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The Rise of Postmodern Security Governance and the Proliferation of Ignored Insecurities and Their Victims
No full textanalisi della governance della sicurezza in Europa dal 1990 al 2015 e descrizione analitica delle insicurezze ignorate (ossia: rischi di disastri sanitari e ambientali, economie sommerse e loro conseguenze fra cui neo-schiavitù, frode contributiva e fiscale, corruzione, violenze)This book explores changes in security governance in Europe from the 1990s, focusing on some of the most important consequences: the proliferation of ignored insecurities, including the increase of oncological diseases, environmental disasters, shadow economies reproducing neo-slavery and fiscal fraud, and the general damage to the res publica. What is the articulation of removal, reclamation and consequently the implementation of devices and the establishing of prevention practices? Why are the majority of victims and also the control agency professionals seemingly resigned to these ignored insecurities? Following more than 20 years of research in the area, the authors examine these questions and how the securitisation of society has been exacerbated. They argue that the primary cause of the increase in ignored insecurities is the consequence of the neoliberal turn in security governance. This book proposes an innovative approach to security governance, not only through a serious analysis of the balance of the costs and benefits, but also highlighting what is here termed `ignored insecurities'. The authors propose a review of the problems, showing that the governance of security is a crucial element of the contemporary political organisation of society. The book ends with an innovative reflection on the Anthropocene debate and the COP21 summit which took place in Paris in December 2015
Mobilità umane. Introduzione alla sociologia delle migrazioni
No full textIn this book Palidda summarizes the main results of his thirty years of research in the field of migrations carried out in various European countries. The work deals with some theoretical and methodological issues in the light of various empirical studies. The main theoretical nuclei proposed by the author are the following:
1) Regardless of the underlying cause, any human movement (both individual and mass movements, both permanent and temporary displacements) over short, medium or long distance is one of the three main factors involved in the formation and transformation of all societies (the other two being the belonging to the same species and our very nature as "political and thinking animals"). The migration should therefore be considered as one of the multiple types of mobility we have known since the earliest associated life of human beings. As a consequence we can speak of a "total social fact" (as proposed by A. Sayad with reference to M. Mauss) or even of a "total political fact."
2) The author criticizes the "science of migration" when it claims to explain the phenomenon through a mechanistic view or an almost "hydraulic" interpretation ("flows" among "communicating vessels" etc.) and especially because it does not recognize the feature of "political total fact". The causes and reasons of individual or group migrations are often multiple and unconscious (as Weber underlined, the coexistence of rational and irrational elements is a salient feature of human beings).
3) To understand the different aspects of the phenomenon the migrant is to be thought of as an emigrant-immigrant subject to continuous variations, to often unconscious behaviors, affiliations, as well as cultural and symbolic references. In other words, more than other human beings the migrant is even subject to multiple interactions with different persons in different frames. The success of a migration depends on the outcome of such interactions (see Goffman). The inclusion, the integration, the assimilation or "ghettoization" may occur within the rule of law or even in criminal frames. The failure or success of the migration corresponds to the political representation adopted by the migrant through his/her interactions with the political organization both in the starting society and in the new one.
4) The crucial characteristic of the migrants is their use of the freedom of movement and their aspiration to emancipation. Every element, every aspect and every representation of the economic, social, political, cultural and religious sphere is involved in this human experience.
5) Migration thus takes on a special "mirror function", revealing the characteristics of the societies of origin and of arrival, of their political organization and of their relationships. Like other social facts, migration contributes to political changes (regardless of the assigned value judgment, here it is critical to mirror opposite interpretations, racist or "humanitarian").
6) The sociology of migration should be placed into the use of the political and social sciences and not reduced to a purely economic and / or demographic analysis.
7) As in his previous researches, the author then proposes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the social and political history using some tools of the ethnographic investigation without neglecting quantitative studies. This articulation involves diachronic and synchronic perspectives, macro and micro dimensions; the comparative approach is proposed as an effective method of studying migrations. It allows to better understand the similarities between the "old" migrations and the more recent ones in order to detect the differences. As a newcomer to the social scene the immigrant occupies the worst abandoned by those who occupied it before. This applies to the 'deviant' insertion (for example, the pushers or dealers of drugs) as for the one in the shadow economies (as neo-slaves). He then inserted in the reproduction of social hierarchy.
8) It is therefore proposed to study the various aspects of contemporary migration as well as the economic, social, political, cultural and religious issues that affect both them and all sectors of the society at local, national and global level. The author shows the importance of understanding the changes in the interactions of migration along with the changes underway in our societies as a result of the "neo-liberal revolution" after the 70s). The regular and irregular migrations then correspond to the heterogeneity and instability of the structure of contemporary society, often characterized by sudden switches between legal, informal and even criminal dimensions (see shadow economies, corruption, abuse of power and violence). In other words, the criminality and the racial criminalization of migrants are part of a typical aspect of the political organization of the society in the current conjuncture
Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century
No full textL'ascesa della criminalizzazione razzista dei rom e dei migranti in Europa e negli stati Uniti. Analogie e diversità rispetto al passato. Logiche, meccanismi e pratiche della gestione liberista. L'esasperazione delle paure e delle insicurezze e i rom e i migranti come nemici di turno. Il frame del continuum delle guerre permanent
L’associazionismo italiano in Francia, in "", XLII/160/2005, pp. 919-934
No full textanalisi della socialità e dell'associazionismo degli immigrati italiani in Francia: diacronia e sincronia, macro e micro, comparazione; la bilateralità dei riferimenti e la reversibilità delle scelte; il gioco delle interazioni nella società locale di immigrazione e nella società locale di origine; la crisi del passaggio intergenerazional
Femmes et migrations; passé et présent
No full textl'immigrazione femminile nelle migrazioni italiane e nelle migrazioni contemporane
Appunti di ricerca sulle violenze delle polizie al G8 di Genova
No full textanalisi delle violenze poliziesche in occasione del G8 di Genov
Polizia postmoderna
No full textteoria e metodologia di ricerca sulla polizia; etnografia del controllo sociale; i cambiamenti nella polizia in relazione alle dinamiche dell'organizzazione politica della società; le pratiche della polizia nel frame liberista; l'ascesa del sicuritarismo; i controlli postmodern
In conflitto con lo stato. L’emigrazione come 'fatto politico totale'
No full textdescrizione e analisi di alcuni aspetti ignorati della storia sociale italiana come fatti politici totali emblematici del processo di formazione dell'organizzazione politica della società in Italia (la rivolta contro lo stato sin da prima dell'unità nazionale, la renitenza e la diserzione, la criminalizzazione dei meridionali e delle classi laboriose quando si rivoltano contemporaneamente a quella dei popoli colonizzati il significato politico del razzismo antimeridionale
Emigrazione e organizzazioni criminali
No full textdescrizione e analisi dei diversi casi di emigrazione italiana in vari paesi e di come la criminalità organizzata di tipo mafioso si sia formata laddove ha svolto e svolge un ruolo all'interno dell'organizzazione politica locale di tali paese e innanzitutto sempre a danno degli emigrati italian
The Italian Police Forces into Neoliberal Frame: an Example of Perpetual Coexistence of Democratic and Authoritarian Practices and of Anamorphosis of Democratic Rules of Law
No full textThe text proposes a description and analysis of the Italian police forces. The approach adopted specifically regards their social and political construction and therefore their practices within the political organization of society. In order to better analyse the social construction of the Italian police case, I propose regarding the police as one of the several social institutions involved in the continuous experimentation to find a political organization of society. Research into the Italian police forces has been, and is still, very rare. In this paper I refer to research that I have carried out on the Italian police forces since 1990, and also to other documents and knowledge gathered in judicial inquiries and from reliable special reports
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