A. Coppola, G. Punziano (a cura di), Roma in Transizione. Governo, strategie, metabolismi e quadri di vita di una metropoli, Roma, Planum, vol 2, pp. 388-401, 2018
Drawing on a recent study carried out by Ceuriss (Centro Europeo di Ricerche e Studi Sociali) for... more Drawing on a recent study carried out by Ceuriss (Centro Europeo di Ricerche e Studi Sociali) for Cesvot (Centro Servizi Volontariato Toscana) in 2013, the article attempts to offer a perspective for the analysis of citizenship at the local level through a case study. Voluntary associations are considered, which carry out advocacy actions in Italy and in the Tuscan territory. The goal is to identify different models in the protection and promotion of citizens’ rights in Tuscany through synergies implemented by voluntary associations and by the Regional Ombudsman. Particular attention is paid to the synergies addressing issues related to the economic crisis at the local level. The assumption underlying this article is that the triangulation between citizens, voluntary associations and Regional Ombudsman constitutes a process of transformation and of the strengthening of citizenship.
Goal of the article is to contribute to the understanding of the reinvention of politics in young... more Goal of the article is to contribute to the understanding of the reinvention of politics in young generations moving from an in depth sociological examination of the change occurring in the structure of society and in its self-definition. The objective is to grasp the ambiguity and the ambivalence characterizing the ongoing scenery of change. To carry out this analysis, we will refer to Simmel’s seminar theory of society as a network of relations and, along this line, to the contributions of authors such as Beck, Giddens, Touraine, Melucci, Castells, on the development of the late modernity and the network society. The hy-pothesis we follow is that the younger generations present multiple and original synthesis between sub-jectivity and the collective dimension. The emergence of reticular and fluid relations among individuals fosters the process of individualization and the same reinvention of the nature of social ties. We frame the qualitative transformation of the concept of "group" and "collective" as the culmination of a process of individuation, which does not entail a disappearance of intermediate groups, but that multiplies and radically alters their structure. Groups are more and more fluid and their borders porous. Individuals are no longer defined by their belonging to groups, as the same belonging to groups becomes a contingent and a negotiated act
According to mainstream theory, citizens and among them young people in particular are disenchan... more According to mainstream theory, citizens and among them young people in particular are disenchanted and increasingly skeptical of representative democracy and traditional political organization. Indeed, the decline in conventional participation is accompanied by a process of the reinvention of politics, characterized by the spread of unconventional participation and innovative approaches and repertoires of action. New practices configure themselves as informal, non-institutionalized, horizontal, increasingly di-vorced from traditional collective social cleavages, but personally meaningful and individually oriented. Finally, politics also divorced from long terms projects, as the future folds back into the present, it is ab-sorbed within it and it is consumed before it can really be conceived. The present appears as the only di-mension available for the definition of choices, a fully-fledged existential horizon which includes and sub-stitutes the future and the past. The acceleration of social life and its various times renders these two di-mensions ever more evanescent as reference points for political action. Yet despite all of this, individuali-zation and presentification do not equate with depoliticization. In a con-text shaped by the privatization of social and political experience and by a presentification of life-projects, the new forms of mobilization protagonized by youth can be analyzed as the search for a collective project by means of articulating and integrating diversity – as well as a way to express a deep form of indignation. In this monographic issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto we have recollected contribution which analyze the reinvention of participation – in direction of an alter-activism - in the age of individualization and presentification,.
Obiettivo del contributo è indagare criticamente il concetto, decostruendone ambiguità e retorich... more Obiettivo del contributo è indagare criticamente il concetto, decostruendone ambiguità e retoriche. Si indagherà, in particolare, il caso di Airbnb, una piattaforma nata per favorire il libero scambio di appartamenti e camere tra privati che ha rivoluzionato il mercato degli affitti a breve periodo e ha generato benefici per piccoli proprietari e clienti, ma ha anche favorito la creazione di un mercato deregolamentato dell’affitto e creato una condizione di oligopolio. Si farà riferimento, nello specifico, al caso di Barcellona, in cui ha preso forma un contenzioso tra i gestori della piattaforma e l’amministrazione, che vede in Airbnb uno strumento che alimenta ulteriormente il processo di espulsione degli abitanti dalla città a favore dei turisti, rendendo più vantaggioso l’affitto di breve periodo rispetto a quello a medio e lungo termine, contribuendo, quindi, al processo di gentrification.
For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in ... more For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in the last decades, and internationalization is the keyword for their careers. On the other side, intra-European mobility also bears difficulties : couples living apart, decrease of permanent positions and frequent relocations, problems in accessing local welfare systems and the nightmare of organizing a pension scheme. That is, Ryanair comes with the job, too. In this paper, we firstly discuss intra-European and academic mobility in a context of growing job uncertainty. Then, drawing on an original database of in depth interviews addressing female researchers who experienced intra-European mobility, we explore their life narratives and self-representations, their love relationships, and their concrete life arrangements. Finally we discuss the implications for the “brain drain/circulation” discourse and the literature on mobility.
A. Coppola, G. Punziano (a cura di), Roma in Transizione. Governo, strategie, metabolismi e quadri di vita di una metropoli, Roma, Planum, vol 2, pp. 388-401, 2018
Drawing on a recent study carried out by Ceuriss (Centro Europeo di Ricerche e Studi Sociali) for... more Drawing on a recent study carried out by Ceuriss (Centro Europeo di Ricerche e Studi Sociali) for Cesvot (Centro Servizi Volontariato Toscana) in 2013, the article attempts to offer a perspective for the analysis of citizenship at the local level through a case study. Voluntary associations are considered, which carry out advocacy actions in Italy and in the Tuscan territory. The goal is to identify different models in the protection and promotion of citizens’ rights in Tuscany through synergies implemented by voluntary associations and by the Regional Ombudsman. Particular attention is paid to the synergies addressing issues related to the economic crisis at the local level. The assumption underlying this article is that the triangulation between citizens, voluntary associations and Regional Ombudsman constitutes a process of transformation and of the strengthening of citizenship.
Goal of the article is to contribute to the understanding of the reinvention of politics in young... more Goal of the article is to contribute to the understanding of the reinvention of politics in young generations moving from an in depth sociological examination of the change occurring in the structure of society and in its self-definition. The objective is to grasp the ambiguity and the ambivalence characterizing the ongoing scenery of change. To carry out this analysis, we will refer to Simmel’s seminar theory of society as a network of relations and, along this line, to the contributions of authors such as Beck, Giddens, Touraine, Melucci, Castells, on the development of the late modernity and the network society. The hy-pothesis we follow is that the younger generations present multiple and original synthesis between sub-jectivity and the collective dimension. The emergence of reticular and fluid relations among individuals fosters the process of individualization and the same reinvention of the nature of social ties. We frame the qualitative transformation of the concept of "group" and "collective" as the culmination of a process of individuation, which does not entail a disappearance of intermediate groups, but that multiplies and radically alters their structure. Groups are more and more fluid and their borders porous. Individuals are no longer defined by their belonging to groups, as the same belonging to groups becomes a contingent and a negotiated act
According to mainstream theory, citizens and among them young people in particular are disenchan... more According to mainstream theory, citizens and among them young people in particular are disenchanted and increasingly skeptical of representative democracy and traditional political organization. Indeed, the decline in conventional participation is accompanied by a process of the reinvention of politics, characterized by the spread of unconventional participation and innovative approaches and repertoires of action. New practices configure themselves as informal, non-institutionalized, horizontal, increasingly di-vorced from traditional collective social cleavages, but personally meaningful and individually oriented. Finally, politics also divorced from long terms projects, as the future folds back into the present, it is ab-sorbed within it and it is consumed before it can really be conceived. The present appears as the only di-mension available for the definition of choices, a fully-fledged existential horizon which includes and sub-stitutes the future and the past. The acceleration of social life and its various times renders these two di-mensions ever more evanescent as reference points for political action. Yet despite all of this, individuali-zation and presentification do not equate with depoliticization. In a con-text shaped by the privatization of social and political experience and by a presentification of life-projects, the new forms of mobilization protagonized by youth can be analyzed as the search for a collective project by means of articulating and integrating diversity – as well as a way to express a deep form of indignation. In this monographic issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto we have recollected contribution which analyze the reinvention of participation – in direction of an alter-activism - in the age of individualization and presentification,.
Obiettivo del contributo è indagare criticamente il concetto, decostruendone ambiguità e retorich... more Obiettivo del contributo è indagare criticamente il concetto, decostruendone ambiguità e retoriche. Si indagherà, in particolare, il caso di Airbnb, una piattaforma nata per favorire il libero scambio di appartamenti e camere tra privati che ha rivoluzionato il mercato degli affitti a breve periodo e ha generato benefici per piccoli proprietari e clienti, ma ha anche favorito la creazione di un mercato deregolamentato dell’affitto e creato una condizione di oligopolio. Si farà riferimento, nello specifico, al caso di Barcellona, in cui ha preso forma un contenzioso tra i gestori della piattaforma e l’amministrazione, che vede in Airbnb uno strumento che alimenta ulteriormente il processo di espulsione degli abitanti dalla città a favore dei turisti, rendendo più vantaggioso l’affitto di breve periodo rispetto a quello a medio e lungo termine, contribuendo, quindi, al processo di gentrification.
For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in ... more For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in the last decades, and internationalization is the keyword for their careers. On the other side, intra-European mobility also bears difficulties : couples living apart, decrease of permanent positions and frequent relocations, problems in accessing local welfare systems and the nightmare of organizing a pension scheme. That is, Ryanair comes with the job, too. In this paper, we firstly discuss intra-European and academic mobility in a context of growing job uncertainty. Then, drawing on an original database of in depth interviews addressing female researchers who experienced intra-European mobility, we explore their life narratives and self-representations, their love relationships, and their concrete life arrangements. Finally we discuss the implications for the “brain drain/circulation” discourse and the literature on mobility.
Lezioni dalla Scuola di Cultura Politica. Edizione 2014-2015
LA DEMOCRAZIA OGGI. MINACCE E OPPORT... more Lezioni dalla Scuola di Cultura Politica. Edizione 2014-2015 LA DEMOCRAZIA OGGI. MINACCE E OPPORTUNITÀ
Mobility represents a powerful factor of change. It redefines the structures of society and stimu... more Mobility represents a powerful factor of change. It redefines the structures of society and stimulates the reorientation of identities, the feelings of belonging and the individual social networks. Indeed, mobility provides chances of life improvement but also brings about new risks and produces new inequalities. The EU represents an extraordinary laboratory of mobility and transnationality. This contribution focuses on a particular category of mobile Europeans: precarious situation of academic researchers. Young mobile researchers are part of the " Erasmus Generation " but they are also part of the " Precarious generation " carrying out their work with little security. Both these factors encourage mobility, acting as " pull " and " push " forces. We critically revise the theories on mobility and the governance of research mobility in EU policies, we analyse the available data on researchers' mobility and finally, and drawing on an original database of interviews with female researchers, we explore the consequences of mobility in the realm of social and romantic relations. We focus, in particular, on the concept of 'Living Apart Relationships' (LAR), that sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect in the 'brain drain/circulation' narratives, which is the fact that researchers, besides brains, have bodies too. We conclude outlining a new research agenda on academic researchers' mobility in Europe that aims to overcome the neoliberal rhetoric on mobility and draw attention to the fact that both brains and bodies are on the move.
Introduction to the book symposium on Everyday Europe: Social transnationalism in an unsettled co... more Introduction to the book symposium on Everyday Europe: Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent. Check out the entire journal issue: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/issue/view/1724
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Keywords: Youth; Individualization; Groups; Collective Sphere; Sociality
Keywords: Youth; Individualization; Presentification; Participation; Alter-Activism
Keywords: Youth; Individualization; Groups; Collective Sphere; Sociality
Keywords: Youth; Individualization; Presentification; Participation; Alter-Activism
LA DEMOCRAZIA OGGI. MINACCE E OPPORTUNITÀ
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Check out the entire journal issue: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/issue/view/1724