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Variations on the Author
No full text“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
The sky of the EU principles and the ground of their application: Conflicts in contemporary environmental movements
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Editorial on: Genetic Determinants and Prediction of Antibiotic Resistance Phenotypes in Helicobacter pylori
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Imparare le lingue per abbracciare il mondo
No full textL’autrice che si colloca, come Daniela Zorzi, tra i fautori di una linguistica “impegnata”, propone in ricordo della studiosa amica, una riflessione sul ruolo cruciale del multilinguismo e delle lingue- culture, per il successo professionale e il benessere sociale, nella società contemporanea. Il multilinguismo appare come un’urgenza educativa che interpella studiosi e formatori a tutti i livelli al fine di promuovere nei giovani un apprendimento consapevole efficace ed autonomo.Multilingualism constitutes an urgent objective for education, which needs to involve teachers and researchers at all levels if we are to promote effective and autonomous learning in the young. Like Daniela Zorzi, the author considers herself a socially engaged linguist, and in memory of her friend’s work, offers a reflection on the key roles of languages and cultures and of multilingualism for professional success and social welfare today
Democratic innovations in intense time: Bringing Stein Rokkan back in for understanding cleavages in moments of crisis
No full textKant, l'assassino alla porta e il giudizio morale comune
No full textNel 1797, Kant sottoscrisse, rivendicandola, una tesi che Benjamin Constant aveva at-
tribuito, con intento polemico, a “un filosofo tedesco”: neppure a un assassino che ci
chieda se un nostro amico, da lui inseguito, si sia rifugiato in casa nostra, è lecito mentire.
La risposta kantiana al dilemma dell’assassino alla porta e l’affermazione di un dovere
incondizionato di veridicità sembrano, in virtù del loro carattere controintuitivo, mal
conciliabili con la tesi kantiana che il giudizio morale comune sia affidabile, che il com-
pito del filosofo morale sia un’analisi concettuale della morale esistente e che, quanto
all’etica normativa, la filosofia non abbia nulla da dire, di diverso o di ulteriore rispetto
a quanto l’uomo comune già non sappia da solo, né un diverso principio, tramite il
quale giungervi.
L’articolo ricostruisce il vero oggetto della discussione tra Kant e Constant e presenta la
concezione che induce Kant a respingere come non realistico il dilemma dell’assassino
alla porta. La dottrina morale di Kant si fonda sulla concezione, largamente condivisa
tra i suoi contemporanei, che esclude che il corso del mondo e le decisioni dei soggetti
morali possano essere oggetto di calcolo, previsione e controllo, e che vede perciò, come
costitutive della vita morale, due dimensioni, di cui quella prioritaria impone divieti il
cui rispetto è sempre in potere di ognuno.In 1797, Kant asserted a thesis that Benjamin Constant had polemically attributed to a German philosopher: we are not allowed to lie, not even to a murderer who asks us whether a friend of ours who is being pursued by him has taken refuge in our house.
Kant's answer to the dilemma of the murderer at the door, which rules out the possibility of any exceptions to the duty of truthfulness, seems counterintuitive and difficult to reconcile with Kant's thesis that common moral judgement is reliable. For Kant, the task of the moral philosopher is a conceptual analysis of existing morality, and philosophy has nothing to say about normative ethics other than, or in addition to, what the common man already knows.
The paper traces the real subject of the discussion between Kant and Constant and presents the conception that leads Kant to reject the dilemma of the murderer at the door as unrealistic. Kant believes that the course of the world and the choices of moral subjects cannot be objects of calculation, prediction and control and therefore, like his contemporaries, assumes two dimensions, as constitutive of moral life, of which the overriding one imposes prohibitions whose observance is always in the power of everyone
Reclamações ambientais em Aveiro, Portugal: atores, preocupações, padrão territorial e resoluções
No full textThis paper presents an environmental diagnosis based on public complaints on environmental
issues submitted to the Environmental Department of the Aveiro City Council, Portugal, between
2000 and 2005. It discusses the potential influences of these in local environmental planning
and governance. The paper has been organised into five sections. The first of these introduces
the study. The second section focuses on the conceptual approaches relating to environmental
grassroots movements, the main actors involved in these movements and the role played by
local government. It also contains a brief review of the most recent urban environmental
quality challenges in the European context together with a description of the main features of
the associated political and legal framework in Portugal. The third section describes the case
study and the methodology used. The results of the empirical study are detailed in the fourth
section. The final section critically analyses these results with emphases on the temporal
evolution of the submission of complaints, the actors involved, the local environmental problems
and their associated spatial pattern as well as the responses given by the City Council. This
information may then be used to provide a useful indicator for the perception of environmental
quality as well as a credible instrument for the visualisation and evaluation of local performance
in terms of environmental planning and management.AlBan Programme - n. E05M053040B
The political participation of young people in times of crisis : a framework for analysis
No full textThis chapter highlights the contribution of social movement studies to the analysis of the political participation of young people in times of crisis. It identifies the reasons that motivate the young population to engage in alternative, sometimes disruptive, forms of collective action. It also explores their forms of engagement, looking at the repertoires of action and the organizational models. We first present some evidence on the important role young people have played and play in various social movements. Next, we look at explanations of their high propensity to participate in protests and present explanations in terms of cohorts and generations. We then explore the political and social context for protests, delving into the organizational forms and the repertoires of collective action of the youth. Finally, we reflect upon the main implications of these developments for social movement scholarship and youth studies, and trace the avenues for further research
Obesity during chidhood: an analysis of a cohort of newborns in Rome
No full textDemography, as defined by its etymology (from Greek demos, meaning ‘people, district’, and graphy, meaning ‘writing, describing’), is a science carrying out research on the population and investigating its changes through time. It is a dynamic science in constant transformation, mainly studying birth, death and migration trends and their effects on the population considered. Demography is a multidisciplinary science, since it usually relies on theories from diverse fields such as sociology, statistics and economics to analyse and explain populations-related phenomena. Along demography, epidemiology (from Greek epi, meaning 'upon, among', demos, meaning 'people, district', and logos, meaning 'study, word, discourse') is a discipline dealing with populations’ health status, which focuses on the causes, development and consequences of health diseases among the population itself.
The link between demography and epidemiology has always been complex, since both disciplines work on populations-related phenomena and their fields of research often overlap, even if relevant studies are carried out following diverse approaches and different (but parallel) research methods. It is precisely their multidisciplinary nature and the correlated topics they investigate that support through time a process of interconnection between the two. Both demography and epidemiology study the populations’ health conditions, a topic related to a number of other issues such as the causes of death and the onset of diseases. In particular, both disciplines study mothers and children’s health status before, during and after pregnancy, investigating the causes of low birth weight, infant mortality and maternal mortality during pregnancy.
In the last decades, an increasing trend of children’s ponderal excess status in Italy and all over the world has opened the floor for new studies and related debates. In fact, it is well known that overweight/obesity since one’s childhood is a determinant of one’s health conditions, influencing their quality of life and their survival at all ages. A number of psychological, physical and social problems can be the consequences of an important ponderal excess, that call upon researchers to look for its causes not only in children’s “daily habits and lifestyles”, but also in parents’ socio-demographic factors and the environment where children grow up. As a matter of fact, this thesis explores the shared interest of demography and epidemiology to offer a better analysis of the main causes of overweight/obesity during infancy
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