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Capital Structure Decisions in the Biopharmaceutical Industry
2011
Contro la violenza domestica: Agency delle donne e istituzioni nell’Italia del secondo Ottocento
2023
La violenza domestica e l’agency femminile sembrano due oggetti di studio contradditori e inconciliabili. Tuttavia proprio le esperienze di sopraffazione costituiscono un terreno delicato ma concreto di espressione dell’agency degli attori sociali. Per offrire un quadro di lettura che combini i due termini e permetta di apprezzarne la correlazione, il contributo esplora tre ambiti in cui la violenza di genere è oggetto di discorso, di narrazione, di analisi all’incirca nell’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento: sono, innanzitutto, lo spazio e i modi in cui la violenza entra nell’annoso dibattito parlamentare sul divorzio, quindi la conflittualità e la violenza esperite dalle coppie che presentan…
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…
The agency of non-human entity in the recent anthropology of the Indigenous Lowland South America
2015
In the last twenty years, agency has entered the field of anthropological studies of Lowland South America Indigenous Peoples as a term and a topic of concern. Ethnographical and theoretical treatment of this notion has intertwined here with the revisiting of the concept of animism, Viveiros de Castro’s statements about “amerindian perspectivism” and a broader “ontological turn” in research orientation. In the paper I discuss this trend, focusing on how different notions of agency are used to talk about topics as shamanism and ontological status of artifacts as well as, more generally, of other non-human categories of beings. I pay attention too to dissonances and consonances in this field …
Dal concetto all’artefatto. Frammentarie considerazioni sulle origini e sulle ragioni dell’arte preistorica
2021
La realizzazione consapevole di manufatti litici, a dispetto di coloro che hanno voluto attribuire esclusivamente a Homo sapiens tale abilità, è attività già sistematicamente praticata, e non senza virtuosismi, dall’assai più antico e “primitivo” Homo erectus, oltre che essere un radicato patrimonio dei Neanderthaliani, specie vissuta per millenni in contemporanea con i Sapiens e con questi certamente entrata in contatto. Tra le più antiche manifatture complesse, documentate in Europa, in Africa, in Asia, si segnalano le amigdale: artefatti bifacciali i cui più antichi esemplari a noi noti risalgono a oltre 1,5 milioni di anni fa e i più recenti a circa 130.000. Sono dunque la manipolazione…
“The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) guideline on oncology drug development”
2007
Personalizzazione dell’intervento e universalismo delle prestazioni: una declinazione agency struttura nella riflessione sul welfare state di Achille…
2021
This paper highlights how the historical-sociological reconstruction of the birth and diffusion of the welfare state in industrialized countries carried out by Achille Ardigò in his essay Introduction to the Sociological Analysis of the Welfare State and its Transformations constitutes a milestone for the sociology of welfare. The analysis of the Italian sociologist’s considerations deepens the debate inherent in the functions of care and control of the system whose phenomenology outlines universalization of services and personalization of intervention. We argue that Ardigò sees the welfare state as a necessary modality for the life of developed societies. It is a social technology that con…
Il ruolo delle donne nell’accoglienza e nell’inclusione dei migranti. Tratteggi di un’agency al femminile
2020
Today, the identification of migrants with asylum seekers and the overestimation of inflows – also referred to as the “refugee crisis” – has meant that Italy, as a politically strategic borderland of Europe, coincides with a battleground between sovereign drives and solidarity tensions. If refugees are the most visible object of political contention, governance operated by Ngo’s and, more generally, by civil society, sees women in the front row in a battle aimed at re-humanizing politics. The clash, which lasted for weeks between Captain Rackete of Sea Watch 3 and Minister Salvini, did not only represent a confrontation between reception policies and rejection policies, between the dehumani…
Le parole della violenza. Recrudescenze mediterranee di patriarcalismo e sessismo
2016
l capitolo ha lo scopo di descrivere i modi e gli escamotages con cui le parole, nei diversi contesti pubblici e privati in cui definiscono le relazioni, veicolano un portato di violenza simbolica mirante a classificare i generi performandone le rispettive identità. A tale scopo l’autrice fa riferimento al “discorso eufemizzato (Bourdieu 1993) e al concetto di “agentività” (Duranti 2007), per descrivere la procedura di naturalizzazione di pratiche discorsive volta ad affermare il sistema androcentrico della parola. Sullo sfondo i retaggi di una cultura mediterranea ancora patriarcale e sessista, passata in rassegna attraverso l’analisi discorsiva di alcuni racconti di Camilleri e l’individu…
Novel approach to study the perception of animacy in dogs.
2017
Humans tend to perceive inanimate objects as animate based on simple motion cues. So far this perceptual bias has been studied mostly in humans by utilizing two-dimensional video and interactive displays. Considering its importance for survival, the perception of animacy is probably also widespread among animals, however two-dimensional displays are not necessarily the best approach to study the phenomenon in non-human species. Here we applied a novel method to study whether dogs recognize a dependent (chasing-like) movement pattern performed by inanimate agents in live demonstration. We found that dogs showed more interest toward the agents that demonstrated the chasing-like motion, compar…