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'Domesticating' the city: family practices in public space
No full textThe aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the everyday culture of families, and to enable an analysis of urban space in its dual articulation in both public and private culture. A discussion of how the concept has been applied in a study of how parents in a small Italian city include urban space in the domestic sphere offers an empirical substratum to our argument
Feeling the future: an exploration into studying youth futures
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to offer a contribution in the search for appropriate ways to disentangle the intangibility of the future – especially amongst young people, who have been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on a large research project which investigates how young people in several Italian cities look at their futures ([Mapping youth futures]). Theoretically, we refer to one of the possible ‘modes of engagement’ with the future that we address via the idea of feeling the future, thereby bringing elements of affectivity into the discussion. We analyse narratives generated through visual elicitation interviews conducted with young, mobile Italian people, in a close dialogue between youth studies and sociology of the future. We pay particular attention to reflexivity enacted by young people in constructing their narratives of their futures. To draw out our findings in some depth, we focus on two interviewees whose insights on the future we characterise as ‘a felt experience in the present’ and ‘a shared imaginary’
The collection of the first statements of minors involved in criminal proceeding as possible victims and/or witnesses of abuse and neglect after the ratification of the Lanzarote Convention in Italy: procedures, problems and open questions
No full textVera Cuzzocrea 1,*Gian Luigi Lepri 2Patrizi Patrizia 3
Abstract: In recent years, national legislation and international legal doctrine and the psychological knowledge have developed a growing and ever more specific attention to the victims of crime, to the need to define the characteristics and rights, and to promote activities and policies of prevention risk of victimization and to identify and disseminate minimum rules and practices for the protection and assistance, in relation to the functions and procedures of criminal justice. We have witnessed the evolution of scientific contributions in the field of psychology and legal systems to try to increase the protection of the alleged victims of crime, in the direction of improving knowledge on the subject of testimony in childhood, methodologies, conditions and techniques used in the course of the preliminary investigation. This type of listening is characterized as an activity of a specialist psychology and law that require specific training and professional experience. It is not an evaluation or therapeutic intervention. A good listening must be able to ensure the necessary psychological protection to the child/adolescent (clinical valence) and, in parallel, to respond to the need to acquire investigation of the sources of evidence useful for the reconstruction of the facts and the possible identification of the culprit (criminology valence). The dual purpose of listening to maximize the information to be collected while minimizing possible sources of stress to the child and possible contamination in the recovery of memory therefore requires the interviewer to possess not only in-depth knowledge regarding psychology and law, psychology of the testimony and developmental psychology but also have a background in the use of specific protocols established by the investigative interview. In this report we present the first results of an exploratory research. The data that have been collected will be analyzed both with a descriptive and qualitative methodology. The data collected are about: sex, age, duration of the first statement, type of offense, number of statements, relationship with the author
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
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