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Processi di consultazione e partecipazione: un quadro generale
No full textL’analisi delle motivazioni che hanno portato, in più parti del mondo, ad avviare pratiche di consultazione parte da una constatazione condivisa da molti: la crisi della democrazia rappresentativa e il conseguente tentativo di rivitalizzarla, introducendo forme di democrazia deliberativa. Marilena Macaluso analizza questo ed altri elementi, come la sindrome NIMBY che blocca le grandi opere, e presenta modalità di consultazione diverse ma con un comune obiettivo: rilegittimare i processi decisionali, coinvolgendo i soggetti interessati, e, quindi, ricomporre il conflitto. Macaluso ci parla della consultazione supportata dalle nuove tecnologie; delle indicazioni di ONU, OCSE e UE in materia di partecipazione dei cittadini e degli stakeholders alle decisioni pubbliche; dei requisiti che dovrebbe avere un processo consultivo (fasi ben individuate, chiarezza dell’oggetto e degli obiettivi, individuazione del target di riferimento, tempistica, pianificazione di iniziative di comunicazione, percorso di monitoraggio e valutazione finale) e dei principali limiti che si incontrano, come il divario digitale per le consultazioni elettroniche. Elenca, infine, alcune buone prassi, da quelle dell’Unione europea a quelle particolarmente significative del Regno Unito, fino a quelle a livello mondiale, con uno sguardo alla specifica situazione italiana
Communication, political socialisation and participation through digital media during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond: the case of second-generation Tamil youth
No full textReflexive political socialisation (Bettin Lattes, 2006) also passes through digital media. This contribution aims to analyse intergenerational political socialisation as a bidirectional and transactional process (Percheron, 1974; Macaluso and Tumminelli, 2017) within the Tamil community in Palermo. The Sri Lankan community is among the largest non-EU foreign communities in Italy (102,906), and the Italian diasporic community is the largest Sri Lankan community in Europe, followed by the French and Swiss communities (Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali 2022), within this the Tamil minority is one of the biggest in Italy. For a broader study, twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with second-generation Tamil youth (Macaluso and Tumminelli, 2023). Digital media play a significant role in keeping diasporic communities connected in different countries around the world, in maintaining ties with Sri Lanka, and in disseminating information and norms of the country in which they live with an interesting intervention of the younger generation. Many members of the first generation do not understand technical Italian so during the Pandemic Tamil second generation created the website Tamil Info Point for translating and explaining antiCovid-19 measures and cross-checking news for their parents
Potere e decisioni pubbliche: la sfida della democrazia deliberativa. Consultazioni elettroniche e disuguaglianze partecipative territoriali
No full textThis chapter focuses on the relations between power and public decision-making in the context of inclusive decision-making processes using the Web, in particular observing those processes initiated from above, by public administrations or the government. It compares the Italian and British cases in relation to the use of online public consultations through national e-portals and hypothesises possible intersections with forms of deliberative democracy. Despite the fact that top-down e-democracy has shown its limits, we believe that institutional intervention can act as a facilitator for bottom-up forms of e-democracy by supporting and funding active participation processes in hybrid online and on-the-ground deliberative arenas, even in those areas where participation in public decision-making is less widespread. The hypothesis is that instead the most widely used system of public consultation remains that of electronic consultations of individual citizens and organisations already interested in politics, through forms of passive listening
Action-research and Arts-based Research Against Radicalisation and Prejudice
No full textMarilena Macaluso’s contribution describes an arts- and theatre-based project in Italy whose aim is to prevent both radicalisation and prejudice. This project works to prevent violent radicalisation, not through a ‘top-down’ approach as is often the case, but through a more agent-centred ‘bottom-up’ approach where migrants themselves are ‘co-producers’ of the social policies. Actively involving migrants in policy-making, she argues, is not only more inclusive, but also more effective. Macaluso describes a European project - OLTRE - that seeks to effect such ‘bottom-up’ strategies in Italy,
exploring antidotes to potential radicalization. The project involves second generation young people with a Muslim background, using experimental arts-based methods such as biographical interviews, photography and theatre workshops, a webseries and online communication activities
Potere e mutamento
No full textThe concept of power has been widely discussed in sociological, political and philosophical literature since classical authors, and is central to research in its various facets. Yet it continues to be essential to focus theoretically and empirically on it in order to understand social relations, not only in the relations of domination and its various domains, but in different aspects of everyday life, of the construction of identity and freedom.
The volume Power and Change aims to offer a discussion on the connections between the dimensions of power and social transformations. In the chapters of the volume, the centrality of the concept of power is fuelled not only by theoretical reflection, but also by empirical insights into its distribution in society and the mechanisms through which it manifests itself. The authors explore the metamorphoses of power (Vinci), the dark side of violence (Marchetti), asymmetries in deliberative decision-making processes and online public consultations (Macaluso), the power of big data (Sampugnaro), the temporal dimension of power (Tumminelli), power imbalances and gender inequalities (Meo, Raffa), patriarchal power and the ‘feminisation’ of society (Giurintano)
Conflict and Transformation in the Political Socialisation Process of the Tamil Second-generation
No full textThe paper aims to analyse the political socialisation processes of the second-generation of the Tamil community in Palermo, from a reflexive perspective (Bettin Lattes 2006).
The theoretical framework of reference considers political socialisation as a process whereby one becomes a member of a political community, in close connection between
this and a broader socialisation with overlaps between the political dimension and the other aspects that mark one’s life. The paper presents the results of a research conducted in Palermo, collecting 20 biographical interviews of second-generation youth and adults of Tamil origin (then analysed through the T-Lab software) and carrying out participant observation of secular and religious events. An active and changing pathway that each subject contributes to create between continuity, conflict and change is revealed.
In which the institutional and individual dimensions intertwine, in a complex framework that unites several levels: local, national and transnational in the biographies of individuals and in the life of the diasporic community (Macaluso, Tumminelli 2023).
Intersectional inequalities, occupational segmentation, gender and generational differences are intertwined in biographies with practices of life politics, political participation often in the absence of citizenship, and the claiming of rights and recognition for oneself and one’s community history. The reversible and changeable character of socialisation as a process open to change also suggests interesting
insights into permanent socialisation. Thus, an enduring process that makes symbolic resources available in the complexity of postmodern politics, manifestly or latently
involving different socialising agencies, in the context of “deep mediatisation” (Couldry, Hepp 2017)
Una sintesi dei risultati della ricerca attraverso isotopie e assi semantici polarizzati
No full textThe chapter presents, using T-Lab software, a summary of the most central themes for the interviewees and the isotopies present in the texts of the biographical interviews with 20 second-generation young people of Tamil origin in the city of Palermo. Significant thematic clusters and differences in the interviewees' dictionaries are identified
Partiti populisti, diritti e uguaglianza di genere
No full textThe Great Recession changed the political landscape of the European democracies with the electoral success of populist protest parties in different countries. In this article, we wonder if there are features that characterized these political parties about the issues of gender equality and women’s rights. Populism and feminization of politics are recurring topics in the scholars’ debate, but the relationships between these two phenomena are still little studied. Seeing as the issue is linked to context, and not only to the political parties’ differences, we will focus on three illustrative cases, in different European nations – Spain, Finland, Poland – analysing scientific literature and documents. The hypothesis is that the issues of gender can be an additional contentious line useful for defining identity and differences in the heterogeneous set of populist parties
L’analisi della conversazione istituzionale: applicazioni e prospettive
No full textLa Conversation Analysis si occupa del parlato quotidiano, di interazioni comunicative qualsiasi, tra amici o sconosciuti, tra commesso e cliente, insegnante e allievi, terapeuta e paziente. Gli esempi delle applicazioni potrebbero essere infiniti, dato che la conversazione e le sue varianti "istituzionali", come l’intervista o il dibattito, costituiscono la forma di comunicazione più immediata e diffusa. Nell'articolo l’autrice introduce alla Analisi della Conversazione, ne illustra gli aspetti di base, ne mostra le applicazioni alle interazioni comunicative istituzionali e propone una sinergia interdisciplinare a partire da un nucleo sociologico con indicazioni operative e prospettive per la ricerca.The Conversation Analysis deals with the daily speech, it deals with any communicative interactions among friends or strangers, among clerk and customer, teacher and students, therapist and patient. The examples of its applications may be infinite, since ordinary conversation and “institutional talk”, such as interview or debate, are the most immediate and widespread form of communication. The article introduces the Conversation Analysis illustrating its basic aspects and it shows its applications to institutional communicative interactions. From a sociological perspective, the author proposes an interdisciplinary synergy with operational guidance and prospects for research
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