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They only see the tip of the iceberg Young people's subjectivation and resistance in the politics of «malamovida»
No full textThis essay analyses the cultural transformations arising from 15 years of decoro politics and their integration into common sense. Specifically, by examining the construction of a nocturnal social emergency (the so-called malamovida) in the city of Cagliari, the analysis centres on processes of subjectivation among those typically stigmatized as the folk devils of nightlife: youth. On the one hand, youth utilize language, rhetoric, and categories borrowed from institutional, political, and journalistic discourses to frame their presence in nightlife as both a cause and consequence of urban blight. On the other hand, from an ethnographic perspective, the lives of degrado are far more intricate and layered than their portrayal suggests. Employing various research methods, including critical discourse analysis of institutional acts, photovoice with 18- year-old individuals, and ethnographic fieldnotes, degrado is conceptualized as an affective atmosphere. This atmosphere exists within a lawscape dictated by securitarian discourse, but does not preclude practices of re-appropriation, ordinary encroachment, and minute forms of resistance
Segretamente pubblici: il parkour e lo spazio pubblico come soglia
No full textIl parkour è una disciplina che viene realizzata in spazi urbani, sviluppandosi a partire dai suoi margini, sia locali sia temporali. Attraverso essa, ci è possibile interrogare i concetti analitici e teorici con cui la città viene interpretata, mettendone alla prova definizioni e applicazioni. Questo contributo, risultato preliminare di una ricerca etnografica più ampia, Intende far dialogare le esperienze di campo con il concetto teorico di “spazio pubblico”, ed in particolare con la sua declinazione classica. In particolare, lo spazio costruito da traceurs e traceuses sarà preso in considerazione perché costituisce uno spazio “segretamente pubblico”. Attraverso questa espressione, paradossale per la lettura habermasiana, si intende evidenziare come la pubblicità venga costruita e attuata attraverso una territoriologia, che ne individua attori, azioni e discorsi, tra strategie scalari di gestione e controllo e pratiche minute di riappropriazione
Deconstructing maps, reconstructing space of representation: a post-structuralist approach to mapping the evenemential city.
No full textSpazi segretamente pubblici: il parkour e le soglie nella città.
Full text linkConsiderare la pubblicità dello spazio come un processo sociale, in continua negoziazione, mai intera-mente “aperto” (Staeheli
et al ., 2009), permette di ricostruire una territoriologia (Brighenti, 2010), individuandone attori, azioni, estetiche e discorsi che contendono gli usi, tra strategie scalari di gestione e controllo e pratiche di riappropriazione. Al-cune attività, inserendosi nei contesti urbani già densi, senza avere spazi e temporalità specificatamente dedicate ad esse, diven-tano casi studio interessanti per individuare modalità di travalicamento di soglie sociali, confini spaziali e partizioni temporali dell’organizzazione urbana. Tra questi, il parkour, oltre a interrogare, come già un’ampia letteratura dimostra (ad esempio At-kinson, 2009), la pubblicità dello spazio in termini di accessibilità, permette di rileggere il tema del pubblico da un altro punto di vista, a partire dal carattere pubblico delle conoscenze situate che le pratiche generano. In questo contributo, risultato preli-minare di una più ampia ricerca etnografica in corso, si cercherà, in particolare, di evidenziare come la città diventi, nel par-kour, uno spazio “segretamente pubblico”: usando questa definizione, paradossale nella lettura habermasiana e liberale, mo-strerà come specifiche forme di sapere, create da un gruppo di utilizzatori dello spazio attraverso una specifica pratica corpo-rea, diventino elementi che territorializzano il sito da esso attraversata (Simpson, 2011). I modi in cui i praticanti di parkour comunicano e agiscono la città, individuando, tracciando e nominando i percorsi e gli spot, costituiscono una soglia sociale che, al tempo stesso, rende visibile il sito della pratica a chi può accederci, lasciandolo invisibile e segreto a chi ne è esterno
Oscenità e corpi: processi di normalizzazione e resistenza in soggetti richiedenti elemosina
Full text linkSome bodies in public space are judged and treated as if they were obscene objects because of their potential on the suspencion of people’s everyday certainties.
They are bodies that appear alarming and contagious, weakening and generating confusion about the own ideals of being normal and the analogous values and symbolic systems. On the street, the beggar can effectively illustrate the configurations of the obscene, representing the other and different body.
From daily life observations, here we want to explore the concept of obscenity as an analytical category, also applicable to the bodies commonly excluded and placed to the borders. Particularly, the analysis will follow three perspectives: a) the analysis of bodies in public and the look of the other in the construction and negotiation of the identity; b) the discourses and dispositives of visibility of the subordination and the process of incorporation; c) the practices of resistance, that are the uses of the body and of the symbols intended as possibilities of breakup of the requests and expectations that administer roles and relationships
Riappropriazioni territoriali e (in)visibilità dei corpi negli spazi pubblici. Un'etnografia di tre pratiche effimere.
Full text linkThis thesis is the result of a doctoral Research that aims to reflect on the relationship of mutual constitution of bodies and urban spaces. In this regard, it investigates the articulation of daily and widespread conflicts developed around the different uses of the public spaces.
In particular, unplanned and unforeseen activities and disciplines show and question the discourse on the body in public, concerning how it can appear, be moved, presented and performed, in a normativity that assembles different layers, moving from legislative production to daily interactions.
Parkour, slacklining, and buskers are ludic, expressive, and artistic activities realized in numerous sites in the city. The practitioners of these three disciplines always perform in close proximity to other activities and, in the co-presence, they highlight rhythms, aesthetics, atmospheres, and functions of the space. In the practice, a re-appropriation is enacted, subtracting places to the planned and scalar uses, and creating alternatives to the functionalist consideration.
Starting from the performance emerges the possibilities to open and change, both materially and symbolically the social and spatial environment, both for the practitioners and, at large, for their publics. For this generative and transformative ability, the disciplines are read as political practices, with a theoretical account of the connection between political radicality and temporary effects of the activities, summarized in the idea of "ephemeral" practices.
This work consists in an ethnography, realized with a 14-month participant observation with the communities of practices of the three chosen disciplines, realized starting from Padua, and developed following the traces of the participants, in their activities and moves between different cities, mainly (but not exclusively) in Northern Italy. The fieldwork was realized through the production and collection of visual materials, photos and videos realized during the observations, in the contexts of the Research, both by me and by the participants. In addition to the (written, and visual) fieldwork notes, the ethnography includes also narrative interviews and documental research.
Through a territoriological approach, focused on underlining the territorialization of the urban space, that constitutes in the traces of boundaries and thresholds, access criteria and behavioral norms realized in the public spaces. The urban space is realized in the ephemeral practices in a plurality of modalities: starting from the choose of the specific spots in which enact the performances; the events in which are constructed the meaning of the places; the individual and collective movements in the same city and beyond it; the way in which from the practice are created imaginaries to represent the enacted spatiality and, at the opposite, the way in which predefined and popular imaginaries territorialized the activities; the diverse and numerous modalities of control and surveillance.
The body emerges as a pivotal element in these dynamics. On the bodies, both dispositives of control and domain, and tactical practices of resistance are founded. An account of the corporeity is drawn by the forces and the patterns that cross and embrace the urban space, as well as a new understanding of the public space starting from the embodied activities that lived it.
Starting from the ephemeral practices, it is possible to deepen the understanding of the process in which the publicness of the spaces can be considered as the product of a struggle, created between territories, bodies, and visibility regimes, as the daily conflicts in the urban space suggest, in the continuous challenge of boundaries and norms
IL PROCESSO DI MATCHING TRA VENTURE CAPITAL E IMPRESE
No full textIn questo lavoro si analizza il complesso processo di matching tra le giovani imprese operanti in settori ad alta tecnologia e gli investitori di venture capital (VC). In primo luogo si mostra come, in un mercato poco sviluppato del venture capital (VC), per gli imprenditori delle imprese con migliori performance sia meglio auto selezionarsi fuori dal mercato che parteciparvi, dando così luogo ad un equilibrio “vizioso” in cui il VC non ha modo di svilupparsi oltre. Il modello viene testato su un campione di imprese italiane estratto dal dataset RITA. In seguito si analizza il matching a livello europeo su un campione di imprese estratto dal dataset VICO e dando particolare risalto all’eterogeneità tra gli investitori
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