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William Russell, Wilkie Collins e la costruzione del poliziesco vittoriano. La professionalizzazione dell’indagine e la trasformazione narrativa di un genere
Get PDFThis article examines the contributions of William Russell and Wilkie Collins to the emergence of sensation fiction, a hybrid genre that anticipated key thematic and formal features of the Victorian detective novel. Through a comparative reading of “Legal Metamorphoses” and “The Biter Bit”, it highlights the shift from a normative, professionalised model of detection to one increasingly entangled with desire, narrative instability, and cultural anxiety. The figure of the investigator becomes a site of negotiation between authority and vulnerability, reflecting broader mid-nineteenth-century concerns about morality and institutional power. Rather than tracing a single point of origin, the article situates sensation fiction within a diffuse cultural and literary transition already underway in the 1850s
La biofilia, fra eredità genetica e cultura
Get PDFCulture mediates our relationship with other species and the environment. But its intervention does not occur on a blank slate. We have co-evolved for millions of years in close contact and interaction with our planet. This bond appears to be inscribed in our own genome. According to important studies in environmental psychology, at the basis of our attraction for what we usually call "nature" there is an innate psychic bond, called "biophilia". An important source of well-being on a physiological, cognitive and emotional level, biophilia corresponds to a primary psychological need that cannot be disregarded without consequences. However, biophilia doesn't necessarily express itself. Its development depends, to a significant extent, on cultural transmission. Entangled between genetics and culture, between human and nonhuman, and extremely important for pro-environmental behaviour, biophilia appears to be to the author as a promising new field of investigation for educational anthropology
Youth Political Participation in Italy: The Case of the Student Movement for Palestine
Get PDFIn a context of deep crisis of democratic institutions - one that has increasingly alienated younger generations from both conventional and unconventional forms of participation - the wave of pro-Palestinian mobilization that has swept across the globe over the past year appears to have reversed a long-standing trend. In Italy, as elsewhere, a new generation of young people has taken the lead in global mobilization for the liberation of Palestine, often identifying the university as both a privileged site and a symbolic target of contestation. This article seeks to reconstruct the key features of this phase of student mobilization and politicization, to highlight the local and global factors that have shaped its development, and to explore the meanings and practices that define it
Iranians' Unauthorized Mobility Projects to Europe: A Digital Ethnography of Smuggling and Solidarity
Get PDFIn the last decades, Iran has witnessed an increasing development of the culture of migration due to several political, social, and economic causes. This has led to the widening and specialization of the corresponding migration industry, with the role of the so-called digital infrastructure evolving in creative and innovative ways. Relying on several months of digital ethnography on virtual platforms used by Persian-speaker individuals to share information about border crossing, this paper aims to shed light on some under-represented strategies and practices of self-determination of Iranian citizens who plan to irregularly reach Europe as their final or intermediate destination. By doing so, it intends to problematize some perspectives that have long informed contemporary migration studies, such as the figure of the smuggler and the multifaced concept of solidarity informing these virtual networks. The data partially challenges the categorization of smugglers as 'evil villains' through an exploration of the moral economy of smuggling. Often depicted as pure victims, Iranians illegally moving never cease to have aspirations and remain subjects who make more or less calculated tactical choices about how to reconfigure their lives and advance their projects. The decision to move is interpreted in light of the migration autonomy approach, which focuses on the generative, exceeding, and multiple dimensions of migration movements
