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Affari e complicità mafiose tra Palermo e Punta Raisi

2014

La storia dello scalo aeroportuale di Punta Raisi – oggi intitolato alla memoria di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino – prende avvio nel secondo dopoguerra, in coincidenza con l’incremento del traffico aereo civile nei cieli del capoluogo siciliano, terzo in Italia per numero di transiti di passeggeri e merci, con cifre non più sostenibili dall’aeroporto militare di Boccadifalco. Tutto inizia con la costituzione, nel 1953, del Consorzio Autonomo per l'Aeroporto di Palermo, con l’obiettivo di realizzare il progetto di una nuova infrastruttura civile a pochi passi dal centro urbano, pronta a sostenere la concorrenza con i migliori scali del Paese e a rilanciare la modernizzazione dei commer…

Liminality in paradise : a study in utopianism at the Punta Mona community

2009

This Master’s thesis is a study in utopianism at the Punta Mona Sustainable Living and Education Centre, an ecological community of North Americans living on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The mission statement of Punta Mona is to show “sustainability” as a lived reality and to inspire individuals to return to mainstream society to enact change towards a more “eco-conscious” world. The main objective of this thesis is to critically examine the concept of sustainability as it is understood and practiced at Punta Mona and to raise questions over the tensions inherent in Punta Mona’s in-between position as an ecological community and ecotourism venture. What power structures are implicitly…

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: ADAM SMITH’S THEORY OF SENTIMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS

2020

For Adam Smith, a crime is not the result of a rational calculation of loss and gain but the consequence of envy and a vain desire to parade wealth to attract the approbation of others, combined with a natural systematic bias in overestimating the probability of success. Similarly, Smith does not conceive of legal sanctions as a rational deterrent but as deriving from the feeling of resentment. While the prevailing approach of the eighteenth century is a rational explanation of crime and a utilitarian use of punishment, Adam Smith instead builds his theory of criminal behavior and legal prosecution consistently on the sentiments. A well-functioning legal system is thus an unintended consequ…

Determination of Evapotranspiration and Crop Coefficient of Cactus Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica Mill.) with an Energy Balance Technique

2013

A micrometeorological approach based on surface renewal technique was adopted to estimate evapotranspiration fluxes and crop coefficient data from an irrigated cactus pear (Opuntia ficus-indica Mill.) orchard under Mediterranean climatic conditions. High-frequency temperature readings were taken above the canopy top in order to get surface renewal sensible heat flux values (HSR). These values were compared against eddy covariance sensible heat fluxes (HEC) for calibration. Latent heat flux (or evapotranspiration, ET) was obtained as the residual of the energy balance equation using HSR. In field measurements of biophysical crop features, physiological characteristic and soil hydraulic compo…

Room Temperature Instability of E′γ Centers Induced by γ Irradiation in Amorphous SiO2

2008

We study by optical absorption measurements the stability of E'(gamma) centers induced in amorphous silica at room temperature by gamma irradiation up to 79 kGy. A significant portion of the defects spontaneously decay after the end of irradiation, thus allowing the partial recovery of the transparency loss initially induced by irradiation. The decay kinetics observed after gamma irradiation with a 0.6 kGy dose closely resembles that measured after exposure to 2000 pulses of pulsed ultraviolet (4.7 eV) laser light of 40 mJ/cm(2) energy density per pulse. In this regime, annealing is ascribed to the reaction of the induced E'(gamma) centers with diffusing H(2) of radiolytic origin. At higher…

La corrupción institucionalizada

1998

Reviews

2004

African Film: Re‐Imagining a Continent Josef Gugler James Currey, Oxford, 2003, pb 216pp ISBN 085255561X £14 Revolution: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties Peter Cowie Faber, London, 2004, hb 304pp ISBN 05712 09033 £20.00 www.faber.co.uk Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction David Murphy James Currey, Oxford and Africa World Press, Trenton, 2001, pb 275 pp ISBN 0 8525 5555 5 £14.95 www.jamescurrey.co.uk Films by Michael Ondaatje (115 min); including: The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show (1974, 71 min) Sons of Captain Poetry (1970, 29 min) Carry on Crime and Punishment (1970, 5 min) Available as a DVD or video from www.mongrelmedia.com Yilmaz Guney: Bir Cir…

Negations and negativity as linguistic devices in policy discourse of intercultural cities

2015

International audience; Intercultural cities – a joint initiative launched in 2008 by the European Commission and the Council of Europe – aims to develop a model supporting intercultural integration within diversified urban communities. This article examines, using methods of applied linguistics and discourse analysis, how intercultural urban policy is linguistically produced in the initiative. The examination indicates that the intercultural urban policy in the initiative is ‘negative politics’: the policy rhetoric commonly outlines the content of interculturalism by describing what is not included in it and what the policy is not about. The language used in the intercultural urban policy …

Todo proceso creativo no es más que una pregunta."Nosotras, territorio que habla" : madres ante la impunidad y los crímenes de estado en Colombia

2019

“Nosotras. Territorio que habla” es la materialización creativa de la necesidad de denunciar, de testimoniar, de reflexionar desde la propia voz de tres madres, Luz Marina Bernal, María Ubilerma Sanabria y Lucero Carmona, cuyos hijos fueron ejecutados por el ejército colombiano entre el 2007 y el 2008. En este libro ellas comparten su experiencia de tantos años de injusticia. El relato de tan cruento capítulo en la historia de la violencia de un país, lo contamos a través del archivo personal de estas mujeres, de la necesidad de saber y de reclamar justicia, de la investigación, la denuncia, el posicionamiento político y el análisis común. Queremos compartir cómo está siendo esta experienci…

Una Poètica Dialògica: Atlas de Pere Salinas i Joan Navarro

2012

Pere Salinas and Joan Navarro initiated with Atlas (Correspondencia 2005-2007) a dialogue between painting and poetry. The book starts with a painting by Pere Salinas, which provokes a poem by Joan Navarro, which in turn provokes a painting. It continues this way until getting to 46 images and 46 poems. The concept of dialogism allows analyzing how alterity, the orientation towards a nonverbal answer, determines poetical writing. The poet, in his dialogue with each pictorial text, searches for new ways of expression that privilege the showing, from deictics to images, and this search leads to an experimentation that alters the entire poetical system. Time and space are not opposed. Painting…