SOCIOLOGIA DELL'AMBIENTE E DEL TERRITORIO

Learning Objectives

• ANALYSIS OF URBAN SOCIOLOGICAL MEDITERRANEAN
  The goal is to promote a capacity of problematization of the transformations IN the territories of the Mediterranean, providing analytical categories, methods and techniques for a sociologically oriented analysis. Through the analysis of databases and literature sources the course will foster insights into the effects of the 'network society' on the Mediterranean urban societies that give rise to new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, defined by boundaries of a cultural as well as physical.
• THE TERRITORIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SCENARIO: TOURIST EXPLOITATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HERITAGE
  The module encourages students to a critical analysis of the processes of naming and framing for the definition of sustainable development in the areas of the Mediterranean. The goal is to mature, also analytical skills to design the territory in historical-sociological - according to a comparative method - in order to be able to spend these skills for consulting activities and local development planning, in tune with the resources landscape and historical-cultural.

Detailed Course Content

• ANALYSIS OF URBAN SOCIOLOGICAL MEDITERRANEAN

  The course provides students with tools and a method to proceed with a sociological analysis of the most recent transformations of the urban and rural Mediterranean systems. It aims to trigger a reflection on the processes of social change that involve Mediterranean territories, with regard to migration, residential and touristic mobilities, social movements, to processing and allocating resources and cultural landscapes.

• THE TERRITORIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SCENARIO: TOURIST EXPLOITATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HERITAGE

  The course focuses on the architectural design of some Mediterranean cities and on the dynamics of the sustainable development. The different coastal areas of the Mediterranean have developed diverse types of projects, regarding both the private space and the public one. The course will investigate the characteristics and will analyze the experience of urban and rural populations.

Textbook Information

• ANALYSIS OF URBAN SOCIOLOGICAL MEDITERRANEAN

  - Carlo Colloca, “Urbanesimo”, in G. Bettin Lattes e L. Raffini (a cura di), Manuale di Sociologia, Cedam, Padova, Vol. II, 2011, pp. 867-905.

  - Giorgio Osti, Sociologia del territorio, il Mulino, Bologna, 2010, pp. 11-75.

  - Aurelio Angelini (a cura di), Mediterraneo. Città, culture, ambiente, governance, migranti, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2007, Parte I. I luoghi e l'ambiente.

• THE TERRITORIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SCENARIO: TOURIST EXPLOITATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HERITAGE

  - Carlo Colloca, “Il modello mediterraneo di immigrazione e il diritto alla città”, in M. Omizzolo e P. Sodano (a cura di), Migranti e territori. Lavoro, diritti e accoglienza, Ediesse, Roma, pp. 159-180.

  - Letizia Carrera. (2016), Vedere la città. Gli sguardi del camminare, Angeli, Milano.

  - Carlo Colloca, “La città meridionale e lo sviluppo della politica di massa”, in E. Recchi, M. Bontempi, C. Colloca (a cura di), Metamorfosi sociali. Attori e luoghi del mutamento nella società contemporanea, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2013, pp. 217-245.