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2020, ITSTIME
Article for "ITSTIME– Italian Team for Security, Terroristic Issues & Managing Emergencies", the webjournal of the research center of Department of Sociology of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan: September 4, 2020. In June 2020, a French newspaper used a photo of the "Incappucciati" (a Catholic procession) of Sorrento (Italy) in an article that talked about something else, namely members of the Ku Klux Klan. This is a gaffe discovered by the Italian anthropologist Giovanni Gugg, who in this article explains the digital responsibility of each of us.
2023 •
Although the most researched extreme right actors take the form of political parties, social movements research has recently started analysing extreme right organizations that go beyond ordinary politics and that take the form of 'groupuscular’ organizations. However, most existing contributions rely on secondary data and focus mainly on public networks and online activism of extreme right actors and their strategies of action. Very few ethnographic studies of extreme right social movements exist with the result that we still need a deeper understanding of their off-line mobilization, ideological discourse and militancy and how these in turn interact with the choice of specific repertoires of action. In this framework, the aim of this paper is to present the findings of a research project that explored dynamics of militant participation and forms of activism promoted by a neo-fascist organization: CasaPound Italia. Combining ethnography, semi-structured interviews and content analysis, we analyse the communicative, organizational and ideological nature of CasaPound’s political engagement, and its heterogeneous, unconventional melange of political references, communication strategies and choices of protest action.
This blogpost was published on Interdisciplinaryitaly.org. It is about my PhD research project, the questions I deal with and the context of my thesis work. Artists cited are the collective Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, Agnese Trocchi, and Tommaso Tozzi. The blogpost is available here https://web.archive.org/web/20190407202907/http://www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org/network-culture-activism-new-media-art-italy/
2024 •
Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.
American Journal of Sociology
Veiled Threats: The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy by Michael P. Carroll:Veiled Threats: The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy1998 •
This paper presents a mediological analysis of the relationship between media, social and political forms, examining Italian far-right movement – "destra non conforme" – in order to show how its aesthetic, social and cultural forms are in-formed by the imaginary produced by the cultural industry and digital cultures. The aim of this paper is therefore to demonstrate the relationship of mutual influence between social and cultural forms typical of digital media jointly with the change of political forms. This obviously raises the question about the same category of extremism, or at least as it was understood in the twentieth century.
The dissertation develops the concept of repurposing as a means for thinking with activists and the issues they confront. It moves alongside pirate television collective insu^tv as they draw on a variety of histories, traditions and technological resources for their practices. Repurposing functions on multiple levels and at multiple scales, from the recycling of materials and spaces to the harnessing and relaying of encounters and events within an ever-expanding field of social relations. When seen as a way of connecting activist groups and communities, the repurposing of media contributes to strengthening an often fragmented and conflicted activist field. Indeed, insu^tv’s use of information and technology brings to the fore the value of media activism for the creation of social assemblages in which the “media” literally mediates between individuals and among individuals and their environment, instituting and developing an ontogenetic relation (Simondon, 1989). Yet, rather than simply making sense of insu^tv’s practices, the concept of repurposing also provokes a discussion regarding the ethics of connection. For insu^tv, this connective ethics can be understood as a set of rules and principles that facilitate the evaluation of actions, communication, and thought according to an immanent mode of collective existence (Deleuze, 1988; Simondon, 1989). For the author, herself a member of insu^tv and an academic researcher, this immanent position helps challenge traditional models of knowing and envisioning social change and instead proposes alternatives that attend to the singularity and relation among new political movements, and to the political potential of research methods that focus on process and fold activism into academia. The methodology is inspired by the militant research methods of the Italian Autonomia movement (conricerca or inchiesta), as developed and performed by activists themselves. While attending to the complexity of social struggles, the concept of repurposing enables an approach to research and experimentation as modes of sociability, where these modes are themselves repurposed through an ethics of connection. This line informs the relation between ethics and subjectivation, as well as between ethics and micropolitics, facilitating the emergence of new modes of political action through the repurposing of the social field itself.
2016 •
dissonance between the blogosphere and mainstream media in the promotion and coverage of Beppe Grillo’s V-day?.
Studia Gilsoniana
La pensée politique du comte de Chambord : restaurer une monarchie chrétienne tempérée afin de contrer les idées de 892024 •
International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health
Fanzine culture and sports fanzines in Turkey2018 •
2016 •
International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)
A Sustainable Model of Urbanization for Indian Cities, A Case Study of New Delhi2021 •
Elenco Monumenti Cagliari A-Z
Elenco dei Monumenti del Periodo Nuragico in Sardegna - Cagliari A-Z2024 •
Indian Journal of Case Reports
A case of neck pain in emergency department2022 •
Lithic Technology
Lithic Heat Treatment in the Late Epipalaeolithic of Southern Levant: Critical Review of the Evidence2004 •
2022 •
The Canadian journal of cardiology
Population-based evaluation of the management of antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation2005 •
Behavioural Brain Research
Hemispheric interaction, metacontrol, and mnemonic processing in split-brain macaques2000 •