Il Mezzogiorno e la rete. Tra occasioni di integrazione e nuove possibili marginalità

Over the past two decades, the geographical science has changed dramatically, renewing methods, objects and interdisciplinary interactions. The reasons for this innovation are different: the radical changes of the global geopolitical scenario, the explosion of the process of globalization, the emergence of a more widespread awareness and environmental consciousness, the emergence of a multifaceted network of complementarity with other social sciences. Practical contingencies, then, to which we must add the fact that the changed approach to discipline has also a purely epistemological roots that produced a real "cultural change". The contributions collected in this volume, presented at the conference "The cultural turn in geography", in the work of the International Geographic Union Commission on Cultural Approach in Geography (Gorizia, September 2003), analyze the condition of Southern Italy.