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Diversity of Food Traditions: A Historical Perspective on Invention and Transformation
No full textStarting from the concept of "invented traditions" coined by E. J. Hobsbawm and T. O. Ranger in 1983, this contribution examines how the misrepresentation of national histories can be prejudicial. An analysis of how this term may be applied to Ancel Key’s invention of “the Mediterranean diet”, subsequent to his 1952 journey to Italy, follows. According to Keys, a Mediterranean diet prevents heart disease, due to the appropriate combination of vegetables, carbohydrates, natural proteins and olive oil, thus explaining the low cholesterol rates in the Mediterranean area compared to those of people living in the US.
However, although Keys' intuition may be correct from a clinical point of view, his all-encompassing historical reconstruction reveals itself to be an imaginary description of a world that has never existed. This perspective proves to confound classical antiquity with a modern way of life, on the basis of an exotic and orientalistic view of the Mediterranean area. While this reconstruction strongly contributed to the declaration of the Mediterranean diet as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2010, it is worth underlining that this decision was made at a time when globalization is widely menacing local communities with well-defined cultural identities
Food Diversity Between Rights, Duties and Autonomies. Legal Perspectives for a Scientific, Cultural and Social Debate on the Right to Food and Agroecology
No full textThe book reflects on the issues concerning, on the one hand, the difficulty in feeding an ever- increasing world population and, on the other hand, the need to build new productive systems able to protect the planet from overexploitation. The concept of “food diversity” is a synthesis of diversities: biodiversity of ecological sources of food supply; socio-territorial diversity; and cultural diversity of food traditions. In keeping with this transdisciplinary perspective, the book collects a large number of contributions that examine, firstly the relationships between agrobiodiversity, rural sustainable systems and food diversity; and secondly, the issues concerning typicality (food specialties/food identities), rural development and territorial communities. Lastly, it explores legal questions concerning the regulations aiming to protect both the food diversity and the right to food, in the light of the political, economic and social implications related to the problem of feeding the world population, while at the same time respecting local communities’ rights, especially in the developing countries. The book collects the works of legal scholars, agroecologists, historians and sociologists from around the globe
Il convegno di Varenna degli amministrativisti su tempo e spazio
No full text[scritto in collaborazione con i dottorandi di ricerca Chiara Bolognese, Saverio Di Benedetto, Fabio Fortinguerra e Alessandro Isoni
L'Italia tra la guerra e la pace: il problema dell'intervento italiano nella Prima Guerra Mondiale e le conseguenze negli assetti adriatici e balcanici
No full textLa partecipazione dell’Italia alla Grande Guerra, con il suo corollario di aspirazioni egemoniche sui popoli dell’area adriatica e balcanica, ebbe indubbiamente delle notevoli conseguenze nella determinazione dei nuovi assetti nazionali, politici e territoriali, di quella parte d’Europa, oltre che nelle trasformazioni interne alla politica e alla società italiane. Appare evidente, quindi, in occasione del centenario della fine del primo conflitto mondiale, l’interesse scientifico a promuovere un momento di riflessione sul significato dell’intervento italiano nella Grande Guerra e sugli sconvolgimenti degli assetti adriatici e balcanici da esso provocati. A diversi aspetti e questioni sollevati dalle iniziative politiche e militari condotte dall'Italia nel corso della prima guerra mondiale, e alle loro varie e diverse ricadute nello spazio adriatico, balcanico e mediterraneo, sono dedicati i saggi raccolti nella parte monografica di questo fascicolo, il secondo del 2018, della rivista «Itinerari di ricerca storica». Il ruolo dell’Italia nella crisi internazionale del 1914 e i confliggenti interessi di Roma e Vienna nei Balcani; il peso avuto dalle iniziative italiane nel risveglio nazionale albanese nel corso della guerra; il tentativo italiano di ridisegnare a proprio vantaggio gli equilibri nel Mediterraneo orientale; la politica jugoslava nei confronti del vicino Stato albanese in reazione alla presenza politica e militare italiana nella regione; la posizione italiana in merito alla neutralità della Grecia, sono i temi approfonditi nei saggi ospitati in questo numero. Accanto ad essi, è stato dato spazio anche a una riflessione sul dissenso politico dal basso e sul crescente protagonismo in Italia dei giovani antimilitaristi e internazionalisti, promotori e interpreti di una linea intransigente di avversione alla guerra; e a una testimonianza diretta della vita al fronte, nelle memorie di guerra di un giovane ragazzo pugliese.
L’intero numero, unitamente ad una panoramica aggiornata delle più recenti correnti storiografiche, mira soprattutto a rinvenire negli assetti scaturiti dalla fine del primo conflitto mondiale i nodi irrisolti che hanno contribuito a rendere sempre più insolubile il legame di interdipendenza tra le vicende avvenute nel quadrante adriatico e balcanico e la storia d’Italia, in particolare di quelle regioni, la Puglia prima di tutte, proiettate verso l’Europa sud-orientale e il Mediterraneo
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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