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DENTRO CORVETTO. UNO STUDIO SOCIOLOGICO SULL’ABITARE LA PERIFERIA
Full text link“La ricerca di cui dà conto questo volume è stata commissionata da Associazione Nocetum ODV nell’ambito del progetto “Come ti rigenero il Corvetto”, di cui l’ente non profit era capofila. [...] In sede introduttiva ci si sofferma sul significato della contestualizzazione della ricerca “Dentro Corvetto” rispetto al progetto sociale nel cui ambito è stata commissionata, evidenziando in particolare il doppio e ambivalente valore di tale collocazione. Da una parte chi scrive è consapevole di parzialità e limiti dell’indagine condotta: uno “studio sociologico sull’abitare la periferia” contemporanea richiede di prestare attenzione anche ad altre dimensioni rispetto a quelle scelte a partire da quelle, fondamentali, della casa e del lavoro; inoltre, le dimensioni selezionate potevano essere indagate con tempi e mezzi ulteriori rispetto a quelli disponibili. Dall’altra parte, si specifica come sin dall’inizio la ricerca si è posta al servizio delle esigenze conoscitive dell’intervento sociale in cui si inseriva, cercando la propria compiutezza nella produzione di sapere auspicabilmente utile rispetto ad un intervento territoriale orientato a produrre cambiamenti puntuali e rendicontabili. [...] Il volume si compone di tre parti principali: il capitolo introduttivo “Avvicinarsi a Corvetto-Mazzini-Porto di Mare” di Sebastiano Citroni, seguito dai contributi e le analisi di Emanuele Belotti nel capitolo “La questione migrante al Corvetto” e di Elena Colli nel capitolo “Immagine interna, percezione del verde e sostenibilità: un’indagine di quartiere”. (Dall’introduzione
Social Spirals through Everyday Group Life: Settings and Group Styles in a Comparative Perspective
No full textEveryday group life is generally neglected in the study of the ongoing shifts affecting voluntary associations. This paper is grounded on a comparative ethnography of three Milanese associations affected by transformations in forms of voluntary participation, repertoires of action, and in their relations with public institutions. The study focuses on group styles and settings to ascertain the role played by everyday group life in shaping the implications of these transformations for the production of inclusive outcomes by the observed associations. The author introduces three different results produced by the studied associations and account for them with the same overall argument, which focus on practices and spaces shaping everyday group life. The main findings illustrate that everyday group life works both as a filter through which transformations produce consequences and also as a site of autonomous elaboration through which associations’ outcomes are made and unmade
GRAMSCI'S CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE IMPLICIT DIMENSION OF POLITICS A case study
Full text linkCivil society actors' reduced ability to take political action and adopt critical positions towards public institutions is often ascribed to the "marketisation" of the local welfare systems in which non-profit and third-sector organizations operate. This reading of the depoliticisation of civil society is correct, but it has a number of shortcomings, including the assumption that civil society actors are passive agents that are overwhelmed by the depoliticisation mechanisms to which they are subjected. Instead, this paper explores how civic organizations - albeit unintentionally - engender depoliticisation dynamics that shrink their critical strength. To do so, it draws on Gramscian arguments regarding civil society and politics and uses them to illuminate a case study of a local governance strategy (V'Arco Villoresi Green System), involving both experts and civic groups. The main finding of the research is that civil society sustains what Gramsci called "economism", i.e. a radical rejection of politics, which may be enacted by civil society both when non-critically adhering to governance arenas and when contesting them. The analysis undertaken contributes to our understanding of the depoliticisation of civil society, shedding light, on the one hand, on how this process is not solely due to factors external to civil society and, on the other hand, on what the author calls the implicit dimension of politics
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
Civil Society Events: Ambiguities and the Exertion of Cultural Power
No full textCultural ‘events’ such as festivals and performances are increasingly used by civil society actors for a variety of goals, including the pursuit of social inclusion. Current debates around such events focus on their contradictions and associated failures, not least the illusory nature of their participatory character or their inadequacy in tackling structural dimensions such as inequality or poverty. This paper shifts the emphasis from what civil society events do not do, to what they do, illustrating how this production occurs not in spite of but through the promises that sustain events’ development. The analysis focuses on a case study of a local civic project promoted by ten non-profit groups in Milan from 2006 to 2010. As well as accounting for the growing number of civil society events, this paper highlights how events act as effective weapons of cultural power as they invite participation in pursuit of general goals, such as the promotion of social inclusion, while at the same time allowing events’ organisers to subtly control the specific meanings of the goals they are pursuing
“L’improvvisazione come pratica collettiva: associazionismo e stili di scena”, Città in Controluce n. 35/36, pp. 23-40 (ISSN 2388 4053).
No full textL’etnografia dell’associazionismo concepisce routine e
improvvisazioni come proprietà dell’azione collettiva,
osservata a livello di ordine dell’interazione. Nella vita
quotidiana di gruppo tali proprietà emergono negli
stili di scena praticati, in particolare sia nella loro morfologia
sia nelle loro condizioni di possibilità
La vita quotidiana della società civile. Stili e trasformazioni nell’associarsi del terzo settore
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