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The local choice. The concept of 'Spatial Opportunity Structure' for the analysis of middle class school choices.
Full text linkOltre il centralismo della città. Una nuova prospettiva nell'analisi dei movimenti urbani.
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Il rilievo dei centri storici minori
No full textLe pagine sintetizzano le attività di ricerca svolte dal Laboratorio Universitario Volterrano ed in particolare le attività di rilievo e studio che hanno interessato i centri storici del territorio volterrano
Labour activism and social movement unionism in the gig economy. Food delivery workers' struggles in Italy
Full text linkThis article aims to explore the forms of collective actions that are emerging in new sectors of digital capitalism. In particular, it enquires into the mobilisation of food delivery workers that has been de-veloping since 2016 in four Italian cities: Milan, Turin, Bologna and Florence. Despite the high level of pre-carisation and atomisation that characterise this subset of gig economy jobs, the so-called riders were able to organise into self-organised workers' collectives, which not only gave rise to many protest events, but also drew the attention of the institutions and the media. What are the conditions and the strategies that made this possible? And, more broadly, what does this case tell us about the possibility of labour activism in gig economy work? We argue that the high level of activation of food delivery workers is to be related to their capability to provide resources for reconstructing social ties among workers and, in turn, for translat-ing them into political engagement and contentious action. This is realised through the combination of three factors that will be scrutinised in the paper. The analysis points out that although precarisation cre-ates significant obstacles to organisation and mobilisation, collective action does actually take place also in the gig economy, in certain conditions
Resisting to the Neoliberal Urban Fabric: Housing Rights Movements and the Re-appropriation of the ‘Right to the City’ in Rome, Italy
No full textThis paper scrutinises the phenomenon of collective squatting for housing in Rome (Italy), which has reached remarkable proportions and developed new characteristics since the start of the 2008 crisis. Based upon two pieces of ethnographic research within the housing movement organisations Coordinamento Cittadino di Lotta per la Casa (Urban Coordination of Housing Struggles) and Blocchi Precari Metropolitani (Precarious Metropolitan Block), the authors aim to enlarge empirical knowledge of the case under study and provide renewed analytical instruments for understanding housing mobilisations. These organisations appear to be more than grassroots approaches to housing deprivation; they also represent alternative forms of social reproduction in post-welfare neoliberal cities. Indeed, squats configure themselves as sites for broader political elaboration. For this reason, we propose to analyse housing squatting using the notion of ‘urban commons’. The introduction of this notion to analyse housing movements helps in the theoretical elaboration of a re-appraised ‘right to the city’, in line with current urban challenges
San Dalmazio. Storia e architettura
No full textLa chiesa di San Dalmazio a Volterra è stata oggetto di una campagna di rilievo coordinata da Costantino Caciagli. L'analisi dei risultati del rilievo, unitamente alla lettura delle fonti storiche archivistiche e bibliografiche, ha permesso di avanzare alcune considerazioni sullo stato della fabbrica e sulla sua storia evolutiva
San Lino. Storia e architettura
No full textLa chiesa di San Lino a Volterra è stata oggetto di una campagna di rilievo coordinata da Costantino Caciagli. L'analisi dei risultati del rilievo, unitamente alla lettura delle fonti storiche archivistiche e bibliografiche, ha permesso di avanzare alcune considerazioni sullo stato della fabbrica e sulla sua storia evolutiva
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