Culture e Studi del Sociale: Recent submissions
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The Biopolitical Quest for Individuality as a Reactionary Device
(2020)With the advent of digitization and the affirmation of a symbolic value on social exchange within capital, public demonstrations of discontent are nowadays being performed along an aesthetic canon, thus losing their ... -
Campagna elettorale e social media: scenari evolutivi e nuove differenze nella diffusione social del messaggio politico
(2020)The contemporary electoral campaign, that became increasingly permanent with the Net, suggests studying the field of political communication in terms of strategies for social me-dia activities. By a quantitative ... -
A Reading of Article 21 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights:Political (Dis)engagement in the Context of Brexit
(2020)Free, regular, and open elections are sought-after qualities of a liberal democracy. Reading electoral turnout as an indicator of political engagement, though, is a reductive reading and can obscure entrenched levels of ... -
L’identità femminile nell’«Amica geniale» di Elena Ferrante e nel romanzo «Al-bāb al-maftūḥ» [La porta aperta] di Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt
(2020)Starting from the assumption that socio-cultural changes have an impact on the formation of women's identities, this article explores the construction of female identities in Egypt and in Italy from a ... -
Promuovere l’integrazione culturale: le Istituzioni e il fenomeno migratorio
(2020)The current scenario, increasingly characterised by discursive practices and multi-ethnic social relations, requires institutions to play a more active role in strategies for the inclusion of immigrants. A complex ... -
L'omogenitorialità tra autodeterminazione e desiderio di trasparenza. Autobiografie di famiglia
(2020)The article examines some aspects called into question by the debate on same-sex families in Italy. We start from the writings of Giuseppina La Delfa, French language teacher and LGBT activist, who has ... -
La partecipazione politica nel tempo della post-democrazia
(2020)he concept of participation has been defined in different ways over time and also the prac-tices of political participation have been interpreted and classified in many different ways in the political procedures of the ... -
Oltre la rappresentazione novecentesca delle dinamiche di opinione:la riconfigurazione del modello della doxasfera
(2020)This article proposes a descriptive model of the performing areas present in the communication dynamics (doxasphere). This model allows us to redefine the bottlenecks of the concepts of public ... -
La violenza di genere confinata tra le pareti domestiche durante il lockdown
(2020)The Covid -19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our living systems and, more generally, on the economic and political organization of our country. The significant loss of human lives, the ... -
Sexuality at the Time of Coronavirus in Italy: A (Technological) Retreat in Itself?
(2020)Our contribution aims at unravelling the knot between sexuality and the web in Italy during the coronavirus pandemic. Sex-related online practices intensified, due to health concerns and lockdown measures, and ... -
The Governance of Resilience. How the Health Systems Have Coped with The Covid-19 Pandemic
(2020)After considering the reasons why pandemics are destined to remain also in the near future in our late industrial societies, a conceptual framework for the analysis of governance of resilience of health systems ... -
Transnational Social Implications of the Use of the “War metaphor” Concerning Coronavirus: A Bird’s Eye View
(2020)This paper reflects on the force of the war metaphor primarily in Spain and the U.S. Examples from other countries are included. Methodologically, it utilizes the literature (journals and newspapers) and Twitter research. ... -
The New Heroes: Applause and Sensibilities in the Era of the COVID-19
Since the implementation of preventive and compulsory social isolation, every night at 9:00 p.m. thousands of Argentines applaud the health system personnel from their patios, balconies and windows in support ... -
We, the European Union. Together but... far Apart
(2020)While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be an issue, the retaliations on nation-states’ political, socio-cultural and, more than ever, economic structures are deemed to be- or are they yet- dire. The paper aims to broadly ... -
COVID-19 in China. The Great Wall of Technology
(2020)China is the first country to have faced an extensive contagion of Covid-19. The response it has given, in terms of prevention and control measures, has been effective in eradicating the virus, even though not completely. ... -
Rituals During Lockdown: The “Clap for our Carers” Phenomenon in France
(2020)The article will analyse the emergence of the applause for health workers to health personnel, a practice widespread in France since the first day of lockdown. We examine the meaning of this ritual that was first promoted ... -
Societal Vulnerability and Resilience in the COVID-19 Crisis
(2020)Despite the possibility of a pandemic had been seriously considered in professional circles, most governments were taken by surprise by the rapid diffusion of the SARS CoV-2, from first reports in China (December 2019) ... -
Everyday Life “Turned upside Down”: Disasters, Future and Resilience
(2020)Disasters change individuals and the social structure. Two categories are essential to study disasters: time and space. To these, we should add risk that is a cultural object resulting from interpretation. ... -
Men and Death in the West.Towards a New Interpretive Paradigm?
(2020)Up until recently, contemporary Western society seemed to voluntarily ignore death, wrap-ping itself in a silent cocoon. Death disappeared from the public discourse unless it was spectacularised and ... -
Future of our Feelings: Sociological Considerations about Emotional Culture in Pandem
(2020)The article is devoted to some aspects of the emotional culture of the late modern society, which will evidently undergo changes due to the new virus pandemic. The author draws on the opportunities that belong to the ...
