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The Interference of the Mass media in the Intercultural Dialogue during the Emergency Landings in the Mediterranean: Between Reality and Representation
(2016)The aim of the paper is to highlight the difficulties that characterise the intercultural dialogue in specific contexts and situations of emergency. The paper focuses on the interference of the mass media and their ... -
Intercultural Complexity of the Southern Mediterranean: Arab-Mediterranean Perceptions and Outlooks
(2016)The present paper aims at placing the Mediterranean within the cultural perceptions and literary productions of the Arab World, particularly the Maghreb. How do collective consciousness and cultural representations in the ... -
To Re-educate oneself to Citizenship within the Cultural Pluralism
(2016)In a world dominated by pluralism and where ‘diversity is reality’, the extension of citizen-ship becomes a hot topic of the conflict of modernity, so much so that many have discussed the possibility of a primacy of human ... -
Picking Up the Brush for Emperors and Sultans. Imperial Portraits as Representations of Power in The Early Modern Mediterranean (Ca. 1450-Ca. 1650)
(2016)This paper aims to discuss the influence of interdependently effective political discourses and cultural differences in early modern Mediterranean regarding the motives for official state portraiture. Therefore, the paper ... -
Algeria post Arab Spring: The Forced Virtualisation of the Borders
(2016)Algeria is the core of the Maghreb and shares land borders with seven countries Maghreb and Sahel countries. However, since 2011, none of the seven land borders is stable and se-cure. So, even if Algeria is considered as ... -
Communication for Cultural Integration : The Case of a Secondary Reception Centre
(2016)The language, a human species-specific activity, permits of knowing, organizing and recounting the reality that around us. Although the vocal level represents the preferred channel of expression, everyday experiences are ... -
Intercultural Dialogue and Ethical Challenge in the Latin-American Thought
(2016)In a globalised world the intercultural dialogue and the interaction – different from integration - among different peoples and cultures is more and more necessary. The article deals with the issue of interculturality, ... -
Social Europe as a Multilevel Governance: The Italian Perspective
(2016)The article deals with history and historiography of Social Europe, understood as integra-tion of social forces (mainly the trade-unions) of the different European countries. The communitarian dimension of trade-unionism, ... -
Crossing Linguistic Borders: Translating Democracy in the 2012 Egyptian Constitution
(2016)The transfer of political concepts into different places and cultures happens first and foremost through translation. Far from being a simple transposition of meaning into a different language to facilitate border crossing, ... -
The Highly Skilled Maghrebians “on the move” : A Circular Cross-border Dynamic from the Mediterranean
(2016)Arising from the internationalization of training, when communication conditions have changed and now offer innumerable opportunities, highly skilled graduates manage their careersconfident of unlimited possibilities. ... -
Beyond the Disciplinary Borders : A New Challenge
(2016)Present society needs a new approach to knowledge, mainly required by the fast succession of the transformation of society and by the multidimensionality of the daily life problems. It is necessary, therefore, a more and ... -
The Cultural Borders of Citizenship in a Multicultural Society
(2016)One of the basic problems confronting multicultural societies is the inclusion of cultural differences into a common citizenship. What does it mean inclusion? And inclusion to what? The ‘inclusion’ formula of modernity ... -
A grounded theory for unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy: the case study of Egyptian minors
(2017)The article suggests to share a research first emerging categories according to methodological universe of the "Grounded Theory" based on a mental construction / orientation process. The main target is to investigate in ... -
Women and Refugees in Twitter: Rethorics of Abuse, Vulnerability and Violence from a Gender Perspective
(2017)In this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, women refugees are experiencing extreme vulnerability and violence, both during their journey and in the camps. Our objectives through this article are to analyze how women are ... -
Rewiev to "Esodi e frontiere di celluloide. Il cinema italiano racconta le migrazioni" edited by Leonarda Trapassi and Linda Garosi
(2017)Review of the book Esodi e frontiere di celluloide. Il cinema italiano racconta le migrazioni. -
Report on Cultural Psychology: A new science of the human nature, Yokohama 2016
(2017)This is a review of the symposium “Cultural Psychology: A new science of the human nature“, which took place at the International Conference of Psychology (ICP) in Yokohama in 2016. The symposium was a collaborative effort ... -
Use and Abuse of History and Memory: the Istrian-Dalmatian Exodus and the Current Refugee Flows
(2017)After the World War II, about 300.000 Italian people abandoned Istria and Dalmatia, which were annexed by Yugoslavia, and moved to Italy. The exodus is tied to the atrocities committed by the Slavic forces, the so called ...
