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Gianni Iacovelli, I Mal di testa di Stendhal. Roma e lo Stato Pontificio nella prima metà dell'Ottocento
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Empowering Kurdish Women in Turkey: Understanding the Dynamics of Gender-Based Violence, Contentious Politics, and Resistance
Get PDFThis article explores the complex experiences of Kurdish women in Turkey, focusing on the intersections of gender-based violence (GBV), contentious politics, and resistance. It examines how Kurdish women navigate the socio-political challenges they face, shaped by both ethnic and gender-based oppression. The study highlights the ways in which their experiences are influenced by migration dynamics, state repression, and the broader socio-cultural context of Turkey. It emphasizes how Kurdish women's struggles against systemic injustice are not only rooted in gender but are also intertwined with their ethnic identity, as they challenge both patriarchal norms within their communities and the Turkish state's assimilationist policies. Through participation in political movements, cultural activism, and collective resistance, Kurdish women have redefined their roles in society, asserting their autonomy and rights. By analysing these multifaceted struggles, the article contributes to a deeper understanding of the resilience and agency of Kurdish women, revealing how their resistance shapes both their personal narratives and broader social change
Prefigurative Politics and Cultures of Care in the Portuguese Youth Climate Strike Movement during School Occupations
Get PDFYoung climate activists draw inspiration from diverse social and political struggles and use several tactics and strategies of collective action to build their movements. Extant scholarship on youth climate activist groups such as the School Strike for Climate have focused on how young people organise and set up their political priorities to tackle the climate crisis. However, there is still a lack of research on the inner dynamics and relationalities that sustain youth-led climate movements. To better understand how young climate activists mobilise during collectively intense and demanding periods of protest, it is important to explore their everyday practices and modes of conviviality. This article offers a contribution in this regard, drawing on an ethnographic study conducted before, during and after the occupation of five high schools and seven universities in Lisbon, in May and November 2023, by the Portuguese chapter of School Strike for Climate, to examine the interconnections between prefigurative politics and cultures of care, two scholarship strands requiring closer bridging. Our findings show that youth climate movements are shaped by cultures of care and political aspirations that help create more hopeful futures for young people. Prefiguration can be used both as a tool and an activism practice that helps to forge and actualise the movement's claims and purposes
Politics of Exclusion: Repressing Protests on US Campus
Get PDFThe first months of the second Trump's presidency have been characterized by brutal episodes of repression of pro-Palestine protests which build upon attacks on education – through cuts and suspensions on research funds and threats against entire fields of academia – and the harassment of migrants and ethnic minorities. While they appear to be the first step in an authoritarian coup taking place in the United States, these moves have long been in preparation, and not only in the US. Since October 2023, defunding, disciplining and policing have been the main response of a number of governments to pro-Palestinian protests. In this article, I propose identifying three mechanisms of repression, namely: policing, disciplining and stigmatization. While all three of these mechanisms tend to interact with one another and can be perpetrated by different actors, the way in which they function changes: policing represses through the use of force by the state in order to restrict the use of certain forms of protest; disciplining represses through the use of regulatory power, in order to discriminate against social movement organizations and activists; stigmatization represses by negatively labelling forms of protest, organizations, and activists. Having presented a novel theoretical model for the analysis of repression, the analysis of the moral panic campaigns that have taken place in the United States will reveal both the similarities and differences in the dynamics and actors involved. In what follows, I will first briefly introduce to the pro-Palestine solidarity protests that followed on from 7 October 2023. Based on desk research of documents, databases, scientific reports and media coverage, I will then single out some forms of repression that took place in the country and locate them within a social and institutional context, while also considering the main moral panic entrepreneurs involved
