Francesca Governa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1641083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Governa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Governa |
| SIGNATURE | GOVERNA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Torino |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4559-3423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Passaggio a Nord-Est: I tanti Nord della macroregione settentrionale
Le tradizionali delimitazioni geografiche sono inadeguate per cogliere la complessità attuale del Nord Italia. La macroregione settentrionale non è omogenea. Negli ultimi vent'anni, il NordEst ha mostrato dinamiche superiori al NordOvest: maggiore densità di popolazione, capitale umano, occupazione manifatturiera, e una capacità innovativa quasi doppia. Tali indicatori mostrano un progressivo spostamento del baricentro produttivo verso Est
Unfolding the Archive of the Imagination: Photographs and Videos as Critical Urban Devices
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations
The territorial and technological geographies of the planet are being rapidly and profoundly transformed and restructured in the 21st century. A massive surge of plans, visions, and investments is materializing through new connectivity infrastructure and operations of vast, extended transportation and logistical networks, with the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative serving as a prominent example. To scrutinize this context, in this article, we advo…
Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the 'From Anywhere' of Urban Theorising
This article addresses the geopolitics of urban knowledge production by focussing on articles published in the past six years (2018-2023) in six 'international' journals. It aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the questioning of Anglo-American hegemony and the decolonisation of geographic scholarship through the analysis of the where of urban knowledge production in terms of the location of the authors and the places studied. Our analyses cl…
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China: The local complexities of a global project
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Reclaiming other geographical traditions: The hidden roots of Italian radical geography
The article recalls the history of Geografia Democratica , a collective of scholars that during the second half of the 1970s sought to dismantle the old deterministic approach and promote a critical and radical turn in Italian academic geography. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing debate about ‘other geographical traditions’ beyond the Anglo‐American hegemony, to highlight the pluriversal roots of contemporary critical geographies and the in…
Breaking the distance: Dialogues of care in a time of limited geographies
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Urbanisation processes and new towns in contemporary China: A critical understanding from a decentred view
The article discusses the results of research on Chinese new towns focusing on three places: Tongzhou New Town, located in the eastern suburban expansion of Beijing; Zhaoqing New Area, currently being built approximately 20 km from the old city of Zhaoqing (Guandong Province); and Zhengdong New District, located near Zhengzhou (inland Henan Province). Tongzhou, Zhaoqing and Zhengdong have absolutely nothing in common: location, size, spaces, econ…
Towards the horizon of democracy: Nurturing our desires, giving space to possible path
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancesca Governa is Professor of Geography at the Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio Politecnico e Università di Torino, Italy
Local development in fragile areas: Critical remarks on the initiatives underway in the mountains of Lombardy
During the last 20 years some keywords have been extensively used in international debate about local development policies: bottom-up approach, territoriality, policy integration, partnership, cooperation and negotiation among actors and interests. The use of these keywords hides a variety of cultural approaches, theories and practices; this means that we should study local development processes and policies analysing and deconstructing these the…
Le développement local des zones fragiles: Réflexion sur les expériences en cours de réalisation dans la montagne lombarde
During the last 20 years some keywords have been extensively used in international debate about local development policies: bottom-up approach, territoriality, policy integration, partnership, cooperation and negotiation among actors and interests. The use of these keywords hides a variety of cultural approaches, theories and practices; this means that we should study local development processes and policies analysing and deconstructing these the…
Territories in action, territories for action: The territorial dimension of Italian local development policies
Current changes in territorial organization are interpreted by focusing on two main aspects that are different yet closely interrelated. The first aspect concerns relationships between unfolding processes of territorial redefinition and changes imposed by globalization processes and by European integration, and by the loss of centrality and of part of the power of nation-state government. The second aspect concerns the change in forms and procedu…
Urbanisation processes and new towns in contemporary China: A critical understanding from a decentred view
The article discusses the results of research on Chinese new towns focusing on three places: Tongzhou New Town, located in the eastern suburban expansion of Beijing; Zhaoqing New Area, currently being built approximately 20 km from the old city of Zhaoqing (Guandong Province); and Zhengdong New District, located near Zhengzhou (inland Henan Province). Tongzhou, Zhaoqing and Zhengdong have absolutely nothing in common: location, size, spaces, econ…
Territories in action, territories for action: The territorial dimension of Italian local development policies
Current changes in territorial organization are interpreted by focusing on two main aspects that are different yet closely interrelated. The first aspect concerns relationships between unfolding processes of territorial redefinition and changes imposed by globalization processes and by European integration, and by the loss of centrality and of part of the power of nation-state government. The second aspect concerns the change in forms and procedu…
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations
The territorial and technological geographies of the planet are being rapidly and profoundly transformed and restructured in the 21st century. A massive surge of plans, visions, and investments is materializing through new connectivity infrastructure and operations of vast, extended transportation and logistical networks, with the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative serving as a prominent example. To scrutinize this context, in this article, we advo…
Breaking the distance: Dialogues of care in a time of limited geographies
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China: The local complexities of a global project
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Reclaiming other geographical traditions: The hidden roots of Italian radical geography
The article recalls the history of Geografia Democratica , a collective of scholars that during the second half of the 1970s sought to dismantle the old deterministic approach and promote a critical and radical turn in Italian academic geography. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing debate about ‘other geographical traditions’ beyond the Anglo‐American hegemony, to highlight the pluriversal roots of contemporary critical geographies and the in…
Local development in fragile areas: Critical remarks on the initiatives underway in the mountains of Lombardy
During the last 20 years some keywords have been extensively used in international debate about local development policies: bottom-up approach, territoriality, policy integration, partnership, cooperation and negotiation among actors and interests. The use of these keywords hides a variety of cultural approaches, theories and practices; this means that we should study local development processes and policies analysing and deconstructing these the…
Territories in action, territories for action: The territorial dimension of Italian local development policies
Current changes in territorial organization are interpreted by focusing on two main aspects that are different yet closely interrelated. The first aspect concerns relationships between unfolding processes of territorial redefinition and changes imposed by globalization processes and by European integration, and by the loss of centrality and of part of the power of nation-state government. The second aspect concerns the change in forms and procedu…
Local development in fragile areas: Critical remarks on the initiatives underway in the mountains of Lombardy
During the last 20 years some keywords have been extensively used in international debate about local development policies: bottom-up approach, territoriality, policy integration, partnership, cooperation and negotiation among actors and interests. The use of these keywords hides a variety of cultural approaches, theories and practices; this means that we should study local development processes and policies analysing and deconstructing these the…
Le développement local des zones fragiles: Réflexion sur les expériences en cours de réalisation dans la montagne lombarde
During the last 20 years some keywords have been extensively used in international debate about local development policies: bottom-up approach, territoriality, policy integration, partnership, cooperation and negotiation among actors and interests. The use of these keywords hides a variety of cultural approaches, theories and practices; this means that we should study local development processes and policies analysing and deconstructing these the…
Towards the horizon of democracy: Nurturing our desires, giving space to possible path
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancesca Governa is Professor of Geography at the Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio Politecnico e Università di Torino, Italy
Breaking the distance: Dialogues of care in a time of limited geographies
In this commentary, we reflect on the limitations, somber difficulties, and possibilities of new geographies of care that have emerged as a result of our limited personal geographies during the time of COVID-19
Urbanisation processes and new towns in contemporary China: A critical understanding from a decentred view
The article discusses the results of research on Chinese new towns focusing on three places: Tongzhou New Town, located in the eastern suburban expansion of Beijing; Zhaoqing New Area, currently being built approximately 20 km from the old city of Zhaoqing (Guandong Province); and Zhengdong New District, located near Zhengzhou (inland Henan Province). Tongzhou, Zhaoqing and Zhengdong have absolutely nothing in common: location, size, spaces, econ…
Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative in urban China: The local complexities of a global project
This study of the infrastructure-led developments and urban–rural relations in Liangjiang New Area (Chongqing municipality), Lanzhou New Area (Gansu province) and Zhengbian New District (Henan province) reveals the complex and multifaceted interactions of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with specific contexts and pre-existing trends. Far from depicting a homogenizing dynamic deriving from participation in a project often conceived in monolithi…
Reclaiming other geographical traditions: The hidden roots of Italian radical geography
The article recalls the history of Geografia Democratica , a collective of scholars that during the second half of the 1970s sought to dismantle the old deterministic approach and promote a critical and radical turn in Italian academic geography. The aim is to contribute to the ongoing debate about ‘other geographical traditions’ beyond the Anglo‐American hegemony, to highlight the pluriversal roots of contemporary critical geographies and the in…
Unfolding the Archive of the Imagination: Photographs and Videos as Critical Urban Devices
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization: Concepts and reorientations
The territorial and technological geographies of the planet are being rapidly and profoundly transformed and restructured in the 21st century. A massive surge of plans, visions, and investments is materializing through new connectivity infrastructure and operations of vast, extended transportation and logistical networks, with the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative serving as a prominent example. To scrutinize this context, in this article, we advo…
Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the 'From Anywhere' of Urban Theorising
This article addresses the geopolitics of urban knowledge production by focussing on articles published in the past six years (2018-2023) in six 'international' journals. It aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the questioning of Anglo-American hegemony and the decolonisation of geographic scholarship through the analysis of the where of urban knowledge production in terms of the location of the authors and the places studied. Our analyses cl…
Passaggio a Nord-Est: I tanti Nord della macroregione settentrionale
Le tradizionali delimitazioni geografiche sono inadeguate per cogliere la complessità attuale del Nord Italia. La macroregione settentrionale non è omogenea. Negli ultimi vent'anni, il NordEst ha mostrato dinamiche superiori al NordOvest: maggiore densità di popolazione, capitale umano, occupazione manifatturiera, e una capacità innovativa quasi doppia. Tali indicatori mostrano un progressivo spostamento del baricentro produttivo verso Est
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works)