Truth and method

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould. W. W. Norton, New York (1989), 347, Price $19.95 (U.S.A.), $27.95 (Canada)

Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis

The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. By Alfred W. Crosby. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xiv + 368 pp. $22.95.)

La sfida della complessità

Educazione e globalizzazione

El sentido de la historia

This text presents the reader with a reinterpretation of the stories we have told ourselves about our origins, in mythology, history, cosmology, evolution and genetics. Topics include the Big Bang, genetic drift, attractors and fractals, languages and civilizations, and myths and religions.

The Narrative Universe

Using the borderscapes concept, this book offers an approach to border studies that expresses the multilevel complexity of borders, from the geopolitical to social practice and cultural production at and across the border. Accordingly, it encourages a productive understanding of the processual, de-territorialized and dispersed nature of borders and their ensuring regimes in the era of globalization and transnational flows as well as showcasing border research as an interdisciplinary field with its own academic standing. Contemporary bordering processes and practices are examined through the borderscapes lens to uncover important connections between borders as a ’challenge' to national (and EU) policies and borders as potential elements of political innovation through conceptual (re-)framings of social, political, economic and cultural spaces. The authors offer a nuanced and critical re-reading and understanding of the border not as an entity to be taken for granted, but as a place of investigation and as a resource in terms of the construction of novel (geo)political imaginations, social and spatial imaginaries and cultural images. In so doing, they suggest that rethinking borders means deconstructing the interweaving between political practices of inclusion-exclusion and the images created to support and communicate them on the cultural level by Western territorialist modernity. The result is a book that proposes a wandering through a constellation of bordering policies, discourses, practices and images to open new possibilities for thinking, mapping, acting and living borders under contemporary globalization.

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Gianluca Bocchi

Papers

La sfida della complessità

Educazione e globalizzazione

El sentido de la historia

The Narrative Universe

Borderscaping: Imaginations and Practices of Border Making