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Title: | The politics of geography and the Italian occupation of Libya |
Author: | Atkinson, David |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Libyan Studies |
Volume: | 27 |
Pages: | 71-84 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Libya Italy |
Subjects: | colonization geography |
Abstract: | In 1934, Italo Balbo, the fascist governor of Italy's Maghrebian colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, oversaw the creation of the State we now know as Libya. This article examines the role of geography in the constitution of Libya. After problematizing geography as a situated form of knowledge with a long tradition of pro-imperial activities, the article considers some of the ways in which geographical discourses laid the foundations for Italian imperialism in Libya. In particular, the article considers how Italian geography played a crucial role in the 'colonial science' by which fascist Italy attempted symbolically and intellectually to capture Libya and recast it as a controlled, knowable colonial domain. Notes, ref., sum. |