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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The article aims at investigating the nexus between the land-locked condition and the energy security needs of a hydrocarbons-exporting country. Addressing the bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia, the article looks at the dynamics of dependence naturally unfolding between a land-locked country and its main transit one. Introducing the elements which may provide the land-locked country with a sounder bargaining power vis a vis its transit country, the article will focus on the tools exploited by Baku in order to reduce the asymmetry of power ensured to Georgia by its role of 'window to the West' for Azerbaijani national hydrocarbons. Findings suggest that the Oil & Gas sector provides land-locked country with effective tools enabling it to downgrade the vulnerability vis a vis transit country and to foster functional interdependence with the latter.
The article considers Julian Barnes' novel Arthur and George (2005) as an outstanding case study of the presence of justice and the law in contemporary neo-Victorian fiction. The novel is a biofiction on Arthur Conan Doyle's commitment to campaigning in favour of George Edalij, an unjustly imprisoned young solicitor of Parsee origins, in a legal case that led to the institution of the Court of Appeal in 1907. Arthur and George engages with some crucial tropes of the Victorian novel, notably the nexus between testimony, evidence, knowledge and truth, which sustains the thematic core of the novel, and the epistemological concern with knowledge and belief. The novel subtly addresses issues of national identity, cultural and political ethos and renews Barnes' concern with the indeterminacy of truth and the difficulty of ever knowing the past.
Within the increasing impact of Covid-19, cities are becoming paradigmatic places where the density, accessibility and proximity of resources become crucial for rethinking governance models and reducing the distance between the institutional level and the dimension of civic, private, or hybrid activation. Significant experiences have highlighted the Policy Labs idea and its interpretations as physical structures able to build a powerful nexus for social and institutional innovation in urban regeneration. These 'intermediate places' can be considered interactive playgrounds, triggering new horizons in urban policies towards shared, inclusionary solutions more likely to meet the needs of local communities. Through comparisons and drawbacks arising from four case studies selected between USA (Boston) and Europe (Berlin and Bologna), the paper emphasizes the recognition of the variety of Policy Labs, encompassing the diversity of actors, within a strategy towards the construction of authentic urban innovation ecosystems.
This paper will show how the normalization of the forms of life that governs the political anthropology of Aristotle leads to a naturalization of the social hierarchies typical of the polis of his time. Toward this end, the first part of this paper highlights how in the Politics, the realization of the rational-political nature of Man implies the necessary declension of life (zoe) toward the living well (eu zen) of the polis. Subsequently, the paper will focus on how this living well, which characterizes the political form of life (bios politikos), relates to the condition of autarkeia, conceived by Aristotle not so much in the sense of economic and material or juridical and political selfsufficiency, but rather as the teleological realization of human nature. Finally, we will show that in the Nicomachean Ethics the Stagirite conceives of the nexus between the autarkeia and happiness and the living well as an ontological prerogative exclusive to the good man (spoudaios), thereby justifying his anthropological and moral superiority over other naturally subaltern forms of life.
