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Smart Innovation Stimuli: Firms’ Contributions in Resilient Cities
No full textThis paper deals with cities’ transformation from the perspectives of smartness, sustainability, and resilience, to stress the contribution of private firms. Indeed, technology providers globally have been observed as being partners of local authorities, mainly with reference to service platforms. To accomplish this aim, we reviewed the literature, considering the most relevant contributions on the themes, to establish an analytical framework; further on, we discussed 15 illustrative case studies — from a wider list — of firms involved in smart, sustainable, and resilient initiatives. The paper offers an analytical framework to merge, consisting of the five key features of smart, sustainable, and resilient cities, and leads to opportunities to further investigate the contribution of firms to cities’ transformation in a new way that embeds multiple perspectives
Spazi materiali e immateriali in Sandor slash Ida di Sara Kadefors
No full textThis article examines Sara Kadefors’s Sandor slash Ida. The novel explores the relationship between two teenagers, living in Gothenburg and Stockholm in the early 2000s, who establish a virtual relationship through the then-pioneering messaging programs. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the novel identifies virtual spatiality as the quintessential site of self-narrative for millennials in Sweden. Virtual reality becomes essential to reconfigure the way they perceive themselves as well as the image they construct of each othe
"Las primeras aventuras de Alhaji Imam: “A la búsqueda del agua de Bagaja”, de Alhaji Abubakar Imam"
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Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice: A CDA of Discourses on the Alabama Human Life Protection Act
No full textOn 15 May 2019 Alabama passed a bill, the so-called Human Life Protection Act, that would set a near-total ban of abortion in the state, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and would make performing an abortion a felony in almost all cases. The law attempted at overturning 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision of the US Supreme Court, which had ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. On 29 October 2019, US District Judge Myron Thompson issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the law from taking effect since it violates constitutional rights. Alabama new legislation was strongly opposed by Democrats but also criticised by some Republicans. Moreover, it prompted an outcry from abortion rights activists across the country, who maintain that reproductive rights are essential human rights, as everyone should be free to decide whether to start a family, to plan their futures and control their destinies.
The present study investigates the legal discourse of the Human Life Protection Act and its interpretation and opposition in pro-choice counter-discourse. In particular, the paper focuses on the online discourse about the issue on NARAL (National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws) website. Since the ban also generated strong reactions on social media, the analysis also considers NARAL posts and user comments on Twitter.
Critical Discourse Analysis represents a valid framework to investigate how discourse reinforces power and ideological meanings and sustains hierarchically gendered social orders. In particular, the study seeks to outline how abortion is framed in legal discourse and how online discourse by a pro-choice organisation popularises and challenges the law as a form of patriarchal control over the women’ body. The study also focuses on social media posts and on the responses they generated, examining the discursive means used by online users to express their position, as a means of direct citizen participation in political debate
Un ottimista in America: scritture e riflessioni calviniane, in «Critica letteraria» 198 (2023) I, pp. 98-118
No full textThe Invention of Truth. Salman Rushdie between Truth and Make-Believe
No full textIn this book, the literary world of Salman Rushdie is carefully scrutinised using a ‘metaleptical’ critical approach. Weaving together truth and fiction, reality and fantasy in his novels, the Anglo-Indian author’s work exudes a ‘metamodern’ sensibility as it seamlessly weaves the fabric of real-world experience with the intricate patterns of language and art. Beginning with the contradictions and errors in the narrative of Rushdie’s first masterpiece Midnight’s Children, through the blending of the sacred and the secular in The Satanic Verses, to the palindromic movement of the mutual convergence of life and writing in Quichotte, the volume takes the reader on a journey of discovery of the creative power of language and how it shapes and is shaped by history. Salman Rushdie’s work offers, in fact, the opportunity to engage in a nuanced examination of the balance between historical reality and artistic expression, individual aspirations and collective needs, continuity and decay, truth and make-believe