Overview
- Connects separate subfields: historical geography, geopolitics, and history of geographical thought
- Inclusive, bringing the perspective of marginal geographical traditions into Anglo American geography
- Theoretically innovative, questioning taken for granted assumptions in geopolitics
Part of the book series: Historical Geography and Geosciences (HIGEGE)
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This book presents the work of Gianfranco Battisti, on Geopolitics and Border Geographies in north-eastern Italy, Europeanization, and Globalization, contributing to debates on the inclusion of non-English speaking scholars in international geography. It highlights the institutions and cultures that shaped more than fifty years of his writing, as they emerged through his biography, theoretical contributions, and methods. Battisti uses historical geographies as tools to explain contemporary geopolitics while maintaining a high attentiveness to data-driven research. He applies these tools to investigate ‘geographical facts’ at the local, regional and global scale, viewed from the distinctive viewpoint of the city of Trieste, a laboratory of geopolitical change for more than two centuries.
To better understand the importance of place in the production of geographical theories and methods, this book discusses Battisti’s biography in the context of the Triestino School of geography that started from the same French and German classics that shaped Anglo-American geography in the 19th century to later express original features. This book explains such features by introducing the concept of Geography as an industry that operates in a local and global context. It then deploys the methods Battisti developed within his school to discuss the realities and problems of borderlands in a historic and local context during the first and second World Wars and the geopolitical rationale that shaped the times between. The book continues to give an outlook, on how Europe reconstructed itself geopolitically, the implications thereof, and a comparison of how this fits in with geopolitical agendas on a global scale.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Geography as Method: Producing Geopolitics from the Julian Region
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From Trieste to the World: Deploying Triestino Geographical Thought to Grand Geopolitics in Europe and Beyond
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gianfranco Battisti is a retired Professor of Geography at the University of Trieste in Italy. He has served as vice president of the Italian Association of Geography teachers (AIIG) and editor (1992-2003) of the journal "AST-Geografia nelle Scuole" (Environment, Society and Territory-Geography in Schools). Now he is supervisor of the "Permanent Laboratory for dydactical innovation in geosciences", at the Dept. of Mathematics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Italy.
Christian Sellar is Professor in the Department of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi in the United States. He has published extensively on the interactions between economic policies and geopolitics, government support to firms’ internationalization, post-socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and Europeanization. He served in a variety of roles in the American Association of Geographers.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geopolitical Perspectives from the Italian Border
Book Subtitle: Introducing Gianfranco Battisti, Triestino Geographer
Authors: Christian Sellar, Gianfranco Battisti
Series Title: Historical Geography and Geosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26044-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26043-8Published: 15 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-26046-9Published: 16 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-26044-5Published: 13 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-1379
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1387
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geography, general