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Dal racconto di una violenza a sfondo razziale avvenuta nella metropolitana di Roma a dicembre del 2018 emerge una questione che sta alla radice degli Hate Crimes e di altre forme di discriminazione individuale, politica e istituzionale: come puòun atto violento essere considerato accettabile socialmente al punto da apparire appropriato e normale? A partire da questa domanda, ci si propone di discutere la natura dei pregiudizi, prendendo le distanze dalla tradizione razionalista che li considera distorsioni della realtà, e di analizzare come si costruiscono nell'ambito dei processi di differenziazione, di classificazione stereotipata e di dominio. Infine, alla luce della versione di pregiudizio proposta, s'intende discutere i motivi per cui nel caso esposto il pianto di una bambina non sia stato di ostacolo alla disumanizzazione in atto.

The Conseil constitutionnel, by Decision No 2012-271 QPC of 21 September, ruled on the question of the criminal immunity of bullfighting on French territory. In a ruling which could only be debated, the Sages considered that the criminal law criminalising ill-treatment of animals was in accordance with the Constitution, in that it excludes from its scope 'bulls races where an uninterrupted local tradition can be invoked' (in addition to 'fighting between galles in places where an uninterrupted tradition can be established', a provision which was not the subject of the decision in question) 1. The provision has not recently been introduced into French law, nor is the contrast between supporters and critics of bullfighting; however, the issue returned to the centre of public debate following the decision of the Oltralpe Government to include bullfights in the list of intangible assets constituting the cultural heritage of France, in accordance with Article 12 of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The question of constitutionality was brought before the Conseil at the request of two animal welfare associations — Comité radicalement anti-corrida Europe and the Droits des animaux-association in the course of proceedings brought by those associations against the decision of the French Minister for Culture to include bullfights in the catalogue of intangible heritage of France. "The Conseil constitutionnel is not composed of wise men [as the members of the body are called] but of vigliacchi" commented Brigitte Bardot, a prominent member of one of the applicant associations 2. However, it cannot be said that the outcome of the case was unexpected: in a few, they expected the Conseil to intervene more decisively, going so far as to declare the rule unconstitutional and, as a result, to render the bullfighting illegal. Although the Conseil has left the legislative framework intact, in its statement of reasons it provided some useful guidance on the classification of bullfighting in ...

The article starts from the interpretations by gagé about the romani marriages, to talk about marriage from an emic point of view and in light of a broader political, social and cultural relationship between Roma and gagé. A certain friction or dual-tracking in demography arises when considering the rapport between the family categories and models of fertility patterns (Solinas 2004). In this sense, the reference is to the irrelevance of «de-parentalizzazione» (ib.) or kinship network shrinkage – and the resulting loss of collateral blood ties – in Roma groups as opposed to the society at large. It is analysed in connection with the presence of marriage "forms" be they public or legal (with regards to the case of the trial in Pisa) as well as scientific (this last also includes the narrative of a clash between the author and some academics gagé). Finally, the interpretations of data from a demographic research are discussed since they are based on a new stereotype: the Roma as pre-modern people. ; L'articolo prende le mosse da interpretazioni e giudizi formulati dai gagé per trattare del matrimonio nei gruppi rom sia da un punto di vista emico che alla luce di un più ampio rapporto politico, sociale e culturale fra i primi e i secondi. Ponendosi il problema della relazione tra tipologie familiari e modelli di fecondità (Solinas 2004), si mostra l'esistenza di una sorta di frizione o doppia velocità demografica. In questo senso, il riferimento all'assenza di un processo di «de-parentalizzazione» (ibidem) tra i rom, presente invece nella società maggioritaria, viene analizzato nel suo rapporto con le "forme" di presenza dei matrimoni tanto nello spazio pubblico che in quello giuridico (attraverso il caso del processo svoltosi nella città di Pisa), oltre che scientifico. Chiudendo con le parole di Herzfeld (2006), si sottolinea quanto esposto all'inizio del saggio sulla necessità dell'approccio antropologico per uscir fuori dalla trappola del senso comune, nella quale cadono spesso anche professionisti e scienziati sociali, col rischio di avallare interpretazioni semplicistiche e riduzionistiche come quelle dei rom "premoderni".

Thinking on the freedom of research (from the tragedy of Giulio Regeni)]. Freedom of research and the open society have same enemies: intolerance, violence and discrimination, denial of pluralism and the pretension of imposing a unique truth. But there are also sneakier enemies: intellectual laziness, no monitoring of private passions and prejudices or economic or political interests, self-referential university systems, no attentive recruitment of new researchers according to applied merit criteria in science and conscience, the dispersal of untapped potential even when economic and civil development would ask for it.

Future economic growth and social progress in knowledge societies rely increasingly on innovation. Innovation require skill sets such as technical skills, thinking and creativity skills, as well as social and behavioural skills. A blind spot is, figuratively speaking, the inability to recognize a fact or to think clearly about a particular subject, mainly because of prejudice. The blind spot in the innovation of the education and training system lies between the aspiration to "make" a difference and the "prejudice" towards this ambitious goal. In the last 20 years, in fact, despite the fact that an evaluation system has been implemented in practice as well as in the norms, the main stakeholders have shown an attitude of aversion and opposition both to some provisions of the legislation and to the use of the assessment results made by the school administration. The lack of engagement in the innovation process is mainly due to the perception of the different conditions of the school system, which suffers from large structural inequalities and resources, a condition that reduces its possibility of being equal rather than quality-oriented. What to do then? It is important that the different stakeholders understand each other's opinions, expectations, prerogatives, principles and values that underpin the innovation (or innovations) and above all that the activities car-ried out are actually aimed primarily at the progress of student maturity and school progress, i.e. ensuring the specific needs of the main stakeholders in addition to the demands for innovation from the labor market. ; La crescita economica futura e il progresso sociale nelle società della conoscenza dipendono sempre più dall'innovazione. Questa richiede un insieme di abilità tecniche, capacità di pensiero e creatività, nonché abilità sociali e comportamentali. Un angolo cieco rappresenta, figurativamente, l'incapacità di riconoscere un fatto o pensare chiaramente a un determinato argomento, soprattutto a causa di un pregiudizio. Il punto cieco del ...

Sky Lee is one of ethnic writers who dare to challenge the long-run silence of marginalized group, by the means of writing in English about historical experience of her community. Her book, Disappearing Moon Café which was published in Vancouver in 1990, immediately caught the public attention and won the City of Vancouver Book Award while being nominated the Governor General's Literary Award. Lee, as a female writer, cares very much about females' struggle for identity from one generation to the next. With the influence of postcolonialism and women's movements, identity became more and more concerned by the minority groups. Postcolonialists hold that women from the Third World countries are under the dual oppressions. On the one hand, they are subjected to racial and cultural discrimination under Euro-American dominated society; on the other hand, they suffer from gender prejudice in both white hegemony and patriarchal doctrines. For more than one century of racial discrimination and segregation, Chinese Canadians have been on the brink of mainstream society. Whereas the females have a crueler condition as they are the victims of being marginalized from racism and gender prejudice simultaneously. In Disappearing Moon Cafe, all female characters have suffered self-loss to some extent. Therefore, how to construct its own identity becomes an urgent problem that needs to be solved. This thesis will introduce the living conditions of Chinese Canadian women and the identity crisis they encounter by the means of rereading the novel Disappearing Moon Cafe. Based on the theories of postcolonialism, feminism and other identity theories, this thesis will conduct a multi-dimensional study on the self-identification of Chinese Canadian women through the in-depth analysis and study of the novel Disappearing Moon Cafe. Mainly divided into two parts, it focuses on how Chinese Canadian women form their own identities in terms of cultural and gender perspectives. First of all, being aware of the conditions they are in, Chinese Canadians have to trace back to their origin and gain power from their own profound traditional culture while challenging and resisting the cultural hegemony in Canadian society. They should rediscover the silent history of its own ethnic culture and aware the great contribution the ancestors made to the development of Canada. Canadian born ethnic Chinese are easy to get confused for self-identity as they are not accepted by white race on account of physical appearance while being considered as not pure Chinese at the same time. Thus, they have to find a comfort in the marginalized state and establish the unique hybrid culture. Secondly, the prejudice toward females demands for a solution. This thesis summarizes three necessary approaches for the establishment of female identity by analyzing the image of women in Disappearing Moon Café: gaining for political, vocational and educative rights while awakening of female consciousness as well as breaking silence through female discourse. Nowadays, equality between races and sexuality is becoming increasingly important. While marginalized groups are receiving more attention in literature field, it is of great historical and practical significance to study the Chinese Canadian women's experiences in the mainstream culture of Canada while to explore their identity formation in both cultural and sexual perspective.

The centenary of the October Revolution was spent in a cultural and political climate that was certainly not favorable to free intellectual confrontation and very little available to evaluate reasons and inheritance of an event that, whatever our subjective judgment may be, represents a radical change of pace in the history of humanity which cannot be ignored. This has conditioned any analytical attempt to deal in a "disinterested" manner with the biography of the Russian revolutionary, preventing the evaluation of his entire intellectual and political production without prejudice. However, if Lenin is framed as an example of historiographic teratology, it becomes difficult to evaluate his role in a scientific perspective and it becomes impossible to understand the features of a theory that, apart from Russian events, has opened to Marxism the doors of distant and peripheral continents, making possible revolutionary processes not even imaginable according to the canons of the old Western Marxism, linked to the paradigms of determinist positivism. Historical Materialism; Dialectics; Revolution.

La parità di genere in ogni sua forma è ormai un argomento costantemente dibattuto ai giorni nostri ma non per questo largamente riconosciuto soprattutto su alcuni aspetti quali l'ambito economico e più precisamente quello lavorativo. Nella vita lavorativa della donna si intrecciano principi, idee e pregiudizi che la riguardano ormai da secoli e radicati nella società stessa. L'obiettivo del lavoro di tesi è quello di analizzare l'evoluzione storica del ruolo della donna che da un soggetto naturalmente diverso rispetto all'uomo con il tempo diventa un tassello importante nella strada verso lo sviluppo. Gender equality in all its forms is now a constantly debated topic today but not for this widely recognized especially on some aspects such as the economic sphere and more precisely the working one. In a woman's working life, principles, ideas and prejudices that have affected it for centuries and are rooted in society itself. The goal of the thesis work is to analyze the historical evolution of the role of the woman who gives a subject naturally different from man over time becomes an important piece in the road to development.

A few years after the introduction of the legislation on Special EducationalNeeds, this qualitative research intends to collect the experience of headteachers and teachers from four Italian regions (Lombardy, Piedmont, Ligury,Sicily).The 41 semi-structured interviews were analyzed following the approachproposed by Mortari (2007) and from the analysis four main themes emerged:fragility, responsibility, prejudice and (in) injustices and alliances inside andoutside the school. The data collected can guide and encourage the constructionof a positive relationship between school and family with positivebenefits for all the actors involved in this relationship. ; A distanza di qualche anno dall'introduzione della normativa sui Bisogni EducativiSpeciali, questa ricerca qualitativa intende raccogliere il vissuto didirigenti e docenti referenti di quattro regioni italiane (Lombardia, Piemonte,Liguria, Sicilia).Le 41 interviste semi strutturate sono state analizzate seguendo l'approccioproposto da Mortari (2007) e dall'analisi sono emersi quattro temi principali:fragilità, responsabilità, pregiudizi e (in)ingiustizie e alleanze dentro e fuorila scuola. I dati raccolti possono orientare e favorire la costruzione di unapositiva relazione tra scuola e famiglia con benefici positivi per tutti gli attoricoinvolti.

Il risveglio italiano si ha nel secolo VIII ed legato al moto culturale europeo, a uel desiderio di rinnovamento nazionale, di liberazione da antichi pregiudizi che hanno portato alla nascita di una nuova classe sociale e ad un nuovo assetto legislativo. La Rivoluzione francese e l'opera rinnovatrice e riformatrice di Napoleone costituiscono le fondamenta del Risorgimento e hanno dato lo slancio a uel piccolo gruppo di italiani che hanno compreso che era arrivato il momento di rischiare e di iniziare a riorganizzare l'intera penisola ; The Italian awakening took place during the 18th century and was connected to the European cultural movement, to the desire of national renewal, to the liberation from ancient forms of prejudice which brought to the birth of a new social class and of a new system of law and order. The French Revolution and Napoleon's reforms are the foundations of the Risorgimento and they gave impetus to a small number of Italians – among whom Garibaldi – who understood that the time had come to risk and reorganize the entire peninsula

The brutal gang rape occurred in Delhi in 2012 shed light on the problem of violence against women in India, gender discrimination and traditional prejudices. As the existing legislation had proved to be ineffective, obsolete and shallow, the Indian Government set up a Committee in charge of submitting proposals of amendment to the Indian Penal Code, the code of criminal procedure and the Indian Evidence Act. The Verma Committee, named after its President's surname, issued a long, well-structured report in which it tackled the problem of rape and other forms of violence of a sexual nature under a legislative and sociological point of view. The findings of the college formed the starting point of the subsequent Amendment Act issued in 2013. This essay intends to analyze the key points of the document, giving special attention to the constitutional bases underlined in the first part of the report. Moreover, it compares the amendment suggestions put forward by the Committee to the solutions lastly adopted by the legislator in 2013. In this regard, the essay underlines the shortcomings of the amending piece of legislation, also in the light of the sociological analysis of the situation of women in India, which constitutes the last part of this work

Imperialism, nationalism and colonies in the work of Friedrich Ratzel Ratzel is often associated with 'fin dè siecle' imperialism, but on the basis of a prejudice that condemns him to "be part of his time" before even having done the appropriate considerations; however, Ratzel is part of his time not because of imperialism, but as a participant in an intellectual debate, far more complex than a foreign policy option. Imperialism, nationalism and colonialism in Ratzel may be included starting by the concept of growth of Government. The problem of growth clarifies the dynamic aspect of the political geography of Ratzel, one of the most crushing innovations introduced by the German scholar into the geographical speech. We tried to show how the political action, within the Ratzel system, is used to obtain a greater advantage from the ground, that is a deep radication and not a necessarily-in-horizontal expansion, which is to the detriment of other countries. According to Ratzel, the end of history is the progressive connection between the human being and the ground; therefore the objective of the policy will be set accordingly, leading to the decline of the possible expansion in favour of growth. A better understanding of Ratzel' way of thinking must begin from a more careful analysis of the "political idea" prevailing in those years in Leipzig. Study circles, conferences, books, and their relationships cultivated by Ratzel, shows a picture closer to the neo-German idealism.

Our contemporary society still sees the fat body as a problematic issue. This refusal originated as a racist control practice and developed as an esthetical and medical problem, resulting in the stigmatization and discrimination of this marginalized social group. Drawing on a corpus of about 157,000 words, the present study aims to shed light on how journalistic language might play a role in reinforcing prejudices towards fat people and, consequently, their stigmatization. The corpus contains 305 articles on fatness and/or obesity that were taken from six Italian newspapers representing different political leanings. The analysis is based on three main research questions: which frames are used to represent fat people in Italian newspapers? Do women get a particular treatment when talked about in relation to fatness/obesity? Do the articles employ any stigmatizing discourse strategies? Results show particular emphasis on the medical aspects of fatness/obesity, in terms of consequences on fat people's health due to their lifestyle choices, with little to no consideration of societal responsibility around weight stigma. There is also evidence of women being talked about more than men in connection with this topic, especially with regards to their duty to appear in a certain way and their responsibility as mothers. Furthermore, articles display a vast amount of stigmatizing discourses, that go from offensive referential and predicational strategies, to an explicit mockery of fat people. In conclusion, the journalistic discourses on fatness/obesity analyzed in the present study show problematic traits possibly affecting fat people's quality of life and should be examined more extensively as to establish a generalizing pattern by taking a larger set of data into account.

The article develops a key to understanding about the relationships between social representations of disability and inclusive culture. First, thinking differently disability conditions requires an analysis of the cultural models that underlie the languages and representations that derive from them. In this perspective, the school has a significant impact to favor a co-evolutionary process of knowledge and cognitive decentralization for developing of adequate recognition of human differences. Effective educational and training projects should make use the Media Education for linking the personal experiences of students to encourage the construction of knowledge and meaningful interpretative models about disability and difference. It is necessary deconstruct media products and languages to explain stereotypes and prejudices and be aware of the normalization processes underlying the "politically correct" practices. At the same time, the development of a critical sense and an aptitude for deepening by young generations passes through the fruition and making of self-representations messages. The pedagogical and didactic use of the various media languages, both in terms of a critical use and the conscious retrieval of authoritative sources, and in the perspective of self-representation and self-production of original contents can increase the dialogue between alterity and human differences. Being aware of the languages and elements underlying the universe of meanings that they convey is an indispensable step in the evolution of thought and therefore of actions towards inclusive cultures and societies. ; L'articolo delinea una chiave di lettura sulle relazioni tra rappresentazioni sociali della disabilità e cultura dell'inclusione. Pensare differentemente le condizioni disabilità richiede innanzitutto un'analisi dei modelli culturali alla base dei linguaggi e delle rappresentazioni che riflettono. In tale prospettiva, la scuola ha un impatto significativo nel favorire processi co-evoilutivi di conoscenza e un ...

My paper focuses on the Thracian setting of Sophocles' Tereus, which I regard as an innovation carried out by Sophocles himself. The originality of this choice can be demonstrated through an analysis of Thucydides' (3, 29, 3) and Pausanias' (10, 4, 8) witnesses, which attest a Daulian setting for the same story. It is therefore possible to demonstrate that the myth's displacement resulting from its setting in Thrace can be read as a criticism of Thrace itself, with which Athens had difficult relations at the time. This argumentation is corroborated by an analysis of some aspects of Tereus: the differentiation between "foreigners" and "barbarians" presented in fragment 583 Radt2; the glossectomy which Tereus inflicted on Philomela (referring to the hostility of the barbarians toward ἰσηγορία); the prejudice about the greed of the barbarians (Fr. 587 Radt2); the possible Dionysian background (Frr, 591, 595a Radt2). In this respect, the witness of Thucydides (2, 29, 3), who defends the Thracian king Teres from the accusation of being related to Tereus, seems to be crucial, since in his opinion Tereus was a Thracian from Daulis. Thucydides' polemical target could be Sophocles, who through his Tereus aimed to take position within the debate between philo-Thracian and anti-Thracian trends, particularly urgent in Athens during Teres' and Sitalces' hegemony over Thrace. Sabrina Mancuso is currently a Lecturer in Greek Grammar and Translation of Greek Texts at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. After graduating in Pisa, she completed her Ph.D. jointly supervised in Tübingen and in Pisa in July 2020 with a dissertation focused on the mythical paradigm of Procne in Attic tragedy. Her main research interests are Attic tragedy (especially Sophocles), ancient epics, mythical examples, rhetoric, fragmentary poetry and digital critical editions. Keywords: Tereus, Thrace, Sophocles, Tragedy, Politics