In the past two decades, research in both social movement studies and critical youth studies has recorded growing criticism by youth political activism of the individualising processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperation and mutualism can build local forms of the common and the collective. In the first part of the article, we describe our analytical tools such as singularization, mutualism and generation, and the way in which they can highlight current political imagination of Italian youth; in the second part we present the results of our investigation and the way in which interviewees claim to belong to a wider frame of the transformation of politics in individualized societies.
{"title":"Youth multidimensional political activism between singularization and mutualism: the case of Up network","authors":"P. Rebughini, Lidia Lo Schiavo","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14638","url":null,"abstract":"In the past two decades, research in both social movement studies and critical youth studies has recorded growing criticism by youth political activism of the individualising processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperation and mutualism can build local forms of the common and the collective. In the first part of the article, we describe our analytical tools such as singularization, mutualism and generation, and the way in which they can highlight current political imagination of Italian youth; in the second part we present the results of our investigation and the way in which interviewees claim to belong to a wider frame of the transformation of politics in individualized societies.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85311462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article analyzes one of the crucial junctures in the fight against climate change, namely its relationship with the media and disinformation. A dense network of actors is involved in the creation and dissemination of disinformation that has long been supported by the economic interests of the oil and coal industries and is now fully embedded in the post-truth climate. The absence of direct experience and perception of the effects of climate change has emphasized the public’s cognitive dependence on the media, which, however, have lagged far behind and manifested inadequacy with respect to the emergence of the global warming issue. In dialogue with a vast scientific literature and Pew research data, the paper analyzes the widespread post-factual and social attitudes ranging from skepticism to outright militant denialism.In this context, the article proposes and signals the need for a healthy epistemic environment, understood as an indispensable index of the quality of democracy and of critical subjectivity as a preconditions for any positive action against countering climate change.
{"title":"Benessere epistemico, mass media, disinformazione e cambiamento climatico","authors":"C. Hassan","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14408","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes one of the crucial junctures in the fight against climate change, namely its relationship with the media and disinformation. A dense network of actors is involved in the creation and dissemination of disinformation that has long been supported by the economic interests of the oil and coal industries and is now fully embedded in the post-truth climate. The absence of direct experience and perception of the effects of climate change has emphasized the public’s cognitive dependence on the media, which, however, have lagged far behind and manifested inadequacy with respect to the emergence of the global warming issue. In dialogue with a vast scientific literature and Pew research data, the paper analyzes the widespread post-factual and social attitudes ranging from skepticism to outright militant denialism.In this context, the article proposes and signals the need for a healthy epistemic environment, understood as an indispensable index of the quality of democracy and of critical subjectivity as a preconditions for any positive action against countering climate change.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79661081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper relates Elias' thought to Mead's, starting from the embodied dimension of emotions. The approach of the two authors to emotions is affected by a conception of society as deeply intertwined with biological and somatic aspects. Rediscovering and enhancing these aspects is configured as a radical challenge to the disciplinary barriers with which such topics are traditionally addressed. This allows to relate the thought of the two authors within a theoretical framework that can shed light on the embodied aspects of emotional action.
{"title":"George Herbert Mead e Norbert Elias. Un dialogo a partire dalle emozioni.","authors":"Giacomo Lampredi","doi":"10.36253/cambio-13255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-13255","url":null,"abstract":"The paper relates Elias' thought to Mead's, starting from the embodied dimension of emotions. The approach of the two authors to emotions is affected by a conception of society as deeply intertwined with biological and somatic aspects. Rediscovering and enhancing these aspects is configured as a radical challenge to the disciplinary barriers with which such topics are traditionally addressed. This allows to relate the thought of the two authors within a theoretical framework that can shed light on the embodied aspects of emotional action.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81240872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This contribution is inspired by Italo Calvino’s Harvard Lectures which should had been hold at Harvard in 1986 and were never delivered because of Calvino’s sudden and premature death. Calvino began his American lectures with a series of reflections on six qualities that he considered essential for good literature and then broadened his reflections to other (no strictly literary) dimensions of our existence. This article is based on a series of reflections on six sociological subjects that I consider essential to frame the recent pandemic, and then it extends such reflections to other realms of our everyday life. Care, Welfare, Death, Politics, Europe, and Marginality: the common denominator of these different key sociological subject matters is represented by emotions and their too often unacknowledged role in interpreting and explaining contemporary phenomena. They have been chosen as they represent a number of core themes which are considered key to help us demarcating the field of our critical analyses of the pandemic, but also because they epitomise paradigmatic contexts where the political relevance of emotional dynamics vividly emerge. In this sense, the main goal of this contribution is to invite scholars from different disciplinary perspectives to further investigate these key sociological subject matters by taking into account the crucial role of emotions, shedding light on the not so visible links between micro- and macro-levels of analysis and their implications for social change, and broadening our reflections to other (no strictly sociological) dimensions of our existence.
{"title":"Six Memos for the Current Time. Rethinking six contemporary sociological matters in light of the emotional dynamics shaping them","authors":"A. Pratesi","doi":"10.36253/cambio-13862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-13862","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution is inspired by Italo Calvino’s Harvard Lectures which should had been hold at Harvard in 1986 and were never delivered because of Calvino’s sudden and premature death. Calvino began his American lectures with a series of reflections on six qualities that he considered essential for good literature and then broadened his reflections to other (no strictly literary) dimensions of our existence. This article is based on a series of reflections on six sociological subjects that I consider essential to frame the recent pandemic, and then it extends such reflections to other realms of our everyday life. Care, Welfare, Death, Politics, Europe, and Marginality: the common denominator of these different key sociological subject matters is represented by emotions and their too often unacknowledged role in interpreting and explaining contemporary phenomena. They have been chosen as they represent a number of core themes which are considered key to help us demarcating the field of our critical analyses of the pandemic, but also because they epitomise paradigmatic contexts where the political relevance of emotional dynamics vividly emerge. In this sense, the main goal of this contribution is to invite scholars from different disciplinary perspectives to further investigate these key sociological subject matters by taking into account the crucial role of emotions, shedding light on the not so visible links between micro- and macro-levels of analysis and their implications for social change, and broadening our reflections to other (no strictly sociological) dimensions of our existence.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81070876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enrico Fravega. L’abitare migrante. Racconti di vita e percorsi abitativi di migranti in Italia","authors":"Pietro Cingolani","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14548","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78569781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people – are deeply influenced by a new attention towards the plurality of differences, with their intertwinements and intersections, inspiring a new conceptualization of immanent utopia looking beyond binarism, androcentric, Eurocentric and anthropocentric standpoints. The article highlights how, by reassembling existing resources and knowledges, utopia appears today more as a method than a goal.
{"title":"Utopie per fare la differenza: dimensioni post-eurocentriche e post-antropocentriche dell’utopico","authors":"P. Rebughini","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14049","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people – are deeply influenced by a new attention towards the plurality of differences, with their intertwinements and intersections, inspiring a new conceptualization of immanent utopia looking beyond binarism, androcentric, Eurocentric and anthropocentric standpoints. The article highlights how, by reassembling existing resources and knowledges, utopia appears today more as a method than a goal.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84630890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram. Disciplinare i poveri. Paternalismo neoliberale e dimensione razziale nel governo della povertà","authors":"E. Polizzi","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14547","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89510777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sebastiano Citroni. L’associarsi quotidiano. Terzo settore in cambiamento e società civile","authors":"Anna Reggiardo","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14549","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81094378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The rapidity of recent social transformations and the suspension of much of the knowledge that has settled in our daily lives call for a twofold action: designing new political objectives of social justice and shedding light on analytical tools capable of both laying bare inequalities and the power structures that feed them, and outlining paths of transformative intervention. The link between sociology and utopia emerges here with particular clarity. Both, in fact, refer to an imaginary reconstruction of society. Starting with the most recent thematisation of utopia – whose real, everyday, concrete, embodied character is emphasised – this essay explores the link between utopias, common sense and everyday life. The aim is to weave the threads between the transformations of common sense and everyday utopian practices against the backdrop of that re-enchantment of the everyday of Weberian memory. The space-time of the everyday becomes the stage where minute, banal and taken for granted routines can become counter-hegemonic actions, everyday utopias endowed with transformative power.
{"title":"La forza trasformativa delle utopie quotidiane. Un’introduzione","authors":"I. Camozzi","doi":"10.36253/cambio-14545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-14545","url":null,"abstract":"The rapidity of recent social transformations and the suspension of much of the knowledge that has settled in our daily lives call for a twofold action: designing new political objectives of social justice and shedding light on analytical tools capable of both laying bare inequalities and the power structures that feed them, and outlining paths of transformative intervention. The link between sociology and utopia emerges here with particular clarity. Both, in fact, refer to an imaginary reconstruction of society. Starting with the most recent thematisation of utopia – whose real, everyday, concrete, embodied character is emphasised – this essay explores the link between utopias, common sense and everyday life. The aim is to weave the threads between the transformations of common sense and everyday utopian practices against the backdrop of that re-enchantment of the everyday of Weberian memory. The space-time of the everyday becomes the stage where minute, banal and taken for granted routines can become counter-hegemonic actions, everyday utopias endowed with transformative power.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72612017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper aims to understand how the first phase of exit from the pandemic has changed the temporality of everyday life and produced an affective atmosphere characterized by a positive attitude towards the future. I will start by analyzing the link between utopia and everyday life: on the one hand, as a privileged area of prefigurative practices in the different versions of utopian realism, and on the other, as trapped in the present in the theories of presentification. I will then examine some emblematic cases of a ‘need for the future’ that emerged in the first exit from the pandemic in the spring-summer 2021. Finally, starting from the affective and temporally complex nature of the present as conceptualized by Berlant (Berlant, 2011; Berlant, 2008) and Coleman (Coleman, 2020b; Coleman, 2020a), I will try to account for the push toward the future that the partial exit from the pandemic has perhaps brought out.
{"title":"Il futuro come Utopia?","authors":"G. Mandich","doi":"10.36253/cambio-13810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36253/cambio-13810","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to understand how the first phase of exit from the pandemic has changed the temporality of everyday life and produced an affective atmosphere characterized by a positive attitude towards the future. I will start by analyzing the link between utopia and everyday life: on the one hand, as a privileged area of prefigurative practices in the different versions of utopian realism, and on the other, as trapped in the present in the theories of presentification. I will then examine some emblematic cases of a ‘need for the future’ that emerged in the first exit from the pandemic in the spring-summer 2021. Finally, starting from the affective and temporally complex nature of the present as conceptualized by Berlant (Berlant, 2011; Berlant, 2008) and Coleman (Coleman, 2020b; Coleman, 2020a), I will try to account for the push toward the future that the partial exit from the pandemic has perhaps brought out.","PeriodicalId":41955,"journal":{"name":"Cambio-Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76709499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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