Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge: Recent submissions
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Do Gun Policies Really Protect Women? A Cross-national Test of the Relationship between Gun Regulations and Female Homicide Victimization
(2020)Globally, firearms are the most frequent means of committing homicide and young males are most likely to be victimized with guns. However, females’ risk of lethal gun violence rises significantly within the context of ... -
VAW Policy Regimes in Italy: An Analysis Across Regional Governments and Women's Centres
(2020)The paper analyses the consequences of bureaucratisation processes in the context of violence against women (VAW) policies in Italy. Specifically, the paper proposes an analysis of VAW policies in three Regions (namely, ... -
Institutional Abandonment of Minority Women in Israel Who Are Violence Victims
(2020)The obligation of the establishment to protecting women against violenceis non-consensus andis sometimes conceptualized as a struggle for women-human rights. The present article deals with domestic violence against women ... -
Finding Voice through Film Viewing: Tunisian Women Interpret Gendered Violence in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
(2020)This paper reports on a 2019 study about female perception of violence against women (VAW) in post-revolutionary Tunisia triggered by their viewing of the Tunisian film, The Beauty and the Dogs (La Belle et La Meute).The ... -
Transnationalism and Universalism of the Memory Tourism of the Great War
(2020)Thanks to the Centenary, a renewed interest has undoubtedly affected the landscapes of the memory of the First World War, moving away from the aims of past patriotic pilgrimages because it includes different perspectives. ... -
The Garden City and the American Dream
(2020)Howard’s Garden city tradition is central in American urban planning and it has had great influence, also in its interpretations that were most distant from the original utopian model, on the ways in which the American ... -
The Mediterranean Question: Thinking with the Diver
(2020)How and why to interrupt and redirect our understanding of the histories and cultures of the Mediterranean? As a result of temporal and spatial relations, its geographies and histories are never neutral. They are the outcome ... -
The Issue of Violence Against Women in Algeria: Causes and Public Policies
(2020)This contribution deals with the topic of: violence against women in Algeria: causes and public policies on violence against women. The violence against women in Algeria has represented a social phenomenon that affects ... -
Coping Italian Emergency COVID-19 through Smart Working: From Necessity to Opportunity
(2020)Smart working is defined as a new managerial philosophy characterized by higher flexibility and autonomy in the choice of working spaces, time and tools in return for more accountability on results.The health emergency ... -
Review of Mariella Nocenzi & Alessandra Sannella (eds.), Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability, Cham (Switzerland), Springer, 2020, pp. 123
(2020)Review of the collective book Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability, recently edited by Mariella Nocenzi and Alessandra Sannella. -
Representation, Victimization or Identification. Negotiating Power and Powerlessness in Art on Migration
(2019)A commonplace idea, and worry, in much political art is the emphasis on not to victimize the object/subject in artistic strategies, and to portray people as subjects with agency. And the way to do this is to allow for ... -
Ai Weiwei and JR. Political Artists and Activist Artists and the Plight of Refugees
(2019)The article will address Ai Weiwei’s and JR’s political engagement with the refugee crisis, the former as a political artist and the latter as an activist artist. Ai, in a series of conceptual installations and the feature ... -
Art as a Trigger for Reflection in Sociolinguistic Migration Research
(2019)Research methods that are inspired by the arts have recently become subject to increasing attention for language researchers working in migration contexts. There are various studies that show how arts-based methods can be ... -
A Conversation on Cinematic Representation and Resistance in the films "Altered Landscapes" (2016) by Juan del Gado and "The People Behind the Scenes" (2019), by Elsa Claire Gomis
(2019)This is a conversation between Juan del Gado and Elsa Gomis about their respective films. Juan del Gado has made the film Altered Landscapes (2016), which is the first part of a cinematically projected triptych entitled ... -
Invisible Affections and Socialization to the Sexuality of Lesbians. A Case Study in Italy
(2019)The article focuses on the process of socialization and sexuality of homosexual people, examining the specific case of lesbians living in Salerno, a major city in southern Italy. The essay highlights the path that women ... -
Review of Picarella, L. & Truda, G. (eds.), Fundamental Rights, Gender, Inequalities. Vulnerability and Protection Systems, Gutenberg, Baronissi (SA), 2019
(2019)Review of the book Fundamental Rights, Gender, Inequalities. Vulnerability and Protection Systems, Gutenberg, Baronissi (SA), 2019, edited by Lucia Picarella and Giovanna Truda. The book collects essays of sociologists ... -
Sport and Integration of Migrants: Some Considerations
(2019)The potential of sport for the inclusion of minorities is widely acknowledged. Being a non-verbal language, sport is particularly useful to ease the integration of the migrants in the hosting societies; in the present world ... -
Integration by Sport Activities: Resource or Only a Paradox?
(2019)Nowadays in Europe sport and physical activity represent a strategic tool for public health policiesthat aim to promote the wellbeing of population, supporting dialogue for social cohesion and, at the same time, represent ... -
Intercultural Dialogue and Integration of Migrants through Sport. Experiences in the Campania Region
(2019)Sport is considered a tool to ease intercultural dialogue and integration of migrants in the hosting countries. Sports activities have great potentialities, but the participation of foreigners and the impact of athleticism ... -
Borders Kill. Tania Bruguera’s Referendum as an Artistic Strategy of Political Participation
(2019)Since the rise of modern nation-states, borders have played the important role to order society because they have the power to define territories, not only on the ground, but also on the level of the imaginary by shaping ...
