Abstract
The recent success oft he category of landscape in history allows to question fortns and contents of the so-called 'Spatial turn '. Historians and Geographers seem to use the category of landscape exclusively in a visual and symbolic perspective, an attitude which can be related to the influence of cultural geography. Then the article tries to sort out some of the theoretical discussions from which cultural geography was born, and their indifference to the localised analysis of processes of change. Finally an alternative reading of landscape is proposed, which is based on methods derivingfrom historical ecology. An example of a localised analysis of practices of utilisation of vegetal resources in Ligurian rural society helps to show the explanatory potentiality of this approach.
| Titolo tradotto del contributo | 'Spatial turn in history'? Landscapes, vision and resources |
|---|---|
| Lingua originale | Francese |
| pagine (da-a) | 1127-1144+iii-iv |
| Rivista | Annales |
| Volume | 63 |
| Numero di pubblicazione | 5 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2008 |
| Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |