Geography
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No pre-requisites required
In order to sit the examination, you must register via the electronic notice board, in accordance with the deadline (the lists will automatically close on the indicated deadline and will no longer be accessible).
If you decide not to take the examination once you have registered, you must cancel it before the closing date.
The final examination will be an oral interview with 5 questions, the answer to which is graded between 0 and 6 points. The minimum threshold to pass the exam is 18/30.
The questions assess the students' knowledge and preparation on the reference texts, both from a mnemonic point of view and above all from a critical and logical point of view, ascertaining the ability to connect theoretical elements, contemporary facts, empirical cases and diachronic analysis to the analysis of the tourism phenomenon.
Specifically:
4 questions will be on the reference texts of your choice, two for each volume;
1 question will be on the project work (for students who will not be able to participate in the project work, alternative readings on which the exam interview will focus).
For students who participate in one or both project works, one question in the final exam will focus on the research experience and the concluding papers (formal return).
Students who will not be able to participate in one or both projects must study one or two additional monographs according to the indications listed in the 'reference texts'.
Reference texts
There are two texts to prepare for the examination:
Compulsory
1. Dell’Agnese E. (2018), Bon Voyage, UTET (studiare tutto il libro)
Plus a choice of one of these:
2. Albanese V. (2017), Il Territorio Mediato. Sentiment Analysis Methodology e sua applicazione al Salento, Bologna, BUP (studiare tutto il libro, escluso il capitolo 9)
3. Gavinelli D., Zanolin G. (2019), Geografia del Turismo Contemporaneo. Pratiche, narrazioni, luoghi, Carocci editore (studiare tutto il libro)
Monographs replacing project work (one text of your choice replaces one project work; both texts replace both projects):
1. Bayard P. (2015), Come parlare di luoghi senza esserci mai stati, Excelsior 1881, Milano.
2. Aime M., Papotti D. (2012), L’Altro e l’altrove, Einaudi, Torino.
3. Urry J. (1995), Lo sguardo del turista, SEAM, Roma.
4. Leed E. (2007), La mente del viaggiatore. Il Mulino, Bologna.
Students will learn about the fundamental geographical aspects of tourism as a geographical phenomenon par excellence, with particular reference to its historical evolution, typologies, socio-economic and environmental impact that the tourism phenomenon has in different geographical areas and at different scales. Finally, tools will be offered to identify the unexpressed or consumed tourism potential of cultural and natural landscapes.
The course has four main training objectives
- to offer a critical point of view on the geography of tourism by tackling with a critical/analytical approach some of the main topics relating to the dominant narrative of the tourism phenomenon (distinction between tourist and traveller; mass tourism etc.)
- impart the fundamental geographical aspects of world tourism as a total geo-social fact
- contextualise in time and space the methodologies and themes relating to the geography of tourism, with reference to the contemporary world and the different scales, from local to global and vice versa
- deepen the relationship between the media and the geography of tourism with particular attention to tourism representations through the media;
The expected learning outcomes include
- refinement of individual perceptions and sensibilities with respect to the tourism phenomenon as a geographical and social fact;
- knowledge and contextualisation of the main territorial dynamics of a political, economic and socio-cultural nature, on a global and local scale;
- ability to detect and analyse territorialisation processes derived from touristisation and de-touristisation;
- ability to critically interpret representations and narratives of tourist destinations, understanding what effects they may have on territorial evolution.
In the general part (34 hours), the course covers the following topics:
- Analysis and critical deconstruction of the dominant topics in the geography of tourism
- Historiography of the tourism phenomenon from the Grand Tour to today
- Tourism: image and imagination
- Tourist and post-tourist
- Image, imaginary, tourism imagination
- Tourism Heterotopias
The course includes two project works of 8 hours each (for a total of 16 hours) aimed at refining a critical look at tourism narratives of two types. Project work 1 will deal with a local-scale study that identifies stereotypes and narrative distortions of known tourist destinations; project work 2 will study tourism communications on a global scale and the imaginaries, perceptions and expectations they generate. The project works involve the direct involvement of male and female students in the organisational, implementation and concluding phases:
- The local dimension. (Each year the local tourist destinations will be agreed with the class group on the basis of the reference group's previous knowledge).
- The global dimension (Each year the global tourist destinations will be agreed with the class group based on the reference group's prior knowledge).
The course is based on the use of face-to-face lectures, however, most of the classroom time will be based on the principle of participative communication, inviting students to an active and dialogical role with the lecturer. Teaching will also be enriched by supplementary seminars by experts, professionals and scholars in the field as well as multimedia workshops by the lecturer.
The course will be supported by:
Powerpoint presentations
geographical and thematic maps
Alternative geographical media (magazines, stories, travelogues, films, websites)
Sentiment analysis software
Project work is led by the lecturer and will take place during class time (8 hours each project work). As they are an integral part of the examination programme and subject to final assessment, the project work involves the writing of a formal return, in the form of a paper, personal or group, traditional (article) or multimedia (photo, video or other). The method of preparing the formal return and the terms of its validity will be agreed during the lessons.
The lecturer receives on Teams by appointment to be agreed by email (email: ve.albanese@uninsubria.it)