Vita e Pensiero

The concept of citizenship is central to European history and has a great importance in the social sciences. However, its polysemic nature generates an inflation of meanings and reduces its analytical capacity...

Within each American university campus, a Department of Public Safety (DPS) is designated to send students emails, labelled as crime alert, whenever a crime is committed on campus or in the surrounding area. This study sought to investigate the extent to which information sharing about criminal events through new technology devices (including apps and emails) may alter risk perception and therefore lead students to modify their behaviour...

This paper is focused on the problem of «compulsory voting» inside the contemporary democracies. The research demand is: is there a relation between compulsory vote and the possibility to increase the electoral turnout for citizens more and more detached from politics in many countries (to strengthen the sentiment of civic duty)?

To re-launch critical theory, according to some of its major contemporary exponents, domination needs to be redefined. The hypothesis this article explores is to consider domination as expropriation in action. The category of expropriation offers to critics a double anchorage: to action, on the one hand, and to principles of justice, on the other, which are the common denominator to some of the most well-known theories of contemporary justice: a common humanity, a common dignity of people, autonomy of the individual, the individual as an end in itself and the uniqueness of the individual...

The author analyzes the production of discourses on Naples, tracking down the origins of the stereotypes of ethnicization of this town and of Southern Italy in general, within the practices of biological inferiorization established by the Italian Criminal Anthropology in the late 1800s. She compares them with the narrative stereotypes of Neapolitans, restated in discourses and prêt-à-porter images «packaged» for the large audience of reality television...

Le Social Street vengono definite come «strade nelle quali i vicini di casa vogliono creare o ricreare socialità di prossimità, usando come strumento di comunicazione facebook» (Pasqualini 2016). Il fenomeno delle Social Street non è stato oggetto di numerose ricerche, con l’eccezione degli studi interessati all’impatto delle tecnologie e delle piattaforme digitali. La ricerca su questo fenomeno, sia a livello locale che internazionale, ha permesso di osservare la diffusione delle Social Street nei contesti urbani. Le Social Street sono inclusive e potenzialmente accessibili a chiunque, e sono inoltre capaci di creare innovazione tecnologica e sociale. Creano controllo sociale, si occupano dell’informazione nel quartiere e partecipano agli eventi promossi nel vicinato, promuovono la socialità e si prendono cura dei beni comuni della città, specialmente nel contesto di prossimità. Nella prospettiva avanzata da questo studio, le Social Street sembrano rappresentare una forma locale di civic collective action. In questo articolo ci si sofferma su tre casi studio: Milano, Bologna e Roma, mostrando caratteristiche simili e differenze nelle attività promosse e nella diffusione del fenomeno.

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