Per un rinnovato ruolo pubblico della geografia: una premessa al Manifesto

Abstract

The debate on the public role of Geography in Italy has been reopened after the presentation in Padua of a "manifesto" that makes the Italian version of "public geography" coincide with the so-called "third mission". The contribution proposes a different approach to the issue, one that privileges diversity and openness in the face of a perspective of narrowing relations within the discipline and between it and 'civil society