RISULTATI RICERCA

L’autrice riassume secondo una visione personale i modi con i quali il pensiero psicoanali-tico ha concettualizzato nel tempo il male, inteso come "ciò che fa male" nella mente: il modello idrostatico del blocco e della sua risoluzione, quello del conflitto correlato all’idea di polarità e di equilibrio, e il modello di pensiero e antipensiero di Bion. Il lavoro indica delle possibili connessioni con i diversi momenti storici e il mutare dei paradigmi scientifici ed etici dal posi-tivismo di fine Ottocento all’esperienza delle due guerre mondiali e delle tragedie dei totalitari-smi, rilevando possibili connessioni con il cambiamento dei nostri modi di pensare a "ciò che fa male" nella mente.

Introduction: This research is inspired by numerous stimuli from accounting studies under both structuration and historical perspectives. Giddens’ Structuration Theory based research calls for more investigations on the relationships between social structures and agents’ actions in a specific time-space context. However, accounting historians addressed research to explore the accounting system in a non-profit organisation operating between the sacred and the profane. The study of the Society for the Preservation of the Christian Art Monuments in Pavia (1875-1908) has allowed fulfilling these gaps, considering the rich accounting sources available at the Civic Historical Archive of Pavia. Aim: Prior literature has addressed the research to explore if and how accounting was involved in the evolution of the preservation of the Christian art monuments in Pavia (1875-1908). Their origin referred to the earlier Company of Holy Rosary (1577) with the mission to conduct solemn celebrations, using sacred music, against the plagues. These research questions have been investigated to widen knowledge on the accounting history of non-profit organisations with a philanthropic and religious purpose. Methodological Approach: The research methodology is based on a longitudinal case study: The Society for the Preservation of the Christian Art Monuments in Pavia (1875-1908). Upon examination of the archival sources, a reconstruction of the history of the Society based on the contextual, and institutional and organisational changes as been attempted. The Structuration Theory has been adopted to interpret the accounting sources. Moreover, the synchronic approach has enabled the development of critical analysis, considering the trend of accounting knowledge during the period of this study. Main Findings: The research findings highlight the traits of continuity and changes in accounting with the contextual and institutional or organisational evolution of the Society. Accounting has contributed to the resilience and relevance of this organisation. The traits of changes, connected to the structural dimensions of accounting, enabled the accountability of information on the Society. This legitimised its philanthropic mission and strengthened the accounting domination, secularly than ecclesiastic. The research highlights how the double facade of accounting guaranteed the Society’s resilience by fulfilling both technical and spiritual objectives during its long-existence. Originality: The Society for the Preservation of the Christian Art Monuments in Pavia has never been studied from the perspective of accounting history. This research bridges the gap in the history of the Society whose existence over the centuries has been questioned. From the Structuration Theory perspective, the study’s contribution to exploring the structural dimensions of accounting is still under-investigated also within the field of accounting history. Finally, the research findings open a new stream of historical investigation about accounting and resilience within non-profit organizations and in other settings.

Introduction: The paper considers the case of the University of Ferrara during the Fascist regime (1922-1943) and investigates the use of accounting practices in the government's attempt to achieve control of the organisation. Aim of the work: The study seeks to document how accounting practices can be enlisted to subjugate institutions that had traditionally enjoyed significant inde-pendence from governments and pursue the ideological programmes of dominant elites. Methodological approach: The paper is based upon primary sources gathered from the historical archive of the University of Ferrara. Their interpretation has been guided by the literature that has explored the connections between ac-counting and the State. Main findings: Accounting ensured that key information on the University could be gathered by the government. It also helped to make visible the need of the University to rely on government funding when Fascist policies had the effect of "starving" the organisation of funds, which caused the University to accept pene-trating controls by the State. Originality: The paper has broadened the compass of research into the interrela-tion between accounting and State power by considering an under-research context and documenting the role of accounting in controlling institutions that were essential to the achievement of political goals.

In today’s age of globalization and mobility, children are impacted as they cross cultures, languages, and school systems. For the privileged this can be seen as a glamorous lifestyle; for the refugee and displaced person this move has more negative consequences. Both of these groups share both positive and negative characteristics as a result of growing up among cultures. In the 1950s Ruth Useem first referred to these children as Third Culture Kids (TCKs) who grew up in a cross-section of two cultures. This term was then expanded to Cross Culture Kids (CCKs); a subset of which includes children of refugees and migrants. This article offers a brief overview of the concept of Cross Culture Kids and research from studies conducted with this unique group of children. Educational practices and methods of interventions are considered in light of the particular needs of CCK refugees in the Italian context in order to facilitate cultural humility and inclusive processes in multiethnic and multicultural schools.

Il democratico Jimmy Carter venne eletto presidente degli Stati Uniti nel novembre del 1976.Pochi mesi prima, il Partito comunista italiano (Pci) aveva ottenuto uno straordinario risultatoelettorale che aveva garantito incarichi istituzionali ad alcuni suoi esponenti. Durante lacampagna elettorale, i membri dell’entourage di Carter rilasciarono dichiarazioni che sembravanopreludere all’abbandono del veto anticomunista posto dai governi precedenti e per circaun anno dall’insediamento l’amministrazione mantenne una posizione ambigua. Il 12 gennaio1978, tuttavia, gli Stati Uniti ribadirono ufficialmente la contrarietà a qualsiasi forma dipartecipazione dei comunisti nel governo italiano. Utilizzando fonti di natura diversa e includendonell’analisi una pluralità di attori non statali tra cui think tank e centri di ricerca universitari,questo saggio mira a ricostruire il dibattito interno all’amministrazione Carter sulla "questione comunista" in Italia e a collocarlo all’interno di una discussione più ampia che attraversòla cultura liberal statunitense.

Il contributo propone un’analisi della storiografia italiana sul welfare, con particolare attenzionealle ricerche gender-oriented, allo scopo di individuare acquisizioni, problemi apertie prospettive, attraverso il confronto con il panorama internazionale. Scopo del contributoè mostrare come queste ricerche possano compiere ulteriori progressi facendo proprio un approcciotransnazionale e globale in senso lato, proponendo anche una serie di temi e questionipossibili da affrontare.

In occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario dei tumultuosi eventi culminati nel Sessantottola storiografia italiana " e non solo, evidentemente, ma è su questa che il saggio si sofferma" si è mostrata indubbiamente vivace anche se forse non proprio scoppiettante quanto aoriginalità. Sul piano editoriale questa vivacità si è manifestata nella pubblicazione di un considerevolenumero di studi di cui non è possibile rendere conto in maniera esaustiva in questasede data l’eterogeneità degli approcci, dei livelli analitici e delle interpretazioni proposte.Svilupperò pertanto alcune considerazioni in merito a una scelta ragionata di testi in mododa rendere conto di alcune delle direttrici più significative della ricerca in merito sia agli approccimetodologici sia alle interpretazioni e alle chiavi di lettura che ne emergono. In ordinealfabetico trattasi di: Michele Battini, Un sessantotto, Milano, 2018; Guido Crainz (a curadi), Il Sessantotto sequestrato. Cecoslovacchia, Polonia, Jugoslavia e dintorni, Roma, 2018;Marcello Flores, Giovanni Gozzini, 1968. Un anno spartiacque, Bologna, 2018; Monica Galfré,La scuola è il nostro Vietnam. Il ’68 e l’istruzione secondaria italiana, Roma, 2019; PaoloPombeni, Che cosa resta del ’68, Bologna, 2018; Francesca Socrate, Sessantotto. Due generazioni,Roma-Bari, 2018.