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Images within the precarity movement in Italy
No full textThe recent cycle of social struggles against precarity in Italy has been characterized by an extensive use of images representing precarious workers. This contribution explores this in the case of the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP) protest campaign. The subversion of existing popular culture traditions was the main objective of the activists' newly created icons such as San Precario, Serpica Naro and other visual tools. The visual work on gender in the EMP seemed to fill a gap between theoretical work on the feminization of affective and immaterial labour and the less predominant presence of gender. Visual icons seem to have been at least as successful as text messages in publicizing the precarity discourse and their production deserves further attention
Images Within the Precarity Movement in Italy
No full textThe recent cycle of social struggles against precarity in Italy has been characterized by an extensive use of images representing precarious workers. This contribution explores this in the case of the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP) protest campaign. The subversion of existing popular culture traditions was the main objective of the activists' newly created icons such as San Precario, Serpica Naro and other visual tools. The visual work on gender in the EMP seemed to fill a gap between theoretical work on the feminization of affective and immaterial labour and the less predominant presence of gender. Visual icons seem to have been at least as successful as text messages in publicizing the precarity discourse and their production deserves further attention
Public Spaces and Alternative Media Practices in Europe: The Case of the EuroMayDayParade against Precarity
No full textPublic Spaces and Alternative Media Practices in Europe: The Case of the EuroMayDayParade against Precarity
No full textThis chapter deals with the role of emerging transnational public spaces for
communication and collective identification in contemporary social movement
groups in different European countries and at the transnational level of
European Union (EU) politics. Related to globalization, European integration,
and the increasing use of internet communication technologies (ICTs)
by activists, national public spaces in the twenty-seven member states of
the EU pass through a process of transformation that might deeply redefine
democratic and participation practices. In this chapter, we discuss the emergence
of a loose critical Europeanist collective identity1 revolving around the
political concept of “precarity” and linked to the organization of a transnational
protest campaign, the EuroMayDay Parade (EMP), against precarious
and insecure work.2 In particular, we focus on how collective identification
processes were discursively constructed in the protest campaign through the
elaboration of alternative media practices toward the transnational European
level. Activists constructed “parallel discursive arenas” (Fraser 1992: 123) in
which the feeling of being European precarious workers found a potential
space of expression and consolidation. Though these arenas were and still are
fragile and temporary, they show how important alternative media practices
and the resulting independent spaces of communication are for the emergence
of critical Europeanist collective identities. In doing this, we offer important
insights related to the existence of the so-called public deficit of the
European Union, including the lack of truly European mainstream media.
It also suggests that scholars interested in the emergence of European public
spheres might look not only at the mainstream media, but also at more grassroots
forms of mediation and communication.
This chapter is structured as follows. The first section presents the broad
theoretical framework that supported the analysis. The second section introduces
the methods employed to construct and analyze data, and the third
section presents the case study. The fourth section investigates how collective
identification processes took place in the EMP, focusing on alternative media
practices. The fifth section discusses the challenges that the construction of
critical Europeanist collective identities implied for activists. The conclusion
sums up the most interesting points that the analysis raised
Toward a Visual Analysis of Social Movements, Conflict, and Political Mobilization
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Fate of ammonium N-15 in a Norway spruce forest under long-term reduction in atmospheric N deposition
No full textIn the last decades, in particular forest ecosystems became increasingly N saturated due to elevated atmospheric N deposition, resulting from anthropogenic N emission. This led to serious consequences for the environment such as N leaching to the groundwater. Recent efforts to reduce N emissions raise the question if, and over what timescale, ecosystems recover to previous conditions. In order to study the effects on N distribution and N transformation processes under the lowered N deposition treatment, we investigated the fate of deposited NH4 (+)-N-15 in soil of a N-saturated Norway spruce forest (current N deposition: 34 kg ha(-1) year(-1); critical N load: 14 kg ha(-1) year(-1)), where N deposition has been reduced to 11.5 kg ha(-1) year(-1) since 14.5 years. We traced the deposited N-15 in needle litter, bulk soil, and amino acids, microbial biomass and inorganic N in soil. Under reduced N deposition, 123 +/- A 23% of the deposited N was retained in bulk soil, while this was only 72 +/- A 15% under ambient deposition. We presume that with reduced deposition the amount of deposited N was small enough to become completely immobilized in plant and soil and no leaching losses occurred. Trees receiving reduced N deposition showed a decline in N content as well as in N-15 incorporation into needle litter, indicating reduced N plant uptake. In contrast, the distribution of N-15 within the soil over active microbial biomass, microbial residues and inorganic N was not affected by the reduced N deposition. We conclude that the reduction in N deposition impacted only plant uptake and drainage losses, while microbial N transformation processes were not influenced. We assume changes in the biological N turnover to start with the onset of the decomposition of the new, N-depleted litter.German Research Foundation [PAK 12, GU 406/14-1
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