Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe: Discourses, Images, and Practices

ISBN-13: 9783030667689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Tiziana Banini; Oana-Ramona Ilovan; Anssi Paasi

Spis treści

Foreword. Place, Territory and Identities in a Fast-changing World

Anssi Paasi

INTRODUCTION: DEALING WITH TERRITORIAL/PLACE IDENTITY REPRESENTATIONS

Tiziana BANINI, Oana-Ramona ILOVAN

PART I. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: RE-BUILDING PLACE-BASED RELATIONS

Living at the Esquilino: Representations and Self-Representations of a Multi-ethnic Central District in Rome

Tiziana BANINI

Shifting Imageries: Gentrification and the New Touristic Images of the Inner City of Palermo

Marco PICONE

Place, Identity and Local Music Representation in Touristic Backgrounds of Romanian Medium-Sized Towns

Ioan Sebastian JUCU

Sentiment and Visual Analysis. A Case Study of E-Participation to Give Value to Territorial Instances

Valentina ALBANESE

Landscape as ‘Working Field’ for Territorial Identity in Friuli Venezia Giulia Ecomuseums Action

Andrea GUARAN, Enrico MICHELUTTI

PART II. REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIONS AND CITIES: EVER-CHANGING TERRITORIAL IDENTITIES

Sense of Place as Spatial Control: Austerity and Place Processes among Young People in Ballymun, Dublin

Sander VAN LANEN

Place-identity Discourses in “Tunnel of Time: 10x10 Ten Decades of Romania in One Hundred Images”

Kinga Xénia HAVADI-NAGY

Visual Discourse and Urban Spatial Identity in Picture Postcards during Socialist Romania (1948-1989)

Oana-Ramona ILOVAN

Identification and Interpretation of the Territorial Identity Elements of a Small Industrial Town Using Postcards. Case Study: Anina, Romania

Florentina-Cristina MERCIU, Andreea-Loreta CERCLEUX, George-Laurențiu MERCIU

PART III. NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES AND BELONGING: STATE BORDERS AND INTERNAL MIGRATIONS

Everyday Territorial Identities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova: A Case Study on the Impacts of Territorial Representations from Above

Lisa GOHLKE

Past Bordering Practices Modelling Present Representations: Transylvanian Saxons’ Administrative Units and the Chair of Rupea / Repser Stuhl / Kőhalom Szék

Zoltan MAROȘI

There Is Always a Way Out! Images of Place and Identity for Women Escaping Domestic Violence

Janet C. BOWSTEAD

PART IV. CHALLENGES AND STEREOTYPES: REPRESENTING RURAL AREAS

The Green Illusion: Rural Representations and Poverty in Ariège, France

Celia INNOCENTI

Spatial Imaginations as a Form of Rural Representation. Lessons from Poland

Marcin WÓJCIK, Paulina TOBIASZ-LIS, Pamela JEZIORSKA-BIEL

Iron Men on Wooden Boats: Connection and Isolation between Local Culture and the Sea in Coastal Donegal

Atalya PERITZ, Liam M. CARR

CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A NEW AGENDA FOR PLACE/TERRITORIAL IDENTITY RESEARCH

Tiziana BANINI, Oana-Ramona ILOVAN

O autorze

Tiziana Banini is Associate Professor of Geography at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. In 2012 she gained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Geography. She is the National Coordinator of the Research Group of A.Ge.I. (Association of Italian Geographers) on "Territorial Identity" (since 2008). Her main research interests are in territorial identity, socio-cultural processes, local development and participative processes, environmental issues and problems.

Oana-Ramona Ilovan is Associate Professor of Geography at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Territorial Identity and Development (since 2016) and the Director of Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre. Her main research interests are regional geography, territorial identity, qualitative methodology, cultural landscapes, participative processes and urban development.

Blurb

This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereotypes. A mixed methodology is employed to research case studies at diverse territorial scales which are relevant to the impact of a variety of factors on place/territorial identity processes such as migration, political and economic changes, natural disasters, land use changes, etc. Visual imagery, constructing visual discourses and living within visual cultures are placed in the foreground and refer to among others the changes and challenges introduced by the Internet and social networks in place/territory representations and self-representations; identity politics and its impact on place/territorial identity representations; discourses in shaping representations and self-representations of territorial/place-based identities related to collective memory, cultural heritage, invented tradition, imagined communities and other key notions.