Cultural geographer (Italy)

Contact: annarita.lamberti@unibg.it

Graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Naples L’Orientale, Annarita Lamberti completed her PhD in Development Geography in 2005, at the same university, dealing with cultural interpretation of urban development. She is an urban/cultural geographer, specialized in the South-Eastern Mediterranean cities with particular regard to the Israeli ones, and works on the cultural dimension of urban condition and experience. In the field of theorical research, her main interest is elaborating a methodology based on cross-disciplinarity, led to realize an osmotic relation between Social and Human Sciences, paying attention to artistic representations, such as literature, visual arts and architecture in the light of the critical openings of postcolonial thought.Currently Annarita is lecturer of "Territorial Processes in Asian Lands" at the University of Bergamo, Faculty of Foreign Literature and Languages. At the moment she is also carrying out research about “Heritage and Identity” based at Postcolonian Studies Centre at the University of Napoli L’Orientale with a scholarship granted by CNR.

Papers:

Modern Heritage Documentation for Conservation and Cultural Development in the Mediterranean Region - an Interdisciplinary Approach and Postcolonial Perspective
[Article in Issue 3, February 2008]