Master’s degree in planning and management of tourism systems
« INTERCULTURAL GEOGRAPHY »
Autumn 2014 session – October 6th-29th
M-GGR/01 – Part of “Territorial Studies” 10 credits
Meetings
Room #3 and 55 Via Salvecchio
Instructors
JACQUES LEVY, PROFESSOR, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
Email contact : jacques.levy@epfl.ch
FEDERICA BURINI, SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO, ITALY
Email contact : fburini@unibg.it
Textbook
Attending students:
Hannerz, Ulf, 1996. Transnational Connections : Culture, People, Places, London : Routledge.
Lévy, Jacques, 2012. « A Cartographic Turn ? Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies
of the Inhabited Space », EspacesTemps.net, February 2012,
http://www.espacestemps.net/document9316.html
Lévy, Jacques, 2014. « Inhabiting », in Roger Lee et al. eds, The Sage Handbook of Human
Geography, London: Sage.
*Other readings will be suggested during the course
Not attending students:
Elias, Norbert, 2001. [1939-1987]. The society of individuals, Bloomsbury Academic.
Hannerz, Ulf, 1996. Transnational Connections : Culture, People, Places, London : Routledge.
Schedule of meetings
1st part:
Culture/geograficity
What concept of culture to approach contemporary spaces and spatialities?
This course will focus on the emergence of universal realities in contemporary societies. This
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construction is made possible by current developments of urbanisation and globalisation. The
underlying hypothesis is that the word ‘culture’ should be approached in taking into account the
dialogical tension between singular and plural expressions of culture(s). Urbanity (that which makes
the specificity of urban spaces) can be seen as a good example of this tension: cities promote their
uniqueness as they simultaneously set up together a archipelago of continuous urbanity worldwide. We
can then oppose a lazy ‘cosmopolitanism’, made up of a mere juxtaposition of irreconcilable identities,
to a dynamic cosmopolitanism able to value singularity as a raw material for novel cultural
configurations. As tourism today appears also as a complex system of global and local component, the
course aims at giving future specialists of tourism a contribution to their overall theoretical
background.
MONDAY OCTOBER 6TH – 8H00-11H00 / INSTRUCTORS : FEDERICA BURINI, JACQUES LÉVY
1. Course introduction
Presentation of the International Research Project “Centrality of Territories: towards a regeneration of Bergamo in a
European network”: project introduction; case studies analysis; perspectives for traineeships and exchanges
for students in the cluster cities.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 7TH – NEW!13H00-16H00 / INSTRUCTOR : JACQUES LÉVY
2. Culture, What Is It? Misunderstandings, ideologies, theories.
21. Tourism, and Space: Cultures and the Culture of Mobility
22. Society, Culture, Culturalism. The cultural turn: dematerialising society enriching social
logics or denying history?
Epistemological and Theoretical Dangers of neo-structuralism
23. Culture as Reflexive Production.
24. Geographicity as Culture: Spatiality and Space
Dialogical Game/situation: What framework to approach ‘indigenous peoples’.
Crozier, Michel & Friedberg, Erhard, Actors and Systems, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1981
[1977].
Lévy, Jacques, ‘La géographie culturelle a-t-elle un sens’, Annales de Géographie, 660-661/2008: 27-46.
Lévy, Jacques, ‘Science + Space + Society’, Geographica Helvetica, 69/2014: 99-114.
Readings: Lévy, Jacques, 2014. « Inhabiting », in Roger Lee et al. eds, The Sage Handbook of Human Geography,
London: Sage.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8TH – 9H00-12H00 / INSTRUCTOR : JACQUES LÉVY
3. Urbanity, a universalism of uniqueness.
‘Gentrification’: A Wrong Good Idea
The Concept of City: An Encounter between Space and Spatiality
Public Space, a Politics of Interactive Bodies
Urbanity: Development Model and Culture of Inhabiting
Dialogical Game /ideas: imagine a tourism development project based on urban culture/s
Lofland, Lyn H., 1998. The Public Realm, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
Lévy, Jacques, ‘The City Is the Sustainable Development’ in Dieter Hassenpflug, Nico Giersig, Bernhard
Stratmann (Hrsg.), Reading the City. Deveolping Urban Hermneutics/Stadt lesen. Beiträge zu einer urbanen
Hermeneutik, Weimar : Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, pp. 103-111.
Lévy, Jacques, 2013 . ‘Espace public’, in Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés, Paris:
Belin,
Lévy, Jacques, ‘The Inconsidered Passer-By’, EspacesTemps.net, August 2011,
http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/the-unconsidered-passer-by/
.Lévy, Jacques, 2014. ‘Inhabiting’ in Roger Lee et al. eds, The Sage Handbook of Human Geography,
London: Sage.
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Readings: Lévy, Jacques (ed.), 2010. Inventare il Mondo, Milan: Bruno Mundadori, capitolo 13. Apertura. Il
Mondo come luogo (See also: http://www.inventareilmondo.net).
SATURDAY OCTOBER 11TH – 9.00-18.00
International Conference “Bergamo S-Low : Agri And Green Spaces In The City”
Agri Travel & Slow Travel Expo, Fiera Di Bergamo, Via Lunga
PROGRAMME: http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=dslc_geografia_cc2014-10
MONDAY OCTOBER 13TH – 8H00-11H00 / INSTRUCTOR : JACQUES LÉVY
4. Globalisation: What Culture for the World-Society?
Making the World Simpler: Four Models
Nature as Culture: The Invention of a Post-Palaeolithic Approach
World-Society and its Public Goods: More Individual, More society
Globalisation and the Ethical Turn: From Morals to Ethics
The Glocalisation of Tourism
Dialogical Game /actors: approaching ethical issues (sexuation and sexuality), UN, China,
Nigeria, Italy, Human Rights NGOs, tourist industry players
Elias, Norbert, 1991 [1939-1987]. The Society of Individuals, Oxford: Blackwell.
Hannerz, Ulf, 1996. Transnational Connections : Culture, People, Places, London : Routledge.
Lévy, Jacques (ed.), 2010. Inventare il Mondo, Milan: Bruno Mundadori
Lévy, Jacques, 2013. ‘Un nous sans eux’ in Alain Caillé & Stéphane Dufoix (dir.), Le tournant global des
sciences sociales, Paris : La Découverte, coll. Bibliothèque du MAUSS, pp. 288-311.
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NEW!! MONDAY OCTOBER 13TH – 15H00-18H00 / INSTRUCTOR : JACQUES LEVY
5. Filming Human Spaces: What Languages for Scientific Cinema?
Showing of Urbanity/ies film
A Manifesto for the Scientific Filming of Human Spaces.
Lévy, Jacques, [film] Urbanity/ies, http://vimeo.com/84537407
Lévy, Jacques, 2013. ‘De l’espace au cinéma’, Annales de Géographie, n°694/2013 : 689-711 (English
version: ‘On Space in Cinema’).
2nd PART - SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS
What representations for contemporary spaces and spatialities?
The second part of the course addresses the theme of the meeting / clash of cultures and spatiality is
taken up as arena of confrontation of social groups in search of the foundations of their culture and
shared values; it is also investigated by means of its primary representations, ie mapping and
landscape. The first is considered as a symbolic mediation able to convey social aspects of territory;
the second is proposed as a text which can communicate cultural meanings and social values.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15TH – 9H00-12H00 / INSTRUCTOR : FEDERICA BURINI
1. Cartography as Language and Culture
Casti, Emanuela, & Lévy, Jacques (a cura di), Le sfide cartografiche, Ancona: Il Lavoro Editoriale
Lévy, Jacques, 2012. ‘A Cartographic Turn? Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies of the
Inhabited Space’, EspacesTemps.net, February 2012, http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/acartographic-turn/
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Chavinier, Elsa & Lévy, Jacques, ‘Doing the Right Map (draft, to be published, A Cartographic Turn,
2015).
Lévy, Jacques, ‘Mapping Ethics’, (draft, to be published, A Cartographic Turn, 2015).
Readings: Lévy, Jacques, “Science + Space + Society”, Geographica Helvetica, 69/2014: 99-114.
MONDAY OCTOBER 20TH – 8H00-11H00 / INSTRUCTOR : FEDERICA BURINI
2. Critical Cartography and map semiosis
Readings : Casti, Emanuela, 2005. “Towards a Theory of interpretation: Cartographic Semiosis”,
Cartographica, n. 40: 1-16.
Casti, Emanuela, 2012, "Cartographic technologies for territorial governance.", EspacesTemps.net,
Works, 30.01.2012
http://www.espacestemps.net/en/articles/cartographic-technologies-for-territorial-governance-en/
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22ND – 9H00-12H00 / INSTRUCTOR : FEDERICA BURINI
3. The emergence of on-line collaborative systems for territorial planning
Dialogical Game /ideas: what kind of maps for a tourism development project based on urban
culture/s
Readings: Casti, Emanuela, & Lévy, Jacques (a cura di), Le sfide cartografiche, Ancona: Il Lavoro Editoriale
Lévy, Jacques, 2012. ‘A Cartographic Turn? Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies of the
Inhabited Space’, EspacesTemps.net, February 2012, http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/a-cartographic-turn/
Burini, Federica, 2012. "Community Mapping for Intercultural Dialogue", EspacesTemps.net, Textuel,
30.01.2012
http://aisberg.unibg.it/bitstream/10446/25904/1/Community%20Mapping%20for%20Intercultural%20D
ialogue..pdf.
Shanley L.A., Burns R., Bastian Z., Robson E.S., 2013, “Tweeting up a storm” the promise and perils of
crisis mapping”, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, October: 865-879
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/tweeting-storm-the-promise-and-perils-crisis-mapping
MONDAY OCTOBER 27TH – 8H00-11H00 / INSTRUCTOR : FEDERICA BURINI
4. Spatial capital and its representation: the myth of geolocalisation and the denial of human
experience on space
Dialogical Game /ideas: imagine a map helping tourists after a crisis event
Readings: Lévy, Jacques, 2003, “Capital spatial”, in Lévy J., Lussault M. (dir.), Dictionnaire de la
géographie et de l’espace des sociétés, Paris : Belin, pp. 124-126.
Lévy, Jacques, 2014. ‘Inhabiting’ in Roger Lee et al. eds, The Sage Handbook of Human Geography, London:
Sage. esp. 46-48.
Burini, Federica, 2014. "Le capital spatial dans un «tweet»?", EspacesTemps.net, 17.05.2014
http://www.espacestemps.net/articles/le-capital-spatial-dans-un-tweet-le-crisis-mapping-en-contextesurbains/
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28TH – 9H00-12H00 / INSTRUCTOR : FEDERICA BURINI
5. Landscape as a symbolic representation: a semiotic analysis
Dialogical Game /ideas: approaching tour operators and tourism agencies offer of landscapes
Readings: Turco, Angelo, 2013, “Mythos and techne: An essay on the intercultural function of territory
in sub-Saharan geography”, in GeoJournal, n. 08-2004, Volume 60, Issue 4: 329-337.
Berque, Augustin, 2013. Thinking through landscape, London: Routledge, 2013.
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