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Communication et Interculturation
2021
Interpersonal communication brings together individuals who try to make sense of one another in a given context. In this ongoing intersubjective process, they use culturally-structured knowledge and references to conjure up figures and styles rooted in identity-play. Whether in organisations, in the media, or in our open, cosmopolitan, liquid societies of late modernity, identities appear ever more present, ever more pressing. They are linked to the cultural traits that people use to “perform” and make sense of themselves and others in different social situations. The forms, figures and styles in circulation are mediated and updated through these everyday symbolic interactions, within a soc…
L'Economista Anglofilo. Paolo Balsamo e l'utopia liberale in Sicilia (1787-1816)
2023
Paolo Balsamo -economist and professor of University of Palermo from 1787 to 1812- was a traveller and expert in the most advanced and modern British and European agriculture. He wrote articles and essays, both in English and Italian, on agriculture and political economy and was a correspondent of important cultural and political circles of British Whiggism. As a member of the Sicilian Parliament, ideologist of the constitutional party and trusted collaborator of Lord Bentinck, he wrote the Sicilian Constitution of 1812 which reformed the old institution of the Kingdom of Sicily transforming it into a liberal State. This monography explores Balsamo's intellectual and political figure throug…