In the Journals – August 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. We are…
Tag: Italy
Immigration and Capital
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or accurate, the role of immigration is…
Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…
Gustolab Summer Internship
A note from Salem Paulos, Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies: After last year’s successful internship program, Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies is pleased to lau…
John Foot’s The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by Nirmala Jayaraman
The Man Who Closed The Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot Verso Press, 2015, 404 pages Embracing change is the best…
The Construction of Anthropological Knowledge and the Construction of Research
To mark the publication of the newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture series, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood, the…
What does social media tell us about sociality in Grano?
‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video]. So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my…
Varoufakis announces pan-European movement to “democratise the EU”
In a recent interview for the Italian magazine L’Espresso, former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis announces the formation of a new Pan-European movement in February 2016, with…
Teenagers on social media in southeast Italy – quantitative data
In this blog post I will take a look to the quantitative data from my fieldwork, discussing some findings from a questionnaire I conducted with students in their…
In the Journals – November 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. November has brought forth a number of engaging and…
What’s special about social media in small places?
‘Normal friend: ‘Wow, how beautiful you are!’ / Best friend: It’s Shrek on the phone, says he wants his face back.’ Meme shared on Facebook by Comix From…
Alberto Prunetti’s “Amianto. Una storia operaia” by Cinzia Greco
Amianto. Una storia operaia by Alberto Prunetti Edizioni Alegre, 2014, 192 pages. Amianto. Una storia operaia (Asbestos. A Working-Class Story) is written by Alberto Prunetti, an Italian writer…
Facebook as a window: managing online appearance
Shop window in Grano (Photograph by Razvan Nicolescu) A particularly common way that many people in the Italian field site thought about Facebook was by comparing it to a shop window (vetrina…
The immigrants ‘crisis’ and the limits of Facebook
Photomontage realised by Vento Ribelle and posted on their Facebook page on the 20 April 2015 and shared by left-wing individuals in Grano. This post is prompted by the…
Singing on the Train
If traveling by train from Sicily to mainland Italy, the train is cut in half and boards a ferry. The ferry, carrying its cargo of train cars and…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Yugoslav reflections
In her recently opened exhibition “Refleksije vremena 1945.-1955.“, curator Jasmine Bavoljak uses more than 300 art works, everyday objects, films, photos and documents to create an image of…
Metaphors of growth and interconnectivity
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…
Metaphors of growth and interconnectivity
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…
Metaphors of growth and interconnectivity
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…
Metaphors of growth and interconnectivity
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…