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Libertà con le religioni: una difesa dell’inclusivismo politico
No full textIn this contribution, I respond to my critics by defending the foundational and theoretical claims advanced in Libertà con le Religioni (Giappichelli, 2024). In contrast to both egalitarian separatism and radical pluralism, political inclusivism aims to reconcile the inclusion of religious reasons with the preservation of the core normative commitments of political liberalism. I engage four key issues raised by my interlocutors: the role of religious reasons in public justification, the treatment of religious exemptions, the idea of a culture of civility, and the relationship between stability and democratic legitimacy. I argue for a principled inclusivism, rejecting contingent modus vivendi solutions, and demonstrate how religious reasons, when anchored in public criteria, can contribute to both political stability and the legitimacy of democratic institutions
Collaborative communities: from Cultural Heritage to 360 ̊ resilient, innovative, and sustainable territories: the strategy of empowerment of vulnerable communities
No full textDefining vulnerable communities and the adding value of cultural identity. Analysis of case studies: local communities, cultural heritage, and sustainable development. Conclusions: the extra enabling factors for the empowerment of vulnerable communities in cities. Innovation and smart services through the example of energy communities and digitalization
Public Reason and Food Policy
Full text linkPeople differ widely in their eating habits. This often reflects fundamental disagreements among their conceptions of the good as these relate to health, culinary traditions, animals’ interests, and so on. How laws regulating food production, distribution, and consumption can be legitimate despite such pluralism is an important question, and we welcome Josh Milburn’s and Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s attempts to show how public reason liberalism can help address it.
However, we believe that they expect too much from public reason. First, we raise questions about Milburn’s conception of reasonableness. We show that the ability of public reason theories to support a ‘zoopolis’ will vary according to their conceptualization of the relevant justificatory constituency, or ‘reasonable’ citizens. Secondly, we criticize Barnhill and Bonotti’s contention that to be suitably public, reasons must not only appeal to shared political values, but also be grounded in a reasonable balance among those values. We show that this idea of a reasonable balance suffers from indeterminacy and therefore cannot help in determining whether a reason is public or not. Finally, we question the expansive interpretation of the scope of public reason employed in both books. We suggest that this interpretation is insufficiently inclusive for public deliberation in contemporary pluralist democracies
Cities, states and the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for transnational city networks
Full text linkThe growing role of cities in today’s globalized world is well known. As a result of their central position in many positive and negative global dynamics, cities are receiving more and more attention in various fields of study, including international relations (IR). In this context, COVID-19 was a turning point that once again demonstrated the international activism of cities, offering valid patterns of crisis response and management as an alternative to those of central governments. By observing this increased activism, this study has identified three main ways in which cities have developed international initiatives through unilateral, bilateral or multilateral actions, such as transnational city networks (TCNs), which have been one of the main tools used by cities to support or bypass central governments. Against this background, this study also sought to explore the main conditions that are associated with specific TCNs in providing solutions to the needs of their member cities in a time of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It did so through a qualitative comparative analysis focusing on some of the key characteristics of TCNs: top-down vs. bottom-up networks, relationships with IOs, mission and scope. The results indicate the conditions under which specific TCNs emerge as effective tools for international urban activism