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Etnografia giuridica a Ballarò. Per dirottare il verso del sapere
2021
In Palermo, the Law department and a poor bazar of used things share the same square. Even if so closed, the academy and the market ignored and inspect each other with a mutual suspect for a long time. This happened as long as in an academic course an experiment of collaboration between students and merchants has been launched. The aim was to look at the right from the margin and to rewrite the rules together. The produced regulation draft has been used by the Municipality to make the market official. From this experience emerges an idea of university epistemologically humble, able to renounce to the title of knowledge’s monopolist and to activate processes of knowledge co-creation.
Forgiare la musica. Da Tubal-Kain ai mastri ferrai siciliani
2021
The idea of the “blacksmith musician” was widely spread in the ancient world: from the biblical myth of the blacksmith Tubal-Kain, half-brother of Jubal, inventor of musical instruments (lyre, psaltery, flute), to the legend handed down in Helleno-Latin literature that attributed to Pythagoras the discovery of musical intervals as he walked past a blacksmith’s forge. In the christianized Europe of the medieval-Renaissance period, the link between music and metallurgy, associated with the biblical blacksmith and the Greek philosopher, undergoes significant reworkings, both in the iconographic tradition and music literature. The ethnological investigation also offers numerous examples of musi…
CELEBRATING WOMEN ARTISTS IN JORDAN: REFRAMING GENDER ROLES AS RESISTANCE
This thesis focuses on women artists in the capital of Jordan, Amman, and particularly on their cultural practices as an expression of a creative agency. These women create independent spaces, cultural initiatives, public performances and original artworks that allow the reframing of gender roles in neoliberal patriarchal societies today. Beyond labeling the emergence of a new female activism, or femtivism, as feminist or revolutionary, I suggest reading it as the reconfiguration of a new wave of feminisms in Jordan, which engages with the visual arts, the contemporary cultural scene of Amman, the geography of the city and the political commitment, often in informal domains rather than in i…
Semioantropologia come traduzione del vissuto
2015
Si tratta di una breve etnografia del pensare trascritta tenendo conto del dialogo stabilito tra testo e immagini, tra processi di pensieri e ineludibili forme di codificazione. Il pensiero non viene concepito come risultato di pura forma di cognizione distante dal processo, bensì come atto e processo che si intreccia strettamente con le emozioni e le pratiche in corso. Il quadro d'insieme generale è quello concernente il quotidiano e il fieldwork non esotizzante. It is a short ethnography of thinking written by keeping into account the dialogue established between text and images, processes of thinking and forms of codification. As a consequence, thinking is not conceived as a result of a …
La teoria degli schemi della pratica di Descola e il caso etnografico dei Wayùu
2022
The chapter traces Descola's interest in the collocation of the cosmology of the indigenous Wayùu people of the Guajira peninsula within his typology of ontologies and modes of identification. It also deals with the positions of those scholars who have proposed reinterpretations of Wayùu ethnography in the light of Descola's theory of the patterns of practice exposed in 'Beyond Nature et Culture'
ХЛЕБ И ПРАЗДНИК НА СИЦИЛИИ (Bread and Festivities in Sicily)
2011
Among the important parts of the traditional calendar rites in Sicily are bakery and pastry products made in special shapes. Being produced and consumed during certain rituals and being shaped to reflect their mystic connotations, these products become the integral signs of these rituals in both the constitutive and functional sense. What is refl ected in their symbolism, beliefs, and related practices is the deeply archaic peasant worldview in the framework of which these rituals had been shaped; and in particular, it is the meaning that is attached to the infl uence of chthonic forces in the cyclic reproduction of natural and social life.
Le “verità” del racconto. Riflessioni epistemologiche sulla ricerca nei contesti di mafia
2019
Il saggio affronta alcune questioni metodologiche relative all’uso delle storie di vita e del racconto biografico in contesti di ricerca sulla criminalità organizzata mafiosa. Partendo dalle testimonianze di uomini e donne appartenenti al mondo di Cosa Nostra (raccolte in un ampio arco temporale), si sofferma su una complessa esperienza di studio: l’ascolto del racconto di vita di Gaspare Spatuzza, tra l’ottobre del 2012 e l’ottobre del 2013, in un carcere in località protetta. In questo scenario analitico, si colloca l’interrogativo su come posizionare il “discorso” sulle mafie all’interno di “spazi simbolici” nei quali si fonda l’epistemologia del racconto. Una narrazione che interroga (d…
La “giusta distanza”: questioni metodologiche e regole dell’interazione nel récit de vie di un collaboratore di giustizia
2020
Il saggio affronta alcune questioni metodologiche relative all’uso del racconto biografico dei collaboratori di giustizia. Partendo da diverse testimonianze raccolte tra uomini e donne appartenenti al mondo di Cosa Nostra, nel corso di un ampio arco temporale, il lavoro si sofferma su una lunga intervista con Gaspare Spatuzza realizzata in 9 incontri svoltisi, tra l’ottobre del 2012 e l’ottobre del 2013, in un carcere in località protetta. I diversi piani analitici in gioco, legati alla personalità del soggetto e alla peculiarità della sua narrazione, hanno reso il testo di analisi fluido e incandescente. L’incrociarsi della storia di Spatuzza con la mia biografia ha richiesto uno sforzo ul…
Talking about Migration: the Online Discourse of Some Italian Political Party Leaders
2020
The aims of the article are to deconstruct the frames of migration crisis embedded on the official web sites, social networks and blogs belonging to the leaders of the main Italian political parties, positioned on different points of the left or right political spectrum, in the period 2015-2016. According to the relevance of the Italian context, we are also going to study the position of a party that can be considered a post-ideological movement that represents itself as outside of a traditional political spectrum: the Five-star Movement. We analysed text, images and videos published on the Internet 2.0 sites in order to show the legacy of colonialism that was characterized by the ambivalen…
Anti-schoolness in context: the tension between the youth project and the qualifications project
2011
Published version of an article in the journal Social Psychology of Education. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-011-9153-3 In this ethnographic study conducted in two classrooms in Norway, grade nine (14-year-olds) in lower secondary school and the first year (16-year-olds) of upper secondary school, attention is drawn to how classroom culture is constituted through relationships between students. Through processes of power, dominance, hegemony and marginalisation, classroom culture forms the conditions for a learning environment, and has different opportunities, dilemmas and costs for the students. As classroom culture is negotiated in contextual and r…