Typus orbis universalis, Bâle, 1550
Dates: 2020 – 2022
Intralaboratory Program Leader: Jean-Marc Besse
Laboratory members involved in the program: Alain Musset, Rafela Nicolau, Anton Paumelle, Nicolas Verdier
Team involved: EGHO
NPartner Organisation: Universidad de Chile
Extralaboratory Program leader: Mauricio Onetto
Funding: Projet ECOS-SUD
Transversal subjects concerned: Mobilities and territories: towards a relational approach to space; Stabilities and fluidity of geographical objects
Description: The project analyses the role of straits in the organization of political spaces on a global and regional scale in the modern period, and in particular examines the role of the Strait of Magellan in the processes of circulation of knowledge and narratives that linked Europe to the American continent. Other straits are studied in a comparative way (Gibraltar, Bosphorus, Malacca).
