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Ermeneutica pedaogogica dell'arbitraggio sportivo: dalla teoria alla prassi / Emanuele Isidori -- L'artbitro nel sistema sportivo: un'alalisi filosofico-giuridica / Bruno Di Pietro -- Giudici e artibri nello sport: tra formalismo e interpretativismo / José Luis Pérez Triviño

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This paper aims to demonstrate how the various declinations of public and private dissent represented in a contemporary work of African literature, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) by Akwaeke Emezi, can be read as an instance of literature's world-making capacity. As the novel's title anticipates, The Death of Vivek Oji reconstructs the life of its eponymous protagonist and the events that led to their death (Vivek is a non-binary, transgender person and both male and female pronouns are used to refer to them). Emezi's novel is set in Nigeria during the late 1990s and the narrative actively engages in a representation of the socio-political situation of the country back then, covering the impact that the sudden death of the head of state, Sani Abacha, had on the population. Throughout the novel, dissent is depicted on two levels: on the one hand, it appears as an expression of democratic desire through the public protests against the country's politics, as well as acts of violence against and among ethno-religious groups; on the other hand, there is also a parallel representation of private dissent in terms of the affirmation of one's own identity. Vivek's decision to not cut their long hair becomes, therefore, a form of personal opposition against society's pre-imposed gendered constructs. In this sense, if the social stigma attached to members of the LGBT community is personified by the incapacity of Vivek's parents to accept and understand their non-binary child, Vivek's friends represent a communal act of resistance against such an oppressive social system. Ultimately, the opposition between public and private dissent finds its climax in Vivek's death, in its causes and consequences. Building the critical analysis of the novel upon recent conceptualisations of literature as an active force that provokes dissent (Cheah 2016, Burns 2019), this paper demonstrates how Emezi's narrative uses representations of public and private dissent to contest the current world in order to engage in the construction of a more equal one.

La reconfiguración social de las tecnologías, así como la de los sistemas sociales e institucionales que permiten su surgimiento y uso, es indispensable para la sostenibilidad. El presente trabajo profundiza los procesos de transición energética urbana mediante la adopción de sistemas autónomos/descentralizados de energía renovable, en el contexto de las dinámicas de cambio urbano. El avance de este proceso resulta fuertemente dependiente de la competencia entre los actores participantes del proceso de planificación energética urbana. Se utiliza una metodología basada en la revisión de la literatura con el fin de proponer un aporte teórico.

This research introduces the topic of the Green Economy in the context of shrinking cities. The analysis is supported by two case studies, one located in Mexico and the other in France, to identify adaptable strategies of sustainable development in different contexts of urban decline that consider significant differences in the availability of resources. Shrinking cities suffer from problems such as depopulation, economic decline and underuse of urban infrastructure, mainly due to a regional process of economic peripheralisation. Shrinking cities can adopt two logics to address these issues: de-peripheralisation and endogenous development. It is argued that shrinking cities can exploit emerging green markets to stimulate economic growth and enhance liveability and sustainability; however, the solutions vary depending on the available resources, local comparative advantages and national political and financial support systems. The Green Economy driven solutions in shrinking cities can follow two main strategies: one is aimed at regrowth, betting on the creation of regional innovation systems by investing in research and development and the local capture of the produced spill-overs; the other, inspired by the concept of greening, aims to improve the quality of urban life of the inhabitants by enhancing the quality of consumption sectors through ecological practices and respect for the environment. The analysis of the two case studies serves as a method to observe different strategies for the sustainable development of shrinking cities by introducing activities in the sectors of the Green Economy. This study supports the global comparative perspective approach in urban studies focusing on urban shrinkage. The context of shrinking cities is explored in Latin America by identifying the eighteen shrinking cities in Mexico.

AbstractThis article examines differences in home computer and internet access among Italian households between 2005 and 2016. The results indicate that while computer and internet penetration has increased across all educational levels and geographical areas, digital inequalities related to education still persist and are substantial, especially in the South. Additionally, the findings suggest that the digital gap at the bottom of the education distribution is widening over time. Access among households whose reference person has primary education or less lags behind that of households with lower secondary education. Policy measures to promote and support the adoption of digital technologies among the most educationally disadvantaged households may need to be strengthened.

To accelerate the pathway to affordable and quality healthcare for all, this thesis aimed at defining and exploring the added value and the limits of a new design paradigm related to the Open Source Medical Devices (OSMDs). The design methodology, the key enabling technologies and the legislative framework for their deployment to healthcare providers and patients were identified. The thesis contributed to the definition and implementation of the UBORA Platform, an e-platform for open-source co-design of new solutions to face the current and future global healthcare challenges. Through the platform, the author designed several needs-based medical technologies, starting from on-field surveys carried out in this thesis: Palpreast, an innovative wearable device for breast self-examination, based on textile sensors; affordable 3D printed adsorption columns as spare parts for oxygen concentrators. Results demonstrated the OSMD design, empowered by the framework proposed in UBORA, is a valid approach in the design of safe, effective medical and needs-based medical technologies.

En noviembre 2015 tuvo lugar en París la COP21, último hito de una serie de negociaciones climáticas que desde la creación de la UNFCC tienen el objetivo de limitar el calentamiento global y reducir las emisiones antropogénicas de gases de efecto invernadero en el sistema terrestre. Como resultado de la reunión, las "partes" de la conferencia, o sea los países, lograron un acuerdo que debería entrar en vigor en 2020, coincidiendo con el término del Protocolo de Kyoto. El presente artículo pretende poner en evidencia el carácter una vez más insuficiente de los acuerdos logrados en relación con sus probabilidades de alcanzar los resultados esperados, en continuación con la falta de éxito de los acuerdos precedentes. Se quiere resaltar la necesidad de decisiones drásticas de ruptura con el pasado, como único camino capaz hacia un desarrollo sostenible. Por este motivo, se realiza una pequeña reseña histórica de la violencia asociada al capitalismo en sus actos colonizadores y explotadores de recursos y se pasa sucesivamente a analizar las propuestas filosóficas de varios autores para reorganizar las sociedades a partir de otros paradigmas, encontrando obstáculos y ventajas a la realización de tales procesos.