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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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RECIPROCITÀ: UNA DECLINAZIONE SOCIOLOGICA

2019

Tra iconcetti polisemici presenti in tutti i paradigmi sociologici, nonché approfondito da sociologi di diversa epoca, vi è certamente quello di reciprucità. Nella sua accezione più immediata, possiamo considerarla anzi come uno degli oggetti di studio principali della sociologia — si potrebbe sostenere che non vi può essere società senza reciprocità — ma proprio perché costituisce uno dei fondamenti alla base delle diverse società, a prescindere dalla loro diversa collocazione nel tempo e nello spazio’. Simmel, ad esempio, uno dei pionieri dello studio dei modelli di ‘sociazione”, come egli stesso definiva le forme di associazione e prosecuzione nel tempo di relazioni sociali, sosteneva ch…

Reciprocity social cohesionSettore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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Integrazione dei migranti

2022

Il termine “integrazione” nell’ambito degli studi sulle migrazioni, conosce una pluralità di accezioni, che deriva sia dalla molteplicità di variabili oggettive e soggettive che concorrono alla sua definizione, sia dalla sua interconnessione con i mutamenti politici e culturali costantemente in atto (partecipazione [3], inclusione giuridica, intervento civile e politico, cittadinanza, politiche sociali, convivenza democratica, diritti sociali ecc.). The term "integration" in the field of migration studies has a plurality of meanings, which derives both from the multiplicity of objective and subjective variables that contribute to its definition, and from its interconnection with the politic…

Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generalemigrant integration social service social cohesion
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La mediación como instrumento de dialogo entre las organizaciones y el territorio

2020

The use of mediation as a tool to promote social coexistence remains today a "non-ordinary" social action strategy, which is often activated more to prevent or resolve conflicts than to meet the needs of different communities. However, the experience of social and/or commission mediation services in different parts of the world have proven effective in generating social relationships through the offer of participation spaces; participation which, therefore, goes beyond the assumption of responsibility on the part of the citizen with regard to his own conflicts, and the openness to the search for solutions in relation to conflict, to become space and opportunity for the citizen to know and r…

mediation community social service integration social cohesionmediazione servizio sociale di comunità integrazione coesione socialeSettore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generale
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Service provision and social cohesion in rural areas: interaction between commuting, mobility and the residential preferences in Latvia

2012

The main issue addressed in this study is interaction of development policy of agricultural and rural areas with the regional and cohesion policies. This paper is based on an empirical study of everyday commuting models and spatial practices of different social groups of rural people in Latvia. This article analyzes data from a survey “Place, capabilities, migration” conducted in 2011 with a total of 1009 respondents in Latvia. The theoretical basis of research is rooted in the mobility studies and sociological and geographical conceptualization of space and place. The main focus is on analysis of relationship between commuting, mobility and the placeattachment. What are the main reasons of…

rural and local development social cohesion commuting mobility Agricultural and Food Policy Community/Rural/Urban Development R58
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