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La teodicea sociale di Frédéric Bastiat
2015
In this paper, I suggest that we apply the category of “social Theodicy” to Bastiat’s political and economic thought. By this category, it is possible to see how Bastiat’s reflection is aimed to justify the presence of “social pathologies” in society against socialist theorists’ intention to completely eliminate it by politics. Bastiat’s defense of free market and human rights is based upon the refusal of the anthropological presuppositions of socialist theories according to which the presence of evil in human history does not come from human being but from the structure of society. In Bastiat’s view, by refusing God and original sin, socialist programs subordinate individuals to society an…
Inside-out Internal and External Limits to Rights: Does it matter?
2019
Literature is rich on whether and how rights are limited by external considerations, such as other rights or particularly important general interests. This article concentrates on what could be a different type of limit of rights: internal limits stemming from the very foundations of a right. Its aim is to understand whether these hypothetically different internal limits actually collapse on the idea of internal limits of coherence theories; or whether they are equivalent, in terms of effects, to external limits to rights. In order to show the origin of the troubling with internal limits, the article begins with a brief introduction of biocultural rights of indigenous peoples and local com…
When Rights Embrace Responsibilities
2018
The conservation of environment and the protection of human rights are two of the most compelling needs of our time. Unfortunately, they are not always easy to combine and too often result in mutual harm. This book analyses the idea of biocultural rights as a proposal for harmonizing the needs of environmental and human rights. These rights, considered as a basket of group rights, are those deemed necessary to protect the stewardship role that certain indigenous peoples and local communities have played towards the environment. With a view to understanding the value and merits, as well as the threats that biocultural rights entail, the book critically assesses their foundations, content, an…
Meanings and More…: Policy Brief of the ICCA Consortium no. 7
2019
In 2018 the Council of the ICCA Consortium decided to develop a lexicon of meaningful, and at times complex, concepts and terms frequently used in its work, policies and relations with its Members and Partners. A few specific papers had been commissioned and prepared before, but no attempt had been made to collate working definitions of frequent use, while many felt a need for such a reference compendium. This need was evident also because the Consortium has highlighted and adopted new ways of referring to phenomena that, historically, had not been conceptually analysed. First among these phenomena are the very ICCAs—territories of life at the heart of the Consortium’s work. This document i…
The Legal Framework Behind Biocultural Rights. An Analysis of their Pros and Cons for Indigenous Peoples and for Local Communities
2022
The idea of biocultural rights strives to address the overall issues of indigenous peoples and local communities in relation to the environment and to conflate together the different rights needed to promote their self-government and conservation of cultural identity. Indeed, biocultural rights place themselves in the Anthropocene debate as powerful tools able to provide answers to both human rights and environmental issues. But their environmental focus might raise some issues. This chapter will explore the pros and cons of choosing the path of claiming biocultural rights for, separately, indigenous peoples and local communities. They appear, in fact, as different subjects in international…
Los MENA en Italia: criticidades en la integración entre políticas nacionales e intervenciones locales.
2015
El fenómeno de los MENA está en continuo crecimiento y que es de carácter permanente. Los servicios presentes en el territorio, constantemente tuvieron que responder esencialmente a situaciones de continua emergencia, más que a promover verdaderas intervenciones programáticas. Esto ha terminado por favorecer una metodología de acción que constantemente presenta el riesgo de basarse en presupuestos radicales y poco atentos a la realidad global: de hecho, se continúa a considerar al niño/a extranjero/a como un sujeto de por sí portador de un fuerte malestar, incluso como un sujeto que no necesita de alguna intervención específica. Entre las criticidades de mayor relevancia, existe el problema…
Confronting the Medusa with Athena’s Shield: Empowering Social Workers with a Transformative Role in the Migration Field
2022
Along with existing challenges, there are new ones leading social workers to become involved in increasingly international intervention processes. This has led to the development of the concept of International Social Work (Hugman, Moosa-Mitha & Moyo, 2010; Cox & Pawar, 2006; Dominelli, 2010), which provides a good opportunity to both depart from old patterns of administering aid (Healy 2008) and to embody a perception of itself as a transformative actor (Wintergerst 2017, p. 236). Assuming that it is true that the presence of different cultures acts as a catalyst in the processes of change in society, then this is equally valid for the development of this profession (Di Rosa, 2021)…
Clandestini a Lampedusa:isolati, segregati, invisibili
2006
Social construction processes of migrant, often clandestine migrant, among the inhabitants of Lampedusa, have recorded, in the last years, a gradual moving from a prevaling sympathetic optics combined with human solidarity forms – even if not without defensive processes and forms of racism and xenophobia – to more and more clear dynamics of exclusion, often joint with intolerant, cynical and indifferent attitudes. The social representation of the stranger isn’t, however, either unvarying or coherent. Infact, the collected interviews give evidence for continuous oscillations between the wish to understand – that increases when there is an interaction with the strangers – and the need to defe…
Prefazione
2015
Vengono presentati contenuti e le ricerche sulle “Mobilità umane” discusse e spprofonditr durante la 8° edizione della Summer school in “Migranti, Diritti Umani e Democrazia”, scuola estiva di studi avanzati promossa Università degli studi di Palermo, che si è svolta a Favignana (TP) nel 2014.
Arte e diritti degli animali: una coalizione di protesta eterogenea contro la promozione pubblica di Nitsch
2016
L’intervento analizza il caso di una petizione online e l’evoluzione della protesta, sui social network e nel territorio, all’interno di una composita coalizione sociale. Si tratta della petizione (Change.org 2015), contro la sponsorizzazione da parte del Comune di Palermo della mostra dell’esponente dell’azionismo Viennese Hermann Nitsch che secondo promotori e firmatari violerebbe con le sue performance la Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti degli Animali (Unesco 1978). La petizione che in breve tempo ha raccolto oltre 70.000 firme rappresenta un interessante esempio di mobilitazione online che travalica i confini nazionali, la protesta, infatti, era partita a Città del Messico un anno p…