Josefina Gómez Mendoza

Josefina Gómez Mendoza
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  • Emeritus professor
  • Professor Emeritus at Autonomous University of Madrid

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Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Environment, Landscape
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Autonomous University of Madrid
Current position
  • Professor Emeritus

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Publications (73)
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Se empieza a desvelar por distintas vías y en distintos países, la invisibilidad que padecieron las geógrafas del siglo pasado, tanto educadoras como profesoras e investigadoras, sin duda, por causas históricas como guerras y posguerras, pero también por su condición de mujeres. Se estudia en este artículo la doble invisibilidad que padecieron maes...
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Cuando Piotr Kropotkin escribió “Lo que la geografía debe ser” el movimiento obrero europeo se encontraba en pleno auge, a pesar de la represión de los diferentes Estados contra él. La vertiente anarquista del mismo tenía una influencia geográficamente muy diferenciada, pero Kropotkin era uno de sus líderes e intelectuales más influyentes. Este peq...
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Introduction to ther reedition of Amando Melón's biography of A. von Humboldt, with a deep study of the autor and of the welldoing study about Vida y Obra de Alejandro de Humboldt, still very useful, even if new biographies have appeared. The book is particularly useful for the network between spanish and american naturalist and Humboldt during his...
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Review of Berdoulay and Sobeyran book: L'aménagement face à la menaxce climatique. Le défi de l'adaptation. Université de Grenoble Alpes. 2020. Discussion about the limits of planning in face of climate of change and the need, not only of mitigation, but also adaptation in all scales, spaces, and for all populations. The authors alert of counterter...
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« La terre, elle, ne ment pas. » Ces mots bien connus, valant slogan de la « Révolution nationale », ont longtemps fait croire que les géographes français avaient trouvé un terreau favorable dans le régime de Vichy, comme semblait le montrer sa décision de créer la licence et l’agrégation de géographie. Pourtant, si certains d’entre eux ont bien ét...
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This article presents the demographic characteristics of the large depopulated territories of the Iberian Peninsular North and Centre. The stages of the depopulation process are studied, in particular the great migration movements motivated by country urbanization and industrialization in the sixties of the twentieth century. This territorial trans...
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The text commemorates the fifty years of the first Regional Geography of Spain, conceived as a work of the Spanish geographical school as a textbook for university students, and a reference book for other related scientists and educated readers. The work was directed by the two great teachers of 20th-century geography, Lluis Solé Sabarís, Catalan p...
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This is the up-date digital edition of a book about the first nex peripheral campus in Spain, Cantoblanco of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The UAM created in final Franco period, analyses how the campus moves from dictatorship to democracy, and the characters of campus in metropolitan areas in the context of the modern universitary territoria...
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The so called Cornisa de Madrid, an old town platform sixty meters above the Manzanares river must be considered due to its historical, cultural, architectural, and living value as an heritage landscape.The Goya painting of Pradera de San Isidro en Madrid, made the ensemble an iconic landscape. The text review the natural and historic values of Mad...
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Evolution of environment in XIX and XX century in Spain are reviewed.Physical features have led to great biodiversity and high quality of landscapes, but scarcity of use of resources.. The last two centuries have witnessed large hydroelectric developments and massive reforestations.Evolution of early nature preservation policies are analysed as Spa...
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p>El texto conmemora los cincuenta años de la primera Geografía regional de España, concebida como una obra de la escuela geográfica española para ser un libro de texto para estudiantes universitarios, y libro de consulta para otros científicos afines y lectores cultos. La obra está dirigida por los dos grandes maestros de la geografía del siglo XX...
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Este artículo de J. Gómez Mendoza fue publicado por primera vez en 2006: «Nuestro Quirós», en F. Quirós:Estudios de Geografía Histórica e Historia de la Geografía. Obra escogida. Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, pp. 11-26.La Dirección de Ería Revista Cuatrimestral de Geografía lo recupera en este Volumen 2018-2. Año XXXVIII, el primero que se publica...
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In the book commemorating 40 years of the Spanish Constitution (1978-2018) we argue that landscape must be incorporated to the constitutional text as citizens right and duty because of its territorial and heritage sense.
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espanolLa Comision especial del Senado de Espana para el estudio sobre las medidas a desarrollar para evitar la despoblacion de las montanas ha concluido sus trabajos tras escuchar a cincuenta comparecientes entre expertos, politicos, entre ellos alcaldes de municipios de montana, y organizaciones sociales. Destaca de su informe final la apuesta po...
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The geographic and anthropologic Maurice Legendre, Las Hurdes Etude de Géographie Humaine inspired Buñuel film. Las Hurdes, Tierra sin pan. Although Legendre was a hard catholic militant and Buñuel a communist at that moment, the two were fascinated by this poor region in the NW of Spain
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The article refers to the rapid transition underway in Chinese cities towards more western models. This not only as a result of the vast dimensions and territorial differences affecting development in China, and on account of very different urban processes: that hark back to the socialist past and where the registry of residence prevented rural imm...
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Las relaciones entre paisaje y patrimonio son plenamente historicas. Sin embargo, lo habitual es que en el pasado los patrimonios fueran los que tuvieran rasgos de paisajes, ya fueran paisajes construidos por el poder politico en un momento determinado, ya paisajes vernaculares construidos paulatinamente por la accion de las comunidades. Se revisa...
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Catalan Nationalism is looking for a new state, which means secession of Spain. The article looks at the process as result of uniform constitution of Spanish decentralized State of Autonomous Communities, The book analyses the spanish crisis from a geographical point of view, which means a territorial one, The editors ask geographers to work in thi...
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The relations between landscape and heritage are historical. Nevertheless, in the past heritages were those that had features of landscapes, whether they were landscapes constructed by political power in a given period, or were vernacular, that is, constructed gradually by communities. We argue that landscapes may be considered common heritage beca...
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Este artigo realiza uma ampla interpretação sobre a geografiaclássica francesa em suas múltiplas interseções com os historiadoresvdos Annales, enfatizando o surgimento da Geografia Humana em Vidal de la Blache e a leitura desta feita por Lucien Febvre. Em seguida, uma análise comparativa entre França e Espanha procura avaliar o impacto do Tableau d...
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Este artigo realiza uma ampla interpretação sobre a geografia clássica francesa em suas múltiplas interseções com os historiadoresvdos Annales, enfatizando o surgimento da Geografia Humana em Vidal de la Blache e a leitura desta feita por Lucien Febvre. Em seguida, uma análise comparativa entre França e Espanha procura avaliar o impacto do Tableau...
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The current recovery of the notion of landscape as a means of comprehending the relationships between nature, society and culture in their spatiotemporal dimensions, that is, as specifi c totalities, calls for a return to its most fecund presentations, beginning with what is perhaps the most outstanding version of them all, that of Alexander von Hu...
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En la España de la postguerra civil se crea el marco institucional que permite articular un programa de investigación y de docencia geográficas. El instituto Juan Sebastián Elcano, con su sede central en Madrid y las secciones de Barcelona y Zaragoza, editor de la revista 'estudios geográficos', constituye el elemento esencial de este marco, sin de...
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Member of the School of Spanish Regional Geography created by Manuel de Terán at the CSIC Juan Sebastián Elcano Institute, Jesús García Fernández has left us a remarkable amount of work. His main investigations deal with culture systems, agrarian landscapes and agrarian land organization in Castile and the Atlantic Spain, particularly Galicia and A...
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Como estandartes de la pretendida reestructuración universitaria y supuesta renovación pedagógica propugnada por el ministro de Educación Villar Palasí -que parecía dispuesto a resolver los problemas de una universidad como la española, profundamente anquilosada en el pasado, mediante la promulgación de una ley moderna-, nacen a finales de los años...
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Tout objet dont le bois se compose, répond à quelque objet pareil dans la forêt de l'âme Victor Hugo La misión de los bosques patentes es hacer latentes el resto de ellos y sólo cuando nos damos perfectamente cuenta de que el paisaje visible está ocultando otros paisajes invisibles, nos sentimos dentro de un bosque Ortega y Gasset La paradoja del b...
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Reflections on dissident traditions in geography, retrieving figures such as William Bunge or Gunnar Olsson, with the proposal that they should not be made to coincide exclusively with radical currents. Analysis is also made of the reasons why dissident voices are now so slightly heard. Three moments in Spanish geography are then reviewed from the...
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En la perspectiva de una revitalización de la geografía regional y de las regiones de las escalas medias, se hace en el artículo una reflexión recapitulativa de las principales orientaciones de trabajo agrupadas en geografía económica, economía política y geografía políticocultural. Se insiste en la importancia de métodos de trabajo como los narrat...
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El estudio del inicio de la política agroambiental en Francia tiene el interés de conocer las peculiaridades nacionales en la aplicación de esta política europea, como elemento de contraste en la definición de otras políticas nacionales. Para ello se realiza una aproximación territorial al planteamiento de la fase inicial de dicha política, finaliz...
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The circulation of geographical ideas is interesting, not only within intellect currents, but also with regards to their transfer from the conceptual and representational to the practical plane. This article studies the influence of the romantic idea of nature and landscape in the earliest decisions regarding the declaration on National Parks. The...
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Land statute, forestry administration and management during the transition period leading from the Old to the New regime : the case of the montes in the Madrid area. The study of the montes (uncultivated lands) through their historical evolution enlightens on their land statute characteristics. Property in mortmain during the Old regime, a good num...
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Spatial and environment management in a metropolitan park : the Regional Park of the Manzanares upper bassin (Madrid area). The authors study the management of the Manzanares Regional Park. The preserved area includes a great variety of natural spaces of unequal value, and, due to the proximity of Madrid., it has had to prevent the threatening deve...
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Madrid es un caso muy interesante de tradición ambiental urbana basada en la creación y conservación de espacios arbolados. Sede de la Corte y Capital del Reino y del Estado, se le quiso conferir desde el siglo xvííí una calidad urbana acorde con su rango, a partir de unas condiciones de especial penuria. Contaba, en todo caso, con unos Sitios Real...
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The modern tradition in the management of nature in Spain was shaped by different policies for economic and social restoration included in a vast plural reformist movement known as Regeneracionismo. The aim of the restoration of wealth was felt to require the correction of the defects of the geographical configuration of the country, and particular...
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La revisión de la bibliografía geográfica actual mas autorizada confirma el retorno de la vigencia de la geografía regional. En el articulo se pone de manifiesto como esta recuperación debe entenderse en relación con la renovación de la mirada contemporánea sobre la actividad científica así como con las también renovadas relaciones de la geografía...
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Nombrado Doctor Honoris Causa el dia 3 de febrero de 2006

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