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A «collective» university: The development of public knowledge in a participatory perspective
No full textThis article focuses on the evolution of public universities in a participatory perspective. The first part is devoted to the European context: hyper-specialisation of knowledge in different fields; job insecurity for both researchers/lecturers; increased stress, caused by the emphasis on measuring productivity. These processes generate in the university system growing discomfort, and a widespread perception of a lack of recognition. In the author’s view, the discomfort may lead to the need to re-arrange teaching and research so as to earn a different recognition of knowledge that pays special attention to the interaction with the relevant social groups that are directly affected by the various scientific disciplines. The second part of the essay explores University policies and processes of «participative» research and teaching in both the social sciences and the natural sciences. In the third part, the essay proposes a case study of «participative teaching» which was carried out for three consecutive years in two courses (Sociology of Globalisation and Social Policies) offered by the University of Parma. The experiment involved over 400 students, twenty «co-teachers» (asylum seekers, migrant women from different associations, socio-educational workers) and about 100 citizens. The essay provides a qualitative analysis of the evidence from the focus-groups which were organized before class (with the purpose of allowing the teacher to choose the topics and teaching methods with his/ her co-teachers), and discusses – by building on participant observation – how the courses were actually taught in a context in which teacher, co-teachers, students and citizens were all in the same classroom at the same time. The case study sheds light on a variety of aspects that are relevant to appreciate the «collective» University model outlined in the article
Post-commentary. Assuming the fact of being south: Theoretical and methodological considerations for a postcolonial social science
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De-presentify the border: Social imaginaries and mobility justice
No full textThis paper explores the practices of solidarity with people in transit across various border areas of the Mediterranean, in Italy and in Tunisia. Grounded in cultural sociology, the study examines how social actors organize their mobility in the face of"necropolitical inhospitality" (Mbembe 2003). The text investigates the mechanisms of self-organization and dynamics of solidarity that enable migrants' movements, while also questioning the visions of the future that shape and are shaped by bordering processes. The paper delves into the "philosophies of history" born from the desire and practice of crossing the border, exploring how temporalities are conceived, what past is ingrained, and how the idea of "modernity as linear trajectory" is challenged. Theborder is conceptualized as a privileged context for investigating contemporary "horizons of expectation", where the non-mobility of some is governed alongside the hyper-mobility of others. The paper aims to critically engage with the promise of development for all, the contradictions of modernity, and the ways in which Europe's reluctance to assert rights is manifested at the border. By focusing on the border as a specific scenario of future-making, the essay explores the actions of disobedience to immobility and their implications as acts of "depresentification"
Alessandro Bosi, Premessa, in Vincenza Pellegrino, L’Occidente e il Mediterraneo agli occhi dei migranti, Unicopli, Milano, 2009, pp. 9-13.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Studio interdisciplinare delle esperienze di ricongiungimento familiare e di coppia dei migranti dal Marocco nella città di Parma
No full textIl consumo di alcol nel Friuli Centrale tra specificità locali e tendenze europee: aspetti culturali e nuove proposte politiche
No full textLes différents parcours migratoires vers la ville de Parme (Italie): une étude comparative à travers l'intégration de différentes sources d'information
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