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Orti e giardini collettivi: pratiche grassroots e politiche urbane
Full text linkThe Author focus on the recent resurgence of urban gardening in Western cities and on the effects of this grassroots cultural and social innovation on the evolution of urban public policies. Traditionally vegetable gardens (allotments) are associated to popular classes and subsistence economy, but recently we register a new movement in collective and critical gardening that redesign their identity, purposes and meanings. The analysis focus on three case studies of innovative urban policies: the pioneering experience of community gardens in New York City and the Green Thumb municipality program; the Main Verte shared gardens program (jardins partagés) of the municipality of Paris (France); and the public program of «social » allotments for elderly people of the municipality of Bologna (Italy), recently reformed in order to open the policy to all citizens and generations. The aim is to analyse challenges, opportunities and problems for urban public policies interested in a dialogue with grassroots practices in collective and critical gardening
Le culture del neoliberismo. Discorsi, pratiche e soggettività
No full textThis article provides the theoretical background for this Special Issue which ex-plores the cultural dimensions of neoliberalism from a sociological perspective.
The article also presents key insights offered in the seven articles selected for the Special Issue, concerning the production of the entrepreneurial self, the role of digital media and platforms, and resistances, contradictions and failures of neolib-eralism, observed in various dimension of social and individual life: education and collaborative production of public knowledge, health care and wellbeing, affective politics, work and consumption in the frame of platform capitalism, participation in urban policies
Fertilità, fecondità e sterilità: le dimensioni sociali e culturali di un fenomeno parzialmente sommerso
No full textFecondità e infertilità, un inquadramento sociale e demografico e delle politiche social
Sulle tracce di una invenzione. Viaggi e pellegrinaggi mediatici,
No full textrapporto tra media e immaginario turistic
Reti reali e reti virtuali, tra sistemi sociali e mondi della vita
No full textReti reali e reti virtuali, tra logiche sistemiche e mondi della vit
Recensione del volume Fronteggiare la crisi, di Roberta Sassatelli, Marco Santoro, Giovanni Semi.
No full textRecensione del volume "Fronteggiare la crisi
Critical nature: regenerating human experience and society through gardening
No full textNature and society have traditionally been separate in modernity, where the identity of the latter was founded on the exclusion of the former from its boundaries. If in the seventies the environmental crisis brought nature to the forefront of the public debate as “environment”, the natural world seems to have recently captured growing appeal mostly in everyday life and, quite unexpectedly, in the context of ordinary urban life.
This article focuses on a specific array of civically engaged urban practices relating to nature, and these may be grouped under the label of collective and critical gardening. Our research question is whether and how nature offers an imaginary and practices effective in coping with the crisis experienced by Western societies since the end of the last century
Dal feticcio al quasi-oggetto. Comunicazione e memoria delle cose
No full textIn the western thought the fetish is traditionally related to an inadequate substitution in meaning and relationship construction. This interpretation is in Marx’ fetishism of the goods, in the Freud’ sexual fetishism, or in the latest conceptualisations. The Michel Serres’ thought allows us to replace the fetish, in its quality of quasi-object, in the centre of the collective production. And by the comparison with a particular kind of quasi-object, the joker, perfectly represented by money, incarnation of the abstract, it’s possible to think of the ambivalence that seems to characterize the contemporary objects, shared out between a typically social abstract symbolic and a symbolic deep-rooted in the bodies, in the Langue, in personal stories and knowledge
Grandi madri mediali. Archetipi dell’immaginario collettivo nel fumetto e nel cinema (nuova edizione)
No full textLe raffigurazioni di Grandi Madri sono immagini archetipiche, ricorrenti dai tempi più remoti seppur sempre rinnovate, capaci di esprimere significati profondi della vita umana, a tratti ineffabili e terribili. L’Autrice osserva la loro apparizione nell’immaginario mediale contemporaneo, e si chiede se esse siano ancora simboli vivi, capaci di dare un linguaggio all’esperienza, come riusciva alle immagini del mito e delle fiabe popolari, e se possano essere considerate figure di rilievo per la vita simbolica e immaginativa di lettrici e lettori, spettatrici e spettatori contemporanei.
Terribili supereroine mutanti del fumetto nordamericano, o più ambivalenti figure di grandi e piccole madri prodotte dall’immaginazione di Hayao Miyazaki riescono a volte ancora oggi a esprimere, non senza ostacoli, l’ambivalenza irriducibile e la terribilità della vita umana e della natura, il senso segreto della vita come ciclo continuo di nascita, morte e rigenerazione, con cui la cultura e l’esperienza umana da sempre si sono dovute confrontare
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