RISULTATI RICERCA

On Ruling Migrants. Some Recents Studies on Migrations, Borders and Subjectification ABSTRACT: Migratory mobility, analyzed in relation with the present transitions in the areas of power and knowledge, is an emblematic representation of the ongoing flux of movement which characterizes global society. This aspect stands out if we look at the documents of the main international organizations but also it we analyze the « border ’s biopolitics » implemented by the European Union, meant to give value to migrants’ mobility. But while in the process of European constitutionalization citizenship turns out to be both inclusive and exclusive, because of the discriminatory character of borders, the process of migrants’ subjectification have weakly shown that the process through which citizenship is being build may turn out to be an area of conflict and protest.

Ambiguous Tropics: Gilberto Freyre’s Happy Multi-ethnicity and the Last Portuguese ColonialismABSTRACT: 1. The forming and fame of a intellectual going against the traffic. 2. The trilogy on Brazil’s patriarchal society. 3. For racial fusion against German geopolitics: Gilberto «the communist »? 4. The invitation by Salazar’s Portugal: Gilberto «the fascist»? 5. Gilberto Freyre’s vision of Portuguese colonialism in 1937- 1940. 6. The works written during his trip in the Portuguese colonies in 1951-52. 7. The strenghtening of Gilberto Freyre’s Lusitanian-tropicalism (1958-1961): 8. Lusitanian-tropicalism, today.

Local elections 2007: the Lecce case and the new paradigms of campaigning ABSTRACT: Permanent campaign, personalization of politics, postmodern campaigning. The studies concerning political communication have been expanding on these three topics for a long time. Each election becomes an opportunity to trail the new analytical models. The election campaign carried out in May 2007 in Lecce belongs to the area of interest of the latest reflections about the campaigning’s transformations in Italy. The two main competitors have managed some typically postmodern election campaigns. The competition has confirmed the advantages that an incumbent can have: the experience is very important; the good effects of the incumbency factor are still alive.

The Fragile Journalism. The last 52 days of the 2006 political elections ABSTRACT: During the last two months of the national election campaign in 2006, the Italian political journalism persisted in his fragile condition of subordination towards the political systems. This hypothesis is confirmed by a content analysis which investigates the coverage assigned to the two candidates (Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi), in the pages of Corriere della Sera and Sole 24 Ore, during the last 52 days of campaigning. The analysis lead to three main results. First, the Italian political journalism is still dominated by his collateralism in front of the political power: especially the Corriere della Sera has been strongly partisan, supporting the centre-left candidate and criticizing the centre-right one. Second, the agenda of the campaign was build up following the interests of the two coalition’s strategies. Third, the news production in Italy is influenced by the international trends of commercialization, that in the classical cluster of political, policy, personal and campaign issues, privileges the last two kind of topics.

The red rope. Athenian Democracy and James S. Fishkin’s Deliberative Polling ABSTRACT: Behind the deliberative instances that are influencing the western democracies, it is possible to find suggestions coming from the Athenian model, which has inspired several proposals. Among the most important and complex ones is the Deliberative Polling®, created by the political and social scientist James S. Fishkin, who paid great attention to Mogens H. Hansen’s studies about Athenian democracy. The Deliberative Polling® (that doesn’t aspire to become a ‘political system’, but to remain a cognitive and communicative tool) considers the historical precedent without coping with the ancient philosophical models (the Platonic and the Aristotelian one, both hostile to the power of the ‘masses’). The important results of Fishkin raise a fundamental question: how that complex, ancient reality could be communicated or even proposed again? The red wire is an ideal continuity, broken by the several limits of the practice; problems of participation, space and time reveal their presence both in the Athenian polis where a red rope stretched around the Assembly caught and contained the voters and in the models inspired by it.

Berlusconi and Prodi: who assembles a better set of frames? ABSTRACT: and Antonio Ciaglia This article examines how the strong radicalization, stemmed from the new electoral system, has affected the mass media coverage on the last electoral campaign in Italy. The hypothesis is to demonstrate how the political personalization, represented by center-left incumbent Berlusconi and by center-right hopeful Prodi, has maneuvered the building of frames via newspaper coverage. The article begins with an overview of the principle theoretical problems followed by an in-depth analysis of possible connections among media agenda influence. It then continues to discuss the dynamics of the opinion climate and the electoral campaign. Finally, through the study of the content published by the major Italian newspapers a month before the Election Day (April 9, 2006), the relationship between frames and the two political coalitions is derived. In conclusion, the article yields a high level of insights as to which coalition has exerted more impact on the mass media coverage and on the voters’ perception.

The Origins of Telecracy. The Evolution of Political Communication in France During the Fourth Republic ABSTRACT: This essays analyzes the development of political communication in France at the end of the Fourth Republic by looking at the increasing political legitimation of the use of Tv. While the interconnection between politics and Tv started only in 1958, when general de Gaulle returned to the political scene, the mid-Fifties are an important turning point for the analysis of political communication. In this period a new generation of political leaders subverted the traditional distance between politicians and the masses by using radio and Tv as a new form of political space. This article, which focuses on Pierre Mendès France and Guy Mollet, argues that their government experiences anticipated the absolute personalization of power that took place during the Fifth Republic in the form of a direct relationship between the head of the executive branch and the nation through the use of Tv and, at the institutional level, through the introduction of the referendum and the popular election of the President.

L'analisi economica del crimine organizzato ABSTRACT: The paper analyses the harmful effects that the presence of organized crime has in the process of economic development. It examines the racket and the acting of organized crime in the legal market. In the legal market, the racket and, more generally, the presence of mafia alter the structure of economic incentives and hence the efficient allocation of resources, and reduce the overall well-being, present and future, with a direct impact on the prospects for development economics. Organized crime alters the competitive impersonal rule of the market and it imposes its own rules and their own personal relational systems to maintain control of the territory. In an analysis of legislation, then, the prevailing view in the international organizations is that the lack of credibility of the institutions, not the certainty and effectiveness of law (rule of law) allows entry into markets legal organizations criminals, thus triggering a vicious circle that depresses the economic and social growth of a country. One last, but not least important consideration, concerns the impact of the criminal action has to reduce the scope of choice for traders. This is a crucial aspect of economic development that is not only given by material wealth but also of values, law and with what freedom of choice.

Cambiamenti socio-economici e rescaling amministrativo: il caso del Lazio ABSTRACT: This article explores the territorial dimension of institutional rescaling in Italian regional context through the case study of one of the biggest Italian region. It is argued that institutional rescaling it’s not simply devolution of powers to lower administrative levels. A dialectical relation between territorial reorganization of labour market, residential location of demographic changes and Institutional reforms, rules the way in which geographic scales intermingle with each other. In the Italian case Regions took more and more importance since Constitutional reform of 2001, but not every administrative region is also a region in a geographical sense. Lazio’s territory has the distinctive features of being divided between the periphery of Rome (a city containing millions of inhabitant by itself) and rural counties. The consequence is the over- representation of Rome in the distributions of Institutional competences and resources dedicated to social policies. The Municipality of Rome has indeed a parallel importance in Social and Activation policies and assume several additional task compared not only to other municipalities, bit to the other counties.

Dai distretti rurali ai parchi agroalimentari ABSTRACT: These years of market globalization have caused the spreading of agricultural products with a poor territorial content. As a consequence to the unrecognizability of foodstuffs, critical consumers are becoming popular in Italy too; they want quality and local products, therefore they force the agricultural sector to adapt to the new situation. To face this scenario, the body of agricultural rules has been obliged to reform: the Law 228/01 gives more importance to typical products and establishes the quality rural foodstuffs Districts. The following article analyses the short experience of these Districts and compares it to the agricultural parks one and to the first foodstuffs park experiences.

Sviluppo rurale e approccio distrettuale. Analisi e prospettive per un modello di sviluppo economico diversificato ABSTRACT: Food supply is not the present main role of European agriculture, because it is assured by international trade, but the new objective is the sustainable land management. Actually the territory can’t only be considered as a container of economic activities but it is a capital to manage and exploit, by promoting productions and other human activities. This active role of the territory for the socio-economic development is evident in the law of agriculture modernization and orienting, that introduces two different territorial entities: the rural district and the agro-food quality district. The rural district is quite different from the concept of industrial district because it is not based on geographical concentration and specialization of production but its main characteristic is horizontal integration. Mainly, the rural district can be considered as a governance approach to manage the territory based on public and private cooperation. In the rural district approach there is the complexity of a reality, not only economic but social and environmental, so there are elements in conflict with some developing interests of a territory that can block its effective application.

L'evoluzione del rurale. Teoria e politica per lo sviluppo integrato del territorio ABSTRACT: The rural areas in the European Union represent 91% of the territory and 56% of the population. The analysis of their development, is a topic often ne-glected by the regional economists, and delegated to agricultural economists. A condition that appears more and more anachronistic in consideration that, in many cases, rural areas have been able to actively participate to economic and social development taking advantage from the integration between eco-nomic sectors and environmental resources. This article analyses rurality with an evolutionary approach. Three following stages of rurality, named re-spectively agrarian rurality, industrial rurality and post-industrial rurality are analytically presented. They are the result of the redistribution of employment and value between economic sectors along time, but also of the changes in the citizens’ and consumers’ expectations with rurality. Passing from one stage to the other, role of agriculture itself changes.