Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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La fine del viaggio. Destinazioni simboliche e politiche dei corpi migranti in un territorio liminare europeo: Lampedusa
No full textA partire dagli anni ’90 del XX secolo, l’isola di Lampedusa, situata nel mar Mediterraneo e appartenente amministrativamente alla Sicilia, è interessata dal fenomeno degli sbarchi in massa di migranti che dall’Africa raggiungono l’isola a bordo di imbarcazioni
La costruzione culturale della vita materiale: dono strategico, economie e relazioni informali nei mercati pubblici
No full textAfter a short theoretical introduction that highlights how field research in public street markets provides a contribution to economic-anthropological theories, street markets turn out to be characterized by a dense social interaction, and by complex intersections of multidirectional policies: within them, the effects of economic and administrative macro-policies imposed 'from above' are visible and, at the same time, in reverse, we can detect here aspects of the local social construction that from grass root level influences the exterior, both in forms of organized resistance against disadvantageous imposed policies, and by spontaneously shaping the social interaction pattern and the identity of the urban neighbourhoods where markets are sited. As arenas in which the possibility and the ability 'to negotiate' symbolic as well as economic values is constantly reproduced, the cultural 'immaterial' component of 'material' life is evident in public markets. As contexts in which different economies – capitalist and non-monetary, formal and informal, where the gift is a social and commercial strategy – are simultaneously ongoing, as spaces of interaction between highly heterogeneous socio-economical classes, between solidarity and exploitation, consumerism, reuse and saving, street markets are aggregates of apparently contradictory, but complementary social qualities. Such ‘disorder’ often makes them target of gentrification, transformation or limitations attempts, but the complexity of their polyhedral configuration seems to guarantee their persistence in history, as resistant forms of socioeconomical exchange, and rare contexts of urban social construction
Dalle politiche assistenziali alle social farms: note sul dare, ricevere e ricambiare nel sistema di welfare sulla disabilità
No full textIn this article I correlate the concept of gift ‒ referring to Marcel Mauss and his theory of giving-receiving-reciprocating ‒ with three specific areas in the field of intellectual disability: voluntary associations, cooperatives of social services and social cooperatives that promote employment opportunities for people with intellectual disability. My first analysis is that the social services are perceived by users with disability and their families as a donation that is afferent with the gift (and not in the sense of Marcel Mauss) rather than the law.
Costi dei figli, valore dei figli. Economia e cultura nelle scelte riproduttive
No full textEconomic aspects are generally considered as important variables in explaining the Italian low fertility rate: the cost of children – either direct or opportunity costs – heavily influences reproductive choices. Furthermore, we have to take into account both the availability and the costs of family services, which consistently vary across the Italian regions. Literature on family in Italy has often highlighted the importance of kinship support networks, based on the spatial proximity of the family: such networks are effective both in integrating familiar economic resources and in coping with the deficiencies of welfare.Based on an ethnographic research focused on the reproductive behaviours and structure of the family in two Italian cities, Bologna and Naples, this study compares two groups of families and aims at showing how important role of affective kinship resources and complementary financial contributions can be in providing support and services, to the effect of influencing the household economy. In Naples and in Bologna, which are very different cities as regards income, services availability and general urban organization, kinship solidarities take different shapes and values. Such solidarities consistently support families, women especially, in affording the several costs of children, which are distributed at different levels: not only and not necessarily do the economic aspects play in the foreground
Modelli e specchi, mode e tendenze. Esercizi di decostruzione e ricostruzione per l’antropologia italiana
No full textStarting from a tight analysis around the contemporary legitimacy of the notion of Italian anthropology, the Author explores some of the recurring features of this tradition of study, highlighting the limits and lacks, for outlining then topicss that characterize the specific national reflection and indicate some of the paths out of the crisis of credibility from which the overall discipline seems to be, nowadays, plagued.A partire da una serrata analisi intorno alla legittimità contemporanea della nozione di antropologia italiana, l’autore esplora alcune delle caratteristiche ricorrenti di tale tradizione di studio, evidenziandone limiti e carenze, per delineare poi nuclei tematici caratterizzanti la specifica riflessione nazionale e indicare alcuni dei percorsi per uscire dalla crisi di credibilità complessiva da cui la disciplina sembra essere, al giorno d’oggi, afflitta
Con-donare. Ipertrofia del dono nello Sri Lanka post-tsunami
No full textThe paper traces a biography of the gift in post-tsunami Sri Lanka. It shows that the process of “commodification” of international aid was not produced by a monolithic humanitarian apparatus, considered as the perverse expression of the interference of the North on the South of the world. Various ethnographic studies prove that the “competitive humanitarianism” that emerged in Sri Lanka resulted by an interrelate network of individuals and organizations which overcomes the rigid distinction between beneficiaries and donors, expatriates and locals, experts and non-experts
Formazione, tecnologia e mercati nel contesto di una multinazionale
No full textThe present paper discusses the hypothesis of a new understanding of the traditional and academic paths in the history of science and technology, trying to introduce a multi-sited and multi-centred approach that overtakes the prevalent current narrations. The hypothesis is discussed considering a relevant case study connected with issues in higher education, scientific and technological competencies and global markets. The paper presents the controversies that emerge within a high level training program provided by a multinational corporation operating in the area of energy production, and targeted to local middle eastern operators. The training program in advanced technology and related applicative competences remains framed inside a market oriented strategy, and it responds to logic of asymmetric power typical of a post colonial scenario. The higher education program becomes a pretext to hide persistent cultural and gender prejudices and to enforce existing or newly established relations of subalternity. The presented case study offers also the possibility of discussing an example of re-appropriation and re-signification in the historic and scientific tradition of the West, providing a basis for challenging the hypothesis outlined above
Rileggendo “Folklore e profitto”. Patrimoni immateriali, mercati, turismo
No full textStarting from the anticipatory notes of Luigi M. Lombardi Satriani’s Folklore e profitto [1973], the paper seeks to critically articulate the interesting relation between cultural heritage, capitalistic market and mass media, updating the analysis, also, to the most recent forms of the use of media in promoting and valorizing such traditions. What emerges is a twist of cultural heritage toward consumerism that imposes to anthropologists and cultural heritage scholars new challenges and questions and a late-modern rethinking of critical categories as commodification, alienation and fetishization. A central question, finally, arises about who and what should be today the social actors asked to decide about these processes of cultural manipulation in the new post-industrial and globalized scenario, characterized, inter alia, from a generalized economic crisis.
L’ emigrato dasaese: turista di ritorno
No full textEmigrants in the 30s of the 900 moving from Calabria overseas are made up of individuals who belong to the "culture of poverty", characterized by the absence of choices and alternatives in the total exclusion of economic and political power.The only possible alternative, or experienced as such, is to rely on divine protection, graced by the repetition of an annual celebration, where the dollars sent home show social status changed emigrants (often absent), which not only feed the ritual, but keep alive a centuries-old tradition.One of the many scenarios in which it engages this dynamism is the ritual of Easter Tuesday that takes place in Dasà, small agricultural town of Calabria, where Dasà’s emigrant solidarity through the aggregation of the Brotherhood of belonging to 'rise to new cultural productions, in different social relations and thus the formation of an identity "other", determined by economic wealth reached.There are various moments of the rite in which the emigrant signals its presence emphasizing a social power and economic decision-making different from the past, in which the use of property and choices allows him to make known such a state would grow to become tourist to return
Dal dono al souvenir. Pratiche del dare e avere tra economia del turismo e cultura dell’ospitalità
No full textThe Tourist economy is now the most obvious tip of the complex structure of the post –colonial societies. The tourist economy substituted in many countries defined as emerging, gradually and not without destabilizing effect on social and political relations, the traditional economy with western models of development. In these societies the tourism has become essential for the presence of an attractive cultural heritage – often valued only for the archaeological endowment – and the lack of other industrial activities. Here, just a long time, sites of historical and natural interest make up the scene of contacts between locals and visitors.The anthropologist who critically recalls his role is seen as internal into business and symbolic practices belonging representative and cultural objects. The dynamics of knowledge are confused with those of the exchange and solicit reflections on the meaning of the gift and its utilitarian implications. The ethnographic and iconographic documents, collected by the author of the speech, during more ten years of research in South Jordan illustrate how the repertoire of cultural productions, narrative and objects is taking place into the global economic circuits. How the meaning of the hospitality changes? What do the visitors leave into the local society? It seems that the global management of the culture and its products, reproducing, displaying and placing on the market the traditional assets, translates the diversity into a pure and simple representation.