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This article examines the impact of urban austerity on public real estate management and citizen action. Drawing on the notions of ambivalence and ambiguity, it argues that post-welfare urban austerity produces hybrid arrangements in which citizens, associations and public institutions co-manage spaces and services. These practices simultaneously sustain neoliberal governance and generate infrastructures of care. Based on comparative research in French and Italian cities, the article argues that public buildings constitute a crucial arena in which the material, political, and moral dimensions of post-welfare urbanism are negotiated.

L’autore analizza l’economia della cura nel suo essere una strategia tardoliberale fondata su due elementi: dominio maschile (Bourdieu 1998) e principio di responsabilità individuale (Rose 2006). Trattasi, dunque, di una pratica di produzione del lavoro direttamente connessa alla visione post-welfariana dei rapporti economico-produttivi. In particolare, l’autore esamina il modo in cui i processi decisionali e gli apparati discorsivi definiscono l’importanza dell’economia della cura e agiscono nella sistematizzazione della relazione curante/curato all’interno della complessa rete socio-assistenziale. Il contesto della ricerca empirica è Napoli, città in cui si registra un notevole aumento di professionisti dell’economia della cura.

The Italian labor market is recognized as disadvantaged for foreign-born citizens, with negative effects on their psychosocial wellbeing. In other countries, significant differences between career aspirations and expectations or perceived opportunities in native and foreign-born citizens has been welldocumented, mainly due to the presence of perceived socio-economic barriers, while studies on this topic are lacking in Italy. Addressing this research gap, we investigated the relationship between career expectations and aspirations in native and foreign-born citizens and the role of the perceived contextual barriers within an Italian sample. 291 inhabitants of Pioltello, a multicultural municipality in the metropolitan area of Milan, were involved in our quantitative study. Results suggest that, in line with the latest research trends, the Italian context differences already emerge in the aspirational phase, as foreign-born citizens are more aligned than natives with the labor market demands. Differently, natives operate a stronger realignment in the transition from career aspirations to expectations. Moreover, foreign-born citizens also perceive a stronger influence of socio-economic barriers on their career opportunities. Policy implications of this findings in psycho-social and educational fields, aimed at promoting individual and social wellbeing, are finally discussed.

School guidance in general terms and, more specifically, school career guidance are effective means for the positive development of students in the academic and personal-social domains, as well as in their approach toward the labor market. Indeed, guidance programs can boost dimensions that play a relevant role in keeping students’ high motivation within the academic context, thus preventing drop-out, ameliorating their academic achievement and orienting them toward their future career. In light of this, the present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of different guidance tools in producing more specific increases in participants’ self-efficacy, self-esteem, attitude toward enterprise and in several EntreComp dimensions. The main focus is on the Career ToolVip24, a career guidance tool developed in Norway. The study, which is part of the European Project Erasmus+ KA2 “Tool VIP24”, was conducted across four European countries (i.e., Germany, Italy, Norway and Poland), involving middle and high school students ranging from the 8th to the 13th grade.Results indicate how the students participating in the Career ToolVip24, but not the students in the control group nor students participating in other guidance tools, significantly ameliorated in many of the investigated dimensions (including self-efficacy, self-esteem and attitude toward enterprise) at a postintervention evaluation compared to a pre-intervention evaluation.The implications of the results for students’ attitude toward both the school and the labor market are discussed, together with the limitations of the study and directions for future research.

Nel presente contributo viene descritto un progetto sperimentale attivato all’interno della Casa Circondariale di Cremona nell’anno 2017, espressione di un approccio psico-culturale teso a valorizzare gli interventi di elaborazione e trasformazione dei comportamenti e degli stili di vita a rischio per sé e per l’altro all’interno del carcere. Scopo del progetto, rivolto a detenuti italiani e stranieri, è quello di favorire l’empowerment della persona attraverso un percorso informativo/ formativo di responsabilizzazione rispetto al proprio e all’altrui stato di salute e stile di vita, offrendo l’opportunità strutturata di impiego in attività assistenziale a supporto di altre persone detenute in difficoltà. A tal fine sono state utilizzate lezioni frontali attraverso la promozione della partecipazione attiva delle persone detenute (role playing paziente-assistente, spazi per interventi diretti, interventi dei docenti re-interpretati dai detenuti stessi), ed esperienze di tirocinio sia intramurarie che in strutture residenziali assistenziali del territorio. Sono stati previsti anche momenti di elaborazione dei contenuti emersi durante il tirocinio intesi come spazio di confronto, di attenzione ai vissuti propri e dell’altro all’interno di un percorso di crescita personale. L’obiettivo generale del progetto (formazione di detenuti caregivers) è accompagnato da finalità specifiche quali la promozione e valorizzazione della partecipazione attiva delle persone recluse e lo sviluppo di competenze spendibili all’esterno in attività a supporto di persone in difficoltà. La valenza psicologica di tale progetto (a breve replicabile all’interno dell’Istituto di Cremona) sta nell’aiutare la persona detenuta a sviluppare processi attivi di consapevolezza di Sé (risorse e limiti) e dell’Altro attraverso l’acquisizione di competenze nuove finalizzate alla costruzione di una identità di ruolo meglio definita.

This study investigated how individual differences in the quality of maternal parenting, (i.e. caregiving) and daughter attachment security (i.e. care seeking) contribute to depressive symptoms in daughters. The Parenting Role Interview (PRI), was used to estimate the qual-ity of mothers’ parenting in a sample of 25 UK-based mother-adolescent daughter dyads (daughters were adolescents, with a mean age of 13.6 (± 1.5) years). Levels of depression were assessed in both mothers and daughters using appropriate versions of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, and daughters also completed the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment. Results showed that daughter-mother attachment security and maternal parenting quality were both linked to daughter depression levels, however in a regression analysis, only attachment security predicted daughter depressive symptoms, suggesting that the daughter’s internalised bond with her mother hold more significance for psychological health outcomes.