1,721,006 research outputs found
Le grammatiche del razzismo. Un’introduzione teorica e un percorso di ricerca
No full textIl volume rappresenta un’introduzione socio-storica delle principali teorie e ricerche empiriche sul razzismo. A fronte delle dinamiche della contemporaneità sempre più segnate da un discorso politico e pubblico contro migranti e minoranze etniche vi è nuovamente la necessità di riflettere sulle dinamiche razziste. Nello specifico, il testo affronta diversi autori e differenti approcci al tema in questione offrendo un quadro ampio e articolato del fenomeno: dal razzismo quale ambito di studio, passando per gli studi classici sulla distanza sociale, il rapporto tra classe, casta e razza e le indagini di Adorno e Myrdal per giungere al dibattito psico-sociologico, al cosiddetto nuovo razzismo, agli studi delle ethnic relations e all’analisi del razzismo ambientale
Cospirazionismo climatico e l’opposizione tra astratto e concreto
No full textIn this article, we address the topic of climate conspiracy using the categories of abstract and concrete used by Marx and other marxist scholars to account for how the reality of social and natural phenomena (such as the changing climate) finds itself not
only contested and denied by minorities and social groups, but also ’objectified’ by attributing to specific actors the role of willing manipulators of the phenomenon itself. Taking advantage of climate scepticism and climate denialism, conspiracism blames
specific actors for making climate a weapon to centralise and reinforce the power of governments controlled by liberal elites to manage and change the lives of millions of people. Conspiracism finds its main reason in the presence of a climate Leviathan that
constitutes the most abstract form of techno-politics. In this perspective, we argue that conspiracism makes use of the hostile relationship between an abstract and a concrete vision of the climate, an enmity that has to do with the type of capitalist social and economic organisation where concrete abstraction prevails, as Marx had already indicated in various texts. In this split between the abstract and the concrete, and above all in the convergence of scientific abstraction and political-economic
abstraction, and in the alleged subsumption of the real by the abstract, the formation process of conspiracy thinking in general, not just climate thinking, can be explained
Predicting Racism: A Sociological Pattern of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
No full textIl saggio mediante l'analisi di una survey condotta su un campione nazionale evidenzia i contenuti dell'anti-semitismo e dell'islamofobia diffusi in Italia. Nell'insieme dei risultati è opportuno rilevare quanto l'atteggiamento avversivo si struttura su un ordine morale e culturale che sovrappone il pregiudizio anti-semita e islamofobico. Tuttavia, mentre nel primo caso si riscontra una versione tradizionale del pregiudizio, nel secondo caso si evince una dimensione di paura connotata dalla distanza culturale e sociale ai nostir modelli di vita e ai nostri valor
Geo-capitalism and global racialization in the frame of Anthropocene
Full text linkThe appropriation of nature under current capitalist conditions implies the intensification of processes of exploitation of labour, dispossession of peasants’ lands, indiscriminate extraction of raw materials, and racialization of all these processes. These dynamics reveal a double process: from one side we are witnessing a global racialization generated alongside socio-ecological phenomena that are changing for the worse food, energy, land, water, and raw materials regimes. From the other side we are witnessing an imperious use of racist speeches, claims, public measures and violent practices aimed to galvanized the racial and racist spirit of European and American white populations against migrants and refugees driven by the underlying forces formerly recalled. These two dynamics are strictly interlinked. For a long time, researchers dealt with local dynamics and phenomena of racism often forgetting how global, large, planetary processes of exploitation, appropriation, and dispossession sculpt these dynamics at the local level. This article aims to deal with these processes of global racialization and racism by an analysis of the process of accumulation based on ‘racialized unequal exchange’ fostering the idea that that unequal ecological exchange bases on historical division of people in different subordinate races in line with the global neoliberal order
capitale sociale, sicurezza e paure della criminalità a Padova
No full textpubblicazione tardiva uscita nel 200
Strategies of socio-ecological transition for a sustainable urban metabolism
Full text linkUrbanization plays a key role in the human activities causing and feeding climate change. At present, climate change and other environmental issues are directly or indirectly related to the metabolism of cities. However, cities may also play a central role in the fight against climate change. This is the reason why Urban Metabolism (UM) has become a powerful concept to account for and understand the way in which complex systems such as cities use and dispose of material resources, also suggesting measures to change their operational regimes. The rightsizing and optimization of UM is basically a matter of social innovation. It implies changes in the way a city collectively produces and reproduces its physical stocks and provides services to its inhabitants. This article aims at identifying strategies, scenarios, and pathways to slow down urban metabolic processes while improving their efficiency, thus managing a successful transition to an urban (more) circular economy, as well as decreasing the material intensity of the urban economy. The main objectives of the article are the following:
1. The development of a renewed approach for studying Urban Metabolism based on transdisciplinary approaches and methods aimed to model metabolic agents’ patterns of practices.
2. The definition of urban patterns of resource use of different agents shaping urban metabolism (households, corporate agents, communities, and public authorities).
3. The exploration of the main policies and administrative tools that cities use to manage environmental problems leading to different urban regulation regimes. 4. A tool for generating future scenarios and roadmaps to reach a low-carbon future. This tool is crucial for engaging experts, stakeholders and the public looking for new solutions
Società, natura e resilienza: un’introduzione
Full text linkIl concetto di resilienza risulta sovente indeterminato nel momento in cui applica al sociale. La transizione ecologica pone tale questione al centro del dibattito relativamente alla resilienza di una data società e/o comunità. Il saggio, introducendo in modo critico la resilienza, pone uno sguardo al suo utilizzo empirico e alla sua effettiva capacità di comprendere le strategie di adattamento e di reazione di fronte agli effetti del cambiamento climatic
- …
