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Interview of Eugene Colucci
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Mr. Eugene Colucci (b. 1948) is a Spanish teacher at Buena Regional High School in Atlantic County, New Jersey. This is his twentieth year as an educator at BRHS in the New Jersey public school system. Before this, Mr. Colucci spent nineteen years teaching in the Catholic school system of Philadelphia (St. Peter’s Elementary, Bishop Neumann High School, and St. Maria Goretti High School). He has a unique perspective because he spent so much time in both the public and private school environments. He describes his youth in the Catholic school system of Philadelphia and describes growing up in a predominantly Italian-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia. Mr. Colucci earned a BA in Liberal Arts from Millersville University in 1970 and a MA in Bi-Lingual Bi-Cultural studies from La Salle in 1991. He continued his studies in education by earning Supervisor Certificates from Rowan University in Spanish, Elementary Education, Bi-Lingual studies, and ESL (English as a Second Language). Before his professional career began Mr. Colucci served in the Army National Guard in 1970. During his time in the service he was a company clerk and befriended an Army photographer who taught him how to operate a camera. This knowledge of photography helped him get a job at St. Maria Goretti because they had a dark room but no educator who could operate it. Mr. Colucci eventually purchases a local camera studio, “Castileana Studios”, through which he operated his own photography business that catered to weddings and special events. This interview documents Mr. Colucci’s life, cultural heritage, military service, and how La Salle helped him transfer into a career in public education
Challenges for sustainability: fostering [eco]systems of resilience practices contribution
No full textThe chapter retraces the core themes characterizing the resilience practices' exploration proposed in the [Eco]system of Resilience Practices Book, emphasizing the core strategies to fostering the contribution of the practice toward long-term sustainable development goals at local and global levels boosting the resilience capacities of territorial and urban systems. Section 17.1 discusses the advancements emerging from the exploration of resilience practices presented in the book, moving from the core threats for commons and the institutional diversity that Elinor Ostrom envisaged. The aim is to compare the threats and barriers highlighted by Ostrom with the results from the resilience practices investigations presented, discussing the perspectives and the existing barriers. Section 17.2 focuses on the [eco]system of practices concepts as networking structures underlining perspectives to overcome the criticalities and dilemmas previously suggested and highlighted by the authors in presenting initiatives and conceptual reframing discourses. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Creative diversity: facing Anthropocene challenges fostering resilience capacities
No full textDiversity and heterogeneity emerge as recurrent characteristics of resilient practices. The chapter moves from this perspective, emphasizing the relevance of creative diversity and redundancy proprieties' contribution to urban and territorial innovation. The creative diversity is the fil rouge adopted in retracing the resilience concept applied to territorial systems. The chapter reframes the resilience approaches focusing on the characterizing properties as inspirations in urban and territorial solutions design. It recognizes the creative diversity and redundancy as crosscutting properties that provide a common conceptual umbrella to the heterogeneous resilience practices and boost a more solid and explicit contribution of the resilience practices into the transition process toward more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable urban and territorial systems. The creative diversity is explored along four spheres connecting emerging approaches to urban public life, urban regeneration, and resilience practices. The four spheres or spaces for urban creative diversity are space for nature (ecological diversity and evolution and functional diversity of green spaces for wellness), space for social diversity (creativity of all and the functional creative diversity in public life), spaces for functional diversity (boosting creative economic diversity and urban models innovation), and organizational and creative diversity of governance processes and knowledge. The aim is to connect emerging phenomena from resilience practices geographies and promising action domains for urban resilience enhancement. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Organizational (creative) diversity. Dilemmas and perspectives of governance processes for complex systems resilience
No full textThe chapter aims to discuss the dilemma and outline advancements and perspectives on the relevance of organizational creative diversity in supporting the urban transition processes toward more sustainable, adaptive, and resilient urban complex systems focusing on the resilience practices contribution and role. The chapter assumes the relevant role and contribution of resilience practices in achieving sustainable development goals. Resilient practices are heterogeneous entities experimenting with creative solutions to address local emergencies implementing innovative models. The chapter investigates the crosscutting questions about the governance of the transition process, breaking up this wicked problem along with the scales of governance processes. The micro or endogenous scale refers to the quality and robustness of the process activated by single practice; the meso or endogenous scale includes the questions on networking among practices and the ones on integration with the institutional-led policies, programs, and plans. The macroscale addresses the theoretical and ethical questions that emerge assuming the "resilience practices" as the third actor in the governance process. The different scales imply different discourses on the governance of the socio-ecological system transformation process. In conclusion the chapter highlights the potentialities, focusing on the conditions and opportunities to recognize a role to resilient practices in long-term transition processes toward a more sustainable, resilient, aware, and adaptive society and territorial systems. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Resilience Practices Observatory project: synergies for stabilization and upscaling
No full textThis chapter outlines the fundamental considerations that emerged after 5 years of the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project. The RPO engaged more than 100 different community-led practices acting to improve local resilience capacities and about 30 applied research and institutional-led initiatives. The success in engaging the practices in the RPO activities demonstrated the urgency and need for a shared space of networking, dialog, and learning among resilience practices. RPO provided a shared space and framework to resilience practices supporting the visibility and the exchange sharing experiences and learning, a structured place to rethink their experience, and a space to understand the role not locally but as process and contribution. This chapter introduces principal barriers in resilience practices implementation and discusses the four emerging core aspects enabling the practices stabilization and upscaling, improving the contribution to large-scale transition toward sustainable and resilient territorial systems. The capacity improvement, the knowledge and awareness dissemination and integration, the networking and multilevel innovative governance models, and economic aspects are discussed, presenting both the emerging characteristics from the RPO practices analyzed and providing perspectives for practices contribution and benefits fostering. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Resilience practices observatory project: emerging phenomena and lessons earned
No full textThe chapter presents the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project emphasizing the research approach’s dynamic process.
Section 5.1 introduces the RPO project, the aims, and the trajectories of activities developed in four years of activity. Section 5.2 focuses on the aspects of coproduction developed with specific attention to the Resilience Practices Forums as tools to promote the role of community-led practices in the transition process of territorial sustainability and the hybridization and contamination among different action domains of resilience practices and different spheres of knowledge and action (academic and research, associations and actions, institution and public, private sectors’ initiatives).
Section 5.3 presents an overview of the practices engaged in the RPO project introducing the databases developed and describing the geographies, the governance models and processes, the urgencies/lever and issues of action, and the tools domains characterizing the about 150 resilience practices engaged in the RPO project
Lune, tigri e eclissi. L’educazione al femminile
No full textIl titolo non è un’invenzione, si tratta di un libro: Lunas, tigres y eclipses. De olvidos y memorias: La voz de las mujeres indígenas (2003), esito del lavoro collettivo di donne indigene che hanno partecipato, vent’anni fa, al Laboratorio di Memoria Etnica, coordinato dall’associazione Aretede, organizzazione non governativa che si occupa di formazione delle donne indigene per lo sviluppo. Piace il richiamo al mondo naturale della selva e ai misteri del cielo. Nello specifico le pratiche qui riportate riguardano le donne guaranì del Nordovest argentino, ma il laboratorio ha coinvolto anche le altre sei etnie di questa ampia
10 L’introduzione è stata scritta a due mani da entrambi gli autori, il primo e il secondo paragrafo sono di Anita Gramigna, il terzo e la conclusione di Gabriel Manuel Colucci.
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zona di confine con la Bolivia nota come Gran Chaco. Il nostro lavoro più in generale è volto a mettere in luce la condizione femminile guaranì, passando tra Brasile, Argentina, Paraguay e Bolivia, con l’intenzione di fare nostre le voci delle donne indigene tra passato e presente
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