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"The European Social Forum in comparison with Virtual Public Spheres within the Logic of the Democratic Functionalism"
No full textBoth at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century, it became evident that new, qualitatively different kinds of social movements were emergent. They seemed diffused and unstructured, being made up of a multitude of associations whose cultural values were heterogeneous: socialist, anarchist, Catholic, human right-oriented, Union-based, environmentalist. Unlike other movements in the past, the internal divisions were seen as a source of strength rather than a weakness, so to be defined as a “movement of movements”, that is a polychrome subject situated in globalized societies.
Moreover, the rapid emergence and worldwide proliferation of the Global Justice Movement (as it was said because its opposition to neoliberal globalization and its associated militarism) raised a number of questions that require rethinking social movement theory.
Since the rise of democratic social mobilizations in the 18th and 19th century, technologies of communication became integral moments of their constituency, up to define the idea of modernity itself. Habermas argued that printed books, pamphlets and letters provided wide access to the ideas, critiques and social imaginaries of the Enlightenment. People gathered together in the bourgeois “public spheres”, i.e. salons, pubs, restaurants where citizens met each other to debate and negotiate consensual truths regarding politics and public affairs.
Nowadays, the Global Justice Movement owes its existence to the linkages built up by Internet. Moreover, new forms of online social movement actions, cyber-activism, and cyber-politics seems to shape an opposition to neoliberal globalization strictly mediated across electronic networks. They clearly allow unprecedented opportunities for the exchange of information (outside the flows by main-stream media), but do they include all forms of contentious action? Does the future belong to the “electronically mediated network society” and to the mobilization enabled by computer-mediated communication (CMC)?
The aim of the present work consists of showing the case of an European public sphere built up by collective mobilization and not limited to the virtual context: the European Social Forum. Still in the 21st century activists, associations and unions gather together once a year to discuss and debate about politics. They shape an “imagined” political community led to plans and strategies to realize alternatives to neoliberal globalization. They use Internet to reinforce the net of associations and to valorize the exchange of information, but they still prefer an “actual” meeting to an on-line forum. Because, as Marx proclaimed, neoliberal domination fosters material resistance
Disobbedienza civile e democrazia liberale: una minaccia o un'opportunità?
No full textIl convegno ha visto la partecipazione di alcuni tra i più noti studiosi di teoria democratica, provenienti dall'Europa e dal Latino America, impegnati a discutere sul rapporto tra disobbedienza civile e teoria democratic
"Tra federalismo e sovranismo: il movimento antiglobalista e l'Europa nel caso italiano e francese"
No full textGli autori analizzano le posizioni interne al movimento per un'altra globalizzazione rispetto al tema dell'Unione Europea e connettono tale discorso critico con il dibattito relativo alle modalità di organizzazione e costruzione dell'Unione Europea
XII Simposium Mundial de Liderazgo
No full textAlcuni tra i più noti studiosi europei e latinoamericani (messicani e cileni) si sono incontrati per discutere su potere e leadership, alla luce dei cambiamenti apportati dal passaggio - riscontrabile a livello mondiale - dal government alla governance
Towards a Phenomenology of Cultural Heritage
Full text linkThis work fits into the broader academic debate on the legitimacy of the Sociology of Cultural Heritage. The origin of the term itself is investigated by analyzing the words that compose it and their interpretation in the context of post-modern society. The paper then explores some specific aspects of the discipline, such as the fight against the deterioration of Cultural Heritage and the attempt to make it economically attractive and profitable. Finally, it examines in detail several dimensions related to Art and Culture: the desacralization of museums and cultural artefacts, the articulation of historical and artistic heritage, the rediscovery of popular culture and, finally, the definition of the sense of Cultural Heritage
L'altra politica. la partecipazione tra movimenti sociali e attivismo civico nei vecchi e nuovi conflitti
No full textNella società contemporanea, scossa da un accelerato processo di mutamento sociale e politico che investe tanto le variabili strutturali quanto le condizioni soggettive della vita sociale, esiste un’ampia varietà di azioni e di pratiche che hanno una profonda valenza politica, ma che mal si prestano a essere spiegate utilizzando categorie e concetti con cui siamo abituati ad analizzare la politica stessa. Questo volume offre un quadro quanto mai articolato e aggiornato di tali esperienze, che prendono forma fuori dai confini della sfera delle istituzioni della democrazia rappresentativa, dunque nello spazio dell’altra politica. Dalle nuove lotte per il lavoro alle trasformazioni dei movimenti sociali, dalle forme della partecipazione cosiddetta “civile” fino agli ambiti raramente considerati dalla manualistica tradizionale come il tifo organizzato e le mobilitazioni dei migranti che lavorano come braccianti agricoli, i capitoli che compongono il manuale restituiscono uno sguardo d’insieme, supportato sia da solide chiavi di lettura teoriche e analitiche sia da esperienze e pratiche estremamente attuali. Per questi motivi, il testo si rivolge a un’ampia platea di studentesse e studenti, ricercatrici e ricercatori nonché cittadini, interessati a comprendere il complesso intreccio tra mutamento sociale e politico
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