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  • Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

    A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Hatem Akil, Simone Maddanu ...
    Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting the notions of modernity, modernism, and modernization, which can no longer be considered purely Western or strictly secular. The book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines – ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Occupying Island

    Resisting Militarization in a No-War Zone

    by Aide Esu, Simone Maddanu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an analytical perspective of the unfolding militarization in the Italian island of Sardinia, grounded in extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and using in-depth documentation analysis. Since the late 1950s, the island, which is the second largest in the Mediterranean, has been one of the main hubs for weapons testing and interforce training for the Italian armed forces and NATO. The ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic

    Edited by Simone Maddanu, Emanuele Toscano ...
    Series series The COVID-19 Pandemic Series
    This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light on political and cultural realities around the world. With attention to inequalities rooted in race ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Restless Cities on the Edge

    Collective Actions, Immigration and Populism

    by Antimo Luigi Farro, Simone Maddanu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene

    by Domenico Branca, Ignazio Camarda, Brittany Chally, Massimo Dell'Ultri, Aide Esu, Emanuela Ferreri, Federico Francioni, Jean-Marie Kauth, John Kloos, Simone Maddanu, Giuliana Mannu0, Joaquin Montero1, Livio Perra2, Javier Romero3, Peter Seely4, Elizabeth G. Dobbins6, Maria Lucia Piga8, Luigi Manca0, Steve Macek1, Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy2 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The notion of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social ... Read more

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  • Tight Knit

    Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion

    by Elizabeth L. Krause ...
    The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in Italy" labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industry—all the while adding new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Italy's Decline

    by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela ...
    Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Women and the Subversion of the Community

    A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader

    by Harry Cleaver ...
    This collection brings together key texts and previously unavailable essays of the influential Italian feminist author and activist Mariarosa Dalla Costa. In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women's struggles and strikes across the world. The collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    by Alessia Usai ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Facing the Crisis

    Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

    Edited by Simone Ghezzi, Fulvia D’Aloisio ...
    Series Book 30 - Dislocations
    Among the founding nations of the European Union, no nation has experienced a more devastating affect from the 2008 economic crisis than Italy. Although its recovery has recently begun, Italy has fallen even further behind EU economic leaders and the EU average. Looking at how and why this happened, Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects ... Read more

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  • From Clans to Co-ops

    Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

    by Theodoros Rakopoulos ...
    Series Book 4 - The Human Economy
    From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos’s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and ... Read more

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