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Soggettività comunitarie in cucina: il “potere” di saper cucinare delle donne Ikoots di San Mateo del Mar (Oaxaca-Messico)
No full textThe article reflects on the experience of the Ikoots women of San Mateo del Mar, grappling with the word description of their dishes’ preparation (Cuturi 2009). These words unveil perspectives on the meaning of women’s subjectivity and community knowledge in an ega litarian society. Knowing how to cook “successfully” does not enact competitiveness, or logic
of power over people and things, for the benefit of one’s social prestige. This know-how is based on a principle of aggregation, the redistribution of knowledge, and the responsibility towards it. Sharing practices around food preparation, while not without tensions and impositions, is yet central to gendered expectations and is a tool of social homogeneity. In
this article, I focus on the utterances and discursive uses of an Ikoots woman expert in food preparation at the center of social and gender dynamics, to reflect on various declinations of the concept of power. Indeed, the article intends to engage in a dialogue with the de bate about the relationship between power and egalitarian societies, starting from a thick
analysis on their daily life practices and their efforts to reject the authoritarian policies, historically opposed to them
“‘Vaccinate or Terminate’: A CDA of US and Italian Online Petitions on COVID-19 vaccines
No full textIn the contemporary crisis of representative democracy, the increased availability and interactivity of the Internet have favored new forms of civic engagement. On e-petition websites, such as Change.org, anyone can start campaigns addressing decision-makers to drive solutions to specific issues, exploiting the web to sensitize the public and gain support.
In the last years, the COVID-19 pandemic has centralized public attention, with debates often estimating its impacts and criticizing the solutions adopted by governments. In particular, the anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have generated strong contrapositions between those who have confidently awaited, welcomed and required a more extensive distribution of vaccines, and those who, for multiple reasons, have rejected them. The vaccines, authorized in a relatively short period and mandatory in some contexts, have indeed been a source of fear and suspicion, feelings skilfully exploited by those wishing to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.
The present study analyzes a corpus of online petitions in favor of and against COVID-19 vaccinations, published on the United States and Italy versions of Change.org. The study focuses on the persuasive strategies and motifs exploited in the user-generated discourse in the two countries to gain support for the causes. Specifically, the investigation analyzes the way e-petitioners raise public awareness about the pros and cons of COVID-19 vaccines and appeal to the citizens’ beliefs in the two countries. Persuasive discursive strategies entail appealing to emotions, establishing the author’s credentials, and providing supporting information. In both countries, pro-vaccine arguments include the prioritization of human health by protecting vulnerable
groups and waiving COVID-19 vaccine patent rights. Arguments against mandatory vaccines involve a ‘populist’ distrust of political elites and medical experts. The corpus is also examined from a genre analysis viewpoint to uncover the rhetorical structures in the texts. A recurring number of optional rhetorical sequences was identified, revealing a mixture of features from different genres, from political propaganda to fundraising letters to popular science, enriched with the interactive capabilities of the web
Un ricordo di Alfredo Mario Cadonna (1948-2020)
No full textA memoir about Alfredo Cadonna life and work
Politica estera e politica latinoamericana della CEE/UE: connessioni e intersezioni dalla Guerra fredda alla crisi dell’ordine liberale
No full textLe bilinguisme de l’immigré dans La disparition de la langue française d’Assia Djebar
No full textLes migrations sont, depuis toujours, à l’origine de processus de transformation profonds liés aux dynamiques « identité/intégration/déracinement, différence/marginalisation, langue/silence », ce qui entraine entre autres, selon Adamo (2007), « des questions capitales renvoyant à la communication et à l’interculturalité, se doublant de la condition existentielle de ceux qui, pendant longtemps, ont pu être définis ‘les gens du silence’ ». Ceux-ci, bien que relégués souvent en marge des pays d’accueil, n’en sont pas moins situés au cœur de la représentation littéraire, qui ne cesse de s’interroger sur l’univers de fantasmes et de pulsions propres à l’expérience migratoire.
Ces dynamiques identitaires marquées par les questions de l’altérité et de la perte des origines sont au centre du roman La disparition de la langue française d’Assia Djebar, qu’on pourrait définir comme le roman de l’immigration de cette auteure. Dans cet ouvrage, est examiné le bilinguisme de l’immigré, héritage de ce que Dominique Combe définit le « drame du bilinguisme colonial », en analysant le déchirement intérieur qui caractérise le personnage principal du roman, tiraillé entre deux mondes, deux réalités, deux femmes, deux langues « soudain brouillées, confondues, emmêlées » en lui : le français, « langue de solitude », qu’il ressent pourtant nécessaire pour « trans-crire » l’autre, la « langue convulsive », la « langue de proximité », la langue arabe
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No full textRiesame dell'uso e del significato della parola golem in Salmi 139:16, e della radice *glm nei passi collegati
Minero-petrographic investigation on Roman pottery found in a dump in the workshop area of Cumae (southern Italy)
No full textThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic as a test bench of ecological and economic global crisis: 7 theses on how to problematise the human condition in the age of the Anthropocene
No full textThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represents the first epidemic at the time of the ecological crisis, of what is called the Anthropocene: the statement may seem obvious, but what we want to emphasize is that it is not simply a simultaneity of moments, but rather a significant and intimately connected set of events that should be analyzed with different critical tools than those used for the analysis of other pandemic crises that have crossed the history of humanity. It is clear that, in general, pandemics are not to be understood as exclusively natural dynamics (beyond the ambiguity of the term nature that will be one of the subjects of these analysis), both in their origins and in their effects, and they can only be understood within historical and social frameworks that see the ecological dimension and economic dimension intersect deeply (the discourse and the norm of the oikos, as the place of dwelling for human and non-human living beings). The starting point and first element is that this pandemic crisis, precisely because it is connected to the Anthropocene (which is generically defined as the era in which the human becomes a geological and climate-changing power), could manifest a threshold in our relationship to the oikos and could in some ways anticipate – as a test bench – the announced crisis of metabolism human/nature: the idea from which we start is that this pandemic is an observatory on what could happen
