University of California, Rome Study Center
Political Science
This article examines the 2006 Fanta advertising campaign for Italy, which employs Hawaiian cultural particularities inscribed in a generic tropical scenario to sell the Fanta soft drink to the world market. Drawing on Deleuze and... more
This article problematizes the rhythm of Rome that emerges as a symphony from the multicultural agenda of the new city urban grand plan. Officially the plan aims at giving voice to different sounds of the immigrant communities living in... more
This piece looks into the urban dimensions of migrants' journey from Africa into Europe. Specifically, it follows few African migrants into the city of Rome. In this piece, I locate one of the new frontiers of Europe within a paradox of... more
In questo momento di estrema fragilità per l’Europa dovremmo guardare alla migrazione nel modo in cui guardiamo a noi stessi. La diplomazia europea ha un ruolo fondamentale all’interno del progetto umanitario di lungo periodo volto a... more
The development of digital media and the availability of new technologies have had an important impact on how nowadays trauma of displacement have been documented and narrated by victims in different contexts. This intervention aims at... more
London and New York, Routledge, 2016, pp. 192 ell'introduzione alla raccolta di saggi connessi alla propria espe-rienza di insegnamento presso la Columbia University di New York Edward Said individuava nelle migrazioni l'evento più... more
As I write this intervention, Italy, the country where I dwell, is in a complete lock-down mode while the epidemic's impact on Italy's mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. This publication is based on my present-time... more
This essay examines insurrectional asylum-seeking and refugee practices that highlight and disturb the legal and spatial relationship between refugee camps, zones of capture, and cities. Through a critical consideration of the logic of... more
Distorção de lentes: captura de imagem, racismo e subversão da fotografia colonial à "iborder" This intervention emerged from the increase of use of facial recognition technologies on population management, specifically on European... more
Esta intervenção surgiu do aumento da utilização de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial na gestão da população, mais especificamente no controle da migração europeia. Inspirado por essas circunstâncias, reflito sobre o uso de lentes... more