60 research outputs found
Black European Inscriptions and the Challenge to Modern Essentialist Identities: The Case of Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists
No full textThis essay shows how the London-born Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo contributes, with her Soul Tourists (2005), to deconstructing modern European nationalist and racially exclusivist models by means of anti-essentialist representational strategies. Centred around the voyage by car and across Europe which, in the late eighties, leads two black Britons, Stanley Williams and Jessie O’Donnell, from England to the Middle East, the novel becomes an imaginative vehicle through which Evaristo represents the black presence as intrinsic to Europe since the th century and foregrounds the substantial contribution of black and mixed-race men and women to the cultural development of Western civilisation
Transience
No full textTransience presented the work of an exceptional group of women artists from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Merlinda Bobis, Jigzie Campbell, Lella Carridi and Vincenza Fazzalori, Ok-Hean Chang, Mehwish Iqbal, Helen Kassa, Hiromi Tango, My Le Thi, Yumi Umiumare and Sivan Gabrielovitch have been participating in a community research project Art/Hope/Culture: Empowering Women’s Art and Culture that explored the impact of intercultural mobilities and resettlement on their art and their art making processes. Researchers Anne Harris and Enza Gandolfo have engaged in dialogue with the artists and documented these in a series of short films (included in the exhibition along with the artwork) that celebrate, explore and promote the artists’ work and valuable contributions to Australian art and cultural life. The artworks represent a range of disciplines including film, visual arts, performance, literature and multi-modalities. The exhibition was held at the Footscray Community Arts Centre in March 2014 and opened by author Alice Pun
Pubblicare a Roma Tre : [intervento all'incontro I percorsi della pubblicazione scientifica - Author workshop a Roma Tre]
No full textSlides dell'intervento al seminario "I percorsi della pubblicazione scientifica : Author Workshop a Roma Tre" organizzato dal Sistema Bibliotecario d'Ateneo in collaborazione con Springer Verlag
Multiscale Analysis on the Behaviour of a Lime Treated Bentonite
No full textAbstractAn insight into the microstructural evolution of clay-lime-water systems and its influence on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of treated bentonite has been presented. The time-dependent mineralogical and microstructural changes induced by lime addition on a natural bentonite have been investigated in order to provide a better understanding of the kinetic of the ongoing reactions. The effects of lime addition on the clay particle arrangements have been inferred from dynamic light scattering measurements, whereas the mineralogical changes have been monitored at increasing curing time by X-Ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis. The bentonite showed a high initial reactivity characterized by a rapid and total consumption of lime, which promoted the formation of new hydrated phases since the very short term (0 days of curing). Oedometer tests on not treated and lime stabilised saturated samples have been performed at increasing curing times. The results showed the combined effect of clay particles arrangement and bonding on the mechanical behaviour of treated samples
Pedagogia «tra sfide e utopie» e «società della conoscenza»
No full textWhen we talk about pedagogy we often think to “challenge” because it usually agrees lots of provocations from educational and social events. Not only. We talk also of “utopia” because pedagogy shows the direction of theoretical research. The author puts these arguments in critical and pedagogical reflections to offer a complex profile of contemporary subject
Agenda di un parlamentare anglofilo: gli Studi costituzionali di Emilio Broglio (1861)
No full textThe chapter focuses on a short treatise published by the Italian right wing liberal Emilio Broglio in 1861. At the time Broglio was a deputy of the first national Parliament, having a previous experience in the sub-alpine Legislature. In his work he questions the elected Chamber's rules of procedure, which he believes inadequate to the conspicuous legislative action the institution must take to answer the growing Nation's needs. Looking for an alternative discipline, he checks English parliamentary model and on that basis designs a reform that would be suitable to the Italian case. So the essay qualifies both as a constitutional study and an operating proposal. Thanks to Broglio's initiative, it actually inspired some minor procedure reform but it was shortly overcome by the liberal party's decision to abandon the idea nourished by Cavour of a strict imitation of English representative institutions. Despite this failure, Broglio's work testifies a mature insight in modern parliamentary functioning, somewhat unexpected of the Lombard political culture to which the author, due to his origins, belonged
Ricerca educativa e razionalità pratica
No full textYour search - any search - originates and begins with some problems that it seeks to solve. So the problem is the position that directs and guides the solution. The author focuses on those issues that bring us back to the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition, where “the problem” was already considered to be of critical reflection. The general problem in relation to which takes the form of educational research is that of rational control of the practices of education. Always relies on the teaching task to refer to the control of reason, the educational practice, to make rational educational interventions
Storicizzare. Dell’individuo (letterario e no) culturalmente concreto
No full textThis article discusses the need for historiographical i.e. narrative acts to be underpinned by a specific theory. With reference to the work of György Lukács, Benedetto Croce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Enza Biagini and Dominique Maingueneau, the author takes up a stance enabling her to acknowledge ongoing engagement to the narrativization of language-being as a constitutive feature of individual identity and culture. As a momentous advance this commitment is treated systematically in its “historical-universal” coverage
Storicizzare. Dell’individuo (letterario e no) culturalmente concreto
No full textThis article discusses the need for historiographical i.e. narrative acts to be underpinned by a specific theory. With reference to the work of György Lukács, Benedetto Croce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Enza Biagini and Dominique Maingueneau, the author takes up a stance enabling her to acknowledge ongoing engagement to the narrativization of language-being as a constitutive feature of individual identity and culture. As a momentous advance this commitment is treated systematically in its “historical-universal” coverage
- …
