Nadia Bartolini
Biographic Data
| ID | 228972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadia Bartolini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartolini |
| SIGNATURE | BARTOLINI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0375-9413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley
This paper focuses on women's agency through their responses to a rewilding initiative. To do this, we draw on ethnographic research conducted in a rewilding landscape in the Côa Valley in Portugal. Our initial encounters in the rewilding field were all with male workers. This led us to actively seek out women's experiences, who were mainly located on the margins of rewilding. We believe these experiences cast rewilding—and its effects on rural c…
Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section
Rewilding as a term and as a practice has divided public opinion. While rewilding studies mainly focus on the effectiveness of practices that lead to ecosystem recovery, the last decade has seen a rise in the investigation of stakeholder and local community responses to rewilding. This Special Section builds on this by examining rewilding through a gendered perspective that draws on feminist approaches. By doing so, the four full‐length articles …
Making Archives in Place: Adopting a Creative Exchange Approach in Heritage Research
This paper provides a reflexive account of creative exchange in critical heritage studies research. It does so by recounting the methodological opportunities and challenges of researching on a large interdisciplinary heritage programme. We tested this creative exchange approach when undertaking fieldwork with a museum and a history society in the UK’s Clay Country in Cornwall, which resulted in a public-facing output: a short film titled ‘Archive…
Landscape futures: Decision-making in uncertain times, a literature review
This review considers how rapid environmental change, generated through both inhuman natural forces and human-induced impacts, affects landscape futures and decision-making processes. To do this, we start by defining ‘futures’, and, more specifically, the different kinds of futures at stake in changing landscapes. We discuss how rapid environmental change not only puts immediate pressure on identifying alternative futures for landscapes, but also…
Brecciation, post-geographies, and spaces in transition
This commentary on Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch’s article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, and Post-Apartheid’, focuses on two aspects. First, I expand on the metaphor of brecciation and how it can shine a light on processes that are still becoming – extending time and spatial configurations as variegated elements in a whole. Second, I want to build on the author’s reflection of tracking space-time regimes by considering how bei…
Making space for hybridity: Industrial heritage naturecultures at West Carclaze Garden Village, Cornwall
The paper explores the diverse forms of renaturing and reinscription which arise from the materiality of industrial decline and the desire to make space for nature in new peri-urban developments. As productive use is sought for post-operational spaces, remnant industrial objects and ecologies are either removed or incorporated into new landscape narratives and forms. When they are retained, the status of such remnants often remains unstable, as t…
Recording Loss: Film as method and the spirit of Orford Ness
This paper explores the use of film as a method to explore themes of change and loss which emerged during the recording of archaeological features at Orford Ness, UK. Owned by the National Trust, Orford Ness is an exposed shingle spit off the Suffolk coast recognised for its natural and cultural heritage. The research discussed in this paper engaged with a community archaeology project which has been recording features on the shingle spit as they…
Patina: A Profane Archaeology
Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xv and 195 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 9780226351056), $27.50 paper (ISBN
Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal
This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares a landscape with a rewilding pilot which seeks to re‐establish a population of wild horses. In response to recent geographical debates, the paper offers a sustained, situated analysis of the temporalities of rewilding and related claims to non‐human autonomy. In the …
Reconfiguring Ruins: Beyond Ruinenlust
What explains the global proliferation of interest in ruins? Can ruins be understood beyond their common framing as products of European Romanticism? Might a transdisciplinary approach allow us to see ruins differently? These questions underpinned the AHRC-funded project Re-configuring Ruins, which deployed approaches from history, literature, East Asian Studies, and geography to reflect on how ruins from different historical contexts are underst…
Talking with the dead: Spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke‐on‐Trent
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Spirit knows: Materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Heritage Futures
Heritage Futures is a four-year collaborative international research programme (2015–2019) funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ Theme Large Grant, and supported additionally by its host universities and partner organisations. The research programme involves ambitious interdisciplinary research to explore the potential for innovation and creative exchange across a broad range of heritage and related fiel…
The place of spirit: Modernity and the geographies of spirituality
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Provocations of the present: What Culture for What Geography
Cultural geography finds itself in a very different place from when Peter Jackson's Maps of Meaning first appeared in 1989. Provocations for culturally attuned spatial thinking made at that time have either altered or at least been significantly reframed when issues of wider public engagement, collaborative arts practice and new ICT-based social and creative media are changing the terrain on which cultural geography is made and practiced. We intr…
The politics of vibrant matter: Consistency, containment and the concrete of Mussolini's bunker
This article explores the idea of how vibrancy can be produced. Specifically, the attempt is to investigate the multiplicities of vibrancy by considering one of Mussolini's bunkers. The author examines the location of the bunker in the EUR ( Esposizione Universale Romana) neighbourhood in Rome, the bunker's materiality, and the context and social meaning of the bunker through a contemporary art exhibition called 'Confronti' (Confrontations) that …
Critical urban heritage: From Palimpsest to Brecciation
This paper explores the commonly used metaphor of the palimpsest prevalent in urban studies, and suggests that there are realities in the field that are overshadowed by the dominant use of the metaphor. Whilst the palimpsest is a useful metaphor to illustrate chronological superimposition or traces of the past that remain hidden, it is inadequate in describing sites that feature material, spatial and temporal juxtapositions. To remedy this gap, t…
Rome's Pasts and the Creation of New Urban Spaces: Brecciation, Matter, and the Play of Surfaces and Depths
In this paper I look at how the discovery of remnants contributes to creating new spaces in the city. I use the geological metaphor of brecciation drawing upon the work of Sigmund Freud to elaborate on how materials from the past and the present are jumbled in a nonlinear fashion to enable spatial multiplicity. I then illustrate these ideas through the case study of the Sala Trevi/Mondadori building in Rome which exemplifies the ongoing dynamics …
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: Alternative Spiritualities and the Question of Their Esoteric Economies
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
The place of spirit: Modernity and the geographies of spirituality
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal
This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares a landscape with a rewilding pilot which seeks to re‐establish a population of wild horses. In response to recent geographical debates, the paper offers a sustained, situated analysis of the temporalities of rewilding and related claims to non‐human autonomy. In the …
Talking with the dead: Spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke‐on‐Trent
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: Alternative Spiritualities and the Question of Their Esoteric Economies
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
Making space for hybridity: Industrial heritage naturecultures at West Carclaze Garden Village, Cornwall
The paper explores the diverse forms of renaturing and reinscription which arise from the materiality of industrial decline and the desire to make space for nature in new peri-urban developments. As productive use is sought for post-operational spaces, remnant industrial objects and ecologies are either removed or incorporated into new landscape narratives and forms. When they are retained, the status of such remnants often remains unstable, as t…
Spirit knows: Materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The politics of vibrant matter: Consistency, containment and the concrete of Mussolini's bunker
This article explores the idea of how vibrancy can be produced. Specifically, the attempt is to investigate the multiplicities of vibrancy by considering one of Mussolini's bunkers. The author examines the location of the bunker in the EUR ( Esposizione Universale Romana) neighbourhood in Rome, the bunker's materiality, and the context and social meaning of the bunker through a contemporary art exhibition called 'Confronti' (Confrontations) that …
Critical urban heritage: From Palimpsest to Brecciation
This paper explores the commonly used metaphor of the palimpsest prevalent in urban studies, and suggests that there are realities in the field that are overshadowed by the dominant use of the metaphor. Whilst the palimpsest is a useful metaphor to illustrate chronological superimposition or traces of the past that remain hidden, it is inadequate in describing sites that feature material, spatial and temporal juxtapositions. To remedy this gap, t…
Rome's Pasts and the Creation of New Urban Spaces: Brecciation, Matter, and the Play of Surfaces and Depths
In this paper I look at how the discovery of remnants contributes to creating new spaces in the city. I use the geological metaphor of brecciation drawing upon the work of Sigmund Freud to elaborate on how materials from the past and the present are jumbled in a nonlinear fashion to enable spatial multiplicity. I then illustrate these ideas through the case study of the Sala Trevi/Mondadori building in Rome which exemplifies the ongoing dynamics …
Provocations of the present: What Culture for What Geography
Cultural geography finds itself in a very different place from when Peter Jackson's Maps of Meaning first appeared in 1989. Provocations for culturally attuned spatial thinking made at that time have either altered or at least been significantly reframed when issues of wider public engagement, collaborative arts practice and new ICT-based social and creative media are changing the terrain on which cultural geography is made and practiced. We intr…
Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley
This paper focuses on women's agency through their responses to a rewilding initiative. To do this, we draw on ethnographic research conducted in a rewilding landscape in the Côa Valley in Portugal. Our initial encounters in the rewilding field were all with male workers. This led us to actively seek out women's experiences, who were mainly located on the margins of rewilding. We believe these experiences cast rewilding—and its effects on rural c…
Recording Loss: Film as method and the spirit of Orford Ness
This paper explores the use of film as a method to explore themes of change and loss which emerged during the recording of archaeological features at Orford Ness, UK. Owned by the National Trust, Orford Ness is an exposed shingle spit off the Suffolk coast recognised for its natural and cultural heritage. The research discussed in this paper engaged with a community archaeology project which has been recording features on the shingle spit as they…
Patina: A Profane Archaeology
Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xv and 195 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 9780226351056), $27.50 paper (ISBN
Reconfiguring Ruins: Beyond Ruinenlust
What explains the global proliferation of interest in ruins? Can ruins be understood beyond their common framing as products of European Romanticism? Might a transdisciplinary approach allow us to see ruins differently? These questions underpinned the AHRC-funded project Re-configuring Ruins, which deployed approaches from history, literature, East Asian Studies, and geography to reflect on how ruins from different historical contexts are underst…
Rome's Pasts and the Creation of New Urban Spaces: Brecciation, Matter, and the Play of Surfaces and Depths
In this paper I look at how the discovery of remnants contributes to creating new spaces in the city. I use the geological metaphor of brecciation drawing upon the work of Sigmund Freud to elaborate on how materials from the past and the present are jumbled in a nonlinear fashion to enable spatial multiplicity. I then illustrate these ideas through the case study of the Sala Trevi/Mondadori building in Rome which exemplifies the ongoing dynamics …
Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: Alternative Spiritualities and the Question of Their Esoteric Economies
Studies of alternative and 'New Age' spiritualities and of the paranormal in popular culture hint at the existence of underlying economic relationships that are, though small in size by some measures, both significant and influential. This paper seeks to foreground the economic relationships underpinning the beliefs, practices and activities associated with alternative spiritualities. For, as we argue, these have either been marginalised in most …
Critical urban heritage: From Palimpsest to Brecciation
This paper explores the commonly used metaphor of the palimpsest prevalent in urban studies, and suggests that there are realities in the field that are overshadowed by the dominant use of the metaphor. Whilst the palimpsest is a useful metaphor to illustrate chronological superimposition or traces of the past that remain hidden, it is inadequate in describing sites that feature material, spatial and temporal juxtapositions. To remedy this gap, t…
The politics of vibrant matter: Consistency, containment and the concrete of Mussolini's bunker
This article explores the idea of how vibrancy can be produced. Specifically, the attempt is to investigate the multiplicities of vibrancy by considering one of Mussolini's bunkers. The author examines the location of the bunker in the EUR ( Esposizione Universale Romana) neighbourhood in Rome, the bunker's materiality, and the context and social meaning of the bunker through a contemporary art exhibition called 'Confronti' (Confrontations) that …
Heritage Futures
Heritage Futures is a four-year collaborative international research programme (2015–2019) funded by a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ Theme Large Grant, and supported additionally by its host universities and partner organisations. The research programme involves ambitious interdisciplinary research to explore the potential for innovation and creative exchange across a broad range of heritage and related fiel…
The place of spirit: Modernity and the geographies of spirituality
In this paper, we seek to map out the specific geographies through which spatialities of religion have been imagined. These involve such spatial metaphors as islands, networks and spheres. Less attention has been given to new forms of spirituality, and to the consequences of thinking through these for our understanding of modernity itself. We argue that modernity, religion and spirituality are entangled and spread through daily life. We conclude …
Provocations of the present: What Culture for What Geography
Cultural geography finds itself in a very different place from when Peter Jackson's Maps of Meaning first appeared in 1989. Provocations for culturally attuned spatial thinking made at that time have either altered or at least been significantly reframed when issues of wider public engagement, collaborative arts practice and new ICT-based social and creative media are changing the terrain on which cultural geography is made and practiced. We intr…
Reconfiguring Ruins: Beyond Ruinenlust
What explains the global proliferation of interest in ruins? Can ruins be understood beyond their common framing as products of European Romanticism? Might a transdisciplinary approach allow us to see ruins differently? These questions underpinned the AHRC-funded project Re-configuring Ruins, which deployed approaches from history, literature, East Asian Studies, and geography to reflect on how ruins from different historical contexts are underst…
Talking with the dead: Spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke‐on‐Trent
While Spiritualism has attracted much attention in other disciplines, geographers have largely ignored it. However, we agree with Holloway (2006 Enchanted spaces: the séance, affect, and geographies of religion Annals of the Association of American Geographers , 96 , pp. 182–187) that Spiritualism presents conceptual challenges that make it worthy of more attention. As Holloway suggests, the themes of affect, embodiment and materiality are partic…
Spirit knows: Materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
Where horses run free? Autonomy, temporality and rewilding in the Côa Valley, Portugal
This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares a landscape with a rewilding pilot which seeks to re‐establish a population of wild horses. In response to recent geographical debates, the paper offers a sustained, situated analysis of the temporalities of rewilding and related claims to non‐human autonomy. In the …
Patina: A Profane Archaeology
Shannon Lee Dawdy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xv and 195 pp., photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $82.50 cloth (ISBN 9780226351056), $27.50 paper (ISBN
Making space for hybridity: Industrial heritage naturecultures at West Carclaze Garden Village, Cornwall
The paper explores the diverse forms of renaturing and reinscription which arise from the materiality of industrial decline and the desire to make space for nature in new peri-urban developments. As productive use is sought for post-operational spaces, remnant industrial objects and ecologies are either removed or incorporated into new landscape narratives and forms. When they are retained, the status of such remnants often remains unstable, as t…
Recording Loss: Film as method and the spirit of Orford Ness
This paper explores the use of film as a method to explore themes of change and loss which emerged during the recording of archaeological features at Orford Ness, UK. Owned by the National Trust, Orford Ness is an exposed shingle spit off the Suffolk coast recognised for its natural and cultural heritage. The research discussed in this paper engaged with a community archaeology project which has been recording features on the shingle spit as they…
Landscape futures: Decision-making in uncertain times, a literature review
This review considers how rapid environmental change, generated through both inhuman natural forces and human-induced impacts, affects landscape futures and decision-making processes. To do this, we start by defining ‘futures’, and, more specifically, the different kinds of futures at stake in changing landscapes. We discuss how rapid environmental change not only puts immediate pressure on identifying alternative futures for landscapes, but also…
Brecciation, post-geographies, and spaces in transition
This commentary on Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch’s article, ‘Keeping You Post-ed: Space-Time Regimes, Metaphors, and Post-Apartheid’, focuses on two aspects. First, I expand on the metaphor of brecciation and how it can shine a light on processes that are still becoming – extending time and spatial configurations as variegated elements in a whole. Second, I want to build on the author’s reflection of tracking space-time regimes by considering how bei…
Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley
This paper focuses on women's agency through their responses to a rewilding initiative. To do this, we draw on ethnographic research conducted in a rewilding landscape in the Côa Valley in Portugal. Our initial encounters in the rewilding field were all with male workers. This led us to actively seek out women's experiences, who were mainly located on the margins of rewilding. We believe these experiences cast rewilding—and its effects on rural c…
Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section
Rewilding as a term and as a practice has divided public opinion. While rewilding studies mainly focus on the effectiveness of practices that lead to ecosystem recovery, the last decade has seen a rise in the investigation of stakeholder and local community responses to rewilding. This Special Section builds on this by examining rewilding through a gendered perspective that draws on feminist approaches. By doing so, the four full‐length articles …
Making Archives in Place: Adopting a Creative Exchange Approach in Heritage Research
This paper provides a reflexive account of creative exchange in critical heritage studies research. It does so by recounting the methodological opportunities and challenges of researching on a large interdisciplinary heritage programme. We tested this creative exchange approach when undertaking fieldwork with a museum and a history society in the UK’s Clay Country in Cornwall, which resulted in a public-facing output: a short film titled ‘Archive…
Sociology (12 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (11 works) · Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works)