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Séminaire 5/I - Domenico Perrotta
No full textMardi 12 mai 2015 - "Agriculture intensive et migrations : systèmes d'intermédiation (Caporalato), chaîne globale de production et luttes dans les campagnes italiennes". Intervenant : Domenico Perrotta (Sociologue, Université de Bergamo, Italie) Discutante : Cristina Nizzoli (Sociologue, Lest) Domenico Perrotta est professeur-adjoint au département de Sociologie de l'Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italie), titulaire d’un doctorat en sociologie de l’Université de Padoue (Italie). Il co-dir..
Entering the “plastic factories”. Conflicts and competition in Sicilian greenhouses and packinghouses
No full textBy focusing on an agricultural district located in South-Eastern Sicily, the chapter attempts to investigate the conflictual dynamics, carried on by migrant and Italian precarious laborers, emerging everyday inside the workplaces. The chapter hinges on a rich set of ethnographic data, gathered through periods of participant observation within greenhouses and packinghouses, and through semi-structured interviews realized in the so called Transformed Littoral Strip. The text provides, in particular, three examples of conflicts that take place frequently inside the work environments. The first case attempts to illustrate how nationality could be used by the employers as a dispositive in order to stimulate horizontal forms of competition at work. The second example tries to highlight how conflicts could arise among female Italian laborers, equally harnessed by precarious working conditions. Finally, the chapter deals with a situation of competition emerging on the basis of different religious practices. The three examples provided in the text should help to illustrate how conflicts and competition (based on nationality, religion or different hiring conditions inside the same workplace) are structurally produced and reproduced by an agricultural labor market characterized by precariousness and unevenness
MIGRANT FARMWORKERS IN SOUTHERN ITALY: GHETTOES, CAPORALATO AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
Full text linkThis article discusses the condition of agricultural migrant workers in southern Italy. After a brief description of the general background, we will analyse two key features regarding the current situation: the state of segregation in which the workers live, and the organization of recruitment and work through the caporalato (gang-master system). To understand the importance of these aspects two areas will be compared, that of Boreano (Basilicata) and that of Nardò (Apulia), which both exemplify the central role of segregation and the illegal hiring methods of migrant workers. In the case of Nardò, we focus on the strike that involved several hundred African workers in August 2011. The analysis is based on material collected during qualitative research – in particular 54 in-depth interviews, and observations of living and working conditions, and the daily struggle of migrant workers - conducted in 2010, 2011, and 2012 in the two areas
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
No full textLa rivista si pone come punto di riferimento in Italia per gli sviluppi della ricerca etnografica nelle scienze sociali, incoraggiando il dibattito e coprendo i vari campi della sociologia e dell'antropologia. Pubblica ricerche inedite, per lo più a carattere empirico condotte con metodo etnografico, sui vari ambiti delle scienze sociali: lavoro, organizzazione, economia, educazione, famiglia, immigrazione, religione, cultura, comunicazione.
I contributi, sia di giovani ricercatori che di autori affermati, italiani e stranieri, esplorano le possibilità della ricerca etnografica in campi già noti e in terreni innovativi (studi visuali, nuovi media e tecnologie), a partire dagli strumenti concettuali della sociologia, dell'antropologia e delle varie discipline che contemplano questo tipo di approccio.
Per la sua forte vocazione empirica e l'attenzione al contemporaneo, la rivista si propone di aprire un dialogo con l'opinione pubblica e le istituzioni in Italia su questioni di attualità come il mercato e le disuguaglianze globali, la crisi istituzionale, la criminalità e la sorveglianza o il cambiamento demografico, oltre a registrare e dibattere le novità più interessanti nel panorama intellettuale ed editoriale
The land of informal intermediation. The social regulation of migrant agricultural labour in the Piana del Sele, Italy
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Cheap food, cheap labour, high profits: agriculture and mobility in the Mediterranean: introduction
No full textGoing 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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