Jacobo García-Álvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacobo García-Álvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacobo |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Álvarez |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-ÁLVAREZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2492-7551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Borderism
This article aims to analyze the nature and main characteristics of the discourse on borderlands and border local communities during the process of delimiting the Spanish–Portuguese boundary that took place in the middle third of the nineteenth century. It examines how both local and state actors represented conflicts and violence in border areas and how these discourses played a crucial role not only in securing the involvement of central state …
Geography and Geographers in Place and Time
Recent geohistorical research on boundary-making. Challenging conventional narratives on borders and modern state-building
The paper aims at providing an overview of recent scholarship from the last 3 decades on boundary-making, borders, and the territorial shaping of modern states between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Scholarship in various languages (namely English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian) and from various fields of inquiry will be reviewed in order to highlight their shared themes and common concerns from a comparatist, transdiscipl…
Historia de la cartografía urbana en España
Historia de la cartografía urbana en España: modelos y realizaciones, edited by Luis Urteaga and Francesc Nadal." Imago Mundi, 72(2), p. 212
Los primeros intentos de delimitación moderna de la frontera pirenaica
El presente artículo aborda los primeros intentos de delimitación moderna de la frontera pirenaica, acometidos a lo largo del siglo XVIII. En particular, se analizan los trabajos cartográficos de la Comisión de Límites Caro-Ornano (1784-1792), en relación con la cual se creó una brigada de ingenieros militares de ambos países a la que se encargó, principalmente, el levantamiento de un mapa detallado de la totalidad de la frontera hispanofrancesa.…
Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860–1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions in his especially long and productive career, we focus on the geostrategic writings he produced for the anarchist journals, CNT…
Bridging central state and local communities' territorial visions
A controversial natural border
Representing Spain
Geographical magazines and popular geographies
Between Regional Spaces and Spaces of Regionalism
García-Álvarez J. and Trillo-Santamaría J.-M. Between regional spaces and spaces of regionalism: cross-border region building in the Spanish ‘State of the Autonomies’, Regional Studies. The intense development of cross-border cooperation in the European Union in the last two decades offers a privileged laboratory to reflect upon the changing nature of regions and processes of regional construction in the context of globalization. Focusing on Euro…
Between Regional Spaces and Spaces of Regionalism
García-Álvarez J. and Trillo-Santamaría J.-M. Between regional spaces and spaces of regionalism: cross-border region building in the Spanish ‘State of the Autonomies’, Regional Studies. The intense development of cross-border cooperation in the European Union in the last two decades offers a privileged laboratory to reflect upon the changing nature of regions and processes of regional construction in the context of globalization. Focusing on Euro…
A controversial natural border
Recent geohistorical research on boundary-making. Challenging conventional narratives on borders and modern state-building
The paper aims at providing an overview of recent scholarship from the last 3 decades on boundary-making, borders, and the territorial shaping of modern states between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Scholarship in various languages (namely English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian) and from various fields of inquiry will be reviewed in order to highlight their shared themes and common concerns from a comparatist, transdiscipl…
Bridging central state and local communities' territorial visions
Geographical magazines and popular geographies
Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860–1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions in his especially long and productive career, we focus on the geostrategic writings he produced for the anarchist journals, CNT…
Between Regional Spaces and Spaces of Regionalism
García-Álvarez J. and Trillo-Santamaría J.-M. Between regional spaces and spaces of regionalism: cross-border region building in the Spanish ‘State of the Autonomies’, Regional Studies. The intense development of cross-border cooperation in the European Union in the last two decades offers a privileged laboratory to reflect upon the changing nature of regions and processes of regional construction in the context of globalization. Focusing on Euro…
Geographical magazines and popular geographies
Representing Spain
A controversial natural border
Bridging central state and local communities' territorial visions
Los primeros intentos de delimitación moderna de la frontera pirenaica
El presente artículo aborda los primeros intentos de delimitación moderna de la frontera pirenaica, acometidos a lo largo del siglo XVIII. En particular, se analizan los trabajos cartográficos de la Comisión de Límites Caro-Ornano (1784-1792), en relación con la cual se creó una brigada de ingenieros militares de ambos países a la que se encargó, principalmente, el levantamiento de un mapa detallado de la totalidad de la frontera hispanofrancesa.…
Anarchist Geopolitics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
This paper addresses an early case in critical and anarchist geopolitics by analysing a body of work from Spanish geographer Gonzalo de Reparaz Rodríguez-Báez (1860–1939). After reconstructing the complex and contradictory figure of Reparaz, a scholar and activist who oscillated between very different political positions in his especially long and productive career, we focus on the geostrategic writings he produced for the anarchist journals, CNT…
Historia de la cartografía urbana en España
Historia de la cartografía urbana en España: modelos y realizaciones, edited by Luis Urteaga and Francesc Nadal." Imago Mundi, 72(2), p. 212
Recent geohistorical research on boundary-making. Challenging conventional narratives on borders and modern state-building
The paper aims at providing an overview of recent scholarship from the last 3 decades on boundary-making, borders, and the territorial shaping of modern states between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Scholarship in various languages (namely English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian) and from various fields of inquiry will be reviewed in order to highlight their shared themes and common concerns from a comparatist, transdiscipl…
Geography and Geographers in Place and Time
Borderism
This article aims to analyze the nature and main characteristics of the discourse on borderlands and border local communities during the process of delimiting the Spanish–Portuguese boundary that took place in the middle third of the nineteenth century. It examines how both local and state actors represented conflicts and violence in border areas and how these discourses played a crucial role not only in securing the involvement of central state …
Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography (6 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (3 works)