Matteo Proto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1300741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Proto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Proto |
| SIGNATURE | PROTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9494-5632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping the Nation, Building the Empire
This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long‐standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of map production, particularly through figures like Guido Cora and Giovanni De Agostini, who aimed to esta…
On the natural border
This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders. As a consequence, the concept could sound today as nothing more than the relict of late nineteenth‐century positivist and descriptive physical geography. Ho…
The Adriatic question revisited
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
Applying Friedrich Ratzel's political and biogeography to the debate on natural borders in the Italian context (1880–1920)
This paper examines the contribution of Italian academic geography to the processes of nation-building between ca. 1880–1920. With reference to Friedrich Ratzel's works, it explores the ways in which biological and vitalist theories shaped political processes. In the decades between Italy's national unification until the first post-war period, Italian academic geographers helped to consolidate the nation-state by means of theoretical reflection, …
Politics, conflict and "political" community
Duančić, V
Duančić’s monograph represents a very significant and important contribution in investigating nation building processes in their connection with geographical knowledge, related to the context of South Slavic regions. The research is well situated in the interdisciplinary debate concerning the contribution of geographical knowledge and cartography in shaping the idea of nation and in naturalizing the spatial dimension of modern, territorial state,…
Barnett, L
On the natural border
This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders. As a consequence, the concept could sound today as nothing more than the relict of late nineteenth‐century positivist and descriptive physical geography. Ho…
Politics, conflict and "political" community
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
Barnett, L
Duančić, V
Duančić’s monograph represents a very significant and important contribution in investigating nation building processes in their connection with geographical knowledge, related to the context of South Slavic regions. The research is well situated in the interdisciplinary debate concerning the contribution of geographical knowledge and cartography in shaping the idea of nation and in naturalizing the spatial dimension of modern, territorial state,…
Applying Friedrich Ratzel's political and biogeography to the debate on natural borders in the Italian context (1880–1920)
This paper examines the contribution of Italian academic geography to the processes of nation-building between ca. 1880–1920. With reference to Friedrich Ratzel's works, it explores the ways in which biological and vitalist theories shaped political processes. In the decades between Italy's national unification until the first post-war period, Italian academic geographers helped to consolidate the nation-state by means of theoretical reflection, …
Politics, conflict and "political" community
The Adriatic question revisited
Telluric geographies of the means of violence. On alterity, weapons, and space at the margins
On the natural border
This article engages in a critical analysis of the concept of the natural border. It highlights its inherently biopolitical nature by exploring how it intersects with biology, history and geography. In the last decades, critical border studies have deeply questioned the naturality of borders. As a consequence, the concept could sound today as nothing more than the relict of late nineteenth‐century positivist and descriptive physical geography. Ho…
Mapping the Nation, Building the Empire
This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long‐standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of map production, particularly through figures like Guido Cora and Giovanni De Agostini, who aimed to esta…
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Conceptualization (2 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)