136 research outputs found
Fatto e finzione in ‘noir’. Strategie metanarrative nella produzione ‘crime’ di Carlo Lucarelli
No full textThe aim of this paper is to investigate the literary and televisual production of Carlo Lucarelli, highlighting in particular how his works interweave actual and fictional events at different levels. On one side, we will analyse the way through which the Italian criminal history and crime news enter in his novels and Tv series, taking into special account the fictional worlds of Inspector Coliandro, Inspector Grazia Negro and Police Commissioner De Luca. On the other, we will focus on how Lucarelli employs the conventions of the true crime docudrama in order to narrate and fictionalise criminal events that actually happened. This transmedia approach highlights a peculiar feature of Lucarelli’s crime fiction, that is a particular use of metalepses: the author exploits his own ‘figure’ to break the limit between realty and fiction.L’articolo vuole analizzare la produzione letteraria e televisiva di Carlo Lucarelli, e in particolare il meccanismo che l’autore sfrutta per far interagire fatto e finzione. In primo luogo, si prenderà in esame un corpus di opere letterarie di Lucarelli, tratti dalle serie Coliandro, Grazia Negro e De Luca, per mettere in luce la relazione tra noir, romanzo storico e giornalismo. In secondo luogo, questo aspetto sarà analizzato in alcuni programmi televisivi condotti da Lucarelli, che sfrutta alcune convenzioni del docudrama per finzionalizzare eventi realmente accaduti. Questo approccio transmediale evidenzia una caratteristica peculiare alla produzione lucarelliana, ossia un uso particolare della metalessi: l’autore infatti sfrutta la sua stessa ‘figura’ per rompere il confine tra realtà e finzione
[Recensione a:] Maurizio Mistri, The Euro Crisis. An Institutionalist Approach, Padova, Padova University Press, 2021, 196 pp.
No full textThe book by Maurizio Mistri deals above all with the complex institutional system of the EU and the Euroland in particular. As the author wrote ‘the euro is an opportunity to deal with a pivotal issue, namely the determination of institutional and supranational system to ensure the governance of economic and monetary integration processes’ (p. 9). Consequently, the purpose of the book is to present some analytical tools mainly derived from a careful use of Thomas Schelling’s contributions. The centrality that Mistri gives to the author of ‘The Strategy of Conflict’ (1960) is significant: Embracing the theoretical results reached by many economists and political scientists who have followed Shelling’s lesson, Mistri clearly brings out the controversial relationship between national institutions and supranational institutions in the European reality
Informazioni diffuse e strumenti per la progettazione e gestione dell'ambiente costruito
No full textLe attuali innovazioni nel campo delle tecnologie dell’ICT, tra tutte l’Internet of Things (IoT), possono rappresentare scenari di cambiamento non solo per la gestione urbana, ma anche per la gestione dei patrimoni immobiliari, relativamente ai processi conoscitivi e decisionali. In particolare l’applicazione di soluzioni innovative dell’IoT permette di concretizzare un nuovo approccio alla gestione dei servizi basato sul superamento di processi lineari e di centri di decisione puntuali verso scenari caratterizzati dal concetto di rete, da modalità di acquisizione in continuo delle informazioni e da forme di condivisione della conoscenza
Tradition and Revolution. Law in action
No full textThis book is about the new demands of civil society in reaction to privatization and is a personal account of the experiences of the author. Civil society demands a new way to deliver public services, especially at local level. These reactive, proactive, antagonistic processes, with a strong revolutionary humus, can impact reality and material conditions only if they succeed in merging content and factual elements, drawing from the stream of tradition, even with antagonistic and deconstructive intentions and methods.
Questo libro tratta delle nuove esigenze della società civile che originano dalle privatizzazioni ed è un resoconto personale delle esperienze dell’autore. La società civile chiede un nuovo modo di erogare i servizi pubblici, soprattutto a livello locale. Questi processi reattivi, proattivi, antagonisti, che affondano le proprie radici in un forte humus rivoluzionario, possono incidere sulla realtà e sulle condizioni materiali solo se riescono a fondere elementi teorici e fattuali, attingendo alla corrente della tradizione, anche con intenzioni e metodi antagonisti e decostruttivi
The EU in the Eyes of the Others. Towards filling a gap in the literature
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Building on François Duchêne’s concept ‘civilian power Europe’, a growing number of scholars have asserted the EU’s distinciveness as an international actor. This has resulted in a lively debate among supporters of the thesis and sceptical scholars. What this literature has failed to investigate so far is the extent to which the EU is (or is not) regarded as a distinctive world power by other international actors. This is precisely what this article aims to do. Building on the results of a survey on The External Image of the European Union, coordinated by the author in the framework of
the Network of Excellence GARNET, the article sums up the prevalent images of the EU in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Japan, India and South Africa, and at the level of NGOs and Commission delegations
RIFLESSIONI SUL PRINCIPIO DI CONCORRENZA TRA PNRR, AFFIDAMENTI IN HOUSE E LIBERTÀ DI IMPRESA
No full textAfter some considerations about the main measures envisaged by the NRRP and by the Annex to the Plan on competition and taking into account also the annual
competition law 2021, the Author analyses the possible consequences of the provisions related to in-house providing on the current legal framework, focusing on the debate concerning the obligation to state reasons. In the second part, the reasoning on the principle of competition moves to the context of service concessions awarded without a tender and competition is analyzed in its innovative relationship with the freedom of enterprise, taking into consideration the decision of the Constitutional Court n. 218 of 23 November 2021
EU-GRASP, Changing Multilateralism: the EU as a Global-Regional Actor in Security and Peace
No full textEU-GRASP (Changing multilateralism: The EU as a global-regional actor in security and peace)
Project context and objectives:
A more capable Europe is within our grasp (European Security Strategy, 2003)
EU-GRASP is a European Union (EU) funded project under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). EU-GRASP was a 3-year project that started in February 2009 and ended in January 2012. EU-GRASP is composed by a consortium of nine partners. While the project is coordinated by the United Nations University - Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium, its other partners are drawn from across the globe. These are: University of Warwick (United Kingdom (UK)), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Florence Forum on the Problems of Peace and War (Italy), KULeuven (Belgium), Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada), Peking University (China), Institute for Security Studies (South Africa) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel).
The project work plan consists of the following components:
- Conceptual integrated analyses of the evolving concepts of multilateralism and security and the EU's role as a security actor.
- Case-studies of the EU's approach to a number of specific security issues (regional conflict, terrorism, WMD proliferation, migration, energy and climate change, and severe violations of human rights).
- A transversal comparative analysis applying and integrating the case-study findings.
- A foresight study, building on the project's findings that will detail scenarios for future EU policy towards external security relations and multilateral approaches to threats and challenges.
Project results:
EU-GRASP is aimed at studying the role of the EU as a global-regional actor in security and peace. This remit implies research that is committed to studying not only the present role of the EU in a multilateral environment, but which also inquires into the EU's anticipated role in the emerging global order. Attempting such a study enumerated above presents, at the best of times, a multi-layered challenge to a researcher. It is even more so in the environment of challenged multilateralism in which the EU currently finds itself. Not only is the topic somewhat intractable in its various and varied dimensions, but also, undertaking such a research is fraught with such pedagogic challenges such as what is the best entry point, what methodological strategies should be adopted, and, more importantly, how best to present the findings.
At the preliminary stage, we undertook an assessment and refinement of concepts that would be used in the course of the project and which are relevant to study and understand the role of the EU as an actor in peace and security. This inceptional endeavour focused principally on clarifying theories of security, especially those relating to the so-called non-traditional security studies, in order to link such theories to empirical research. Additionally, our rudimentary research also focused on the concept of security governance and its applicability to EU's practice. In the final analysis, these two research components were brought together with the aim of bridging the existing gap between the literature on security theory and those on security governance, using the results deriving therefrom to interrogate the EU as a global-regional actor in peace and security.
The central argument of the first conceptual research is that there is need to develop a specific theoretical framework for analysing the EU as a peace and security actor. Whilst the EU / European security governance literature certainly provides a flexible analytical prism for this purpose, it falls short, in our view, of the optimal analytical tool in that its application is limited to the conceptual notion of security and therefore remains pre-theoretical. We propose that it is by utilising the security studies literature that we can provide a flexible framework and a comparative methodology, which transcends the traditional notion of security - a notion that is essentially defined in terms of threats to states. This suggested approach, in turn, would engender a more sophisticated and comprehensive understanding of how the EU does and speaks security.
The second major theme we investigated concerns the levels of transversal cooperation the EU is involved in (bilateral, regional, interregional and global). The mapping of bilateral cooperation focused on EU's interaction with some specific states including the US, Russia, China, Japan, Israel, etc. Similarly, the mapping of interregional relations offered an overview of the current cooperation with Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean. With regard to cooperation at the global level we focused mainly on the relation between the EU and the UN, taking into cognisance other multilateral frameworks that have a global reach. Finally the mapping of the EU as a regional actor highlights the EU's institutional and policy outputs through an investigation of its coherence and its current level of accountability and legitimacy.
The deepening of theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the various issues elucidated above, inspired a more robust and comprehensive research of the 23 case studies in the 6 security issues selected by EU-GRASP. The landscape of security studies is over the last years completely changed by the debate between traditional and non-traditional security issues. EU-GRASP takes stock of this and includes the in-depth study of six security issues: regional conflict, terrorism, WMD proliferation, energy security and climate change, severe human rights violations and migration.
Against the background of its analytical work and the results of the case studies and transversal reports, EU-GRASP has designed a foresight exercise. The foresight exercise was divided into three phases. The first concerned the identification of key variables likely to affect the future multilateral security governance on the basis of a questionnaire to experts and scholars involved in EU-GRASP. The second phase consisted of a participatory workshop with scholars and practitioners aimed at identifying future scenarios or images of the future. Finally, the third phase included a second participatory workshop, this time involving a larger number of EU policy makers, aiming at identifying security and policy implications for each scenario.
Potential impact:
The project resulted in the organisation of 23 events and 134 publications. Amongst the latter, the publication of 12 policy briefs, 30 working papers, 6 (forthcoming) books, and 27 (forthcoming) peer-reviewed journal articles and 59 (forthcoming) book chapters and other papers. The project website (please seehttp://www.eugrasp.eu online) contains also some short videos with more details about the project.
Policy impact: forming opinions / attitudes
EU-GRASP proposed to focus on policy-oriented research and therefore was a highly interactive project. Its approach was rather traditional, in the sense that only in the final stage of the project the interactive approach was really achieved when WP 6 on scenario building and foresight started. Interaction with the policy community is key for the success of this project, given that EU-GRASP wants to assure that its findings will be relevant for EU's decision-making and role in multilateral security governance, pertinent to the EU officials' daily work objectives, to Member States' agendas and at best, critical for the development of EU's strategy to become a relevant world player in security governance, an effective supporter of multilateralism, a competitive partner in bilateral relations in the growingly multipolar international system. Through the scientific coordination of the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War and the UN Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies, the first participatory workshop was held on 5-6 October 2011 and the second one on 24 January 2012, both in Brussels. Participants included a sub-group of scholars and policy makers.
At several occasions, EU-GRASP researchers participated in policy seminars organised by EU institutions:
- Luk Van Langenhove represented EU-GRASP on 27 April 2009 in Brussels at a transatlantic seminar organised by the European Commission (EC) on 'The EU and the US in a changing multipolar system: Transatlantic convergences and divergences' workshop jointly convened by Directorate General (DG) for Research and Directorate, General for External Relations.
- Francis Baert was invited by the EC to represent GARNET and EU-GRASP during a closed conference on 'Europe in the world' on 20-21 April 2009 in Brussels. Francis gave a presentation on the securitisation of EU climate change policy.
- Luk Van Langenhove was invited by the EUISS to attend the EUISS Annual Conference, 22 - 23 October 2009 in Paris based on preparatory working group discussions. Luk Van Langenhove participated in the working group 4 discussion on global governance on 12 October in Paris.
- Francis Baert was invited by the EC and the EUISS to represent EU-GRASP during a transatlantic seminar on November in Washington DC on 19-20 November 2009.
- Luk Van Langenhove participated as speaker and Jan Wouters as moderator and both were invited to represent EU-GRASP during a transatlantic seminar in Brussels on 25-26 January 2010. A summary of discussion was published by the EC as: Erik Jones and Angela Liberatore (editors), 'Mapping the future of EU-US partnership', Luxembourg: EC.
EUISS in Paris invited several EU-GRASP members to attend brain storm meetings and workshops in Paris. As a token of continuous good relations between EU-GRASP coordinator UNU-CRIS, EUISS (and its director and EU-GRASP advisory board member Alvaro de Vasconcelos) and DG Research, an event was organised in Brussels on 1 October 2010 on 'Civil society's role in global governance'.
Dissemination and / or exploitation of project results, and management of intellectual property
The events of the Arab Spring in 2011 have shown that new communication tools such as social media and blogs play a vital role within social communities and civil society. This way they allow us to reach an audience which is unthinkable through conventional channels. Neglecting these new media channels is denying the way people are communicating today. Internet is one of these new communication channels. While this medium used to be a place where people could find information, today it has transformed into a place where everyone is becoming the author. This has implications for the way people interact with each other. That is to say, top-down communication is losing a lot of its credibility. Instead people tend to have more faith in their peers and word of mouth, which has been strengthened and extended by the rise of social media. A trend which Kotler et al. also refer to as horizontal communication. Thus, the future of communication will be increasingly bottom up. Content will not only be submitted but also rated and discussed. Therefore a paradigm shift from the traditional media to the electronic dialogue (i.e. RSS and weblogs) is taking place.
Although there is a paradigm shift, it is important to note that these new media have not replaced the old ones. The communication environments people are living in have just become more individualised, and are integrating the different communication technologies. However, this also presents a big challenge: people will be confronted to an abundance of information. In order to overcome this, the project has consistently chosen to make the website of EU-GRASP (please seehttp://www.eugrasp.eu online) its central communication tool. This website, with an easy web address in order to improve search results and the generation of traffic to the website, became during its lifetime also increasingly an interactive platform for the project by introducing social media applications
Towards brand ecology: An analytical semiotic framework for interpreting the emergence of place brands
No full textBrand-management philosophy has recently expanded to include public and spatial contexts producing a cacophony of logos, slogans and events all aimed at promoting and marketing places. Yet, there is still a lack of understanding about how the brand-management philosophy changes when moving into and across places and in which way places change when affected by this way of thinking. Through a multi-site ethnography of three Italian territories, this paper applies a semiotic framework (based on the constructs of syntax, semantics and pragmatics) to interpret the interweaving of procedures, mechanisms and symbols that underpin the emergence of place brands. The enquiry reveals that each place brand is characterised by a specific level of integration ('symbiosis') between functional and representational dimensions. By recognising this interrelatedness through an ecological perspective that focuses on the connections among all the constituents of a place, the concept of brand ecology is offered to unpack the complexity of place brands and to reconsider the relationship between place branding and place marketing approaches. © The Author(s) 2013
Sperm transfer in marine invertebrates: record of vermetid gastropod spermatophores in the plankton
No full textThe occurrence of Gastropoda Vermetidae spermatophores is recorded. They correspond to the spermatophores of the species Thylacodes arenarius (L., 1758) (= Serpulorbis arenarius (L., 1767) ). The morphological characteristics of the different spermatophores observed are showed and the records are analyzed in the light of the reproductive strategies of such aphallic sessile invertebrates
When the fraternal prevails over the Oedipal. A possible interpretative model for modern couples
No full textIt is more and more evident how right in the unconscious partner choice and in the development of the couple relation, the importance and sometimes the centrality of what we might define a sort of transference on the couple, characterized by some archaic and undifferentiated aspects of the fraternal complex, may emerge, as the analysis of both theoretical and clinical literature on the specific subject shows. Our aim is to answer to the question related to the infiltration of the fraternal into some couples’ psychic dynamics, which seem to characterize today’s clinical scene. By the light of what said above, the author propose a reflection upon something which may be defined as a fraternisation of the couple’s link through the presentation of a clinical case related to a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy leaded in co-therapy, and basing on the most recent contributions about the fraternal in psychoanalysis
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