The making of Italian agricultural landscapes: Emilio Sereni, between geography, history and Marxism

Ferretti, Federico

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“…The first incident between the two men was a book review in which Fondi violently teared apart the History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape by Emilio Sereni, triggering Gambi's critiques to the small-mindedness of geographers who considered people like Sereni (neither a geographer nor an academic) as intruders, while they should have learnt from the intellectual stimulations that Sereni provided in bringing to Italy the methods of authors such as Bloch (Ferretti 2015). Fondi replied to Gambi attacking again Sereni and criticising "you, the avantgarde geographers" (Fondi 1962) for excessively politicizing academic debates.…”

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Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy

Ferretti

2022

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Indignation, civic virtue and the right of resistance: critical geography and anti-fascism in ItalyThis paper addresses the ethical and scholarly relevance of notions such as anti-fascism and resistance for the field of critical and radical geographies, starting from a little-known case, that is the formation of early critical geographies in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing upon ideas of civic virtue and non-domination as red by radical and anarchist traditions, I analyse the recently-opened archives of Lucio Gambi (1920Gambi ( -2006, which contain unpublished correspondence revealing the fearless role that this critical historical geographer played in denouncing at the same time the outdated positivistic, conservative and descriptive legacies of Italian geography and the frightful prominence of former Fascist officials in that field.Addressing works of Gambi, of his friend and fellow of the 1943-45 antifascist Resistance, geographer Giuseppe Barbieri (1923Barbieri ( -2004 and of the collective Geografia Democratica (1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981), I argue for recognising the importance, for critical geographers, of fighting against authoritarianism by adopting values of civic virtue, standing proudly against academic opportunism and political conservatism within and outside campuses, past and present.

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Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy

Ferretti

2022

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“…The Risorgimento geographers, joining the international movement to invent national identities geographically (Hooson ), were defined by Adriano Balbi as “special men who dedicated their evenings to the true description of their homeland”, by which he was implying of course that geography was not their main professional activity. This was the case of Annibale Ranuzzi (1810–1866), and generally speaking of a range of politically committed geographers, from Élisée Reclus and the anarchist geographers to a maverick Italian Marxist like Emilio Sereni (Ferretti ). There was Battisti, too, an Italian‐speaking citizen of the Austrian‐Hungarian Empire who, after taking his geography degree in Florence, was initially a journalist and militant in the Socialist Party, for which he represented the Italian minority in the Vienna Parliament from 1911 to 1914.…”

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Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

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2015

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International audienceThis paper addresses the work of early critics of colonialism and Eurocentrism within Italian geography in the Age of Empire. At that time, a minority but rather influent group of Italian scholars, influenced by the international debates promoted by the anarchist geographers Reclus, Kropotkin and Mečnikov, fumed publicly at Italy’s colonial ambitions in Africa. Their positions assumed, at least in the case of Arcangelo Ghisleri, the character of a radical critique of both political and cultural European hegemony. These approaches were linked to a similar critique of ‘internal colonialism’, both Austrian in the Italian-speaking regions of Trento and Trieste, and Piedmontese in Southern Italy. Based on primary sources, and drawing on the international literature on imperial geography and colonial and postcolonial sciences, this paper conjures up the Italian example to discuss how some European geographers of the Age of Empire were also early critics of racism, colonialism and chauvinism, and how these historical experiences can serve current debates on critical, radical and anarchist geographies

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“…His concept of the agricultural landscape was predicated on the combined impact of economic and social history, linguistics, archeology, art and architectural history, as well as ecology. On Sereni, see Vecchio (2019), Ferretti (2015, and Quaini and Bonini (2011). On Global Tools in the context of environmental histories, see Formia (2017).…”

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The making of Italian agricultural landscapes: Emilio Sereni, between geography, history and Marxism

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy

Indignation, Civic Virtue, and the Right of Resistance: Critical Geography and Antifascism in Italy

Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

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