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Decolonial Animal Ethic in Eden Robinsonʼs Trickster Trilogy
Full text linkIndigenous epistemologies are full of warnings against human destructiveness and many contemporary Indigenous authors write provocative Anthropocene stories that question the centrality of humans in the world. In her latest work “Trickster Trilogy” (2017, 2018, 2021), the award-winning “Haisla/Heiltsuk” writer Eden Robinson disrupts traditional anthropocentric narratives by giving agency to her nonhuman characters. While she gives voice to silenced groups, she does not speak for but rather with nonhuman animals by connecting their ongoing oppression in the settler-colonial context to the position of Indigenous peoples, echoing Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree) and his decolonial animal ethic that sees colonization of Indigenous peoples and nonhuman animals as interconnected. Robinson sheds light on the precarious lives nonhuman animals lead in the Anthropocene and condemns environmental destruction and injustice that she links to expansive colonialism and thirst for profit, power, and status. “Trickster Trilogy” offers hope to both human and nonhuman animals as it enriches the conversation on decolonization and, as such, it constitutes an important addition to decolonial narratives that challenge the traditional colonial anthropocentric worldview
Crossed Landscapes: A Walking Method Research Experience in Sicily
Full text linkAbstractThe present contribution, starting from theoretical reflections on the role of ecomuseums in the valorisation of territorial resources and the idea of landscape dynamics as connectors that link communities to places also through sensorial experience, presents the case study of the Grotte Vaporose of Sciacca, in South-Western Sicily. Through an approach based on the so-called walking methods, this work aims at returning the perceptual, critical and analytical outcomes of a flânerie in an ecomuseum
Aree protette, paesaggi culturali e trame urbane: tra riflessioni metodologiche, esperienze di valorizzazione territoriale e qualità della vita
Full text linkProtected Areas, Cultural Landscapes, and Urban Fabrics: Methodological Reflections, Experiences of Territorial Enhancement, and Quality of Life
Sesto San Giovanni Public Space Strategy to Unforeseen Emergencies after Covid-19 Experience
Full text linkAbstractThis paper explores the multifaceted impact of Covid-19 on Sesto San Giovanni,in the Milan metropolitan area. It analyzes the challenges faced by local businesses and how the city responded with extraordinary measures for public spaces, revitalizing commercial sectors, and adopting new coping mechanisms. The pandemic underscored the strategic importance of public spaces and commercial activities as vital infrastructures for societal well-being and resilience. Integrating outdoor amenities like dehors and parklets into urban redevelopment plans has boosted economic vitality and social cohesion, creating a vibrant and interconnected urban environment
Coll. 14.3.1-3: osservazioni sulla legis Fabiae cognitio nelle province
Full text linkAbstract This paper is focused on a possible interpretation of the Ulpian text preserved in Coll. 14.3.1-3, which addresses the conflict between praesides and procuratores Caesaris regarding the cognitio legis Fabiae. In that text, Ulpian refers to a reform issued by Caracalla, through which the Emperor granted also the procuratores the cognitio legis Fabiae
Elio Aristide e la retorica della città di Roma: echi di modelli greci e paradigmi giuridici
Full text linkAbstractIn a significant passage in his Εἰς Ρώμην, Aelius Aristides uses the terms ἄστυ κοινόν to describe Rome. This expression is commonly considered a Greek translation of the Latin words communis patria. A new contextual and terminological analysis of Aristides’ use of the terms, however, demonstrates that he was actually drawing on the older Hellenic models that also influenced Cicero’s writings on the Roman idea of communis patria
Una magistratura finanziaria ateniese poco nota: i poristai
Full text linkAbstractA little-known Athenian financial magistracy: the poristaiThe essay examines the role of the poristai, a financial magistracy that functioned in Athens between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, and to which scholars have devoted scarce attention. The importance that Athens ascribed to the poroi was a central factor in its politics from as early as the 5th century. Management of the Athenian economy underwent a series of substantial changes from the end of the Peloponnesian War onwards, and since the state required increasingly specialized financial management skills, these authorities seem to have played a prominent role. The difficult economic situation that ensued from the Sicilian defeat of 413 had necessitated the creation of this unusual board of magistrates known as the poristai, whose unusual task was most likely that of administering public funds and state revenues. This essay focuses on references to the board in ancient sources, and on the often ‘technical’ use of the verb porizo, in order to shed light on the functions and identity of some of these magistrates, and on the possibility that this initially anomalous office gradually gained a permanent status during the 4th century
La Vestale Massima Flavia Publicia e l’immunitas della tabella di Turris Libisonis
Full text linkAbstractIn order to frame the legal status of the Vestals in the imperial age regarding the immunities granted to the priestesses of Vesta, the study of the tabulae immunitatis which mentions the Vestal Virgin Maxima Flavia Publicia, who lived in the 3rd century A.D., appears of great interest. The object of analysis will be the two tabulae immunitatisattesting to the granting of immunitas in jugo to Flavia Publicia and the tabula in naucellamarina found in 2007 in Sardinia, in Porto Torres, the ancient Iulian colony of Turris Li-bisonis, in which reference is made to an unprecedented immunity concerning the exemp-tion from the payment of portoria for goods transported from Flavia Publicia, from TurrisLibisonis to Ostia, with a ship owned by her conducted by the slave of the Vestal Maxima,Eudromos, appointed by the priestess to the role of magister navis