Tracce di geografia sociale: l’anomalia italiana

A series of clues suggests that the concerns that would have converged, over time, under the academic label of “social geography” were already well present, over a century ago, also in Italian geography, albeit often under other denominations. While the denomination of social geography was used in Italy, likewise very soon, but to indicate something quite different from what we can understand today. This contribution therefore intends to propose an attempt at clarification on the level of official definitions and above all, at the same time, to trace and contextualize the first organic proposals, in Italy, of what we today would define social geography.