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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
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)
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)
The Co-Design of a Counter-Narrative Social Campaign: Second Generation Youths Against Radicalization
No full textThis paper deals with the OLTRE project (ISF - DG Migration and Home Affairs, EU) funded for preventing the radicalization of the second-generation of migrants in Italy. This essay aims to study the production of an online communication campaign
co-designed by second-generation youths. The four Universities engaged in the project, in order to collect the issues for the campaign made an in-depth sociological research and an interdisciplinary social network analysis. We will present the results of the non-standard field research. Starting from the different dimensions of the risk of radicalization proposed by the kaleidoscopic overview of risk factors (Sieckelinck and Gielen 2018: 5; Ranstorp 2016), we created a topic
guide for the in-depth qualitative interviews, then we collected 42 interviews of second generation youths (18-30 years) in 7 Italian towns. Furthermore, we studied the theater performances taped during the laboratories made by second generation
youths collecting narratives, representations, stories and emotions about their representation of the radicalization risk and protection factors. This corpus was used for the social communication campaign to prevent radicalization, engaging
the research participants as key players, co-designing the counter-narrative contents (Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 2015). The paper study also the viral dissemination of the social communication campaign on the social network and
the role of the moderators.
References
Ranstorp, M. The root causes of violent extremism. RAN issue paper, 4 January
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Sieckelinck S. and Gielen Amy-Jane, Protective and promotive factors building
resilience against violent, RAN issue paper, April 2018.
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Counter Narratives and Alternative Narratives.
The role of counter- and alternative narratives in prevention
of radicalisation, RAN, 2015
Felicità e società aperta
No full textThe chapter deals with the relationship between happiness and open societies in the works of Ralf Dahrendorf. In the transition from closed societies with monopolistic structures to open societies with pluralistic structures the pathemic spectrum is very broad and takes multiple forms
Il movimento Black Lives Matter
No full textThe chapter starts with an analysis of unconventional forms of political participation and illustrates the case of the Black Live Matter movement, with a specific focus on the movement in Italy and Sicily and the contribution of second-generation youth
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
MIGRANTI E SINDACATO
No full textToday, migrants are a resource for the trade union, which is declining in membership and popularity, as it is for this category. The central function is still linked to services and information support. But the presence of new users to be protected and represented required a profound organisational and cultural transformation within the union, which has not yet been fully achieved throughout the country. The chapter analyses the data and reasons for migrants joining trade unions
"Engaging migrants in e-consultations: a way to recognize their political rights and identity", in Angelini A. (2011) (a cura di), Migrants, Cultural identity and Media representation, V ed. International Summer School 2011, Qanat, Palermo, ISBN 978.88.964.14.60.6, pp. 71-103 (The paper was created by the two authoresses together, specifically M. Macaluso wrote the first paragraph and G. Tumminelli the second)
No full textThis chapter reflects on the role of the new media – the Internet and mobile communications – in facilitating
alternative forms of public participation that involve citizens and migrants in the policy making. The e-consultation, in this way, becomes not only a means of investigation for informational purposes and data collection, but also a method to foster knowledge of the needs and perspectives of migrants to a given law or public intervention and, therefore, a realistic way that get informed foreigners too, to develop an alternative procedure of social and cultural integration
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