Scientific articles by Stefania Bonfiglioli
BONFIGLIOLI, STEFANIA (2024) Heritage as threshold: an autoethnographic exploration of the porticoes of Bologna (Italy), in "Cultural Geographies", 0(0), pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241269141, 2024
BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA, Landscape and its possible “new” relevance: ethics and some forgotten narratives on human mobility, in «GEOGRAPHICA HELVETICA» 78(2), pp. 267-280. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-267-2023, 2023
BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA, Corpi che parlano: arte femminista e dibattiti geografici odierni, in: Geografie in movimento. Vol. IV: Idee, testi, rappresentazioni. Pensare, raccontare, immaginare il movimento, Padova, CLEUP, vol. IV, pp. 261 - 266 , 2023
BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA ; MINCA CLAUDIO, Geografie della differenza, in: Appunti di Geografia, Milano, Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2022, pp. 373 - 442, 2022
BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA ; MINCA CLAUDIO, Geografie della mobilità, in: Appunti di geografia, Milano, Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2022, pp. 291 - 324, 2022
MINCA CLAUDIO; ZARA CRISTIANA; BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA, I concetti chiave della geografia, in: Appunti di geografia, Milano, Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2022, pp. 53 - 109, 2022
BONFIGLIOLI STEFANIA, Sull'attualità del concetto di paesaggio, in: Oltre la Convenzione. Pensare, studiare, costruire il paesaggio vent'anni dopo, Firenze, Società di Studi Geografici di Firenze, 2021, pp. 38 - 48. ISBN 9788890892677., 2021
BONFIGLIOLI S., Il nomos, il senso, la geografia regionale, in "ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies" 19(1), 303-329. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v19i1.1808, 2020
BONFIGLIOLI S., Mobilità, pandemia ed etica: immaginazioni geografiche, «Rivista Geografica Italiana», 127, pp. 111 - 133 , 2020
How to reimagine the contemporary world in the light of human mobility: this is the main question... more How to reimagine the contemporary world in the light of human mobility: this is the main question addressed in this paper. While being aware that any answer cannot but turn out partial and inchoative, I propose starting from the very concept of geographical imagination and the theoretical resources it provides with relation to today’s challenges. Furthermore, I wonder why one should speak about mobile imaginations in times of Covid-19. In my view, just these times of pandemic and lockdown are reinforcing our awareness that human identity cannot be dissociated from mobility, and mobility, in its turn, has to do with human happiness. Moreover, just in these times of pandemic, like never before, we need to think of otherness as a concept entirely dissociated from any dualistic logic. In order to start reimagining the world this way, I attempt to provide an alternative interpretation of ethics as knowledge about human mobility and also alternative narrative on migration. I explain why this conception of ethics represents the logical and epistemological basis for the oecumene as a model of the world, if chorographically conceived. Hence, I propose restarting from this concept of oecumene in order to inchoatively rethink today’s world and our identities with/in it.
BONFIGLIOLI S., Migrazioni. Dove va la geografia, in «Rivista Geografica Italiana», 127, pp. 5 - 27, 2020
BONFIGLIOLI S., L'immagine, le migrazioni, la complessità. Logica e narrazioni per il mondo di oggi, in 'Geotema', Supplemento 2019, anno XXIII, pp. 153-165, 2019
In this paper I aim to reconstruct, in the first place, some links between geography, image and g... more In this paper I aim to reconstruct, in the first place, some links between geography, image and geographical imagination which have not yet been explored. The first two issues which I tackle are the cultural construction of the West and an alternative narrative on migration. I aim at showing that the two issues are connected with each other not only because they are both imbued with geographical imagination, but especially because, a priori, they both deal with, and place at their core, the nature of image as Other. I argue that image, as Other, is the basis for a thought of complexity, because since Antiquity it has provided such a thought with a logic. In fact, the aim characterizing the whole article is the attempt to delineate a thought of complexity. This delineation involves the reinterpretation of two geographical models, chora and the landscape, which I regard as models of complexity inasmuch as they are founded on the interweaving of aesthetics
and ethics, of the logic of image and the ethical narrative of human mobility; this is why they are models for thinking of today’s world.
BONFIGLIOLI S., Geografia del Terzo. Immagine, filosofia del linguaggio e pensiero geografico. In: L’apporto della Geografia tra rivoluzioni e riforme. Roma: A.Ge.I., pp. 569-577, ISBN 978-88-942641-2-8, 2019
BONFIGLIOLI S., L'etica dei migranti, la terra del nomos: l'attualità della chōra, in «Rivista Geografica Italiana», 125, pp. 155 - 173, 2018
In this paper, I argue that the ethical identity of Western man/woman is a migrant identity, on t... more In this paper, I argue that the ethical identity of Western man/woman is a migrant identity, on the basis of how its first foundations were outlined by Aristotle. Though entirely internal to the cultural striations of the West, this ethical identity destabilizes them, as it is bearer of a logic of the third arising from the Platonic concept of interweaving. This Platonic concept is interpreted here as the original formulation of the nature of complexity. The same logic of the third characterizes, in my view, the idea of chōra as land and sea of action. Just by virtue of the ethical concept of action, chōra is land and sea of migrations and also links its identity to all the meanings of nomos. A geographical theory of migrations is delineated here, aimed at interpreting the contemporary world through the reinterpretation of the epistemological potential of chōra and the reasons of its topicality.
BONFIGLIOLI S., Moral re-turns in geography. Chora: On ethics as an image, in 'Progress in Human Geography' 40(6): 810-829. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515627018, 2016
BONFIGLIOLI S., Regio, chora, regione, in 'Bollettino della Società geografica Italiana', 2016, Serie XIII, vol. IX (1-2), pp. 73-82, 2016
In this paper, I argue that the main legacy of the geography of Augustan Italy is the very constr... more In this paper, I argue that the main legacy of the geography of Augustan Italy is the very construction of the concept of region. The nature of region which I delineate is based on the dialectics between the ethics of regula, proper to regio, and the ethics of action/movement/change, proper to chora. Regio and chora are the two identities of region emerging respectively from Pliny’s and Strabo’s description of Italy. I aim to explain why region, qua being, in my view, both regio and chora, is the model for any other cultural «cutout» in the continuum of sense.
BONFIGLIOLI S. - Regio, chora, region, in 'Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana' , 2016
In this paper, I argue that the main legacy of the geography of Augustan Italy is the ... more In this paper, I argue that the main legacy of the geography of Augustan Italy is the very construction of the concept of region. The nature of region which I delineate is based on the dialectics between the ethics of regula, proper to regio, and the ethics of action/movement/change, proper to chōra. Regio and chōra are the two identities of region emerging respectively from Pliny’s and Strabo’s description of Italy. I aim to explain why region, quabeing, in my view, both regio and chōra, is the model of any other cultural «cutout» in the continuum of sense.
BONFIGLIOLI S., I margini di Bologna. Sulle vie di mezzo della corografia. In: Atti del XXXI Congresso Geografico Italiano, vol. II. Milano-Udine: Mimesis, pp. 341-350., 2014
As is well known, today’s urban reality makes geographers question some traditional oppositions s... more As is well known, today’s urban reality makes geographers question some traditional oppositions such as city-countryside. For instance, Edward Soja explores the regionality of cityspace in the light of two main concepts: “synekism”, that is “dwelling together in a shared space”, and “thirdspace”,
that is a space considered as third as regards the opposites converging in it. In this paper, I shall assert that the notion of third/thirdness (third way between opposites) is nothing but the cultural legacy of Italian chorographical tradition, at least according to the way in which this tradition imposed itself in Bologna, in the second half of the sixteenth century, thanks to some geographers such as Egnazio Danti and their praxis of chorographical surveying. By interpreting Danti’s chorographical maps – in particular that of the Bononiensis Ditio, where the city and the countryside constitute a unitary lived space, without any sharp cultural boundary – as well as the history of some toponyms and cippi we
still meet with in the countryside around Bologna, I shall attempt to show why the chorographical culture of image is grounded on the middle terms, on the third ways between opposites. In my view, it is exactly from the thirdness proper to chorography that contemporary geography should re-start in order to find a new representational code for lived spaces.
BONFIGLIOLI S., Pour une éthique géographique de la terre. In : Théories et pratiques écologiques : de l’écologie urbaine à l’imagination environnementale, sous la direction de M. Antonioli. Paris-Nanterre : Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, pp. 39-51, 2013
BONFIGLIOLI S., Le rôle méthodologique de la notion de contrariété : la place des Catégories et des post-prédicaments dans le cursus philosophique néoplatonicien. In : Ad notitiam ignoti. L’Organon dans la translatio studiorum à l’époque d’Albert le Grand. Turnhout : Brepols, pp. 115-139, 2013
BONFIGLIOLI S., Le rovine, la città, il paesaggio. L’alternativa logica della geografia, in 'E/C', on line: 1-14,, 2012
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Scientific articles by Stefania Bonfiglioli
and ethics, of the logic of image and the ethical narrative of human mobility; this is why they are models for thinking of today’s world.
that is a space considered as third as regards the opposites converging in it. In this paper, I shall assert that the notion of third/thirdness (third way between opposites) is nothing but the cultural legacy of Italian chorographical tradition, at least according to the way in which this tradition imposed itself in Bologna, in the second half of the sixteenth century, thanks to some geographers such as Egnazio Danti and their praxis of chorographical surveying. By interpreting Danti’s chorographical maps – in particular that of the Bononiensis Ditio, where the city and the countryside constitute a unitary lived space, without any sharp cultural boundary – as well as the history of some toponyms and cippi we
still meet with in the countryside around Bologna, I shall attempt to show why the chorographical culture of image is grounded on the middle terms, on the third ways between opposites. In my view, it is exactly from the thirdness proper to chorography that contemporary geography should re-start in order to find a new representational code for lived spaces.
and ethics, of the logic of image and the ethical narrative of human mobility; this is why they are models for thinking of today’s world.
that is a space considered as third as regards the opposites converging in it. In this paper, I shall assert that the notion of third/thirdness (third way between opposites) is nothing but the cultural legacy of Italian chorographical tradition, at least according to the way in which this tradition imposed itself in Bologna, in the second half of the sixteenth century, thanks to some geographers such as Egnazio Danti and their praxis of chorographical surveying. By interpreting Danti’s chorographical maps – in particular that of the Bononiensis Ditio, where the city and the countryside constitute a unitary lived space, without any sharp cultural boundary – as well as the history of some toponyms and cippi we
still meet with in the countryside around Bologna, I shall attempt to show why the chorographical culture of image is grounded on the middle terms, on the third ways between opposites. In my view, it is exactly from the thirdness proper to chorography that contemporary geography should re-start in order to find a new representational code for lived spaces.