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Entrevista con Virginia Bertolotti
No full textPara representar el mundo hispánico, invitamos a la académica uruguaya Virginia Bertolotti, cuyas contribuciones en el ámbito de las investigaciones sobre las formas de tratamiento en el español hispanoamericano son de gran importancia y con quien hemos cruzado camino en los eventos y proyectos sobre el tema al que se orienta esta publicación
Avanzamenti : il DVD
No full textSi potrebbe dire che non vi sia quasi ricerca condotta dall'Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale (AESS) nelle montagne lombarde, dall'inizio degli anni '70 in avanti, che non abbia incontrato, a vario titolo, la presenza significativa del 'ferro': i passaggi, le convivenze, le persistenze di vari modi di produzione - preindustriali, industriali, postindustriali - che hanno segnato l'arco di un secolo. Nei luoghi che hanno praticato attività di estrazione o di trasformazione del ferro si sono trovati i materiali etnografici più interessanti, le comunità più sensibili alla 'conservazione' di elaborati folklorici, gli informatori più straordinari: per i repertori canori, per i carnevali, per la ritualità religiosa e, naturalmente, per molti saperi tecnici specialistici. Di 'ricerca' si parla dunque in questo libro, sul campo e d'archivio: di memorie orali, di immagini e di suoni, di riflessioni sulla cultura di gruppi sociali (minatori, artigiani, operai), attraverso punti di vista che rappresentano la molteplicità di interessi e competenze con cui, sul territorio, si sono affrontate e si affrontano problematiche complesse di conservazione, interpretazione e fruizione di documenti, materiali e immateriali.
Con contributi di Angelo Bendotti, Graziella Pedretti, Carolina Lussana, Maria Costa, Maddelena Cerletti, Alberto De Cristoforo, Primo Ferrari e Bruno Pianta che amplia, in una articolata riflessione sulla cultura operaia e proto-operaia, i risultati raggiunti in una pionieristica ricerca realizzata nel 1972 sui minatori della Valtrompia che, ripubblicata ora nel volume, è all’origine dei successivi studi etnografici sulla miniera e sul mondo della lingera in Lombardia. Le immagini d'autore, introdotte da Roberta Valtorta, appartengono alla vasta raccolta di AESS (Maurizio e Federico Buscarino, Pepi Merisio, Ferdinando Scianna) e dell'Archivio del Lavoro di Sesto S. Giovanni (Silvestre Loconsolo).
Allegato al volume un CD, con la riproposta del repertorio della famiglia Bregoli, e un DVD con una "videoballata" che, realizzata da Guido Bertolotti, Elisa Piria e Diego Ronzio, si ispira idealmente alle 'radio ballads' create da Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger e Charles Parker nel 1958 per la BBC
The role of feminisms on entrepreneurial behavior and strategy
No full textFeminist cultures integrate values that can trigger relevant social changes and challenge stereotypes and prejudices through an intersectional perspective. Across various spheres of society, feminist cultures contribute to opening social environments to groups previously excluded based on stereotypical narratives. In addition, feminist cultures promote and disseminate values that can trigger phenomena of social and environmental value creation.
The entrepreneurial world has been historically tainted by excluding narratives that delegitimize the entrepreneurial action of entire social groups. The dominant entrepreneurial archetype has been characterized by utilitarian values and the motivation for the generation and maximization of profit. Nonetheless, the entrepreneurial landscape has gradually enriched itself with entrepreneurial phenomena not adhering to the dominant narrative, which are rooted in entrepreneurial personalities with heterodox value systems and not exclusively economic motivations. Feminist entrepreneurship is emerging as a rapidly expanding phenomenon in this context. However, the relationship between feminisms and entrepreneurship has been largely neglected by the attendant literature.
The aim of this dissertation is therefore to explore the domain of feminist entrepreneurship. After conducting a systematic review of the extant literature, the work focuses on the analysis of the values, motivations, and business practices underlying and characterizing feminist entrepreneurship. Adopting a qualitative pragmatic approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to investigate, in light of the theory of planned behavior and motivational studies, the value systems and entrepreneurial motivations of 12 entrepreneurs self-identifying as feminist. A thematic analysis of the interviews transcripts allowed the feminist values shared among the interviewees to be identified as gender equality, caring, openness and inclusivity, and reflexivity. These values were consistent with the motivational instances reported by the entrepreneurs (namely, the generation of not solely economic impacts, challenge, and self-realization), thus informing motivational studies of the correspondence between values and motivations. Additionally, the reported values serve as motivational prerequisites for the adoption of feminist business practices regarding relationships with customers and employees.
The research entails several impacts at the research, managerial, and societal levels. The dissertation contributes to illustrating the cognitive-behavioral modalities through which cultural values are reflected in entrepreneurial motivation, providing a novel insight from a subgroup neglected by previous literature. Simultaneously, the research contributes to delineating the theoretical boundaries of feminist entrepreneurship, first analyzing its research context and then expanding its understanding through qualitative investigation. From a managerial perspective, this research enables an initial expansion of knowledge regarding entrepreneurial motivations, which can be beneficial for the development of more inclusive and heterogeneous entrepreneurial training programs. On the societal level, the research contributes to investigating an entrepreneurial phenomenon in which ethical values seem to align with motivations and business practices, the understanding of which could enable its diffusion with evident implications in terms of social value generation
Les Juifs à Rome aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
No full textBertolotti A. Les Juifs à Rome aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. In: Revue des études juives, tome 2, n°4, avril-juin 1881. pp. 278-289
The Pearl Diver. The Designer as Storyteller
No full textPresently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytelling emerging from our practices, and to look at it from multiple perspectives. We have done so through conversations with designers, researchers, philosophers, as well as practitioners and theorists from many different fields who participated in the DESIS Philosophy Talks series about Storytelling and Design for Social Innovation.
This volume records the first three years of ongoing discussions about this topic held in different places around the world. We had the opportunity to share practices and experiences and to reflect together on the meanings and values generated by them. With this book we share the first series of reflections and invite you to be part of this experimental process of co-creation of collective knowledge.
The Pearl Diver is edited by Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda and Virginia Tassinari, and presents the thoughts of Francesca Antonacci, Valentina Anzoise, Tricia Austin, Nik Baerten, Pablo Calderón Salazar, Joana Casaca Lemos, Mariana Ciancia, Luigi Ferrara, Alastair Fuad-Luke, Marisa Galbiati, Saba Golchehr, David Hamers, Michael Kaethler, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Sophie Krier, Donatella Mancini, Ezio Manzini, Ilaria Mariani, Walter Mattana, Andrea Mendoza, David Parkinson, Thomas Pausz, Davide Pinardi, Daniel Anthony Rossi, Bettina Schwalm, Roberta Tassi, Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola, Francesca Valsecchi and Susan Yelavich
The Effect of Role-Based Product Representations on Individual and Team Coordination Practices: A Field Study of a Globally Distributed New Product Development Team.
No full textThe investigation of the appealing indication that a modular product architecture
is best associated to a loosely coupled organizational structure—that is, the mirroring
hypothesis—has produced contradictory evidence, especially in the dynamic and ambiguous
context of new product development. By integrating modularity theory and productrepresentation
theories, we investigate how individual agency affects coordination in
teams developing modular products.We conducted a field study of Flower-Net, a globally
distributed team in a major IT company, engaged with the development of a modular software
using agile practices. Our grounded model shows that, whereas top managers defined
the product as modular and coordinated work accordingly, individuals developed
different representations of the product’s architecture and conflicting individual coordination
practices. We traced the individual development of product architecture representations
back to the individual interpretations of organizational roles as more or less
“segmented.” Conflicting individual practices, associated to different role-based product
representations, were not addressed by the team—that developed a state of illusory
concordance—and impaired the functioning of the team. This study contributes to the literature
on modularity and the mirroring hypothesis by proposing individual role-based representations
as an underexplored level of analysis for the matching between product and
organizational modularity (Mirroring Hypothesis II). It also contributes to the debate on
how representations affect team coordination, by detailing how role-based product representations
can influence teammembers’ divergence and sustain illusory concordance
Percutaneous Full Endoscopic Treatment of Bertolotti Syndrome: A Report of Three Cases with Technical Note
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Background Bertolotti syndrome is characterized by an abnormal enlargement of the transverse process of the most caudal lumbar vertebra. Most of the time it is asymptomatic, but when it is symptomatic it is associated with low back pain, radiating leg pain, or both. There is no consensus regarding management of this pathology. Open to minimal invasive tubular resection techniques are described in the literature, but a full endoscopic resection technique has not yet been described. Endoscopic technique is a less invasive target-oriented iliolumbar ligament preserving technique. We report our percutaneous full endoscopic technique for the treatment of symptomatic Bertolotti syndrome.
Method We have treated three symptomatic cases of Bertolotti syndrome with the percutaneous endoscopic technique. We review the feasibility of this technique and the outcomes.
Result Full endoscopic resection of Bertolotti syndrome is feasible and safe with comparable good outcomes and the added benefits of minimal invasive surgery.
Conclusion We believe this novel percutaneous full endoscopic technique will yield good results in the hands of expert endoscopic spine surgeons and can be an alternative treatment method in cases of symptomatic Bertolotti syndrome. To our knowledge this is the first report of percutaneous full endoscopic treatment of Bertolotti syndrome in the world.</jats:p
Bending by faulting: A multiple scale study of copper and silver nitropyrazolates
No full textA multiscale approach, combining structural and microstructural characterizations, was applied to tackle an uncommon and so far unsolved structural problem occurring in group 11 nitropyrazolates. To this goal, the average structure of the [Ag(4-NO2-pz)]3 and [Cu(4-NO 2-pz)]3 species was determined through ab initio X-ray powder diffraction techniques on high-resolution synchrotron data, and used to infer molecular models of randomly distributed defects within molecular stacks of trimeric molecules of D3h idealized symmetry. By cross-coupling the size and shape information on nanocrystalline coherent domains derived from tailored Debye function simulations with those obtained from scanning electron miscroscopy images on multidomain particles, the mechanism of structural disorder disrupting crystal periodicity is proposed. Such a model was further supported through the derivation of the pair distribution function, which affords local features to be sought independently from the presence of structural periodicity. Finally, the effects of stacking faults on the electrical properties of [Ag(4-NO2-pz)]3 have been experimentally evaluated
Sostenibilidad y pesca responsable: las dimensiones social y económica, principios, objetivos e indicadores
No full textLa República Argentina suscribió diversos acuerdos internacionales que atañen a la actividad pesquera, creando ingentes demandas de conocimiento, asociadas a la sostenibilidad de los Recursos y del Ambiente Marino y a la incorporación del Enfoque Ecosistémico en la Pesca (EEP). El concepto de desarrollo sostenible expresa un proceso, que debe resultar simultáneamente sostenible en las diferentes dimensiones: social, económica, ambiental, cultural, institucional. La sostenibilidad y en especial el desarrollo sostenible se cuentan entre los conceptos más ambiguos y controvertidos de la literatura, por lo tanto es necesario abordar el análisis de la evaluación de la sostenibilidad, considerando las cuatro brechas limitantes para su aplicación práctica: la brecha conceptual, la brecha cognitiva, la brecha social y la brecha competitiva. Se tiende a cerrar la brecha conceptual entre economía y ecología, aceptando que el sistema socioeconómico y el sistema ambiental forman parte de un único sistema pesquero, a partir de un planteo positivo de la relación sociedad y ambiente, en el cual se consideran tanto las políticas públicas, como las expectativas sociales y los intereses económicos, en una gestión sostenible de los recursos pesqueros. Para cerrar la brecha cognitiva se deben garantizar los conocimientos necesarios para entender las interrelaciones del sistema pesquero, para ello se requiere no sólo de datos; sino de datos con relevancia, información estructurada con coherencia y sistemáticamente; con conocimiento científico, y también con conocimiento práctico de las comunidades involucradas; sin omitir que la disponibilidad de datos y sus costos, figuran entre los principales problemas de la selección de indicadores. En este contexto se inserta el debate sobre indicadores de sostenibilidad de las dimensiones, social y económica, los principios en que se sustentan y los objetivos perseguidos. Los principales aspectos a considerar en el ámbito del Enfoque Ecosistémico en la Pesca (EEP) según FAO (2010) son: "el contexto socioeconómico del sistema pesquero, incluido el empleo y los medios de vida, la situación económica de las pesquerías, el comercio y los mercados mundiales, los efectos distributivos y la equidad, la pobreza y la vulnerabilidad y las cuestiones de género".Argentina has ratified several international agreements and conventions regarding fishing activity, thus creating a huge demand for knowledge associated with the sustainability of resources and marine environment and with the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF). The concept of sustainable development implies a process that must be simultaneously sustainable in five different dimensions: social, economic, environmental, cultural and institutional. Sustainability and, in particular, sustainable development are among the most ambiguous and controversial concepts in literature. It is therefore necessary to assess sustainability taking into consideration the existing gaps limiting its application: the conceptual gap, the cognitive gap, the social gap and the competitive gap. There is a tendency to close the conceptual gap between economics and ecology, recognizing that the socio-economic system and the environmental system are part of a single fishery system. This is based on a positive proposition of the relationship between society and environment that envisages public policy as well as social expectations and economic interests as inherent elements to the sustainable management of fishery resources. To close the cognitive gap it is necessary to understand the fishing system interrelationships. This requires relevant data, as well as information that is coherently structured and systematic, and knowledge not only of a scientific nature but also the knowledge that comes from the experience and traditions of the communities involved; always bearing in mind that the availability of data and its costs are one of the crucial problems of the selection of indicators. In this context the debate on sustainability indicators incorporates the social and economic dimensions, their principles and objectives. The main aspects to be considered by EAF (FAO, 2010) are: "the socio-economic context of the fishery system, including employment and livelihoods, the economic status of the fisheries, trade and global markets, distributional and equity issues, poverty and vulnerability, and gender".Fil: Bertolotti, María Isabel. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina
Patterns of Rationality: Recurring Inferences in Science, Social Cognition and Religious Thinking
No full textThis book proposes an applied epistemological framework for investigating science, social cognition and religious thinking based on inferential patterns that recur in the different domains. It presents human rationality as a tool that allows us to make sense of our (physical or social) surroundings. It shows that the resulting cognitive activity produces a broad spectrum of outputs, such as scientific models and experimentation, gossip and social networks, but also ancient and contemporary deities. The book consists of three parts, the first of which addresses scientific modeling and experimentation, and their application to the analysis of scientific rationality. Thus, this part continues the tradition of eco-cognitive epistemology and abduction studies. The second part deals with the relationship between social cognition and cognitive niche construction, i.e. the evolutionarily relevant externalization of knowledge onto the environment, while the third part focuses on what is commonly defined as “irrational”, thus being in a way dialectically opposed to the first part. Here, the author demonstrates that the “irrational” can be analyzed by applying the same epistemological approach used to study scientific rationality and social cognition; also in this case, we see the emergence of patterns of rationality that regulate the relationships between agents and their environment. All in all, the book offers a coherent and unitary account of human rationality, providing a basis for new conceptual connections and theoretical speculations
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