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Get PDFEnThe author reflects on the importance of uncultivated places for the environment and biodiversity, especially in the current climate context, in which the Earth responds violently to pollution and the indiscriminate exploitation of resources caused by human action.ItL'autore riflette sull'importanza dei luoghi incolti per l'ambiente e la biodiversità, specialmente nel contesto climatico attuale, nel quale la Terra risponde con violenza all'inquinamento e allo sfruttamento indiscriminato delle risorse causati dall'azione degli uomini
Fantascienza come genere mediale e fantascienza come genere sociologico. Un case study: la demografia nella Sf = Science-fiction as a media genre and science-fiction as a sociological genre. A case study: demography in Sf
No full textScience-fiction - especially in its dystopian versions and narratives - from being a visionary anticipation of the future has, over the past few years, become almost an "exact science" that photographs the continuous metamorphosis of the present. Social science-fiction, as opposed to "positivist and neo-positivist" science fiction (permeated with optimism regarding a future of progress, and a sense of wonder regarding technical-scientific advances), seems to have largely demonstrated the "goodness" of several of its precursor insights and its validity in terms of a narrative strand that serves as a seismograph of the tensions and moods of different eras. From Orson Welles to Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, social science fiction has provided, in narrative form, a whole series of (often prescient) interpretative keys to social criticism, and has effectively investigated the conflicts of human societies (with interpretative insights sometimes similar to the frames elaborated by the historical sociological field of conflict theories). With regard to the imaginative becoming predictive capacities of social science fiction, after outlining its basic characteristics and overall framework, this article sets out to analyze a theme present in various writers of this strand (from Asimov to Ursula Le Guin): that of demography. And one of the most frequent responses to demographic issues coincides with the choice of dystopian political regimes inspired by technocracy - as in the case of the colonization of outer space and other planets in search of resources and solutions to overpopulation. This article therefore sets out to analyze the «demographic question» as an exemplary case study of the narrative mechanisms of social science-fiction, with particular reference to Italy in the historical period from the 1960s to the 1980s and the figure of Lino Aldani (1926-2009), a national pioneer (and theoretician) of "humanist science-fiction"
Religious freedom in Polish legislation
Get PDFEnThe subject of this article is religious freedom, which is one of the basic and most important values from the point of view of an individual. The scope of this freedom is subject to constitutional and international protection, as well as provided for in acts of internal law. Religious freedom is also protected on the basis of ultima ratio by means of criminal and civil law. This study focuses on the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights, as they exerted the greatest influence on the jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal. The study includes an analysis of the provisions of the constitution of April 2, 1997 relating to the issue of religious freedom in the individual and institutional aspect. Moreover, an attempt was made to answer the question whether the guarantees of religious freedom are adequately secured under international and national law
