Chiara Rabbiosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 227110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Rabbiosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabbiosi |
| SIGNATURE | RABBIOSI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2470-7962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond destination accessibility: Tourism infrastructure across mobilities, technologies and embodiments
This introductory article to the Special Issue explores the evolving conceptualisation of tourism infrastructure through the lenses of assemblage thinking and the mobilities paradigm. Moving beyond traditional dichotomies of material versus immaterial infrastructure, it embraces a multidimensional, relational and dynamic understanding of infrastructure as an active agent in shaping tourism destinations, mobilities and socio-spatial inequalities. …
Sensing transit. The role of senses in slow tourism
In recent decades, slow tourism, a form of tourism marked by a change in tourists’ mode of transit within or to a locality, has garnered attention. Slow tourism is the result of specific entanglements of people, transport infrastructure, technology, spaces, and landscapes that specifically promote the use of regional trains, bicycles, or walking. This article analyses the sensory aspects of slow tourism at the junction of mobilities and tourism s…
Needs and norms shaping the mobility of care of women in rural areas: A case study in the Alps
The mobility of care encompasses trips made to fulfil caregiving and domestic responsibilities, like escorting children, visiting seniors in need, or grocery shopping. Although it plays a prominent role in adults' daily life, the mobility of care is still limitedly explored and most studies focus on its role in large cities. Conversely, it is understudied in rural areas despite the significant challenges their inhabitants face, such as availabili…
Selective Hospitality: Framing the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees across Three National Contexts
The EU reception of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022 has been lauded as ‘exceptional' in its speed and support, especially as compared to previous migration ‘crises’. This discourse of exceptionality obscures a variety of dynamics, however, including considerable differences between EU Member States, and the key role played by private citizens and initiatives in offering the much lauded ‘hospitality' from wh…
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies
Tourism mobilities play a significant role in how European identity and the European space are imagined, encountered, and negotiated, but this role has rarely been interrogated. To address this gap, the present article discusses the nexus between tourism and Europeanness, drawing from the concept of ‘travelling imaginative geographies of Europe’. This concept was developed from literature that identifies Europeanness as everyday practice, geograp…
Video-Making as a Mobilities Pedagogy: An “Engaged” Approach
This article adopts an “engaged pedagogy” inspired by feminist thinking to revisit reflections concerning inquiries undertaken into mobilities that incorporate video-making. Moving from a human geographic perspective, the article focuses on several aspects developed in the course unit the author teaches on space, place, and mobility. In the proposed pedagogy, video-making allows learners to focus on mobilities as central to our understanding of c…
Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations
This article aims to illuminate the overlooked entanglement of space, material practices, affects, and cognitive work emplaced in walking tourism. Walking as a tourism activity is generally practised in the open air away from crowded locations; therefore, it is being encouraged even more in this (post)pandemic era than prior to the pandemic. While walking is often represented as a relatively easy activity in common promotional discourse, this art…
Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities: Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts
In this chapter the approach of the new mobilitis paradigm is being applied to the cultural and political processes set in motion by the global movement for the repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains, in which the trajectories of Indigeneous nations' historical struggle converge
Social mobility goes on holiday: Rethinking Space and Communities Through Tourism Mobilities
The evolution of tourism mobilities and their interactions with place have always comprised of ambiguous change dimensions relative to the social, spatial, and socio-spatial mobility of both guest and host communities alike. While different forms of tourism can offer opportunities for empowerment, they can also limit opportunities in ways that are unevenly distributed throughout the social spectrum. The aim of this opening to the special issue is…
Introduction — Unruly Landscapes: Mobility, Transience and Transformation
In June 2020, the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at the University of Lancaster (UK) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities (MoHu) at the University of Padua (Italy) co-hosted an international conference on the theme of “Unruly Landscapes.” As a result of the pandemic, the two-day event had to be moved online, but participants nevertheless enjoyed two days of inspiring discussion as the speakers engaged with the int…
Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities: Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas
The frictional geography of cultural heritage. Grounding the Faro Convention into urban experience in Forlì, Italy
Cultural heritage is nurtured by, and nurtures, space and place dynamics that are multidimensional and ambiguous. In this paper I engage with a ‘frictional geography’ of heritage-making to question the principles and practices of the FrameworkConvention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Societyof the Council of Europe, a charter predicated on the principle of citizens’ inclusion and co-operation. The friction metaphor has emerged in the last …
Sviluppo territoriale, turismo e protezione dei siti Patrimonio Mondiale: Poste in gioco e conflitti geopolitici
Attraverso un approccio di geopolitica critica, questo articolo analizza i conflitti locali che emergono intorno a progetti di pianificazione del territorio che rappresentano una minaccia per l’ambiente, lo sviluppo economico e/o le qualità paesaggistiche dei siti classificati Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO. In particolare, l’articolo si sofferma sul caso della costruzione contestata di una diga idroelettrica in Portogallo, in prossimità della r…
Introduction to the special issue: Between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis
This Special Issue explores new approaches to urban regeneration, and potentially give new meanings to the term itself, as it appears in the context of austerity urbanism. In particular, the aim of this Special Issue is to offer a Southern European perspective of the nexus between the withdrawal of the State from urban governance, and of the new forms of cooperation arising from civil society, thus presenting original research material, and innov…
Neighbourhood branding and urban regeneration: Performing the ‘right to the brand’ in Casilino, Rome
In the last decade, many cities have experimented with small-scale initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of life of residents; these initiatives have somehow fostered a reconceptualization of the term, as well as practice, of urban regeneration. In this context, the role of civic networks in bringing forward experiments in the production of alternative imaginaries and place-making has gained a major role, in particular in marginal neighbourh…
Performing a walking holiday: Routing, immersing and co-dwelling
This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider debate on walking tourism. In doing so, this article revises the concept of ‘dwelling-in-motion’ and employs a mobile perspective that combines both the phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to tourism and walking studies, focusing on pace and rhyth…
Vivere in montagna: Mobilità, forme di residenzialità e identità locali dei nuovi abitanti di un comprensorio sciistico in Svizzera
Le tendenze di rivalorizzazione degli spazi rurali e la loro conseguente gentrificazione è stata studiata con riferimento alla nozione di “amenity migration” (o migrazione ricreativa) in diversi contesti geografici. I nuovi abitanti mantengono le loro reti sociali nelle città e importano i loro stili di vita urbani nelle loro nuove case. Questo contributo si focalizza sulla (ri)negoziazione delle identità locali e della “conoscenza del territorio…
Unequal cities. The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity
Unequal cities. The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity." Urban Geography, 39(4), pp. 653–654
Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies
Fictional vignettes are narrative texts that academic researchers may invent in order to illustrate arguments or to present their research outcomes; they are stories or situations that do not strictly report factual realities observed by the author, but that, in any case, implement the heuristics for the arguments that the author wants to raise. Although there are several works in social sciences taking advantage of fictional narratives, geograph…
Itineraries of consumption: Co-producing leisure shopping sites in Rimini
This article proposes a spatial approach to tourism and consumption as it emerges through leisure shopping. The notion ‘itineraries of consumption’ is offered to underline the emergence of tourists’ multiple shopping patterns in a single tourist destination. Itineraries of consumption produce, connect and transform shoppingscapes and tourismscapes. Tourism consumption research has expanded over the past 15 years in the social sciences and humanit…
Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’: Critique or co-optation? Notes from Milan, Italy
In the last decade, urban studies scholars have been studying a wide variety of urban regeneration strategies formulated by social movements and civic networks. These initiatives range from physical interventions to social and cultural activities that also serve to appropriate urban space, according to an alternative logic to neo-liberal redevelopment plans. The aim of this paper is to participate in this debate by focusing on urban interventions…
Place branding performances in tourist local food shops
Renewing a historical legacy: Tourism, leisure shopping and urban branding in Paris
The condition of ‘Cosmo-housewives’: Leisure shopping, the mainstream and its ambiguities
‘Leisure shopping’ is a particular kind of shopping activity that is devoted mainly to fashion clothes and accessories. Women are commonly represented as the main leisure shoppers, and consequently, they tend to be at the centre of shopping centres' mainstream discourses. This article argues that interpretations of representations of ‘leisure shopping’ and the corresponding practice have too often ignored the daily and seemingly ‘banal’ experienc…
The invention of shopping tourism. The discursive repositioning of landscape in an Italian retail-led case
Under the label of ‘shopping tour’, tour operators currently offer package tours which aim to highlight for the visitor the commercial appeal of a particular location. A variety of destinations are suitable for tours with such a label. In this context, certain ‘shopping tourism’ destinations simply consist of areas where the concentration of corporation-led retail venues is high. The Novese Area, in the northwest of Italy, has been transforming i…
Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies
Fictional vignettes are narrative texts that academic researchers may invent in order to illustrate arguments or to present their research outcomes; they are stories or situations that do not strictly report factual realities observed by the author, but that, in any case, implement the heuristics for the arguments that the author wants to raise. Although there are several works in social sciences taking advantage of fictional narratives, geograph…
Performing a walking holiday: Routing, immersing and co-dwelling
This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider debate on walking tourism. In doing so, this article revises the concept of ‘dwelling-in-motion’ and employs a mobile perspective that combines both the phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to tourism and walking studies, focusing on pace and rhyth…
Renewing a historical legacy: Tourism, leisure shopping and urban branding in Paris
The condition of ‘Cosmo-housewives’: Leisure shopping, the mainstream and its ambiguities
‘Leisure shopping’ is a particular kind of shopping activity that is devoted mainly to fashion clothes and accessories. Women are commonly represented as the main leisure shoppers, and consequently, they tend to be at the centre of shopping centres' mainstream discourses. This article argues that interpretations of representations of ‘leisure shopping’ and the corresponding practice have too often ignored the daily and seemingly ‘banal’ experienc…
Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’: Critique or co-optation? Notes from Milan, Italy
In the last decade, urban studies scholars have been studying a wide variety of urban regeneration strategies formulated by social movements and civic networks. These initiatives range from physical interventions to social and cultural activities that also serve to appropriate urban space, according to an alternative logic to neo-liberal redevelopment plans. The aim of this paper is to participate in this debate by focusing on urban interventions…
The invention of shopping tourism. The discursive repositioning of landscape in an Italian retail-led case
Under the label of ‘shopping tour’, tour operators currently offer package tours which aim to highlight for the visitor the commercial appeal of a particular location. A variety of destinations are suitable for tours with such a label. In this context, certain ‘shopping tourism’ destinations simply consist of areas where the concentration of corporation-led retail venues is high. The Novese Area, in the northwest of Italy, has been transforming i…
Social mobility goes on holiday: Rethinking Space and Communities Through Tourism Mobilities
The evolution of tourism mobilities and their interactions with place have always comprised of ambiguous change dimensions relative to the social, spatial, and socio-spatial mobility of both guest and host communities alike. While different forms of tourism can offer opportunities for empowerment, they can also limit opportunities in ways that are unevenly distributed throughout the social spectrum. The aim of this opening to the special issue is…
Place branding performances in tourist local food shops
Sensing transit. The role of senses in slow tourism
In recent decades, slow tourism, a form of tourism marked by a change in tourists’ mode of transit within or to a locality, has garnered attention. Slow tourism is the result of specific entanglements of people, transport infrastructure, technology, spaces, and landscapes that specifically promote the use of regional trains, bicycles, or walking. This article analyses the sensory aspects of slow tourism at the junction of mobilities and tourism s…
Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities: Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts
In this chapter the approach of the new mobilitis paradigm is being applied to the cultural and political processes set in motion by the global movement for the repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains, in which the trajectories of Indigeneous nations' historical struggle converge
The frictional geography of cultural heritage. Grounding the Faro Convention into urban experience in Forlì, Italy
Cultural heritage is nurtured by, and nurtures, space and place dynamics that are multidimensional and ambiguous. In this paper I engage with a ‘frictional geography’ of heritage-making to question the principles and practices of the FrameworkConvention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Societyof the Council of Europe, a charter predicated on the principle of citizens’ inclusion and co-operation. The friction metaphor has emerged in the last …
Itineraries of consumption: Co-producing leisure shopping sites in Rimini
This article proposes a spatial approach to tourism and consumption as it emerges through leisure shopping. The notion ‘itineraries of consumption’ is offered to underline the emergence of tourists’ multiple shopping patterns in a single tourist destination. Itineraries of consumption produce, connect and transform shoppingscapes and tourismscapes. Tourism consumption research has expanded over the past 15 years in the social sciences and humanit…
L'Italia dei consumi. Dalla belle époque al nuovo millennio (Consumption in Italy from the Belle Epoque to the New Millennium) by Emanuela Scarpellini
Roma, Bari: Laterza, 2008, ISBN 978-88-420-8599-7, €24 (pb), Pp. i-viii +289 In a recent issue of this journal, the author of a book review claimed that “‘affluent” post-war societies have only rec
The invention of shopping tourism. The discursive repositioning of landscape in an Italian retail-led case
Under the label of ‘shopping tour’, tour operators currently offer package tours which aim to highlight for the visitor the commercial appeal of a particular location. A variety of destinations are suitable for tours with such a label. In this context, certain ‘shopping tourism’ destinations simply consist of areas where the concentration of corporation-led retail venues is high. The Novese Area, in the northwest of Italy, has been transforming i…
The condition of ‘Cosmo-housewives’: Leisure shopping, the mainstream and its ambiguities
‘Leisure shopping’ is a particular kind of shopping activity that is devoted mainly to fashion clothes and accessories. Women are commonly represented as the main leisure shoppers, and consequently, they tend to be at the centre of shopping centres' mainstream discourses. This article argues that interpretations of representations of ‘leisure shopping’ and the corresponding practice have too often ignored the daily and seemingly ‘banal’ experienc…
Renewing a historical legacy: Tourism, leisure shopping and urban branding in Paris
Itineraries of consumption: Co-producing leisure shopping sites in Rimini
This article proposes a spatial approach to tourism and consumption as it emerges through leisure shopping. The notion ‘itineraries of consumption’ is offered to underline the emergence of tourists’ multiple shopping patterns in a single tourist destination. Itineraries of consumption produce, connect and transform shoppingscapes and tourismscapes. Tourism consumption research has expanded over the past 15 years in the social sciences and humanit…
Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’: Critique or co-optation? Notes from Milan, Italy
In the last decade, urban studies scholars have been studying a wide variety of urban regeneration strategies formulated by social movements and civic networks. These initiatives range from physical interventions to social and cultural activities that also serve to appropriate urban space, according to an alternative logic to neo-liberal redevelopment plans. The aim of this paper is to participate in this debate by focusing on urban interventions…
Place branding performances in tourist local food shops
Unequal cities. The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity
Unequal cities. The challenge of post-industrial transition in times of austerity." Urban Geography, 39(4), pp. 653–654
Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies
Fictional vignettes are narrative texts that academic researchers may invent in order to illustrate arguments or to present their research outcomes; they are stories or situations that do not strictly report factual realities observed by the author, but that, in any case, implement the heuristics for the arguments that the author wants to raise. Although there are several works in social sciences taking advantage of fictional narratives, geograph…
Vivere in montagna: Mobilità, forme di residenzialità e identità locali dei nuovi abitanti di un comprensorio sciistico in Svizzera
Le tendenze di rivalorizzazione degli spazi rurali e la loro conseguente gentrificazione è stata studiata con riferimento alla nozione di “amenity migration” (o migrazione ricreativa) in diversi contesti geografici. I nuovi abitanti mantengono le loro reti sociali nelle città e importano i loro stili di vita urbani nelle loro nuove case. Questo contributo si focalizza sulla (ri)negoziazione delle identità locali e della “conoscenza del territorio…
Sviluppo territoriale, turismo e protezione dei siti Patrimonio Mondiale: Poste in gioco e conflitti geopolitici
Attraverso un approccio di geopolitica critica, questo articolo analizza i conflitti locali che emergono intorno a progetti di pianificazione del territorio che rappresentano una minaccia per l’ambiente, lo sviluppo economico e/o le qualità paesaggistiche dei siti classificati Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO. In particolare, l’articolo si sofferma sul caso della costruzione contestata di una diga idroelettrica in Portogallo, in prossimità della r…
Introduction to the special issue: Between practices and policies. Rethinking urban regeneration in Southern European cities after the crisis
This Special Issue explores new approaches to urban regeneration, and potentially give new meanings to the term itself, as it appears in the context of austerity urbanism. In particular, the aim of this Special Issue is to offer a Southern European perspective of the nexus between the withdrawal of the State from urban governance, and of the new forms of cooperation arising from civil society, thus presenting original research material, and innov…
Neighbourhood branding and urban regeneration: Performing the ‘right to the brand’ in Casilino, Rome
In the last decade, many cities have experimented with small-scale initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of life of residents; these initiatives have somehow fostered a reconceptualization of the term, as well as practice, of urban regeneration. In this context, the role of civic networks in bringing forward experiments in the production of alternative imaginaries and place-making has gained a major role, in particular in marginal neighbourh…
Performing a walking holiday: Routing, immersing and co-dwelling
This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider debate on walking tourism. In doing so, this article revises the concept of ‘dwelling-in-motion’ and employs a mobile perspective that combines both the phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to tourism and walking studies, focusing on pace and rhyth…
Introduction — Unruly Landscapes: Mobility, Transience and Transformation
In June 2020, the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at the University of Lancaster (UK) and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Mobility & Humanities (MoHu) at the University of Padua (Italy) co-hosted an international conference on the theme of “Unruly Landscapes.” As a result of the pandemic, the two-day event had to be moved online, but participants nevertheless enjoyed two days of inspiring discussion as the speakers engaged with the int…
Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities: Volume 1: Theories, Methods and Ideas
The frictional geography of cultural heritage. Grounding the Faro Convention into urban experience in Forlì, Italy
Cultural heritage is nurtured by, and nurtures, space and place dynamics that are multidimensional and ambiguous. In this paper I engage with a ‘frictional geography’ of heritage-making to question the principles and practices of the FrameworkConvention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Societyof the Council of Europe, a charter predicated on the principle of citizens’ inclusion and co-operation. The friction metaphor has emerged in the last …
Video-Making as a Mobilities Pedagogy: An “Engaged” Approach
This article adopts an “engaged pedagogy” inspired by feminist thinking to revisit reflections concerning inquiries undertaken into mobilities that incorporate video-making. Moving from a human geographic perspective, the article focuses on several aspects developed in the course unit the author teaches on space, place, and mobility. In the proposed pedagogy, video-making allows learners to focus on mobilities as central to our understanding of c…
Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations
This article aims to illuminate the overlooked entanglement of space, material practices, affects, and cognitive work emplaced in walking tourism. Walking as a tourism activity is generally practised in the open air away from crowded locations; therefore, it is being encouraged even more in this (post)pandemic era than prior to the pandemic. While walking is often represented as a relatively easy activity in common promotional discourse, this art…
Reimagining Mobilities across the Humanities: Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts
In this chapter the approach of the new mobilitis paradigm is being applied to the cultural and political processes set in motion by the global movement for the repatriation of Indigenous Ancestral Remains, in which the trajectories of Indigeneous nations' historical struggle converge
Social mobility goes on holiday: Rethinking Space and Communities Through Tourism Mobilities
The evolution of tourism mobilities and their interactions with place have always comprised of ambiguous change dimensions relative to the social, spatial, and socio-spatial mobility of both guest and host communities alike. While different forms of tourism can offer opportunities for empowerment, they can also limit opportunities in ways that are unevenly distributed throughout the social spectrum. The aim of this opening to the special issue is…
Beyond destination accessibility: Tourism infrastructure across mobilities, technologies and embodiments
This introductory article to the Special Issue explores the evolving conceptualisation of tourism infrastructure through the lenses of assemblage thinking and the mobilities paradigm. Moving beyond traditional dichotomies of material versus immaterial infrastructure, it embraces a multidimensional, relational and dynamic understanding of infrastructure as an active agent in shaping tourism destinations, mobilities and socio-spatial inequalities. …
Sensing transit. The role of senses in slow tourism
In recent decades, slow tourism, a form of tourism marked by a change in tourists’ mode of transit within or to a locality, has garnered attention. Slow tourism is the result of specific entanglements of people, transport infrastructure, technology, spaces, and landscapes that specifically promote the use of regional trains, bicycles, or walking. This article analyses the sensory aspects of slow tourism at the junction of mobilities and tourism s…
Needs and norms shaping the mobility of care of women in rural areas: A case study in the Alps
The mobility of care encompasses trips made to fulfil caregiving and domestic responsibilities, like escorting children, visiting seniors in need, or grocery shopping. Although it plays a prominent role in adults' daily life, the mobility of care is still limitedly explored and most studies focus on its role in large cities. Conversely, it is understudied in rural areas despite the significant challenges their inhabitants face, such as availabili…
Selective Hospitality: Framing the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees across Three National Contexts
The EU reception of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022 has been lauded as ‘exceptional' in its speed and support, especially as compared to previous migration ‘crises’. This discourse of exceptionality obscures a variety of dynamics, however, including considerable differences between EU Member States, and the key role played by private citizens and initiatives in offering the much lauded ‘hospitality' from wh…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Tourism (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works)