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Con questo saggio, Mette Rudvin ci porta alle funzioni del primitivismo nelle cronache odierne, esaminando le occorrenze del paradigma "immigrato/ straniero = primitivo" in un piccolo corpus di testi scritti e orali tratti dai media – che comprendono telegiornali, articoli e anche talk show politici italiani che vertono sul fenomeno dell'immigrazione – e mostrando come i miti occidentali del primitivismo vengano rappresentati linguisticamente. Lo studio, saldamente ancorato nelle teorie postcoloniali, rivela come il discorso popolare e giornalistico sull'immigrato si forgi sui più svariati e soventi contradditori miti occidentali del primitivo – da quello del "buon selvaggio" in armonia con la natura, a quello del 'selvaggio bestiale e incivile', fino a quello del 'selvaggio irrazionale e/o sensuale', tutte modalità di rappresentazione dell'altro come subalterno. L'analisi documenta non solo come il 'mito' del primitivismo si concretizzi nelle rappresentazioni dell'immigrazione che emergono sia dai discorsi di carattere apertamente razziale che da quelli presunti 'liberal', ma anche i modi in cui tali rappresentazioni contribuiscono a riproporre e istituzionalizzare i pregiudizi stereotipati di lettori, la cui dieta giornaliera di 'notizie' alimenta timori dell'altro, piuttosto che offrire narrazioni positive di individui appartenenti a civiltà differenti, che potrebbero costituire il potenziale per la creazione di rinnovati e migliori paradigmi culturali da contrapporre ad antichi ed anacronistici miti.

Sociology of work in Italy revived at the end of WWII, after thirty years of forced oblivion. This thesis examines the history of discipline by considering three paths that it followed from its revival up to its institutionalization: the influence of the productivity drive, the role of trade unions and the activity of early young researchers. European Productivity Agency's Italian office Comitato Nazionale per la Produttività propagandised studies on management and on the effects of the industrialization on work and society. Academicians, technicians, psychologists who worked for CNP started rethinking sociology of work, but the managerial use of sociology was unacceptable for both trade unions and young researchers. So "free union†CISL created a School in Florence with an eager attention to social sciences as a medium to become a new model union, while Marxist CGIL, despite its ideological aversion to sociology, finally accepted the social sciences lexicon in order to explain the work changes and to resist against the employers' association offensive. On the other hand, political and social engagement led a first generation of sociologists to study social phenomenon in the recently industrialized Italy by using the sociological analysis. Finally, the thesis investigate the cultural transfers from France, whose industrial sociology (sociologie du travail) was considered as a reference in continental Europe. Nearby the wide importance of French sociologie, financially aided by planning institutions in order to employ it in the industrial reconstruction, other minor experiences such as the social surveys accomplished by worker-priests in the suburbs of industrial cities and the heterodox Marxism of the review "Socialisme ou Barbarie†influenced Italian sociology of work.

Analisi dei sistemi di valutazione della ricerca universitaria nel Regno Unito. ; Analisi dei sistemi di valutazione della ricerca universitaria nel Regno Unito. ; Refereed Working Papers / of international relevance

The legislative elections in Italy witnessed the success of radical political groups extremely opposed to immigration and specially inclined to intolerant slogans, such as the Northern League (Lega Nord) and other extreme right forces; results reveal many contradictions existing in a society in need of immigrants which, at the same time, finds it difficult to accept them. The country's long transition, begun in 1992, is still far from ending, and the crisis -political, financial and social- seems to turn Italian citizens into more cruel people. Can a country with over 60 million inhabitants suddenly loose, in a short period of time, its historical memory? Meanwhile, in a context of prejudice and associations opposed to the presence of new mosques, in fear of future invasions and legislative disorder, the number of foreigners in Italy is not as high as it is thought of, and many relevant sectors in economy demand the arrival of more immigrants. The integration is longed for but not yet achived. ; Il successo, nelle elezioni italiane, di forze politiche "antisistema" come la Lega Nord o l'estrema destra, piú contrarie all'immigrazione e piú inclini a slogan intolleranti, dimostra le mille contraddizioni di una societá che ha bisogno degli immigrati e che fatica ad accettarli socialmente. La lunga transizione, incominciata nel 1992, é ben lungi dal terminare, e la crisi politica, economica, sociale, sembra aver incattivito gli italiani. Ma puó un paese con 60 milioni di oriundi perdere improvvisamente, nel giro di pochi decenni, la sua memoria storica?.Intanto, fra pregiudizi e comitati che si oppongono alla costruzione di nuove moschee, timori di invasioni e disordine legislativo, si scopre che in Italia il numero di stranieri non é poi cosí alto come molti pensano e che molti settori dell'economia continuano a richiederne di piú. In attesa di una integrazione che ancora non c'è.

The Faculty of Political Science of Florence – the oldest school of political and social science in Italy, founded in 1875 by Carlo Alfieri and named after his father Cesare – has a tradition of study that is widely recognised, even abroad, to which the cultural project of this series is related. The first book is dedicated to the research activity carried out by Luciano Cavalli and the profound traces that it has left on Italian and European sociology. Now Professor Emeritus, Luciano Cavalli taught and worked at the "Cesare Alfieri" for many years from 1966 on. Around his commitment as a "pioneer" of sociology in Italy he mustered an array of sociologists, active in different universities, many of whom have opened up new frontiers within the discipline and have successfully cultivated a dialogue with the other social sciences, as the contents of the book clearly illustrate. This extensive collection of essays offers a clear image of the fertile sociological work that burgeoned around the scientific commitment of Luciano Cavalli and was often generated by his own action of cultural stimulus. The three sections into which the book is divided – Portrait of an intellectual, The sociology of political phenomena and Sociological theory and social change – address issues of great relevance to the contemporary sociological debate. The rapport between the democratic construction of the modern State and the role and functions of the leadership, the relations between citizens and leaders, the various forms of the democratic institutional structures and the transformations of political culture are interwoven with the Neo-Weberian interpretation of the charisma theory that Cavalli masterfully proposed. Also particularly significant and topical are the critical reflections made by writers whose scientific itinerary has run parallel to that of Cavalli for decisive stretches, and who were and are bound to his teaching when they tackle arguments such as the changes in urban life, immigration and the problems of economic, political and social development in our times.

In the contemporary scene, alongside the crisis of political communication and the traditional forms of participation, the transformation of the formats and languages of telepolitics and the increasingly more widespread access of the citizens to interactive platforms that liberate them from the role of mere spectators of the political debate, have come to assume major significance. This book proposes an approach of meditation and mixed methods research, already validated within the framework of the project «Against political communication. Rethinking participation in the age of the old and new media» (PRIN 2007). The aim is to explore the ways in which political communication is currently exploiting the media ecosystem, and the role of this new media equilibrium in the construction of political concepts and political participation on the part of the citizens.