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GIUSEPPE TOMASELLA
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Assegnista di ricerca
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Università degli studi Padova
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I hold a Bachelor's degree in Modern and Contemporary Western Languages and Literature from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. I subsequently pursued a Master's degree in European, American, and Postcolonial Languages and Literature, focusing my thesis on the theoretical concepts of cultural hybridity and liminality.
Expanding my academic interests, I enrolled in the Master's programme in Intercultural Development of Tourism Systems at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. My thesis for this degree investigated the complex relationships between tourism and nocturnal temporality in the Venetian urban context, allowing me to bridge theoretical frameworks with practical urban dynamics.
To further develop my research, I undertook doctoral studies in the Historical, Geographical, and Anthropological Studies programme, specializing in geographical studies, jointly offered by the University of Padua and Ca' Foscari University of Venice. In January 2025, I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Venice Nightscapes: Consuming, Living, Narrating," which synthesized my extensive research on urban nightscapes.
Since November 2024, I have held a research fellowship at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Antiquity Studies (DiSSGeA) at the University of Padua. My current research, part of the "Tourism Contained (DeterTour) 2024" project, focuses on strategies for deterring undesired tourist flows and mobilities.
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Tomasella, G. (2024). La Venezia notturna di Luigi Sugana (1891). Plasmare un’indagine geografica della notte urbana contemporanea con una guida storica. Geotema. (Anvur Class A journal Area 11/B1)
Tomasella, G. (2024). Thinking Night Studies through a Southern European Perspective. Geography Compass (Anvur Class A journal Area 11/B1)
Tomasella, G. (2023). What of Tomorrow Night? Urban Night Im/mobilities in Venice. Tourism Geographies. (Anvur Class A journal Area 11/B1)
Tomasella, G. (2023). Fantasmi presenti di un futuro narrato: Venezia in "La seconda mezzanotte" di Antonio Scurati. Lo Squaderno, Explorations in Space and Society (Anvur Scientific Journal Area 11)
Tomasella, G. (2022). Navigating Venice’s Literary Nightscapes through Post-Representational Mapmaking. J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography. (Anvur Class A journal Area 11/B1)
Book Chapters
Tomasella, G. (2023). Drawing nightscapes: disegni in situ e assemblaggi letterari nella notte veneziana. Atti della Giornata di Studi “Oltre la Globalizzazione/Narrazioni”, Memorie Geografiche, 23, pp. 411–416.
Tomasella, G. (2023). Nuove luci per la spopolata notte urbana di Venezia. Atti del XXXIII Congresso Geografico Italiano, Cleup, Padova, pp.75–81.
Cavallo, F.L., Tomasella, G. (2020). La notte a Venezia. Frontiera della colonizzazione turistica o spazio-tempo per pratiche sociali?, in Gwiazdzinski L., Maggioli M., Straw W. (eds.): Night Studies, Elya Editions, Paris, pp. 138–162.
Translations
Adey, P., Lee, J., Merriman, P., Pearce, L., della Dora, V., Engelmann, S., Gigliotti, S., Hawkins, H., Kim, J., Kim, T., Peterle, G., & Rossetto, T. (2025). Connessioni: Arti e Scienze Umane per un futuro di mobilità più eque | original title: Connections: Arts and Humanities for Just Mobility Futures. LP Publishing Co.
Kelman, I. (2023). Sono le acque alte a fare l’aquapelago? Costruire una strategia di risposta al rischio alluvionale per Venezia | original title: Does Flooding Define the Aquapelago? Constructing Venice's flood disaster risk personality, in Cavallo F.L., Vallerani F., Visentin F. (a cura di): Arcipelago delle maree. Esplorare gli incerti confini della Venezia anfibia, Cafoscarina, Venezia, pp. 111–131.
Research Area
Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Human Geography
Night Studies, Urban Night, Nightscapes
Tourism Studies, Southern Europe, Venezia
Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Urban Governance
Literary Urban Studies, Geohumanities, Literary Geographies
Post-Representational Theory, New Mobilities Paradigm, Rhythmanalysis
Autoethnography, Phenomenography
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