This volume was developed within the framework of the teaching course of Urban Sociology in which seminar activities had been planned to respond to a significant teaching demand: to show students the polyhedral nature of studies and research located within the discipline. At the same time, it was intended to highlight the common heuristic option, going beyond the first impression of a magmatic accumulation of research strands. By involving young researchers, the seminar activity thus was designed not to focus on a specific research topic to be explored in depth during the various scheduled classes but to draw attention to the explanatory value of the territorial dimension in understanding a multiplicity of social phenomena, even where this was not immediately evident and often not adequately recognized. The researches outlined in the volume have the merit of focusing on spatial and territorial aspects of the different social forms studied, contributing to the spatialization of sociological theory. In this reading, the territory emerges not just as a mere background and container for a set of social processes but a dimension socially structured by the forces in play and, at the same time, structuring them.
The article examines the Italian legislation on benefit corporations and its impact on domestic company law. The first part analyzes the new law also in a comparative perspective by facing some models adopted by single American States. The second part explores the possible exceedance of the theories of shareholder value and stake- holder value and proposes the idea that the interest of company – also the one of a benefit corporation – is that of its economic partakers to the increase (or at least to the protection) of the company's assets.
In a context of growing concern about the impacts of climate change and increasing alarmism toward migration phenomena, the possibility of "environmental migration" attracts considerable attention. What are the (in)desired effects of such an encounter? This volume sets out to decolonize the imaginary, seeking to deconstruct privilege (primarily that of the researcher), and use intersectional, decolonial, and feminist lenses to decentralize the image and construct new paradigms about narratives about the nexus between climate change and migration. The goal is to accompany readers to a new concept, that of Panicocene, the age of panic, a time when the two phenomena that characterize the contemporary meet in a unique narrative, an emergency squared that causes stasis and ineptitude. Panicocene thus encapsulates both the state of the art of research conducted in recent years and the starting point for future research. Panicocene, in fact, is also the title of the Marie Curie Global Fellowship project, which investigates the narratives and imaginaries of the nexus between the climate crisis and mobilities, to which the book provides an initial critical reflection.
In Survival and Freedom: the impossible dilemma, the violence issue in late Anders' philosophy is examined starting from his philosophy of technology, rather than a moral perspective which would deeply characterize and compromise it. It has come to light both his thesis's extreme nature and their ratio essendi, furthermore some primary clues about: 1) the matter concerning the philosopher's role within his age and time, 2) the nexus between the problem regarding the conditions of possibility of a human existence, and the problem of freedom.
In this article the issue of basic income is analyzed along five main research vectors: A putative "Italian delay" concerning both the reception of the international debate on basic income and the original elaboration of its constitutive elements; Labor transformations in late capitalism; The role played by nation-states in the European space; The new functions performed the realm of social reproduction in contemporary value-producing activities; The supposed existence of an ecologically harmful productivist nexus at the very core of the (different versions of the) Fordist welfare state. ; 1 ; stefano.lucarelli@unibg.it ; open ; Non definito ; open ; Lucarelli, Stefano ; Lucarelli, Stefano
The paper investigates the nexus among politics, urban spaces, and gendered bodies, in the light of the Greek concept of stasis and of Covid-19 pandemic, putting into question current representations orienting our urban spaces and urban experiences. Pandemic imposes a resignification of some fundamental experiences of social life and pinpoints the spatial dimension as an absolute prerequisite of politics; we live unprecedented cities and more violent inequalities, where traditional western dichotomies lose effectiveness. Feminisms help us re-orient these partitions and the nexuses natural/human, political/unpolitical. Stasis disrupts the idea of politics confined to human actions, as well as gender roles, and the activities and spaces they designate. All these elements lead us toward a rethinking of politics and urban lives from a perspective rooted in interdependency, interaction, and (dis)equilibrium. Il testo rielabora il nesso tra politica, spazi urbani e corpi sessuati alla luce del concetto greco di stasis e dell'esperienza del Covid-19, interrogando le rappresentazioni che orientano gli spazi e i vissuti urbani attuali. La pandemia impone la risignificazione di esperienze fondamentali della vita associata e mostra come la dimensione spaziale sia elemento imprescindibile della politica; viviamo città inedite e diseguaglianze più violente, in cui perdono efficacia molte delle partizioni della tradizione occidentale. I femminismi ci aiutano a riarticolare tali partizioni e i nessi tra naturale/umano, impolitico/politico. La stasis fa saltare l'idea di politica ridotta alle sole azioni umane, così come i ruoli di genere, le attività e gli spazi ad essi designati. Questi elementi ci permettono di ripensare la politica e gli attraversamenti urbani nella prospettiva dell'interdipendenza, dell'interazione e del (dis)equilibrio. ; Il testo rielabora il nesso tra politica, spazi urbani e corpi sessuati alla luce del concetto greco di stasis e dell'esperienza del Covid-19, interrogando le rappresentazioni che orientano gli spazi e i vissuti urbani attuali. La pandemia impone la risignificazione di esperienze fondamentali della vita associata e mostra come la dimensione spaziale sia elemento imprescindibile della politica; viviamo città inedite e diseguaglianze più violente, in cui perdono efficacia molte delle partizioni della tradizione occidentale. I femminismi ci aiutano a riarticolare tali partizioni e i nessi tra naturale/umano, impolitico/politico. La stasis fa saltare l'idea di politica ridotta alle sole azioni umane, così come i ruoli di genere, le attività e gli spazi ad essi designati. Questi elementi ci permettono di ripensare la politica e gli attraversamenti urbani nella prospettiva dell'interdipendenza, dell'interazione e del (dis)equilibrio. The paper investigates the nexus among politics, urban spaces, and gendered bodies, in the light of the Greek concept of stasis and of Covid-19 pandemic, putting into question current representations orienting our urban spaces and urban experiences. Pandemic imposes a resignification of some fundamental experiences of social life and pinpoints the spatial dimension as an absolute prerequisite of politics; we live unprecedented cities and more violent inequalities, where traditional western dichotomies lose effectiveness. Feminisms help us re-orient these partitions and the nexuses natural/human, political/unpolitical. Stasis disrupts the idea of politics confined to human actions, as well as gender roles, and the activities and spaces they designate. All these elements lead us toward a rethinking of politics and urban lives from a perspective rooted in interdependency, interaction, and (dis)equilibrium.
The theme of sustainable development is an extremely interdisciplinary field of research where biological, engineering, political, economic and social studies are reconnected in a future-oriented cognitive proposal. The aim of this intellectual effort is to give proper attention to the link between peace economics and sustainable development. Although neglected for a long time, the link we highlight here represents such a central point that, if we want to investigate sustainable development from a sociological point of view, we cannot ignore its epistemological nexuses between sociology and peace economics. This means that the perspective from which to address the problem of the implementation of sustainable also changes.
"Co-development" is the term to name those aid projects where migrants present themselves as "actors of development. Those programmes involve also local government, migrant and non-migrant associations and NGOs. After a brief glance towards the debate over transnational migration and development nexus, I focus on the different perspectives towards co-development and, relying on some examples, on the ambivalent nuances characterizing such projects. Nevertheless, I argue that these projects are an interesting subject of study, which provides a fruitful methodological solution to observe the interplay between associations and institutions in the receiving context, various transnational practices and the economic and socio-cultural changes in the context of origin.
The article opens with the position that Jerusalem had not yet been able to fully take up its position as nexus of the three major world religions due to armed conflict. The article continues with a discussion on the pivotal role Jerusalem plays in Middle Eastern politics & with the state of Israel itself. The article gives a brief historical account of the laws that govern political ownership of Jerusalem & the international diplomatic interventions that have attempted to create peace in the Middle East through political play with Jerusalem. The author gives an account of the recent events at Camp David & the more open negotiations that occurred there. E. Miller
This article discusses how rethinking borders can contribute to a critical refoundation of Political Geography. To this aim, the article proposes to rethink borders embracing the perspective of borderscaping. Specifically, the paper shows that the borderscaping approach can contribute to the refoundation of Political Geography by bringing together aesthetics and politics while relating the aesthetics-politics nexus to territoriality. In so doing, borderscaping counterpoints spatio-temporal topologies of the modern territorial imaginary and its Euclidean geometry whereas (re)affirming the link between a multi-dimensional territoriality of borders and politicalness. In this way, the borderscaping lens opens up the way for new geographical-political agencies. These conceptual insights are explored referring to the Mediterranean and pre- cisely to the Italian/Tunisian borderscape, which is investigated zooming in on the urban borderscape of Mazara del Vallo, in Sicily, and its relations with the city of Mahdia, in Tunisia. Describing the ethnographical research conducted in-between Mazara and Mahdia – including the making of a documentary film – the article presents an example of new geographical-political agency in the Mediterranean, which becomes possible "acting" on the nexus between aesthetics, politics and territoriality, or better, trans-territoriality (crossing the ontological, constitutive and configurative dimension of territoriality) as it is revealed by borderscaping. ; 1 ; chiara.brambilla@unibg.it ; open ; Non definito ; Cet article examine comment la reconceptualisation des frontières, à travers le concept de borderscaping, peut contribuer à une refondation critique de la géographie politique. Cette refondation s'appuie en particulier sur la mise en relation des notions d'esthétique et de politique et l'articulation du lien esthétique-politique avec la territorialité. Le concept de borderscaping offre un contre-point aux topologies spatiotemporelles de l'imaginaire territorial moderne et sa géométrie ...
In the essay Bilse und ich (1905) Thomas Mann, who would utilize the literary essay repeatedly to clarify fundamental aspects of his own poetry, makes his first attempt at working out in a systematic manner the supporting principles for his personal conception of writing. The opportunity presents itself with a trial regarding giving offence, in which The Buddenbrooks (1901) was compared by the public prosecutor to works by Fritz Oswald Bilse, a soldier, who, some time previously, had gained a certain notoriety for publishing a roman à clef in which unpleasant events taking place in the military unit where he was serving, had been revealed. Rejecting this comparison, Mann reflects on certain paradigms conventionally associated with the sphere of aesthetic creativity, discussing critically the nexus between invention and narrative effectiveness.
In his essay Bilse und ich (1905) Thomas Mann, who would utilize the literary essay repeatedly to clarify fundamental aspects of his own poetry, makes his first attempt at working out in a systematic manner the supporting principles for his personal conception of writing. The opportunity presents itself with a trial regarding giving offence, in which The Buddenbrooks (1901) was compared by the public prosecutor to works by Fritz Oswald Bilse, a soldier, who, some time previously, had gained a certain notoriety for publishing a roman à clef in which unpleasant events taking place in the military unit where he was serving, had been revealed. Rejecting this comparison, Mann reflects on certain paradigms conventionally associated with the sphere of aesthetic creativity, discussing critically the nexus between invention and narrative effectiveness.
In his essay Bilse und ich (1905) Thomas Mann, who would utilize the literary essay repeatedly to clarify fundamental aspects of his own poetry, makes his first attempt at working out in a systematic manner the supporting principles for his personal conception of writing. The opportunity presents itself with a trial regarding giving offence, in which The Buddenbrooks (1901) was compared by the public prosecutor to works by Fritz Oswald Bilse, a soldier, who, some time previously, had gained a certain notoriety for publishing a roman à clef in which unpleasant events taking place in the military unit where he was serving, had been revealed. Rejecting this comparison, Mann reflects on certain paradigms conventionally associated with the sphere of aesthetic creativity, discussing critically the nexus between invention and narrative effectiveness.
The ecological question can be assumed as one of the discourses where the systemic mutation between the juridical-political subject of liberalism, and the subject of interest of neoliberalism have matured. Starting with the transformations of the security sphere, and the shift of Sovereign/Governmentality nexus, I analyze human security and human resilience paradigms, highlighting the contiguity between ecological and political lexicon. I deal with concepts of risk, agency, and scarcity and, in conclusion, I propose a reading of Arendt's dimension of dwelling. The concept of World as a dwelling place opens a space, both on the political and the practical side, which could face the complexity of ecological system not through an adaptation strategy, as it is in the resilience perspective, but through the inter-subjective and political dimension of human beings.
