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Oltre il piano nomadi. Storia della comunità Rom nell'occupazione Metropoliz a Roma
No full textQuesto lavoro si inserisce in un contesto di ricerca localizzato sul territorio romano, che è oggetto da due anni del cosiddetto Piano Nomadi varato dalla giunta dal prefetto di Roma sotto la giunta del sindaco Gianni Alemanno. Il Piano prevede l’eliminazione mediante sgombero dei campi erroneamente definiti nomadi, e il ricollocamento della popolazione rom in spazi designati alle periferie della città. Oggetto di un dossier curato da Amnesty International (“La risposta sbagliata”2010) e di numerose pubblicazioni da parte di associazioni del settore (Associazione 21 luglio, tra gli altri “Linea 40”), che ne denunciano le pratiche come lesive dei diritti umani fondamentali, ha raggiunto in questi due anni lo scopo per il quale fu creato: la soppressione dei campi abusivi e la reclusione della popolazione rom in campi controllati. Solo poche comunità sono riuscite ad opporre resistenza ed aiutate dalle associazioni hanno intrapreso un cammino di lotta per il diritto all’abitare degno. Una di queste comunità è quella attualmente residente all’interno di una occupazione gestita da un movimento di lotta per la casa romano, su Via Prenestina: Metropoliz, la città meticcia.
Il lavoro presenta la storia di questa comunità Rom dal suo arrivo a Roma fino all’ingresso all’interno dell’occupazione e le sfide che si trova ad affrontare nei confronti delle due associazioni che l’hanno assistita nel percorso verso l’autodeterminazione. Una parte rilevante del lavoro è dedicata alla tematica dell’utilizzo del linguaggio come scelta politica determinata, da parte di tutte le parti in causa
Goalpost. Scoring Point for Millennium Development Goals,2011- Area 7-Develop a local partnership for development-
No full textThis work has been prepared by the 2011 Millennium University Studio Team (MUST) set up within a
joint Sapienza Università di Roma – UN –HABITAT project to test the implementation of the UN’s
Millennium Development Goals through a “Reality Studio” in a low-income settlement in the developing
world. The settlement was Homa Bay, a Kenyan town on the shores of Lake Victoria where a major water
and sanitation project is being implemented by UN- HABITAT.
The Millennium University Studio Team was selected after the conclusion of an intensive Course of Higher
Learning the Millennium Development Goals offered by Sapienza Università di Roma. The team was
composed of fifteen young graduates from five countries (South Sudan, Tanzania, Greece, South Africa and
Italy) trained in a range of development fields – public health, agronomy, anthropology, engineering,
economics, physical planning and design. The Team was led by the MUST project manager, Alice Siragusa.
The project was spurred and coordinated by Pietro Garau, former head of research at UN-HABITAT and cochair
of the Millennium Project’s Task force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers
Appunti per una storia dello spazio: piazza Tahrir e reti virtuali nell'Egitto della rivoluzione
No full textIl lavoro si presenta come un’analisi della rivoluzione di piazza Tahrir, alla riscoperta della riappropriazione dello spazio della piazza da parte della popolazione, attraverso l’utilizzo combinato dei social network e dei media tradizionali. La prima parte a cura di Mattia Bonfanti analizza il contesto dei 18 giorni di rivoluzione al Cairo. Il mancato ascolto delle istanze democratiche e un contesto politico affetto da cronica corruzione e miopia della classe dirigente egiziana, ha portato allo scoppio della protesta di piazza Tahrir il 25 gennaio 2011, i cui esiti restano a tutt’oggi controversi. La seconda parte a cura di Maria Grazia Montella si delinea come una riflessione sull’exploit dei social media come “ritorno alla fisicità” e riscoperta delle manifestazioni spaziali e fisiche del dissenso. La connessione tra lo spazio virtuale della rete e lo spazio fisico della piazza è storica, politica e culturale e si innesta nelle riflessioni prese in prestito da Lefebvre e Foucault.The work presents an analysis of the Egyptian uprising and of its most known rich place Tahrir Square. The process of re-appropriation of the space of the square through the combined use of social networks and traditional media is traced through the division in two parts. The first one outlines the political context and the eighteen days of the uprising in Cairo. The author identifies the principal causes of the revolution burst in the failure in listening the people’s request for democracy and in the chronic corruption of the government. The second part argues that the massive usage of the social networks has to be seen as a back to the physical, a revival of spatial and physic demonstration of the dissent. The connection between the virtual space of the internet and the real space of the square is historical, political, and cultural and it has to be sought in Foucault and Lefebvre reflections
Market and religious places in the multicultural urban spaces as key spaces of the social integration
No full textThe spaces of the city in which it takes place are of great interest for the researcher who wishes to deepen the links between the processes of inclusion of migrants into the host society and their particular work. The sharing of space, in the case of city markets, and the "permeability on the road" (Fioretti, 2013) in the case of ethnic shops, the organization within each bank or shop of the working hours, participation in traders associations are important parameters for the understanding of the level of sharing of the city.Conflicts in urban space are one of the main issue concerning the urban planning and its developing process nowadays. Observing and analyzing the ways in which these conflicts interfere with urban processes, give us the opportunity to ask for new methods and tools in our discipline and to look for comprehensive and multi-focus solutions. The paper underlines the stressful processes that lie ahead the places of worship and the urban markets. We select these places among others due to their ability in aggregating different people and because they are place in which the overlapping of functions and scopes between (with?) resident and migrant population are extremely visible.
The asymmetries of power, covered by the rhetoric of cooperation and integration, are enduring and strong as never before, due also to the recent economic crises that increased social conflicts. This is more evident in urban space, where the demand for new integration policies clashes with the fear of diversity, the “alter” who does not come from “our place”. The research deals with these reflections and merges the planning approach with the anthropological one, trying to give new perspectives and to formulate new mixed planning practices
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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