Mosè Cometta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1298461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mosè Cometta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mosè |
| FAMILY NAME | Cometta |
| SIGNATURE | COMETTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università della Svizzera italiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8700-2030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Timber, power, and the metabolic city
This paper advances a theoretical reflection on the entanglement between territorial governance, extractivism, and urban metabolism through the case of nineteenth-century timber trade in Ticino, on the Alpine border between Switzerland and Lombardy. Building on debates around planetary urbanisation and the critique of methodological cityism, it argues for a perspective that understands operational landscapes as historically contingent and politic…
More-than-urban coalitions for socio-ecological reproduction. Response to ‘Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities’
Rural
This paper contextualises the analysis of hegemony from a spatial perspective. For this, it opens with a discussion of planetary urbanisation and the production of space as a spatial fix of capitalism - which posits space as a key instrument for the exercise of contemporary hegemony. The discursive analysis of the rejection of two plans for a new national park by Alpine communities in Italian-speaking Switzerland allows us to contextualise ‘the r…
Digital Capitalism and Friendship
This paper starts from an understanding of friendship as a series of gradients – a definition provided firstly by Aristotle – to observe the similarities and differences between interested friendship, disinterested friendship, and market relations. Introducing the notion of surveillance capitalism, the paper discusses the advent of social media and the implicit definition of friendship that underlies it. Social media favours the quantification an…
Discursive Construction of a Destination. Urban Transition Through Tourism in Ticino Between 1980s and 2010s
Mass tourism is a fundamental phenomenon of the second half of the 20th century, and contributes to urbanisation processes. In order to uncover the evolution of the institutional perspective on urban issues, we mobilise two main conceptual tools: the regulation of capitalism, and the production of space through tourism. Our paper positions itself as an example of “thinking through tourism”, where tourism is used as a means of analysing social cha…
Territorial justice and equity criteria – spatial planning in Ticino
This paper analyses from a philosophical and interdisciplinary point of view two master plans of the canton Ticino – the first one from 1990, Keynesian, and the second one from 2009, neoliberal. The differences between the former and the latter are highlighted on a conceptual level. While the former stresses the importance of rebalancing and maintaining internal solidarity between the regions of the canton, the latter aims to make the canton more…
Discursive Construction of a Destination. Urban Transition Through Tourism in Ticino Between 1980s and 2010s
Mass tourism is a fundamental phenomenon of the second half of the 20th century, and contributes to urbanisation processes. In order to uncover the evolution of the institutional perspective on urban issues, we mobilise two main conceptual tools: the regulation of capitalism, and the production of space through tourism. Our paper positions itself as an example of “thinking through tourism”, where tourism is used as a means of analysing social cha…
Territorial justice and equity criteria – spatial planning in Ticino
This paper analyses from a philosophical and interdisciplinary point of view two master plans of the canton Ticino – the first one from 1990, Keynesian, and the second one from 2009, neoliberal. The differences between the former and the latter are highlighted on a conceptual level. While the former stresses the importance of rebalancing and maintaining internal solidarity between the regions of the canton, the latter aims to make the canton more…
Digital Capitalism and Friendship
This paper starts from an understanding of friendship as a series of gradients – a definition provided firstly by Aristotle – to observe the similarities and differences between interested friendship, disinterested friendship, and market relations. Introducing the notion of surveillance capitalism, the paper discusses the advent of social media and the implicit definition of friendship that underlies it. Social media favours the quantification an…
Rural
This paper contextualises the analysis of hegemony from a spatial perspective. For this, it opens with a discussion of planetary urbanisation and the production of space as a spatial fix of capitalism - which posits space as a key instrument for the exercise of contemporary hegemony. The discursive analysis of the rejection of two plans for a new national park by Alpine communities in Italian-speaking Switzerland allows us to contextualise ‘the r…
More-than-urban coalitions for socio-ecological reproduction. Response to ‘Climate change and urban-agrarian solidarities’
Timber, power, and the metabolic city
This paper advances a theoretical reflection on the entanglement between territorial governance, extractivism, and urban metabolism through the case of nineteenth-century timber trade in Ticino, on the Alpine border between Switzerland and Lombardy. Building on debates around planetary urbanisation and the critique of methodological cityism, it argues for a perspective that understands operational landscapes as historically contingent and politic…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Rural development and sustainability (2 works) · Social science (2 works)