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    Narratives of violence in the local press

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    This chapter offers an analysis of the narration of Camorra violence found in the local press and outlines the main semantic fields brought into play in constructing a collective understanding of violence. The analysis is built around queries made to a database elaborated during the fieldwork, which brings together a corpus of articles concerning events of Camorra violence, published in the local editions of the daily newspaper Il Mattino from 2013 to 2016. What emerges is that media are not only sources of information about the phenomenon analysed but true agents in themselves, considering the hyper-coverage of mafia violence, its symbolic and communicational aspects and the spectacular forms of Camorra violence, with a chain reaction triggered between traditional media, social media and the protagonists of the violence. Through the analysis of the vocabulary used in headlines published by the local press and a number of selected violent events, the author emphasises how the narration of Camorra violence often evokes a sort of plague from which the social fabric suffers, destroying its equilibrium and thus contributing to a general atmosphere of social insecurity, while the links between violence and its economic, social and political implications become virtually invisible

    Corpi di frontiera : Etnografia del trattamento dei migranti al loro arrivo a Lampedusa

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    Il saggio presenta alcune riflessioni intorno alla gestione biopolitica dei migranti al momento del loro arrivo sul territorio italiano. Le interpretazioni si basano su una ricerca di terreno condotta a Lampedusa a partire dal 2005. Il “corpo” dei migranti, ma anche degli altri soggetti impegnati nella loro gestione, costituirà il fulcro per un’analisi delle dinamiche in atto sulla banchina del porto durante la fase di sbarco gestita dalle forze dell’ordine e dagli operatori umanitari. Nella prima parte saranno illustrate le procedure di sbarco, con una particolare attenzione al ruolo attivo delle guardie nella produzione di un’immagine specifica degli “arrivi”. In seguito, si procederà all’analisi del discorso della Guardia Costiera sull’azione umanitaria, un tema che oscilla tra salvaguardia della vita e controllo del confine. Inoltre, saranno analizzate le pratiche di negoziazione della sofferenza da parte di migranti, forze dell’ordine, attori umanitari e osservatori esterni, e, più in generale, la relazione biopolitica tra questi soggetti in campo, con particolare attenzione ai problemi del corpo e della soggettività.This essay will discuss the biopolitical management of migrants entering the Italian territory. The interpretations presented are based on fieldwork conducted on the island of Lampedusa since 2005. The analysis of the dynamics at work on the harbour dock during the “landing” phase, which is managed by border guards and humanitarian workers, will focus on the “body” of migrants as well as on the “bodies” of the other actors involved. The first part will concentrate on “landing” procedures. Particular attention will be paid to the active role of border guards in producing a specific image of the “arrivals”. Subsequently, the Coast Guard’s discourse on humanitarian action will be examined and tensions between the issue of life protection and that of borders control will be analysed. In addition, practices of negotiating pain enacted by migrants, border guards, humanitarian workers and external observers will be investigated, as well as the more general biopolitical relationship between these subjects, with a focus on matters of body and subjectivity

    Luoghi migranti : tra clandestinità e spazi pubblici

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    In che modo i migranti sono presenti negli spazi pubblici? Se l'atmosfera di socievolezza che caratterizza i caffè, le osterie, le piazze rende possibile la discussione di questioni di interesse collettivo, quali sono gli effetti della "clandestinità" sulla frequentazione di questi luoghi? Qual è, inoltre, il rapporto tra condizione migrante, cittadinanza e narrazione? A partire da questi interrogativi il volume traccia un percorso teorico tra i concetti di clandestinità, sfera pubblica, luoghi terzi e socievolezza, per esplorare il significato politico della presenza dei migranti nello spazio pubblico attraverso diversi casi etnografici: da Lampedusa alla Stazione Termini, da una scuola di italiano per rifugiati a un caffè marocchino nella periferia romana, fino ai luoghi del viaggio narrati dai migranti

    Migration, Deportability, Memory = The Power of Silences and Self-narration

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    The aim of this essay is to explore the roles and meanings that might be connected with silence in the social construction of symbolic and material borders between citizens and migrants. The analysis is based on the author’s research experiences both in an exceptional borderland context – Lampedusa’s harbour dock – and in more ordinary settings, such as an Italian language school for migrants and an association, both based in Rome. Comparing these complementary experiences can offer several analytical insights for a deeper understanding of the articulation between silencing and self-narration. Power relationships will be examined through the analysis of various forms of, more or less, active silence taking place in practices, texts, and audio-visuals. Specific attention will be paid to the notion of “deportability”, conceived both as something which is currently under way, and as something which constitutively affects almost every migrant’s life as a potential prospect. The analysis will explore silence and voice in the light of the political economy of migrants’ visibility/invisibility, and will seek to intersect the observation of exceptional and trauma-induced silences – interpreted as absence, emptiness, and aphasia produced by particular arrangements of power – with that of more productive, ordinary, and ambivalent forms of silence related to the desire for opacity. Finally, the materiality of voice, sound, and silence will be discussed in relation to migrant subjectivity and memories
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