies, TVnews services and documentaries, in order to underline how the mental process of selfcaging made by every human being is so strong that it should be considered when there is the attempt and the will to solve complex geopolitical dynamics.
In particular when the narrative and the iconographies are related to the so-called (cultural, linguistic, religious etc.) "identity" of two or more human group.
23 minutes, presented at the 2nd ICAAG conference in Rabastens France in 2019.
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Papers by Fabrizio Eva
Social Science Research Network, 2024
The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media a... more The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media and the most of I.R. experts, is that the current borders of the pretended anarchic international order are untouchable in order to get “stability” (and peace, they say).
Conceptually, the duration of the present boundaries seems to be conceived as eternal, because the top-down exercise of power is always concrete in space which must be fixed and delimitated; but this is in contrast with the human dynamics and life forms which are, in general, necessarily in a process of bio-physical, social and cultural change. It is a human character. The current conception of ‘eternal’ borders is the main source of the geopolitical problems.
Better reduce the sacredness (and the narratives about) borders and use them in a functional way, starting from the basic, concrete human needs. There are practical examples working since years/decades.
Social Science Research Network, 2013
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration to contribute to the processes of resolution/management of human conflict.
Social Science Research Network, May 13, 2020
In this article I highlight the gap between the principles of inter-state relations (as espoused ... more In this article I highlight the gap between the principles of inter-state relations (as espoused by the United Nations and the so-called ‘International Community’) and their actual practice, suggesting that the critical stance of anarchist geographies provides a good perspective to better understand ‘International Relations’. The article traces the links between ‘classical’ and contemporary anarchist geographies, before offering an analytical procedure informed by an anarchic critical approach to Geopolitics.
Social Science Research Network, 2016
Ekistics and The New Habitat, 2003
The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso... more The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso campus, Italy, with a course on Political and Economic Geography. Previously he had annual contracts at the Institute of Human Geography, State University of Milan with courses on Geopolitical Dynamics and Analyzing Methods. He is corresponding member of the IGU World Political Map Commission. He is a member of the editorial board of the international reviews Geography Research Forum, Geopolitics, and The Arab World Geographer. His academic interests include current geopolitical dynamics, international relations, borders and nation-state issues, ethnonationalisms, political and economic dynamics in Eastern Asia (particularly China and Japan), the geopolitical legacy of Elisée Reclus, Piotr Kropotkin and anarchic thought. Recent publications are: Cina e Giappone. Due modelli per il futuro dell' Asia (Turin, UTET Libreria, 2000); "La geografia politica," in M. Casari, G. Cor...
Ekistics and The New Habitat, 2003
The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso... more The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso campus, Italy, with a course on Political and Economic Geography. Previously he had annual contracts at the Institute of Human Geography, State University of Milan with courses on Geopolitical Dynamics and Analyzing Methods. He is corresponding member of the IGU World Political Map Commission. He is a member of the editorial board of the international reviews Geography Research Forum, Geopolitics, and The Arab World Geographer. His academic interests include current geopolitical dynamics, international relations, borders and nation-state issues, ethnonationalisms, political and economic dynamics in Eastern Asia (particularly China and Japan), the geopolitical legacy of Elisée Reclus, Piotr Kropotkin and anarchic thought. Recent publications are: Cina e Giappone. Due modelli per il futuro dell' Asia (Turin, UTET Libreria, 2000); "La geografia politica," in M. Casari, G. Cor...
Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what wa... more Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what was then named Orient without any critical concern, he was a very attentive observer and, in some way, a precise reporter. His short stories, novels and his impressions go far beyond the simply description; he is able to point out and to show us the historic sense of the places, but also the more ordinary aspects of the various humanity who lives there. Reading him today it is surprising to find notations and comments which a traveler or also an attentive tourist can compare with the contemporary situations. It is possible to find the same desire of a cultural discovery of the Other and of the human history depth through the archeological legacy and the temporal profound of the geographical space. It is rather misplacing to read his comments about the effects of the so-called modernization along the aesthetical and constructional Western shape, and about the impact on the places and on the behaviors as a consequence of the already standardized mass touristic flows. His disgusted comments about the groups of the tourist agency Thomas Cook and similar are rather frequent. It's misplacing because who travels or traveled in the same places has the impression that those comments aren't a century or more old, but that they are a contemporary report. The sense and the aim of the presentation is to start from Pierre Loti's words and sentences, in particular the ones related to Egypt and Jerusalem/Palestine, in order to underline that Loti's comments had be useful for a better managing both the so-called modernization and the mass tourism with a more concerned attention to the space. Today a comparison with what happened concretely in the cultural and physical drift of the Mediterranean environment could be useful, even if it's late, in reorienting that dynamics and in rescuing (or try to do it) a cultural and historic vision. For preserving/restoring the spaces, but also for the Mediterranean development as a whole, not only the coastal one.
Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what wa... more Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what was then named Orient without any critical concern, he was a very attentive observer and, in some way, a precise reporter. His short stories, novels and his impressions go far beyond the simply description; he is able to point out and to show us the historic sense of the places, but also the more ordinary aspects of the various humanity who lives there. Reading him today it is surprising to find notations and comments which a traveler or also an attentive tourist can compare with the contemporary situations. It is possible to find the same desire of a cultural discovery of the Other and of the human history depth through the archeological legacy and the temporal profound of the geographical space. It is rather misplacing to read his comments about the effects of the so-called modernization along the aesthetical and constructional Western shape, and about the impact on the places and on the behaviors as a consequence of the already standardized mass touristic flows. His disgusted comments about the groups of the tourist agency Thomas Cook and similar are rather frequent. It's misplacing because who travels or traveled in the same places has the impression that those comments aren't a century or more old, but that they are a contemporary report. The sense and the aim of the presentation is to start from Pierre Loti's words and sentences, in particular the ones related to Egypt and Jerusalem/Palestine, in order to underline that Loti's comments had be useful for a better managing both the so-called modernization and the mass tourism with a more concerned attention to the space. Today a comparison with what happened concretely in the cultural and physical drift of the Mediterranean environment could be useful, even if it's late, in reorienting that dynamics and in rescuing (or try to do it) a cultural and historic vision. For preserving/restoring the spaces, but also for the Mediterranean development as a whole, not only the coastal one.
Human Geography, 2012
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Human Geography, 2012
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Geography Notebooks, 2021
The article aims to introduce the practices of social geography through the description of the co... more The article aims to introduce the practices of social geography through the description of the conceptual and practical path on the territory that led to picking up the study case and the implementation of the research. After a conceptual introduction on the ethical motivations of those who want to do social geography and having indicated which tools the geographer can use and which practices are more useful, the article outlines the theoretical and geographical context of the identified case study, and then move on to the description of the concrete aspects of the observed experience. The conclusion is actually only an update of how the experience resisted the impact of the pandemic and how the expressed ideal references and the concrete experience maintain their continuity and coherence over time
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconogra-phies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation , and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the 'imagi-nation' mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socioeconomic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective a...
The video put together videoclips taken from fictions, movies, TVnews services and documentaries,... more The video put together videoclips taken from fictions, movies, TVnews services and documentaries, in order to underline how the mental process of selfcaging made by every human being is so strong that it should be considered when there is the attempt and the will to solve complex geopolitical dynamics.
In particular when the narrative and the iconographies are related to the so-called (cultural, linguistic, religious etc.) "identity" of two or more human group.
23 minutes, presented at the 2nd ICAAG conference in Rabastens France in 2019.
1 views
Social Science Research Network, 2024
The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media a... more The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media and the most of I.R. experts, is that the current borders of the pretended anarchic international order are untouchable in order to get “stability” (and peace, they say).
Conceptually, the duration of the present boundaries seems to be conceived as eternal, because the top-down exercise of power is always concrete in space which must be fixed and delimitated; but this is in contrast with the human dynamics and life forms which are, in general, necessarily in a process of bio-physical, social and cultural change. It is a human character. The current conception of ‘eternal’ borders is the main source of the geopolitical problems.
Better reduce the sacredness (and the narratives about) borders and use them in a functional way, starting from the basic, concrete human needs. There are practical examples working since years/decades.
Social Science Research Network, 2013
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration to contribute to the processes of resolution/management of human conflict.
Social Science Research Network, May 13, 2020
In this article I highlight the gap between the principles of inter-state relations (as espoused ... more In this article I highlight the gap between the principles of inter-state relations (as espoused by the United Nations and the so-called ‘International Community’) and their actual practice, suggesting that the critical stance of anarchist geographies provides a good perspective to better understand ‘International Relations’. The article traces the links between ‘classical’ and contemporary anarchist geographies, before offering an analytical procedure informed by an anarchic critical approach to Geopolitics.
Social Science Research Network, 2016
Ekistics and The New Habitat, 2003
The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso... more The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso campus, Italy, with a course on Political and Economic Geography. Previously he had annual contracts at the Institute of Human Geography, State University of Milan with courses on Geopolitical Dynamics and Analyzing Methods. He is corresponding member of the IGU World Political Map Commission. He is a member of the editorial board of the international reviews Geography Research Forum, Geopolitics, and The Arab World Geographer. His academic interests include current geopolitical dynamics, international relations, borders and nation-state issues, ethnonationalisms, political and economic dynamics in Eastern Asia (particularly China and Japan), the geopolitical legacy of Elisée Reclus, Piotr Kropotkin and anarchic thought. Recent publications are: Cina e Giappone. Due modelli per il futuro dell' Asia (Turin, UTET Libreria, 2000); "La geografia politica," in M. Casari, G. Cor...
Ekistics and The New Habitat, 2003
The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso... more The author is an annual contract professor at the University of Venice - Ca' Foscari, Treviso campus, Italy, with a course on Political and Economic Geography. Previously he had annual contracts at the Institute of Human Geography, State University of Milan with courses on Geopolitical Dynamics and Analyzing Methods. He is corresponding member of the IGU World Political Map Commission. He is a member of the editorial board of the international reviews Geography Research Forum, Geopolitics, and The Arab World Geographer. His academic interests include current geopolitical dynamics, international relations, borders and nation-state issues, ethnonationalisms, political and economic dynamics in Eastern Asia (particularly China and Japan), the geopolitical legacy of Elisée Reclus, Piotr Kropotkin and anarchic thought. Recent publications are: Cina e Giappone. Due modelli per il futuro dell' Asia (Turin, UTET Libreria, 2000); "La geografia politica," in M. Casari, G. Cor...
Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what wa... more Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what was then named Orient without any critical concern, he was a very attentive observer and, in some way, a precise reporter. His short stories, novels and his impressions go far beyond the simply description; he is able to point out and to show us the historic sense of the places, but also the more ordinary aspects of the various humanity who lives there. Reading him today it is surprising to find notations and comments which a traveler or also an attentive tourist can compare with the contemporary situations. It is possible to find the same desire of a cultural discovery of the Other and of the human history depth through the archeological legacy and the temporal profound of the geographical space. It is rather misplacing to read his comments about the effects of the so-called modernization along the aesthetical and constructional Western shape, and about the impact on the places and on the behaviors as a consequence of the already standardized mass touristic flows. His disgusted comments about the groups of the tourist agency Thomas Cook and similar are rather frequent. It's misplacing because who travels or traveled in the same places has the impression that those comments aren't a century or more old, but that they are a contemporary report. The sense and the aim of the presentation is to start from Pierre Loti's words and sentences, in particular the ones related to Egypt and Jerusalem/Palestine, in order to underline that Loti's comments had be useful for a better managing both the so-called modernization and the mass tourism with a more concerned attention to the space. Today a comparison with what happened concretely in the cultural and physical drift of the Mediterranean environment could be useful, even if it's late, in reorienting that dynamics and in rescuing (or try to do it) a cultural and historic vision. For preserving/restoring the spaces, but also for the Mediterranean development as a whole, not only the coastal one.
Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what wa... more Pierre Loti, traveler, writer and with a strong empathy for the places and the culture of what was then named Orient without any critical concern, he was a very attentive observer and, in some way, a precise reporter. His short stories, novels and his impressions go far beyond the simply description; he is able to point out and to show us the historic sense of the places, but also the more ordinary aspects of the various humanity who lives there. Reading him today it is surprising to find notations and comments which a traveler or also an attentive tourist can compare with the contemporary situations. It is possible to find the same desire of a cultural discovery of the Other and of the human history depth through the archeological legacy and the temporal profound of the geographical space. It is rather misplacing to read his comments about the effects of the so-called modernization along the aesthetical and constructional Western shape, and about the impact on the places and on the behaviors as a consequence of the already standardized mass touristic flows. His disgusted comments about the groups of the tourist agency Thomas Cook and similar are rather frequent. It's misplacing because who travels or traveled in the same places has the impression that those comments aren't a century or more old, but that they are a contemporary report. The sense and the aim of the presentation is to start from Pierre Loti's words and sentences, in particular the ones related to Egypt and Jerusalem/Palestine, in order to underline that Loti's comments had be useful for a better managing both the so-called modernization and the mass tourism with a more concerned attention to the space. Today a comparison with what happened concretely in the cultural and physical drift of the Mediterranean environment could be useful, even if it's late, in reorienting that dynamics and in rescuing (or try to do it) a cultural and historic vision. For preserving/restoring the spaces, but also for the Mediterranean development as a whole, not only the coastal one.
Human Geography, 2012
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Human Geography, 2012
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconographies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation, and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the ‘imagination’ mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socio-economic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective aspiration ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Geography Notebooks, 2021
The article aims to introduce the practices of social geography through the description of the co... more The article aims to introduce the practices of social geography through the description of the conceptual and practical path on the territory that led to picking up the study case and the implementation of the research. After a conceptual introduction on the ethical motivations of those who want to do social geography and having indicated which tools the geographer can use and which practices are more useful, the article outlines the theoretical and geographical context of the identified case study, and then move on to the description of the concrete aspects of the observed experience. The conclusion is actually only an update of how the experience resisted the impact of the pandemic and how the expressed ideal references and the concrete experience maintain their continuity and coherence over time
Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of ... more Human beings, both individually and collectively, are simultaneously victims and perpetrators of the ongoing process of caging (more related to iconogra-phies and power) and self-caging (which is more subjective and individual, related to both iconographies and movement). The independent and difficult-to-control action of memes has the function of circulation , and favours the composition, decomposition and re-composition of human groups in societies, perhaps constituting the primary fuel for the 'imagi-nation' mechanisms that (trans)form cultural islands and cultural drift. This ongoing dynamic shows itself and crystallizes in physical space, which is what geographers must carefully observe. This is particularly true for political geographers, who also analyse the same dynamics from the perspective of those socioeconomic pyramids that are states or whatever other power structure that has been formally declared and/ or socially recognized – and perhaps with some subjective a...
The conception of society as a pyramid is strongly rooted and spread over the different world cul... more The conception of society as a pyramid is strongly rooted and spread over the different world cultures that it could be considered as “universal ” in the sense given by E.Reclus. The current world geopolitical structure (the world order) is transforming according to hierarchical-elitarian principles in economy, hierarchical flexibility or authority in conformity with the various social cultures, and (but only as a “noble ” fiction) in accordance with the Western idealistic equalitarian-participating principles. It is taking on a shape of a world order at the same time Ultracentered, Pluricentered and Intercentered, depending from the level (or part) of the hierarchy/pyramid of power you are considering.
Geography Notebooks, 2021
La descrizione di una iniziativa di occupazione di una fabbrica vicino a Milano, a seguito di chi... more La descrizione di una iniziativa di occupazione di una fabbrica vicino a Milano, a seguito di chiusura, da parte dei dipendenti con l'obiettivo di garantirsi un reddito e di ripendare lo spazio e le attività con un approccio solidaristico e nel senso di una azione prefigurativa di una società diversa.
L'articolo delinea anche il percorso concettuale e operativo della ricerca per favorie la comprensione di cosa possa essere la geografia sociale e quale ruolo possa avere il/la ricercatore/trice geograf*.
![Research paper thumbnail of [with Fabrizio Eva] Pëtr Aleksejevic Kropotkin (1842-1921)](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/38297667/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](M. Schmidt di Friedberg (ed.), Cos’é il mondo? E’ un globo di cartone: insegnare geografia fra Otto e Novecento, Milan: Unicopli, p. 131-150, 2010
Presented to the Third ABS Int Conference, 2023
The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media a... more The conceptual cage of the nation-states system, supported by political leaders, the mass media and the most of I.R. experts, is that the current borders of the pretended anarchic international order are untouchable in order to get "stability" (and peace, they say). Conceptually, the duration of the present boundaries seems to be conceived as eternal, because the top-down exercise of power is always concrete in space which must be fixed and delimitated; but this is in contrast with the human dynamics and life forms which are, in general, necessarily in a process of bio-physical, social and cultural change. It is a human character. The current conception of 'eternal' borders is the main source of the geopolitical problems. Better reduce the sacredness (and the narratives about) borders and use them in a functional way, starting from the basic, concrete human needs. There are practical examples working since years/decades.
The commented ppt outlines the theoretical and geographical context of the indentified case study... more The commented ppt outlines the theoretical and geographical context of the indentified case study: RiMaflow, a former industrial site south of Milan, Italy, occupied when in December 2012 the owner decided to close it and since then self-managed by the workers, and ideologically and spatially re-thought according to a co-operative approach. Then the ppt moves on to the description of the concrete aspects of the observed new experience: how the physical spaces are conceived and utilized in a different way in comparison to the architectural mental frame of an industrial site. The ppt highlights also the legal and political difficulties that the workers had to deal with and how, for getting a legal recognition, they had to move in a different industrial site and how this impacted with prosecution of the activities and with the surviving of the experience.
The conclusion is actually an update (October 2022) of how the experience resisted the impact of the pandemic and how the expressed ideal references and the concrete experience maintain their continuity and coherence over time.
At the 2nd ICAAG-CIGAL conference in June 2019 I presented a video (23 minutes long) on the conce... more At the 2nd ICAAG-CIGAL conference in June 2019 I presented a video (23 minutes long) on the concept of selfcaging and mental-physical borders with clips mainly on the Ulster/Brexit issue and few more taken from movies and videodocs. The video is 462 Mega in English, with conceptual subtitles in English when there are different languages.
Who is interested in having the video can send me an email and I'll send it via Wetransfer).
Brexit – the process of the UK leaving the European Union – has been a major political issue over... more Brexit – the process of the UK leaving the European Union – has been a major political issue over the last two years. In the context of rising nationalisms across global North and South, alongside emergent authoritarianisms and ‘hipster Stalinism’ within the broader radical left, anarchist perspectives are needed now more than ever, as the only perspective that has been resolute in its libertarian and egalitarian principles. Yet, certainly in the UK, the anarchist movement is at its weakest point in a generation, partly having been undermined and outwitted by state-centric populist electoralism (most notably, the Labour Party under Corbyn), and partly failing to coherently address the contemporary (geo)political context.
As geographers, there will be spatially uneven effects of Brexit, within the UK and across Europe and the world, as trade relations, treaties and state regulations become disentangled and realigned. In the scenario of a disorderly ‘no deal’ withdrawal, the functions of society that ensure day-to-day survival (e.g. social reproduction, work, healthcare) may struggle or collapse. In the context of emergency, it is well documented that communal relations flourish. Thus, we face opportunities for both research agendas for tracing the dynamics of Brexit itself, and for understanding the underlying fabric of society through its pressure points, fissures and, in Colin Ward’s words, proto-anarchist “seeds beneath the snow”.
Thus, Brexit may be an opportunity to rethink anarchism and anarchist geography – not only for those on the British Isles but also for those across the world who now face opponents who are emboldened by the reactionary discourses of Brexit (e.g. in Italy, France, Hungary). Nevertheless, given the many regressive and violent characteristics of the EU, leaving its control may also reveal opportunities.
Il 30 e 31 ottobre 2021, le Cucine del Popolo e la FAI Reggiana organizzano a Massenzatico (RE) u... more Il 30 e 31 ottobre 2021, le Cucine del Popolo e la FAI Reggiana organizzano a Massenzatico (RE) un convegno internazionale per il centenario del grande pensatore anarchico Pietro Kropotkin (1842-1921), in connessione con l'evento che ha avuto luogo virtualmente all'Università di São Paulo in Brasile. A Massenzatico, le discussioni sulla figura di Kropotkin e la sua eredità intellettuale e politica saranno accompagnate da eventi musicali, teatrali e gastronomici organizzati in modo autogestito dalle Cucine del Popolo Per evidenti motivi, per l'accesso alla sala del convegno e alle iniziative ricreative serali sarà tassativamente necessario munirsi di Green Pass o tampone, in ottemperanza alle attuali regole Covid. Dato il numero limitato di posti, è indispensabile prenotarsi ai recapiti indicati di seguito.
La forza dell'immaginazione e dell'imitazione: isole e derive culturali . Il meccanismo mentale p... more La forza dell'immaginazione e dell'imitazione: isole e derive culturali . Il meccanismo mentale per cui si crede che quello che è pensato o ripetuto continuamente sia vero può essere analizzato e compreso a partire dal concetto di meme, "egoista" come il gene, elaborato da Richard Dawkins (1995). I memi che nel tempo si cristallizzano in iconografie (vedi Jean Gottmann) sono quelli ripetuti spontaneamente o che vengono continuamente ripetuti e diffusi dai mass media e dai discrosi ufficiali. E' un meccanismo identico in tutte le dinamiche di gruppo, compreso l'ambito ideologico ed evidenti in quelle della politica, del nazionalismo, delle identità. Chi condivide gli stessi memi tende a costituire ciò che si può definire, riprendendo l'approccio di Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza (2010), una isola culturale; che si cerca di preservare dai cambiamenti rafforzando la ripetizione (a parole, coi simboli e nei comportamenti) dei memi che vengono definiti "tradizioni" e/o "valori". La finalità inconsciamente condivisa e profondamente umana è quella di proteggersi grazie alla solidarietà del gruppo. L'antropologo Stefano Boni parla di una "omogeneità [che] si ottiene mediante meccanismi comunicativi minuti e quotidiani (il pettegolezzo e la lode, la smorfia e il sorriso, l'esclusione e l'accoglienza, la multa e il premio) che scoraggiano la devianza e incoraggiano il conformismo" (Boni, 2011, p.51).
L'articolo (pubblicato in inglese nel 2012 sulla rivista Human Geography) sottolinea e cerca di esemplificare come questi meccanismi, profondamente "umani", siano inevitabilemtne connessi alla dimensione delle scelte delle parole e delle azioni concrete della geopolitica.