journal articles by Alberta Giorgi
Social Politics, 2022
Recent research exploring the relationships between gender and populism has shown that populist p... more Recent research exploring the relationships between gender and populism has shown that populist parties, mainly right-wing, usually do not advance a womenfriendly agenda and do not provide women-favorable environments. Nevertheless, concerns about women’s rights and combating violence against women are gaining space within populist discourse. In this contribution, we analyze the tweets of populist female MPs in the Italian Parliament to explore their discourse on gender issues, paying particular attention to gender-based violence and the internal differences in the discourse of populist female MPs. The results show how right-wing female MPs promote a “right-wing” version of women’s rights, especially when dealing with gender-based violence. The results also point out the differences in populist discourse on gender and gender-based violence in different varieties of populism.
Religions
“Religious freedom” has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on dif... more “Religious freedom” has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on different factors, including different understandings of the role of religion in society. In this paper, we contribute to the analysis of the intersections between the institutional definitions and the social perceptions by comparatively analyzing the practices and discourses on religious freedom in the fields of healthcare and school canteens through regional and municipal case studies in Italy. Results allow exploring the role of individual actors and local and sectoral cultures in enforcing specific practices in the broad area of “religious freedom”.
Mediascapes, 2021
Digital media studies on gender and religion have steadily grown in the last decade, showing that... more Digital media studies on gender and religion have steadily grown in the last decade, showing that digital platforms: (1) contribute to the visibility and voice of marginalized actors, including religious women and LGBT+ people, and offer a place for the expression of the complex nuances of gender performances of religious individuals; (2) are spaces of development of "alternative" forms of religious authority, that challenge, negotiate or complement traditional ones; (3) constitute a safe space for marginalized or minority voices to cope with exclusionary processes they may have suffered within their communities, and to activate forms of re-plausibilization of religion, to make it possible to reembed oneself in the religious community; (4) open up spaces to unpack, discuss and criticize religious norms and conventions. This article explores Catholic masculinities by means of digital ethnography, focusing on Instagram posts that use two hashtags: #thosecatholicmen and #dignityusa. The first hashtag performs and renovates traditional Catholicism, praising fatherhood and brotherhood, while the second celebrates LGBTQI Catholics. Both hashtags are related to specific groups; however, focusing on hashtags rather than groups' accounts allows exploring whether and how the hashtag is appropriated and experienced, broadening its scope beyond its initial launch. Differently to what occurs on Twitter, in fact, Instagram hashtags are used to specify the image content and to connect to ad hoc communities. Three main elements emerge from the analysis, contributing to the research on gender, digital media, and religion. First, the research shows the differences in the visual representations and expressions of masculinity emerging around the two hashtagsmuscular and militant in one case, familiar and nonthreatening on the other. Second, it illustrates the differences in the use of Instagram, which in one case is the place to construct and affirm role models, while in the other it offers the chance of claiming the legitimacy of being both homosexual and Catholic. Third, it clarifies the complex mechanisms of visibility and invisibility that are in play.
Identities, 2021
In the Manichaean discourse of the radical-right populist parties, both religion and gender play ... more In the Manichaean discourse of the radical-right populist parties, both religion and gender play a role in the discursive process of ‘othering’. At the same time, on some occasions, populist discourse also mobilises Christianity and gender equality against immigrants, which has been interpreted through the frames of hijacking or instrumentalization. In this paper, I advance two arguments: first, I illustrate the relevance of the literature on secularisation to finetune the analysis of the entanglements of populism, religion and gender, to overcome the ‘hijacking’ frame; second, I make a plea for a socio-constructivist perspective, which pays attention to how the actors make sense of their religiouspolitical engagement and try to avoid paternalistic interpretations. Empirical analysis focuses on the discourse of the supporters of Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Italian radical-right populist party Lega Nord, on Instagram, showing the intersections of religion and gender.
Religions, 2020
Catholic women against Churchsplaining. Catholic women's movements, networks and initiatives have... more Catholic women against Churchsplaining. Catholic women's movements, networks and initiatives have a long history of advocating for an equal role in the Church-especially in the North American world. In recent years, their presence and visibility has been increasing in Europe too, also in relation to a series of initiatives and events, such as the Mary 2.0 campaign in Germany, which led to the launch of the Catholic Women's Council (CWC) in 2019. This article focuses on the emerging discourse on women and gender promoted by the developing network of initiatives related to the role of women in the Catholic Church in different European countries. After reconstructing the map and history of this network, the contribution explores its emerging discourse, drawing on a triangulation of data: key-witnesses' interviews; the magazine Voices; social network pages and profiles.
European Journal of Women s Studies, 2020
Scholars describe Global North feminisms as mostly ‘secular’ and often opposing religion. Contemp... more Scholars describe Global North feminisms as mostly ‘secular’ and often opposing religion. Contemporary feminist intersectional movements seem to offer different approaches able to overcome distances and articulate the role of religion in feminist emancipatory practice. This contribution explores the complex role of religion in intersectional feminist movements, drawing on the experiences of religious-feminist and secular-feminist women in Italy. The results highlight that religious women are increasingly part of feminist intersectional movements. Nonetheless, religious inequalities are often overlooked, and religion triggers ambivalent reactions, often resulting in a process of othering minority women.
Qualitative Research
Methodological literature dealing with the challenges in sampling, recruiting and engaging resear... more Methodological literature dealing with the challenges in sampling, recruiting and engaging research participants for qualitative interviews usually assumes that potential informants are informed. But what happens when the potential informants make it clear that they have little to say because under-informed on the topic? This article explores the challenges in recruiting and engaging under-informed research participants by revisiting my fieldwork experience as a researcher for the ERC-funded project GRASSROOTSMOBILISE – Directions in Religious Pluralism in Europe. The article describes potential interviewees’ claims of under-information as a specific type of reluctance, displaying in both the recruitment and the interview processes, and discusses the potential strategies to overcome this reluctance by paying attention to the role of researchers.
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2020
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2019
This paper discusses three challenges that ‘religion’ poses to contemporary feminism, in relation... more This paper discusses three challenges that ‘religion’ poses to contemporary feminism, in relation to the assumption of feminist secularity, feminist definitions of individual autonomy and the way in which feminism understands itself as an emancipatory practice. The growing literature on gender and religion sheds light on the multiple intersections between religion and feminism and helps to nuance and develop the analysis of the multiple roles that religion has played and continues to play in the feminist project. In this vein, I suggest exploring the intersections between the material and political conditions and effects of subjectivation. The analysis of the ‘othering’ of religion may provide feminism, as a political project, with alternative ways of conceptualising difference as well as emancipation.
Religions, 2019
Over the last decade, many scholars have explored the thesis of the mediatization of religion pro... more Over the last decade, many scholars have explored the thesis of the mediatization of religion proposed by Hjarvard and how mediatization has impacted religious authority. While some scholars have underlined the increasing opportunities for marginalized religious actors to make their voices heard, others have explored how mediatization can also result in the enhancement of traditional religious authority or change the logic of religious authority. Against this background, in this paper, I focus on Christian LGBT+ digital voices in Italy to explore how they discursively engage with the official religious authority of the Catholic Church. The analysis adopts Campbell typology of religious authority. It highlights the complex balance between challenging and reaffirming traditional religious authority, and points out the role of the type of digital community in exploring the effects of the mediatization of religion.
This article investigates the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal in the aftermath of t... more This article investigates the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal in the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. Through a focus on the case of Lisbon, we explore how the crisis resulted in increased collaboration between religious organizations and the public administration. The crisis in fact changed the opportunity structure of the Portuguese Catholic world, which has reacted basically in three different ways. Firstly, the Episcopal Conference has pointed out the relevance of subsidiarity in the welfare field—and, more broadly, as a principle of societal organization—in the attempt to re-negotiate its role and relevance within Portuguese society, drawing on the activity and the reputation of the Catholic organizations. Secondly, Caritas and the National Commission of Justice and Peace have been quite vocal in denouncing the shortcomings of the Government and the effects of the austerity measures, calling for equality and justice and putting pressure on the Episcopal Conference as well as the central government. Thirdly, local organizations—including religious organizations, such as Caritas—have been gaining a new important role in the coordination and provision of welfare services, as the crisis accelerated the trends towards subsidiarity and governance.
Le differenze culturali e, tra queste, le differenze religiose sono un tratto
distintivo delle so... more Le differenze culturali e, tra queste, le differenze religiose sono un tratto
distintivo delle società contemporanee. Per via della sua funzione di socializzazione ed educazione alla cittadinanza, la scuola riveste un ruolo chiave per l’analisi di come tali differenze sono praticate – e rese praticabili – nello spazio pubblico. In particolare, tre sono i nodi chiave: il ruolo delle religioni nel programma di insegnamento, il rispetto del pluralismo religioso
nell’istituzione scolastica, e lo statuto delle scuole d’ispirazione religiosa
nel sistema educativo. In questo contributo analizziamo le scuole cosiddette islamiche in Italia: nel primo paragrafo presentiamo i dati relativi agli alunni stranieri e alle differenze religiose a scuola; nel secondo paragrafo affrontiamo lo statuto giuridico delle scuole islamiche in Italia; nel terzo paragrafo diamo conto dell’assenza di dati – e dell’allarme pubblico – intorno a tali scuole; nel quarto paragrafo presentiamo i risultati di una prima mappatura delle scuole islamiche in Italia; infine, nel quinto paragrafo discutiamo i risultati di tali ricerca alla luce degli interrogativi che emergono nello spazio mediatico e politico intorno alle scuole musulmane in Italia.
In this contribution, we address the everlasting debate on the
definition of religion from a mult... more In this contribution, we address the everlasting debate on the
definition of religion from a multiscalar perspective.
Supranational courts – and, especially, the European Court of
Human Rights – gained a major legitimising role in this respect.
One may thus expect that religious minorities with uncertain
status look at supranational courts as attractive and favourable
venues. The ‘local’ must be taken into account, too, in the complex
government of religious diversity: decentralised policies and different
religious profiles make room for adapting the treatment of
religious minorities at the local level, especially in situations characterised
by the absence of a legal national framework. Grounded
on an analysis of national and international case law, and on
interviews addressing the representatives of religious minorities,
our contribution explores the multiscalar repertories of action of
religious minorities in pursuing the official recognition and the
protection of their religious rights.
The issues related to the role of religion in the public education system have been a public topi... more The issues related to the role of religion in the public education system have been a public topic for a long time, and related debates have been cyclically revived by specific events. In this contribution, we explore the reasons why Italian grassroots actors do not tend to size up the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) jurisprudence and the plurality of juridical regimes dealing with religion and education as windows of opportunity. First, we analyze the intertwinement of different juridical regimes dealing with religion and education, and the national case law on the topic. Then, drawing on original semi-structured interviews, we analyze the indirect effects of the ECtHR case law on the mobilizations and advocacy strategies at the grassroots level around religion and education. Finally, we discuss the research outcomes, outlining how the non-interference of the Court in state-religions regimes may result in the limited impact and effectiveness of the Court's protection of religious freedoms.
When dealing with religious pluralism in European societies, the public and political debates oft... more When dealing with religious pluralism in European societies, the public and political debates often frame
the women’s rights as sites of tension between different religions, and between religious traditions and secular
societies. Women’s conditions then become the proofs of evidence of religious diversity, and women’s bodies
come to personify cultural identities (religious, secular, national). In light of the extensive debate on gender
citizenship and the long-lasting discussion over the relationships between religion and political citizenship,
the focus on religious women offers an interesting site to explore how religious and gender diversities are conceptualized
and combined in the definition of contemporary political citizenship. I focus on the burkini affair,
analysing the political and public discussion in the Italian press (2004-2016), in order to shed light on how
religious and female agencies are variously combined in the representation of ‘Muslim women wearing burkini’.
The results show the differences in the conceptualization of Christian and Muslim religious agencies
in the public construction of religious women as a political subject and highlight the relevance of the studies
focusing on women, religion, and gender.
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This article brings to a conclusion the series of three special sections published in 2015 and 20... more This article brings to a conclusion the series of three special sections published in 2015 and 2016 by Religion, State and Society on ‘Religion and local politics in southern Europe’. We set up a research agenda on the interactions between religion and local politics in Southern Europe. In doing so, we focus on the localisation of religion, including religious debates, and on the impact of the recent economic crisis. More specifically, we address the local as a contested concept, the multilevel governance of religion as a scalar opportunity structure – in relation to the transnational dimension of religious actors – the effects of such changes in the welfare landscape and the impact of the economic crisis on the activities and strategies of religious actors in Southern Europe. Our research agenda focuses on the interactions between two main dimensions: the territorial impact of political and economic changes, and the multiscalar schemes of territorial governance.
La centralità della religione nella vita pubblica delle società contemporanee è dimostrata, nel c... more La centralità della religione nella vita pubblica delle società contemporanee è dimostrata, nel caso particolare dell’Italia, dal modo con cui si è articolata e sviluppata la discussione sui temi bioetici (inizio e fine vita, aborto, eutanasia), sui simboli religiosi e i luoghi di culto (con particolare riferimento all’Islam), sui rapporti tra educazione e religione o sul riconoscimento legale delle unioni omosessuali.
Diversamente da quanto accade in altri Paesi europei, le posizioni sostenute su questi argomenti dalla Chiesa cattolica sono state ampiamente riprese e strumentalizzate dalle forze politiche e hanno trovato accoglienza e attenzione in settori politici molti diversi tra di loro, mostrando così come in Italia la distinzione destra/sinistra non sia per nulla sovrapponibile a quella cattolici/laici. Ma il dibattito italiano su questi delicati argomenti, peraltro molto altalenante nel tempo, dimostra anche l’esistenza di almeno due diverse declinazioni, anch’esse politicamente trasversali, del cattolicesimo politico: quella ‘centrista’, che accetta il pluralismo e le differenze, almeno finché non si mettono in discussione valori e istituzioni considerate fondamentali come la famiglia, e quella ‘civilizational’, che si muove in un contesto di tendenziale rifiuto del pluralismo e dell’alterità, non solo proponendo politiche di chiusura verso minoranze religiose o di genere, ma anche utilizzando in modo deliberato un linguaggio politicamente scorretto e talvolta aggressivo.
For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in ... more For academic researchers, Europe comes with the job : their intra-European mobility increased in the last decades, and internationalization is the keyword for their careers. On the other side, intra-European mobility also bears difficulties : couples living apart, decrease of permanent positions and frequent relocations, problems in accessing local welfare systems and the nightmare of organizing a pension scheme. That is, Ryanair comes with the job, too. In this paper, we firstly discuss intra-European and academic mobility in a context of growing job uncertainty. Then, drawing on an original database of in depth interviews addressing female researchers who experienced intra-European mobility, we explore their life narratives and self-representations, their love relationships, and their concrete life arrangements. Finally we discuss the implications for the “brain drain/circulation” discourse and the literature on mobility.
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distintivo delle società contemporanee. Per via della sua funzione di socializzazione ed educazione alla cittadinanza, la scuola riveste un ruolo chiave per l’analisi di come tali differenze sono praticate – e rese praticabili – nello spazio pubblico. In particolare, tre sono i nodi chiave: il ruolo delle religioni nel programma di insegnamento, il rispetto del pluralismo religioso
nell’istituzione scolastica, e lo statuto delle scuole d’ispirazione religiosa
nel sistema educativo. In questo contributo analizziamo le scuole cosiddette islamiche in Italia: nel primo paragrafo presentiamo i dati relativi agli alunni stranieri e alle differenze religiose a scuola; nel secondo paragrafo affrontiamo lo statuto giuridico delle scuole islamiche in Italia; nel terzo paragrafo diamo conto dell’assenza di dati – e dell’allarme pubblico – intorno a tali scuole; nel quarto paragrafo presentiamo i risultati di una prima mappatura delle scuole islamiche in Italia; infine, nel quinto paragrafo discutiamo i risultati di tali ricerca alla luce degli interrogativi che emergono nello spazio mediatico e politico intorno alle scuole musulmane in Italia.
definition of religion from a multiscalar perspective.
Supranational courts – and, especially, the European Court of
Human Rights – gained a major legitimising role in this respect.
One may thus expect that religious minorities with uncertain
status look at supranational courts as attractive and favourable
venues. The ‘local’ must be taken into account, too, in the complex
government of religious diversity: decentralised policies and different
religious profiles make room for adapting the treatment of
religious minorities at the local level, especially in situations characterised
by the absence of a legal national framework. Grounded
on an analysis of national and international case law, and on
interviews addressing the representatives of religious minorities,
our contribution explores the multiscalar repertories of action of
religious minorities in pursuing the official recognition and the
protection of their religious rights.
the women’s rights as sites of tension between different religions, and between religious traditions and secular
societies. Women’s conditions then become the proofs of evidence of religious diversity, and women’s bodies
come to personify cultural identities (religious, secular, national). In light of the extensive debate on gender
citizenship and the long-lasting discussion over the relationships between religion and political citizenship,
the focus on religious women offers an interesting site to explore how religious and gender diversities are conceptualized
and combined in the definition of contemporary political citizenship. I focus on the burkini affair,
analysing the political and public discussion in the Italian press (2004-2016), in order to shed light on how
religious and female agencies are variously combined in the representation of ‘Muslim women wearing burkini’.
The results show the differences in the conceptualization of Christian and Muslim religious agencies
in the public construction of religious women as a political subject and highlight the relevance of the studies
focusing on women, religion, and gender.
Diversamente da quanto accade in altri Paesi europei, le posizioni sostenute su questi argomenti dalla Chiesa cattolica sono state ampiamente riprese e strumentalizzate dalle forze politiche e hanno trovato accoglienza e attenzione in settori politici molti diversi tra di loro, mostrando così come in Italia la distinzione destra/sinistra non sia per nulla sovrapponibile a quella cattolici/laici. Ma il dibattito italiano su questi delicati argomenti, peraltro molto altalenante nel tempo, dimostra anche l’esistenza di almeno due diverse declinazioni, anch’esse politicamente trasversali, del cattolicesimo politico: quella ‘centrista’, che accetta il pluralismo e le differenze, almeno finché non si mettono in discussione valori e istituzioni considerate fondamentali come la famiglia, e quella ‘civilizational’, che si muove in un contesto di tendenziale rifiuto del pluralismo e dell’alterità, non solo proponendo politiche di chiusura verso minoranze religiose o di genere, ma anche utilizzando in modo deliberato un linguaggio politicamente scorretto e talvolta aggressivo.
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distintivo delle società contemporanee. Per via della sua funzione di socializzazione ed educazione alla cittadinanza, la scuola riveste un ruolo chiave per l’analisi di come tali differenze sono praticate – e rese praticabili – nello spazio pubblico. In particolare, tre sono i nodi chiave: il ruolo delle religioni nel programma di insegnamento, il rispetto del pluralismo religioso
nell’istituzione scolastica, e lo statuto delle scuole d’ispirazione religiosa
nel sistema educativo. In questo contributo analizziamo le scuole cosiddette islamiche in Italia: nel primo paragrafo presentiamo i dati relativi agli alunni stranieri e alle differenze religiose a scuola; nel secondo paragrafo affrontiamo lo statuto giuridico delle scuole islamiche in Italia; nel terzo paragrafo diamo conto dell’assenza di dati – e dell’allarme pubblico – intorno a tali scuole; nel quarto paragrafo presentiamo i risultati di una prima mappatura delle scuole islamiche in Italia; infine, nel quinto paragrafo discutiamo i risultati di tali ricerca alla luce degli interrogativi che emergono nello spazio mediatico e politico intorno alle scuole musulmane in Italia.
definition of religion from a multiscalar perspective.
Supranational courts – and, especially, the European Court of
Human Rights – gained a major legitimising role in this respect.
One may thus expect that religious minorities with uncertain
status look at supranational courts as attractive and favourable
venues. The ‘local’ must be taken into account, too, in the complex
government of religious diversity: decentralised policies and different
religious profiles make room for adapting the treatment of
religious minorities at the local level, especially in situations characterised
by the absence of a legal national framework. Grounded
on an analysis of national and international case law, and on
interviews addressing the representatives of religious minorities,
our contribution explores the multiscalar repertories of action of
religious minorities in pursuing the official recognition and the
protection of their religious rights.
the women’s rights as sites of tension between different religions, and between religious traditions and secular
societies. Women’s conditions then become the proofs of evidence of religious diversity, and women’s bodies
come to personify cultural identities (religious, secular, national). In light of the extensive debate on gender
citizenship and the long-lasting discussion over the relationships between religion and political citizenship,
the focus on religious women offers an interesting site to explore how religious and gender diversities are conceptualized
and combined in the definition of contemporary political citizenship. I focus on the burkini affair,
analysing the political and public discussion in the Italian press (2004-2016), in order to shed light on how
religious and female agencies are variously combined in the representation of ‘Muslim women wearing burkini’.
The results show the differences in the conceptualization of Christian and Muslim religious agencies
in the public construction of religious women as a political subject and highlight the relevance of the studies
focusing on women, religion, and gender.
Diversamente da quanto accade in altri Paesi europei, le posizioni sostenute su questi argomenti dalla Chiesa cattolica sono state ampiamente riprese e strumentalizzate dalle forze politiche e hanno trovato accoglienza e attenzione in settori politici molti diversi tra di loro, mostrando così come in Italia la distinzione destra/sinistra non sia per nulla sovrapponibile a quella cattolici/laici. Ma il dibattito italiano su questi delicati argomenti, peraltro molto altalenante nel tempo, dimostra anche l’esistenza di almeno due diverse declinazioni, anch’esse politicamente trasversali, del cattolicesimo politico: quella ‘centrista’, che accetta il pluralismo e le differenze, almeno finché non si mettono in discussione valori e istituzioni considerate fondamentali come la famiglia, e quella ‘civilizational’, che si muove in un contesto di tendenziale rifiuto del pluralismo e dell’alterità, non solo proponendo politiche di chiusura verso minoranze religiose o di genere, ma anche utilizzando in modo deliberato un linguaggio politicamente scorretto e talvolta aggressivo.
With this issue of Religion, State & Society, we inaugurate a planned series of special sections focusing on the analysis of the political involvement of religious associations and organisations at the local level. Without pre-empting the more substantial conclusion that we plan for the last of the special sections, in this short introduction we aim to state briefly the main issues that will be covered by the selected articles.
The scholarly literature on religion and political parties in Italy has focused mainly on three interrelated aspects: the effects of the religious cleavage (that is, religious affiliation and religiosity rates as predictors of party voting); the relationships between political parties and religious actors (the Pope, the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Conference, religious movements, or religiously-inspired associations); and the role of religion in party ideology and discourse. Since Italy is well known to be a Catholic-majority country, scholars’ attention has overwhelmingly focused on Catholicism, seldom touching upon non-religion and atheism. Other religions have remained virtually undiscussed, and this contribution takes a step towards filling this gap in the scientific literature. The next section is devoted to the first phase of Italian republican history, which was dominated by the DC. The second section discusses the current transformations involving the relationships between political parties and religions. The third section draws attention to the role that other religions are likely to play in Italy’s near political future.
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immigrazione – e delle tensioni che innescano o mettono in luce. Il processo di secolarizzazione ha gli stessi effetti per le diverse comunità religiose – per la loro organizzazione interna, per il modo di intendere la fede e il religioso, per il modo in cui sono trattate a livello pubblico e politico? Come si configura la laicizzazione, nel senso di separazione tra le istituzioni religiose e politiche, alla luce delle trasformazioni del religioso contemporaneo? E qual è l’impatto del processo di europeizzazione?
In particolare, come incide la redistribuzione delle competenze di governo a livello sovra- e sub-nazionale sulle geometrie di laicità? L’europeizzazione ha un effetto secolarizzante? Come si configura la dimensione ‘religiosa’ dell’immigrazione, in un’ottica intersezionale?
e accademia attraverso una serie di seminari itineranti. Riflette sulla precarietà nell’università italiana soffermandosi sulle condizioni economiche ed esistenziali di chi fa ricerca. I nodi affrontati sono molteplici: le carriere scientifiche, la mobilità internazionale, la dimensione di genere, l’insicurezza sociale. Emerge come la precarietà accademica sia un tema di ricerca rilevante e pregnante, che interroga l’accademia nel suo complesso oltre che i sindacati, le istituzioni e i movimenti politici e sociali.
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Introduzione: Francesca Coin, Alberta Giorgi, Annalisa Murgia
Tra passione e sopravvivenza. Prospettive, condizioni e aspettative dei lavoratori della conoscenza negli atenei italiani.
Orazio Giancola, Emanuele Toscano
Futuro incerto e felicità a momenti. Tempo, vita, politica nell’università precaria
Alessandro Arienzo
Inside/Out: Storie di precarietà nell’università italiana
Elisa Bellè, Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Caterina Peroni, Elisa Rapetti
Cosmopoliti dispersi: La mobilità dei ricercatori precari tra retoriche e pratiche
Luca Raffini
La fabbrica della conoscenza e delle precarietà: Riflessioni da un’autoinchiesta nell’università al tempo della crisi
Emiliana Armano, Paola Rivetti, Sandro Busso
Confusi confini: O dei frastagliati margini tra ‘dentro’ e ‘fuori’ l’accademia
Chiara Martucci
Alle origini di un trentennio insubordinato: Autobiografia di sommovimenti cognitari indipendenti
Giuseppe Allegri
Lavoro gratis e a pagamento nella ricerca universitaria in Italia
Roberto Ciccarelli
Profili bio-bibliografici
In recent years, a number of controversies related to religious issues have characterised the European public debate at both the EU and the national level. The ‘affaire du foulard’ in France (2004-2011), the referendum on abortion in Portugal (2007), the recognition of same-sex marriages in many Western European States – from Belgium (2003), to Spain (2005), to France (2013) –, the debate over bioethics and the regulation of euthanasia (legalized in Belgium and the Netherlands – 2002), as well as the discussion on religious pluralism and the religious roots of Europe in the EU Constitution, are only a few examples of contentious issues involving religion. All these debates have been at the centre of the political and public spheres across Europe, contributing to revive the attention towards the role of religion in contemporary societies, and highlighting the diverse forms of political secularism in Europe.
The book aims at shedding light on the interrelation between the different debates, as well as their broader meaning, through the analysis of a paradigmatic case: Italy. The country summarizes and sometimes exasperates wider European trends, both because of the peculiar role traditionally played by the Vatican in Italian politics and for the rise, since the 1990s, of new political entrepreneurs eager to exploit ethical and civilizational issues. (https://www.book2look.de/embed/tDrUxyXe18&euid=0&ruid=0&referurl=www.routledge.com&clickedby=H5W&biblettype=html5 )
The analysis of the relationship between society and enterprise in contemporary knowledge economy by means of the analysis of the «knowledge workers» – and, more specifically, of university and art workers – shows that the claims, the self-narrative, and the frames indeed involve a specific analysis of the role of knowledge in the dynamics of production of contemporary society. In other words, they are at the cross-road of the main ambivalences and tensions of the contemporary model of production.
L’emergere di un’economia basata sulla produzione e sulla circolazione di conoscenza è
considerato uno dei fatti fondamentali della società attuale. Il contributo approfondisce
il rapporto tra impresa e società che si configura nel «capitalismo della conoscenza» e le
sue ambivalenze principali: quelle tra mercato e cooperazione, tra partecipazione e verticalizzazione
dei processi decisionali, tra autonomia del lavoro e neotaylorismo. In secondo
luogo analizza le caratteristiche principali delle mobilitazioni nell’ambito dei settori
della conoscenza avvenute in Italia in questi anni, ponendole in relazione con queste
ambivalenze. Se la conoscenza è un elemento rilevante del capitalismo contemporaneo,
infatti, i lavoratori della conoscenza ne sono l’elemento chiave, la cerniera tra settori
tradizionalmente ad alto contenuto di conoscenza e gli altri settori.
L’analisi del rapporto tra impresa e società nell’economia della conoscenza declinato attraverso
i «lavoratori della conoscenza» – e in particolare i lavoratori dell’università e
dello spettacolo – mostra che le rivendicazioni, l’autonarrazione e i frame proposti incorporano
una specifica analisi del ruolo della conoscenza nelle dinamiche produttive
delle società contemporanee, e si collocano al centro delle ambivalenze di tali dinamiche.
CALL: Much attention has been paid to the rise of populist forces, challenges to democratic systems and practices and the undermining of established political, economic and social norms and institutions. These trends have often been framed as having 'retrogressive' effects on democracy, secularism and a wide range of formal and substantive rights. At the same time sociologists are observing emerging forms of resilience, resistance and reconfiguration in state and society. These 'progressions' are generating uneven, unpredictable and uncertain consequences for people and politics across Europe. Political sociology is well placed to interrogate the continuities and discontinuities in ideas, interests and institutions historically constituted through empire, market and state. These historical developments are currently typically articulated through political projects that are ambivalent, supportive or contesting of permanent austerity, increasing securitization, immigration, and climate change. In this conference we seek to offer a space for colleagues to reflect on the role and function of Political Sociology in generating innovative analyses that can grasp the multiple and complex challenges posed by the interacting regressions and progressions in contemporary societies.
Please submit to rn32esa[at]gmsil.com proposals for panels by January 31st 2020 and proposals for papers by March 30th 2020.
Deadline: May 19/2019
Conference: SISP (14-16 September 2019, Lecce)
https://www.sisp.it/convegno-2019
Starting in 2012-2013 in France against marriage equality, a wave of Catholic mobilizations rapidly spread all around Europe. Catholic organizations protested against the possible recognition (or the enforcement) of LGBT+ rights, and, later on, against the so-called ‘gender theory’. A few years later, this wave of mobilization is still in place and
gained new fuel from the electoral and political success of the extreme right, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2018, for example, Hungary banned gender studies at colleges: this testifies for a renewed public legitimacy of religious discourse in the public and political spheres. Furthermore, the development of transnational networks facilitated
the diffusion of mobilization resources and repertories of actions across countries. The 2019 World Congress of Families, organized by the International Organization for the Family to protect the ‘traditional’ family, will take place in Italy where the Minister of the family, a devoted Catholic, is openly anti-abortion.
This panel focuses on the Catholic mobilizations in Europe, to understand cross-country similarities and differences, internal organizations and claims between local actions and transnational networks, patterns of failures and successes, and alliances and opponents.
Conservative and reactionary mobilizations, very visible since 2012, tend to obscure progressive Catholics engaged, amongst others, in the Peace Movement or in the Refugees and Migrant solidarity movements but we would also like to include these groups to the analysis.
Theoretically grounded empirical papers are welcome on the following (but not exclusive) topics:
• Case studies and/or comparative analyses of Catholic mobilizations (conservative and progressive ones)
• Public and media discourse around Catholic mobilization
• Analysis of transnational networking
• Methodology papers on how to study these movements that pose specific
challenges
• Papers addressing social movements theory: what these mobilizations can bring to SM theory, which is built on non-religious mostly progressive case studies?
• How to integrate religion in Social Movement Studies? Is there a Catholic
specificity?
• Papers addressing the gendered agenda of these movements, but also their gendered organization.
Chairs: Martina Avanza, Alberta Giorgi
Deadline: May 19/2019
Conference: SISP (14-16 September 2019, Lecce)
https://www.sisp.it/convegno-2019
Contemporary European societies have been described as 'post-democratic' and 'post-secular'. The rise of the extreme right, political disintermediation, the judicialization of the political sphere, citizens' disaffection towards institutional politics, the personalization of politics, and issues' polarization are some of the processes affecting the contemporary political sphere. At the same time, the relevant political role of religion-related issues, the pervasive voice of religious actors, the diffusion of religiously-inspired mobilizations, the diversification of European societies' religious landscape, and the rise of religiously-motivated hatred characterize contemporary religions' presence and religious experience. In light of these processes, this panel focuses on the entanglement of the 'post-secular' and 'post-democracy' conceptualizations. Does post-democracy intervene on the traditional boundaries of secular societies? Can the analyses on post-secularisation shed light on the changing role of political 'authority'? How do the two concepts interact in the context of contemporary democracies? The panel welcomes both theoretical and theoretically grounded empirical papers (single case studies as well as comparative papers) on the following (but not exclusive) topics: •Extreme right, populism, and religions (religious identity, religious freedom, religious diversity, debates and policies on religion-related issues, relations between parties and religious institutions, etc.) •New religious movements and politics (new issues, new forms of religion/politics entanglements, etc.) •Religion and democratization processes in the 21st century (the role of religion in new authoritarian trends in former democracies, religious actors in democratization movements, etc.) •The post-secular state (role of religious institutions in policy-making, religion and political parties, new kinds of separation between church and state, etc.) Chairs: Alberta Giorgi,Luca Ozzano
The submission deadline is January 15, 2018.
Conference website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/