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Mantua Humanistic Studies vol XV
No full textIl volume raccoglie studi interdisciplinari umanistici : dalla cultura al territorio. Luigi Sandirocco e il suo studio "della milizia romana tra diritto e società-un esempio per la cultura bellica moderna"; Alessandro Torello e il suo saggio "il cittadino dell'Unione Europea in bilico tra mercato e società"; Maria Rosaria Viviana ed il suo lavoro " Start-up innovativa a vocazione sociale"; Mariagrazia Rizzi ed il suo saggio "Accessio cedit principali:Die Falle der scriptura und pictura"; Luciana Petracca con il suo studio "La legittimità della guerra nell'ideologia degli Ordini religioso-militari : il caso dei Templari"; Stefano Marconi con il saggio " Intorno alla riproduzione sul piano delle curvature soggettive"; Antonella Micolani con la ricerca "Delle origini cristiane : Dall'antico al Nuovo Testamento"; Giovanni Pasta con tre saggi : "Globalizzazione,neoliberismo e trasformazione territoriale nei paesi in via di sviluppo. Il caso Ecowas"; "Per una geografia del post-apartheid. Neoliberismo,politiche abitative e slums.Il caso di gentrification etnica a Durban(Sudafrica)"; "Per una geografia del post-apartheid. Globalizzazione,economie emergenti e nuovi gap.Il caso del Sudafrica"
Geografia sociale : territorio, conflittualità e qualità della vita. Il nuovo ruolo di mediazione delle Amministrazioni locali.
No full textThe author, starting from the study of the new territory generated by the global system, which "produces", as is well known, greater social conflict due to unfair (not free and not fare) market competition (dumping), notes the new role of social "mediation" assumed by local authorities ( and in particular by decentralized police structures). Discussing, specifically, the Tuscan regional reality and moving from the observation of the current regional legislation in this regard (Regional Law 11/2020), the new roles and activities of the same local police will be indentified. In particular, the introduction of mediation has entailed training processes of the operators themselves aimed at grasping the final objective of territorial cohesion and the resolution of social conflicts. The case study of the municipality of Genoa and the training of personnel (InterregionalSchool of Local Police) is proposed, but suggesting a substantial reform in relation to the territorial processes underway: in health (Life Skills), socio-economic (Soft-Skills) and not-cognitive skills (in the school, socio-educational and training sectors) essential in the management of territorial socio-economic conflicts themselves
Geografia culturale e migrazioni. Le risorse. Linguaggio, mestieri e comunicazione dei lucchesi in America ad inizio XX secolo.
No full textThe Author focused on ethnic and cultural issues regarding the immigration of Italians from Lucca area in Italy, dedicating an attention to local ,original production : from plaster statues,to literature in dialect and to the analysis of published epistolary material. Emigration from Lucca has been studied since the second half of the 80s of the twetieth century, who have laid the foundations for future research and interpretation. The choice of sources was rather limited, but above all selective in terms of quality,considering that the personal material of emigration contains an enormous number of publications of little interest for the study of social and cultural dynamics. The Author, therefore, used every texts published about Italian and "lucchese" emigration. The use of texts in English has been useful to identify the process of Italian emigration described by American researchers, often descendants of the emigrants themselves, who have worked with first-hand sources untraceable in Italy. This gave different points of view, born in the cultural environment of another country, so that the Author was able to present a more detailed and in-depth study with the use of sources and essays never translated into Italian .
Italians and Americans tend to have two profoundly different visions of the question : if on the one hand the Italians feel it as their own history and underline its nutritious and heartbreaking character, the Americans,while recognizing the inhumanity of certain aspects, frame it under the more complete history of emigration to the United States in its entirety, extolling the successes and narrating the lives of the emigrants as an arduous climb in order to achieve a final improvement which is naturalization and citizenship. This study wants to highlight the topic to allow the collection and conservation of the epistolary heritage of emigration in the many villages that exist in the province of Lucca. Also for this reason the Author has given ample emphasis to personal stories, because this work intends to focus precisely on the issue of the ethnicity of the emigrant, identifying his characters from production in a personal context . The emigrant, who was influenced by the politics and economy of his own country and of the host country, was ,first of all, an individual with a strong cultural background, clearly visible in material production and in self-expression
Dalla nascita al nuovo ruolo di una associazione regionale di Stati. Alcuni aspetti economici e politici dell'ECOWAS.
No full textRegional associations of States were born first of all as a need to build true indipendence through integration and cooperation : this in developing countries coincided with the end of colonialism . In this study we retrace the steps that go first from the 60s to the end of the 70s and then the 80s. The inevitable impact of both the crisis of the industrial system of the late 1970s and that one of the new global capitalist system at the end of the 1980s with need for larger and more competitive markets. After retracing the history of the creation of the ECOWAS and examining its political and economic achievements before the 1990's, the Author emphasizes topics such as political instability, the effects of military coups, presidential and parliamentary elections and the freedom of the mass media
Transizione post-industriale e ristrutturazione economica ed urbana. Il ruolo transnazionale di Bilbao.
No full textIn this study the Author deals with the globalization of Bilbao in the post-fordist transition : still current period of restructuring in the context of the new internationalization of Basque economy. I focused the work to the foreign trade of the city and the region as well as the global activities of Bilbao's local bank. In short, I study the specific processes through which Bilbao has become and is becoming part of global circuits, but I also pointed out that such global linkages could be considered the only basis to explain Bilbao's urban development : global flows must be studied in the context of broader developments at the local scale to get the reach of globalization. Globalization acquires specific meaning when it is considered within such plurality of forces ( the city,the region,the nation-state,the global economy) acting at various spatial scales. It does not consist only of relations or flows among structures or territories : rather the ways structures are changed in the globalizing process and the ways in which territories become embedded in such networks of relations
Per una geografia del potere. Nuovi strumenti e conflitti : il caso ucraino.
No full textThe geography of power has evolved due to the crisis of industrial capitalism (Fordism) and, more generally, of the global geopolitical system. As a consequence of the different roles of the actors (nation-state first and foremost) and the changing territories, new processes and new concepts have emerged on a global scale: in particular, soft power and hard power and their relations with new forms of conflictuality will be discussed here. Moreover, soft power has been discussed in recent decades, ever since its conceptualisation by Joseph Nye (2004), precisely in relation to international relations. Starting, therefore, from an introduction, which seeks to define soft power itself, we go on to study which criteria should be taken into consideration to estimate it, also giving examples of its past and present applications to detect its effectiveness with regard to the objectives of the individual actors in the field. Furthermore, starting from a general overview of the soft power operated by some national and international organisations, it is compared to the old hard power from an ethical point of view, identifying which legitimate interests can justify the use of power to influence other entities or institutions. The case studies examined are intended to offer a new framework for the management of international or supranational power based on the principles of the UN Charter and models of conflict resolution, discussing their validity in the reality of the current Russian-Ukrainian war
Globalizzazione,neoliberismo e trasformazione territoriale nei Paesi in via di sviluppo. Il caso ECOWAS.
No full textThis research provides an over view of globalization and summarizes its influence on African political affairs, evaluating the political situation of the region and explaining it by relating it to the rise of neo-liberism and imposed structural adjustments programs by the World Bank or IMF. Secondly, it studies the political changes within ECOWAS, discussing the links between globalization and the 1990's economical and political changes. The focus is to identify variables which the author considers to be fundamental in the 1990's transitional period. These variables in West Africa are : constitutions,political parties,civil societies,electoral systems and mass media
Per una geografia dei diritti umani. Il caso del conflitto russo-ucraino.
No full textThe issue of human rights is as important and central as ever in the new global order. As is well known, the financial and technological capitalist system based on deregulation and competition tainted by unfair form of competition (dumping) has generated new forms of conflict and violation of human rights. While nation-states are weaker as expressions of small and unsustainable markets, regional or supranational associations ( stronger markets) could create favourable conditions for the protection of rights. Unfortunately, as emerges from the essay, the contradiction between the ideal and the real plane of human rights still persists, given the violations that have punctually occurred. Furthermore, the study discusses the recognition of violations and the related protection of human rights through International Organisations and Courts, also focusing on the jurisdictional, para-jurisdictional, control and censure procedures of the institutions concerned. Obviously, the effectiveness of the latter depends on the existence of international norms that bind states to follow the decisions of these bodies and on the establishment of international odies that oversee the execution of these decisions: thus, the case of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is studied in relation to the violation, respect and protection of human rights
Da Maastricht verso la possibile capitale per il nuovo territorio europeo.
No full textThe alternation of the legislative provisions of the Maastricht Treaty aimed at supporting an intergovernmental Europe ( through cooperation for internal affairs or justice) and a federal one (through the common foreign and security policy),in fact ,underline the uncertainty and the ambiguity in which this Union is still moving. The so-called "question of the european capital" will have no solution until choices are made in favor of intergovernmentalism or in favor of supranationality and therefore of federation. In the new region of Europe, where centrifugal forces (autonomous regional subsets)oppose to as many centripetal forces (european cohesion) the desire for the birth of a capital that in itself encompasses the desire for union and that by itself can be the symbol of a new political entity ,is opposed to that of the permanence of more capital cities,which dividing tasks and functions ,they succeed in hindering the centralization of powers
La riorganizzazione post-industriale dell'Unione Europea : gli anni novanta tra nuove forme urbane e nuove centralità.
No full textThe post-industrial reorganization of the European Union during the 1980s and 1990s generated new urban forms and new centralities. In particular,the establishment of European Community offices has resulted in a transformation of the urban structure mainly in Brussels,Luxembourg and Strasbourg. The location of the Community institutions has produced consequences that are not only urban planning but more widely geographical : for example, the demographic dynamics towards the outskirts of Brussels is strongly characterized by the presence of European officials in the city center who, being able to rent high ,contribute to the increase in real estate market prices. Furthermore, the tertiary sector has recorded a considerable increase and this has influenced the distribution of professional activities
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