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Quale cooperazione intercomunale fuori dalle città metropolitane? Il percorso di riconoscimento dell'IPA veronese come laboratorio per il governo dell'area vasta
Get PDFIl paper affronta il tema della governance di scala vasta e delle forme di cooperazione fra Comuni negli ambiti al di fuori delle città metropolitane. Le riflessioni si misurano sulle questioni del cosiddetto “rescaling of formal planning activities” presenti in diverse normative nazionali e sono sviluppate a partire dai temi emersi nel percorso di definizione di un partenariato tra soggetti pubblici e privati nel Veronese che opera ad una scala intermedia fra quella municipale e regionale.The aim of this paper is exploring the intermunicipal governance through volunteer cooperation for those areas which are marked by mature metropolisation processes without a recognition by specific bodies or institutions (as città metropolitane in Italy). Focusing on the case of the IPA Veronese – a peculiar figure which involved public bodies and private companies in local government – we reflect about the intermediate scale and its role as role of testing ground for innovations in governance
Governare il territorio dopo le provincie: associazioni di comuni come dispositivi e interfacce per la programmazione territoriale
No full textIn attesa della riforma del titolo V della Costituzione, la legge Delrio (n. 56/2014) ridisegna le competenze dell’amministrazione locale. Gran parte delle discussioni sul livello sovracomunale si concentrano sul tema della gestione dei servizi, mentre ancora non sufficientemente approfondita sembra essere la programmazione economica, sociale e territoriale dell’area vasta. In effetti, il governo del territorio è una necessità strutturale da esercitare a una scala che supera quella dei limiti amministrativi comunali, così come espressamente sostenuto anche in ambito europeo. Oggi il livello intermedio tra provincia e comune sembra essere un ambito privilegiato di attuazione e di sperimentazione: si tratta di una dimensione che dà la possibilità ad attori (istituzionali e non) di interagire e di far scaturire nuove esigenze e opportunità di crescita e di sviluppo per i cittadini. L’obiettivo di questo paper è mostrare che è possibile individuare innovativi processi e modelli di governance che portino un insieme di soggetti –a partire dalle amministrazioni comunali– a definire in modo volontario un tavolo di partenariato sul quale gli attori locale possano presentare le loro progettualità, allo scopo di condividerle con uno o più soggetti dell’area (Comuni, parti sociali, soggetti privati) e di elaborarle in modo che siano efficaci, efficienti ed economicamente sostenibili. Nell’intervento useremo l’esperienza del nostro contributo al processo di costituzione dell’IPA dell’Area Vasta Veronese
An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative
Get PDFThis PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else
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
Una difficile modernità-Tradizioni di ricerca e comunità scientifiche in Italia: 1890-1940
No full textUna difficile modernità. Tradizioni di ricerca e comunità scientifiche in Italia 1890-1940
No full textIl volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno di studi svoltosi dal 9 all'11 settembre 1998, sotto gli auspici dell'ASSTI- Associazione per la storia della Scienza e della Tecnica -, dell'Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici, del CDEC - Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea- dell'istittuto nazionale per lòa fisica della materia e dell'Università di Pavia. I contributi raccolti affrontano lo studio delle comunità scientifiche italiane e delle loro tradizioni di ricerca, dei luoghi e delle strutture dell'operare scientifico e tecnico, delle forme di circolazione dei saperi disciplinari. Una postfazione a firma dei curatori conclude il volume
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