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«Altre anestesie»: Riflessioni su poetica e ontologia tragica in Historiae
No full textL’articolo presenta una riflessione critica su Historiae di Antonella Anedda (Einaudi, 2018). L’analisi è condotta secondo una metodologia parimenti ermeneutico-testuale e critico-filosofica, ed è focalizzata sulle implicazioni e sulle declinazioni dell’orizzonte tragico nel frangente compositivo del testo. Particolare attenzione è dedicata alle questioni di concezione poetica e ontologica dell’autrice, affrontate con approccio comparatistico. Lo scopo dello studio è quello di fornire un approfondimento sul tema, allargato, del tragico aneddiano, che risponde programmaticamente alla definizione di effettività metastorica, in quanto implicazione di irrimediabilità esistenziale.
English title: «Other Anesthetics». Reflections on Poetics and Tragic Ontology in Historiae
The article presents a critical reflection on Antonella Anedda’s Historiae (Einaudi, 2018). The analysis focuses on the declinations of the concept of tragic in the poietic scope of the text. A methodology both hermeneutic and critical-philosophical is adopted. The research addresses the poetic and ontological conception of the author and approaches them comparatively. The main purpose is to provide an insight into Anedda’s literary perspective on the theme of tragic, which she identifies as a metahistorical effectiveness determined by existential irremediability
Non-state actors, extractive industries, and the investment regime: What can be learned from six Amazonian investor-state disputes?
No full textThe international investment regime was designed to reduce political risks—risks created by government action or inaction—faced by enterprises venturing abroad. It assumes that political risks are due to unitary host states, who, guided by national interests, would confiscate profitable foreign enterprises when opportune. This article argues, however, that political risks can have a different origin. In ecologically vulnerable areas, extractive projects can be polarizing, as some groups benefit from their existence while others suffer their consequences. In this setting, non-state actors may fight legally and politically to attract or expel extractive industries, generating policy uncertainties and political risk. To check this argument, the article examines five investor-state disputes coming from extractive projects located in the Amazon and which were caused, in part or completely, by the actions of non-state actors. The cases studied provide insights into the importance of non-state actors in the investment realm as well as the inadequacies of the current investment regime
Livelihood alterations and Indigenous Innovators in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Get PDFThis article approaches livelihood alterations in Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon as means of adaptation and resistance to socio-environmental impacts brought along by the expansion of global capitalism. The cases comprise collective Indigenous endeavors in typically capitalist sectors - tourism and mining - illustrated by the experiences of Kichwa community tourism in Shiripuno in the central Amazon, and sustainable mining in the southern Amazonian Shuar community of Congüime (Kenkuim). The aim is to unravel these emerging livelihood strategies in relation to Indigenous ethno-cultural identity. Methodologically, we rely on comparative and ethnographic work in the field with Indigenous actors, and on a theoretical framework anchored in the concepts of innovators, cultural boundary changes (Fredrik Barth), social fields of force (William Roseberry), and intercultural regimes (Fernando Galindo and Xavier Albó). In both empirical cases - Indigenous-controlled tourism and mining - communities are framing their ethnic identity to engage with, and positively reposition themselves in relation to the wider society. We hold that these endeavors must be comprehended as highly innovative, and that indigeneity and cultural boundaries can be strengthened by socio-cultural changes toward livelihoods previously considered as “unauthentic” or “non-Indigenous”. We also argue that these new livelihood orientations have (purposely) altered gender relations within the communities in benefit of women. Additionally, our cases suggest that cultural strengthening and gender empowerment, among other positive outcomes, requires a nuanced apprehension of indigeneity as a partly floating concept and instrument gaining ground amid the increasing interconnectedness of ancient traditions and capitalist modernity
Book Review: The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy and Postcolonial Transformation in Latin America by Simone Vegliò
No full textIn The Urban Enigma: Time, Autonomy, and Postcolonial Transformation in Latin America, Simone Vegliò discusses some dilemmas in forming a post-colonial Latin American urban space based on three major architectural projects in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Brasília. The book discusses the projects’ ambitions in line with the vision of modernity at their time while contrasting their aims with the demands of social inclusion, justice, and the continuation of colonial ideas
Co-creative teaching practice and active learning: the opportunity of small group teaching in philosophy
Get PDFCo-creative pedagogy practices, where the students occupy a central role in shaping the sessions acting as partners in teaching, have an enormous potential in fostering inclusiveness and equality in the academic setting. Giving the students a voice and a role to play in designing and delivering teaching interventions, indeed, ensures that their unique interests and their needs as learners are taken on board, valued, and acted upon. Yet, it is challenging to implement co-creative practice while also following principles of active learning. Engaging students in deep learning through activities and “doing” tasks usually requires a certain degree of preparation which ends up creating a structure for the sessions that is less flexible than hoped, and more difficult to be permeated by and open to students’ individual needs and interests.
In teaching seminars in philosophy, I have found myself juggling the challenge of combining co-creative practice and active learning principles. Considering philosophy more as a practice rather than a discipline, I have always thought to my seminars as the ideal space for my students to exercise philosophical skills whose development, strength and autonomy constitute a core element of the learning expected from a philosophy graduate. For this reason, active learning has always been a pillar of my teaching practice. Yet, I was finding difficult to connect it to a co-creative approach to teaching.
In this piece, I am going to explain how establishing an ongoing, honest dialogue with my students has revealed to be the solution to my problem
Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmaking
No full textLife on Earth is sustained by interconnected more-than-human entanglements. In the era of the Anthropocene, many of these webs are unravelling due to climate change, biodiversity loss, toxicity and pollution, natural resource extraction, and water and soil depletion. In order to help address these challenges, The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human Writing Workshop Series, funded by the British Academy, brought together early career researchers from different disciplines to share ideas and knowledges. As part of The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human World Writing Workshop Series, Sophie Chao, presented her collaborative research project, The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Following this presentation, Catherine Price and Sophie Chao took the opportunity to discuss the terms multispecies, non-human, and more-than-human, amongst others. These terms are increasingly appearing in interdisciplinary scholarship in the space of multispecies studies, posthumanism, the environmental humanities and others. The epistemological assumptions and ethical stakes involved in using these terms are also considered. The conversation illustrates that in trying to define terms such as multispecies or the more-than-human, complexities are not explained away. Instead, these terms reveal how incredibly – and generatively – messy beyond-human worlds really are. The terms discussed are also fundamental to understanding and addressing the Anthropocene as an epoch of planetary unmaking.
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Translated in Spanish & republished as: Chao, S., et al., 2023. Multiespecie, Más-que-humano, No-humano, Otro-que-humano: Reinventando los lenguajes de lo animado en la era de destrucción planetaria. DOI: 10.36225/tekopora.v5i1.201, in Tekoporá (5(1)), Dec 2023
McGahern: Lover of words, creator of worlds
No full textThe creative kingdom of the writer of fiction is an imaginative space full of potential. There is no shortage of examples of such writing in the work of the late Irish writer John McGahern. This text seeks to link McGahern’s fictive world with notions of utopian thinking in how it can liberate the conscious from false notions of values and belonging that, in turn, affect the nature and quality of freedom of expression
Geografie: La scrittura come esercizio
No full textIl saggio propone una riflessione intorno al lavoro poetico di Anedda mettendone in evidenza alcune delle matrici concettuali e delle soluzioni espressive che permettono di interpretare l’esperienza dell’autrice come forma di meditazione intorno alla temporalità. Per mostrare come si articoli questo «esercizio» dell’esposizione al tempo si prende in esame in particolare il libro Geografie.
Writing as Exercise
This essay offers a reflection on Anedda\u27s poetic work, highlighting some of her probable conceptual matrices and some of her main expressive solutions. The analysis delves on her recent book “Geografie”, and brings to the conclusion that the author\u27s experience is related to the tradition of meditation on temporality