Nel breve saggio si riflette sul ruolo del cinema come mezzo capace di mostrare lo spazio come luogo di lotta politica. Attraverso l'ascolto e la narrazione degli "attori" locali, nell'elaborazione dei loro pensieri, si è costruito il film ma anche una metodologia della ricerca. Pontecorvo affronta il tema della violenza mostrandone tutti i lati oscuri, ne ricostruisce l'escalation senza dimenticare che il centro della storia è la resistenza anticoloniale. Su queste basi, il saggio, mostra come lo spazio di Algeri sia frammentato in due (colonizzatori e colonizzati) e come la lotta sfrutti le caratteristiche topologiche della città
The paper analyses two marches of resistance in Palermo with references to the public space as in Goheen's (1998) theses. In the first one, the public space gradually loses relevance and presents the citizens as consumers; in the second one, it remains an arena of the fights of those groups that claim to visibility and recognition. The itinerant ritual of Wu Ming 2 and the last Gay Pride in Palermo are the two kinds of march capable of creating collective spaces. In the former case, the itinerary has made the forgotten traces of history resurface and has linked them to our contemporary themes. In the latter, the attention to the precariousness of bodies has been claimed in a consenting Palermo. On the other hand, the institutional politics of pedestrianisation of the historical centre, by supporting a deep transformation of the public space, have produced a population that is passive and lured by consumption. ; L'article analyse deux marches résistantes à Palerme et reprend la thèse de Goheen (1998) sur l'espace public. L'espace public, dans la première thèse, perd progressivement de son importance et fait des citoyens consommateurs; dans la seconde, il continue à être une arène de luttes de groupes qui revendiquent visibilité. L'article analyse le rituel de marche de Wu Ming 2 et de la Gay Pride, deux marches capables de créer des espaces collectifs. Le premier cas a mis en évidence les traces oubliées de l'histoire et les a reliées à des thèmes contemporains. Le second, l'attention sur la précarité des corps a été revendiquée dans une Palerme concernée. La contrepartie de ces « mouvements » se trouve dans les politiques institutionnelles de piétonisation du centre historique qui ont favorisé une profonde transformation de l'espace public et produit une population passive attirée par la consommation.
Studiare la questione mediterranea soltanto dentro le aule universitarie non ci permette di restituire una realtà sfaccettata che viene proposta all'opinione pubblica con un'unica parola d'ordine: invasione. La performance E l'Europa disumanizzò se stessa mi ha permesso di presentare la storia di schiavi e fuggitivi per un'audience più vasta. Incentrata sul libro di Toni Morrison, Beloved, rimbalza tra gli effetti delle storie dell'Atlantico Nero e quelli dell'odierno Mediterraneo. Il saggio si propone di tracciare alcune direzioni che possano aiutare a indagare le diverse linee di confine che segnano la rugosità della modernità del nostro globo. Per fare questo, si prova a rispondere a tre questioni fondamentali: possiamo parlare di uno spazio politico nazionale che tenga conto dei diritti universali? Conseguentemente, possiamo parlare di etica quando analizziamo le migrazioni? E infine, possiamo parlare di migrazioni come termine mantello? ; Studying the Mediterranean question only within the university spaces is not enough to allow us to return to public opinion a multifaceted reality that is proposed with a single password: invasion. The performance of And Europe dehumanized itself has allowed me to present a story of slaves and fugitives for a wider audience. Focused on Toni Morrison's book, Beloved, it bounces between the effects of the stories of the Black Atlantic and those of today's Mediterranean. This essay aims to trace some directions that can help investigate the different borderlines that mark the roughness of our globe's modernity. To do this, it tries to answer to three fundamental questions: can we speak of a national political space that takes universal rights into account? Consequently, can we talk about ethics when we analyse migration? And finally, can we talk about migration as an umbrella term?
This paper explores how the risk related to the pandemic of COVID-19 was managed, narrated and perceived in Italy during the lockdown phase, from February until June 2020. To reach this aim, the study provides a discourse analysis of three main level: the official institutional discourses declaimed by the government and the health authority; the risk narration spread through the diaphragm of the Italian press, and specifically through two of the most-read newspapers in Italy (Repubblica and Corriere della Sera) and their related weeklies (Venerdì di Repubblica and Sette); finally, the diverse reactions and perceptions to the risk coming from the most affected and most vulnerable subjects, communities and territories. In order to record this narrative frame, our study started by looking for the more recurrent keywords through which the public discourse about COVID-19 emergency was spread in Italy. The examined words, together with a literary review about risk, disaster, and sustainability, give back, and allow to understand, the mirror of the risk management, perception, and narration in the pandemic society. According to the Foucault's thought, a constant theoretical reference has been the power control exerted in the plague city. In this article we show in a nutshell some of the main elements emerged through this discourse analysis. Firstly, it comes to light how the world has been caught totally unprepared to manage collectively a pandemic of this magnitude. Secondly, two main emergency consequences emerged. Indeed, if on one hand the risk management created privileges and inequalities, on the other hand the risk perception led to communities' practices of solidarity and resilience. Finally, our research demonstrates what is depicted in the reported literary review: disasters are unevenly and differential phenomena.
