Parlare di paesaggio tra locale e globale

• Main Author: Laura Menatti
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Università di Parma 2013-03-01
• Series: Ricerche di S/Confine
• Online Access: http://www.ricerchedisconfine.info/dossier-1/MENATTI.htm
• ISSN: 2038-8411; 2038-8411

In this paper I provide a philosophical analysis of terms such as local, global and landscape, as wellas their relationship, with the purpose of avoiding both localistic nostalgias and strenuous defences ofglobalization. I deconstruct the concepts of globalization, landscape, space and place and I argue thatglobalization is not just an economic phenomenon, but consists in a specific configuration of space; Imean that every age or every culture makes sense of the known space and produces its ownconcepts of space and place, with a series of distinctive political, architectural and sociologicalconsequences. Furthermore, space and place, after the contribution of postmodernist thought, cannotbe considered as universally and a-temporally valid terms anymore. What is the point, then, ofspeaking about landscape in contemporary age? I argue that we can consider it as a globallandscape that is everywhere, as it is written in the European Landscape Convention (2000);therefore, landscape it is not just the home village, neither the view (or panorama), but it is theeveryday space as well as the degraded one, it belongs to a global net, and it needs to be taken intoaccount from an ethical point of view as well. The paper proposes, in conclusion, to update the Italiangeo-philosophical thought by introducing the concept of alterity of place, and to enlarge its theoreticalvocabulary through terms such as affordance, environment and perception, with the aim of improvingthe interdisciplinary dimension of this philosophical discipline.