Globalização e espaços de referência identitária

Abstract

Globalization, increasingmobility and the boost in information flows are usually associated with the gradual loss of importance both of space as distance, and of the territory as an identity referential. Promoting scale changes to global changes, network systems to spaces of non-places and space permeability to the failure of territory, we live in a time ofdeep ideological crisis in terms of space organization. Faced with the threat of a logic of allotment spaces replacing that of spaces of belonging, nomadic territorial strategies substituting sedentary territorial solutions, and the nation-State becoming less and less effective at addressing issues of spatial inclusion, above or belowits operative scale, we find that a strong anchorage of a territorial nature, especially at the national, regional and local levels, seems to persist – and perhaps even increase.

Una posible geografía de las identidades de Barcelona. El caso del barrio de la Vila de Gràcia

“…La geografía cultural también estudia la identidad, y lo hace, simplificando, de dos maneras (Mitchell, 2000;Blunt, 2003;Panelli, 2004, Patrício, 2005: la identidad individual, que pregunta quien soy y la colectiva, que pregunta quien somos. Esta última tiene una fuerte relación con el estudio de los nacionalismos desde una perspectiva de geografia histórica (Nadal, 1990;Hooson, 1994;Nogué, 1998;Graham, 2000;Smith, 2000;Anderson, 2003).…”