LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to illustrate the main theoretical, methodological and practical tools of local environment and heritage processes.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will acquire specific skills in order to use some of the tools necessary for the definition of new territorial projects, as well as for the activation of local dynamics. It will therefore be able to identify the resources of a territory (tangible or intangible), to analyze their scope in the processes of exploiting local contexts, to choose the most pertinent in the construction of a specific territorial project.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes lectures (materials present on the web room) and the drafting of an individual paper - a project to enhance the area, a case study - which will be presented in the classroom. Interventions by local actors and / or specialist colleagues are planned in the field of environmental enhancement and local spaces.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course is divided into several parts:

- Presentation of conceptual principles and categories concerning the development of territories,

- Analysis of some case studies that apply the previous conceptual principles and categories,

- The presentation of some research on the subject completed or underway in Italy and abroad,

- Presentation of individual papers by students.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. Grimaldi, G. Fassino, D. Porporato, Culture, Heritage, Identity and Food. A Methodological Approach, Milano, Angeli, 2019 (open access).

M. Marengo, “The ‘frontier lands’ of the south-western Alps: Analysis of local territorial processes through the literary constructions of Francesco Biamonti and Jean Giono”, E. Peraldo (ed), Literature and  geography: the writing of space throughout History, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016, pp. 423-437

M. Marengo, From the rural “terroir” to the “neorural” novel: the contradictions and complementarities between popular and high literature in contemporary France”, in Mauricette Fournier (ed.), Rural writing Geographical imaginary and expression of a new regionality, Newcastle Upon Tyne (GB), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018, pp. 14-28.

M. Marengo, “The Maritime Alps migration chains: from traditional transalpine mobility to international migration », in Livio Amigoni, Silvia Aru, Ivan Bonin, Gabriele Proglio and Cecilia Vergnano, EU Internal border making. The case of Ventimiglia, Palgrave, London, 2020 (in print).

F.Randelli, P. Romei, M.Tortora, “An evolutionary model for the rural tourism study, in Annali del turismo, 1, 2012 Geoprogress Edizioni, Novara, pp. 1-20 (open access).

M. Phillips and D. P. Smith, “Comparative ruralism and ‘opening new windows’ on gentrification”, in Dialogues Hum Geogr, 2018 Mar, 8(1), pp. 51–58 (open access).

Richard F., Dellier J., Tommasi G., “Migration, environment and rural gentrificationin the Limousin mountains”, Revue de géographie alpine, 102-3 | 2014 (open access).

Other materials necessary for the preparation of individual papers will be inserted on the web during the course.