Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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Pionieri in paradiso: Processi di ridefinizione dell’abitare tra neoruralismo e gentrificazione rurale in una comunità di paese della Toscana meridionale
No full textThe essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of various ages) from diverse socio-cultural and geographical backgrounds. They largely embody the values of the so-called «neo-ruralism» and share a desire to experience the area not as tourists but as genuine inhabitants: they engage with local social networks, participate in political and economic life in various ways, and move towards sharing and negotiating their presence and experiences with the locals. The stories of these «protogentrifiers » in many ways anticipate the arrival of an elite group (comprising prominent figures from politics, culture, entertainment, and finance) who, starting in the late 1990s, will invest significant funds to purchase and renovate farmhouses, transforming them into aesthetically valuable house that represent high social status, thus leading to a radical process of gentrification in the area
Rifugio e genere: il ruolo della credibilità nella narrazione delle donne richiedenti asilo
No full textThis research aims to critically examine the correlation between asylum and gender relations, with a focus on the crucial role of credibility in asylum seekers’ narratives, concentrating the analysis on a feminist and gender anthropological perspective. In addition to the forms of persecution recognised by the 1951 Geneva Convention, women seeking asylum often face specific gender-based violence, including forced marriages, rape used as a weapon of war, and female genital mutilation. The complexity of expressing such traumatic experiences is intrinsic to the difficulty of retrieving memories in a coherent and orderly manner, a challenge further accentuated when this recollection occurs in a cultural and symbolic context foreign to one’s own.Women asylum seekers are frequently unable to provide material evidence to justify their well-founded fear of persecution based on gender. Consequently, credibility emerges as the main criterion through which international protection can be obtained, constituting the only means to validate their experiences of persecution. Starting from fieldwork carried out in Madrid (Spain) between 2015 and 2023, the results of ethnographic analysis of the relevance of credibility in the possibilities of accessing or not international protection from a feminist perspective are presented
Indigesto: Soggettività migranti nel sistema italiano di seconda accoglienza
No full textThe article proposes a reflection on the production mechanisms of migrant subjectivity within the Italian reception and integration system and network. It begins with the words of a Gambian asylum seeker, a beneficiary of the system, as a starting point for an ethnographic study. The aim is to connect the experience of the individual with a complex and shape-shifting socionormative framework. By interweaving a multitude of interpretative dimensions, including health, biopolitical, and the role of public narrative and stereotypical representations, this epistemological reflection enables us to consider the diverse pathways to integration. The combination of these hermeneutic lenses provides an ethnography that considers a testimony, a depository of truth guaranteed by the anthropological discipline itself, as it is a public and militant science profoundly engaged in social action. This approach underscores the importance of understanding the intersectional impacts of health, biopolitics, and media on the lived experiences of migrants within the Italian integration context
Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna
No full textLandscapes of coexistence is a term used by a team of zoologists in a 2019 article referring tothe degree of tolerance between a population of lions and humans within three African naturalparks and meant as «the sustainable cohabitation of people and lions within a shared landscape»[Western et al. 2019, 204). Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, ValleSusa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapesof coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and nonhumans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts thatrevolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia
Festa, spazio, territorio: Risonanze territoriali e immaginazione dell’abitare in una festa “paradigmatica”
No full textWhich is the relationship we can see between festive phenomena and contemporary processes of locality making? And how do festive phenomena speak to us today about the territories they belong to and define forms of inhabiting? In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same
Riprendersi la vita: Etnografia dell’Hotel Quattrostelle occupato tra bisogno e socialità
No full textHow and why to study mountains: topics and types of research between limits and opportunities
No full textField practice in a neighbouring ethnographic context – both culturally and geographically –, of which the researcher is a part, entails specific difficulties, epistemological and practical problems quite different from those faced by classical anthropology. Based on the experience gained in three different projects involving the western Alpine arc over the last decade, we intend to highlight the fact that in some contexts it is appropriate to prefer ‘peripheral’ anthropological research, less localised and based on shorter stays. The research conducted in the Piedmontese highlands, despite their differences in terms of assumptions and concretisation, in fact highlights the predominant thematic strands through which mountains are studied in this area
Rifugiati ucraini a Napoli: Strategie di accoglienza, mediazione culturale e assistenza medica
No full textRussia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine triggered the largest exodus of refugees Europe has ever witnessed since the Second World War. The first part of this paper will examine the significant changes in the European refugee reception policies, with special emphasis on the implementation of Directive No. 55 of 2001 on temporary protection. The second part will instead revolve around the Ukrainian community resident in Naples and its contribution towards all the many compatriots who had escaped the conflict. The accounts of those who acted as cultural mediators during the contingency phase shall shed light on the challenges facing refugees’ wellbeing and their access to the national healthcare system
Oltre i margini: comunità, risorse, prospettive
No full textMaking use of the ethnographic observation that the UR of Turin is carrying out as part of thePrin 2020 project on four localities in the Piedmontese Alps, an attempt will be made to analysethe presence of community planning and awareness of the cultural and social meanings of theiractions with a view to producing meaning and culture. While these inland, marginal areas arestill characterised by forms of depopulation, this situation can generate new practices for a morebalanced and sustainable growth. This is a significant ‘growth potential’ still to be discoveredthrough related strategic elements such as the environment, culture, agriculture, renewable energy and tourism, in order to enable a suitable economic development of local communitiesthrough the preservation of agro-cultural landscapes and historical-artistic heritage