Luca Muscarà

Luca Muscarà is associate professor of political geography at the University of Molise (Italy), and associate researcher at Pacte, Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul), and at Université Grenoble-Alpes. His research interests focus on the history of geographic thought. In particular, his work on the geography of Jean Gottmann has been internationally recognized.

Title: Jean Gottmann's Iconography of movement

Keywords: My scientific interests are at the intersection of the history of geographical thought, especially on of political, urban, and cultural geography of the 20th century.

Selected publications

• Nationalisme et Populisme, in “Frontières”, Amilhat-Szary A.-L. et Hamez G. (eds), Paris: Armand Colin, 2020, 166-74.
• The great swindle of nationalist sovereigntism, in “Changing Geographies of the State”, Koch et al. (eds), Cheltenham: Elgar, 2020, 96-106
• David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country Revisited. “Journal of Historical Geography”, vol. 64, 2019, 107-09.
• Maps, complexity and the uncertainty of power, in “Geographies of Power”, Agnew J. et al. (eds), Cheltenham, Elgar, 2018, 362-79.
• The Banality of Empire, in “The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Geography”, Agnew J. et al. (eds), Chichester, UK, 2015, 324-38
• Paradigma megalopolitano e riordino territoriale in Italia, “Rivista Geografica Italiana”, 122, 4, 2015, 555-72.
• “Making Political Geography” - Second edition (with John Agnew), Lanham, MD: Rowman&Littlefield, 2012, 283 p.
• La territorialità di Venezia e le sue proiezioni, in Muscarà C., et al. (eds), “Tante Italie, Una Italia”, Vol. 3, Milan: Angeli, 2011, 74-112.
• Gottmann J., in Kitchin R, Thift N (eds), “International Encyclopedia of Human Geography”, Vol. 4, Oxford: Elsevier, 2009, 590–92.
• The Doxiadis – Gottmann Exchange, in M. Antonopoulos-Bogdanou (ed.), “C.A.Doxiadis and His Work”, Athènes, 2009, vol. 2, 198-208.
• A heurística de Jean Gottmann: um dispositivo psicossomático in: Marcos Aurelio Saquet (ed.), “Territórios e Territorialidades: Teorias, processos e conflitos”, São Paulo, Brasil: Expressão Popular, 2009, 37-56.
• Une géographie dans l'histoire. In: L'Orbite de la Géographie de Jean Gottmann. Actes du colloque international ténu à Paris le 29-30 mars 2005, “La Géographie”, vol. 1523Bis Hors Série, Paris : Société de Géographie, 195-218, 2007.
• “La strada di Gottmann, Tra universalismi della storia e particolarismi della geografia”, Rome: Nexta Books, 2005, 247p.
• Territory as a Psychosomatic Device: Gottmann’s Kinetic Political Geography, “Geopolitics”, 10, Philadelphie, USA: Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2005, 24-49.
• The Long Road to Megalopolis, “Ekistics”, vol. 70, no. 418/419, Jan.-Apr., Athènes: Athens Center for Ekistics, 2003, 23-35.
• Jean Gottmann’s Complete Bibliography, “Ekistics”, vol. 70, no. 418/419, Jan.-Apr. 2003, Athènes: Athens Center for Ekistics, 2003, 111-9.
• Gottmann’s Geographic Glossa, “Geojournal”, Vol. 52, n° 4 (décembre), Dordrecht, Pays Bas: Kluwer Academic Pub., 2001, 285-93.
• Jean Gottmann’s Atlantic “transhumance” and the development of his spatial theory, “Finisterra”, Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 33, 65, Lisbonne: Centro de Estudos Geográficos, 1998, 159-72
• Les ‘mots justes’ de Jean Gottmann, “Cybergeo”, 54, Paris, 26 Mars 1998, 15 p.
• Bibliographie complète de Jean Gottmann, “Cybergeo”, Paris, 1998.