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Innovative learning models for prisoners
(2016)
Prison education should be a top priority issue in most societies. Prison conditions must not infringe human rights and dignity and must offer meaningful treatment programmes in order to support inmates in their rehabilitation ...
Chapter Парадоксальность как специфика художественного творчества Ф.М. Достоевского: приемы, стилемы, воздействие
(2023)
Paradoxality as a Specific Feature of Dostoevsky’s Literary Works. Techniques, Stylistics, Mechanisms of Action. All works by Dostoevsky reveal the presence of paradox. These paradoxes act according to mechanisms that ...
Chapter Negotiating with the tradition: representations of fish in Alai’s fictional writing
(2021)
Tibet has long been orientalized in fictional representations. Taking as a case study two texts by Alai, this paper investigates how a traditional Tibetan cultural trait–the fish taboo–is mobilized to complicate the ...
Chapter Identifying Hazards in Construction Sites Using Deep Learning-Based Multimodal with CCTV Data
(2023)
The use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) for safety monitoring is crucial for reducing accidents in construction sites. However, the majority of currently proposed approaches utilize single detection models without ...
Un bisogno di complementarità
(2023)
The correspondence between Franco Fortini and Carlo Cassola covers a wide range of time, from 1955 to 1981 and focuses on three core themes: the journey to China in 1955 and the writing of two reportages on this topic; the ...
Chapter Melancholic Humor, Skepticism and Reflective Nostalgia. Igor’ Guberman’s Poetics of Paradox
(2015)
The poetry of Israeli émigré Igor' Guberman, comprising thousands of quatrains (‘gariki’), represents a hybrid genre at the junction of Jewish aphoristic tradition, Russian oral folklore, and classical Russian poetry. The ...
Dialogare: compendio di biologia
(2017)
The compendium collects the basic themes of biology in a very simplified form, ideally following the programmatic criteria of secondary school. The didactic program is articulated starting from the molecules that make up ...
Chapter The politics of washoku: Japan’s gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacy
(2021)
In this paper, we will explore the political construction of washoku by analyzing Japan’s recent strategy of gastronationalism and gastrodiplomacy. We will argue that the definition of washoku, as inscribed in the UNESCO’s ...
Chapter La politicizzazione della questione migratoria tra vecchi e nuovi attori
(2021)
How do right wing populist parties politicize migration in different political, economic and social contexts? The chapter aims to provide an answer to this question by analyzing four parties: the Italian (Northern) League, ...
Chapter La famiglia di parole da base [bog] ‘dio’ nelle lingue slave (con particolare riguardo alle esclamazioni)
(2023)
The Common Slavic *bogŭ ‘god’ displays an astonishingly rich derivation across Slavic languages, both numerically and semantically, with lexemes including almost all parts of speech: inflected (nouns, adjectives, verbs, ...
Arte nell’arte
(2016)
The volume analyses the representation of ceramic artefacts appearing in some Tuscan artistic works dating back to the 14th and 15th century and aims to combine the data emerging from iconographic sources with those relating ...
Chapter The Dutch Republic as Example of Maritime Transport Services Clusters in Preindustrial Europe (ca. 1650-1800)
(2019)
By means of a comparative analysis of the ‘Dutch case’ with the Saintonge in South-West France and Bohuslän in South-West Sweden, this paper analyses the rise and decline of maritime services clusters in preindustrial ...
Chapter Poesia e filosofia a Firenze tra Santa Croce e Santa Maria Novella
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century library collection of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella and that of the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Such an investigation ...
Chapter Carbon Tracking in the Building Sector: A ‘CABBAGE’ Framework
(2023)
The great challenge of global climate change urges world economies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, where the building sector plays a vital role. Carbon tracking technology is one of ...
Chapter Action men: martial fashions in Florence, 1530-1630
(2022)
This chapter analyses the influence of contemporary ideals of valour, physical strength, and martial skill on male court fashions. It outlines the various channels that enabled the propagation of martial styles and begins ...
Chapter Da Verri a Cuoco. Il dibattito sul carattere degli Italiani tra Sette e Ottocento
(2020)
Even today, Italians tend to adopt a double imagine of their national character, played on the contrast between an evolved and conscious minority (‘us’) and a backward and typically pre-modern majority (‘them’). As Giulio ...
Raccomandazioni per lo sviluppo dell'Editoria Elettronica negli Atenei Italiani
(2006)
In May 2004, the delegates of the Library Commission of the CRuI had already identified the issue of electronic publishing as one of the strategic aspects to be addressed and explored with the utmost attention. The setting ...
Medievistica del Novecento
(2007)
A comprehensive collection spanning five decades of full-length book reviews and short synopses by Giovanni Tabacco, whose scholarly concerns were never separate from a lifelong engagement as an exacting critical reader. ...
Chapter The two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II in the Liber pontificalis. Anti-Frankish feeling in Rome after Louis II’s expedition of 844
(2022)
The analysis of the two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II (844-847) published by Louis Duchesne in his edition of the Liber pontificalis aims at identifying and discussing the tools developed by the Lateran to ...
Conflitti, paci e vendette nell'Italia comunale
(2009)
This book is a collection of seven essays with an introduction by the editor. The contributions propose first-hand studies of some of the less researched aspects of the history of the Italian communes: the practices of ...
Chapter Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»
(2023)
we can state that economically useful knowledge could induce innovations which further deepened and widened this economically useful knowledge; and this cycle was at least one of the decisive factors of raising profitability ...
Chapter Architettura e neuroscienze: una doppia elica
(2021)
The founder of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture relates the story of its in-spiration in Jonas Salk’s insistence that his experience at the Abbey at Assissi helped him develop the vaccine for polio. He discusses ...
Chapter Does an entrepreneurial spirit animate fresh graduates in their work-seeking during uncertain times?
(2021)
The labour market is becoming harder and harder even for graduates. The economic difficulties added by Covid-19 restrictions worsened the graduates’ employability. In our opinion, public authorities should intervene to ...
Chapter «La Basilica di S. Miniato al Monte sta a noi se si vuole». Il ritorno dei monaci olivetani nel 1924
(2021)
The paper retraces the negotiations undertaken by the Olivetan monks at the beginning of the 20th century for their return to the ancient abbey of San Miniato al Monte, which they had been forced to abandon in 1552 for the ...
Chapter Tipologie amministrative della signoria in Italia fra medioevo ed età moderna
(2021)
Lordship management is a broad subject scarcely treated by historians; even when analysed, it has never been the object of exhaustive reconstructions and systematic surveys. The article provides a first, provisional overview ...
Chapter Nature protection and local development: a study concerning a natural park located in Sardinia (Italy)
(2022)
Regional natural parks can include areas having high natural and environmental values. Defining appropriate spatial planning tools for these areas is therefore of outmost importance to protect the ecological balance and ...
Chapter Presentazione
(2023)
The volume here presented aims to commemorate the Portuguese poet António Correia a year after his death with the translation, for the first time in Italian language, of two collections of sonnets: Deideia and Amagao meu ...
Una storia, un archivio
(2018)
Idalberto Targioni (1868-1930) was a foundling, peasant, worker, extemporaneous poet, union activist, anti-militarist, socialist and mayor, interventionist and early fascist, man of the regime and lastly a penitent. A ...
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2015 Florence
(2015)
Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images ...
Il graphic novel. Un crossover per la modernità
(2020)
The graphic novel is one of the most suggestive and successful semiotic phenomena. This collection of essays focuses on the interrelations of image and text, and how they are substantiated and thematized by graphic novels. ...
Chapter Qualche riflessione finale
(2020)
We introduce the concept of "tragic choices": those that concern our vital and identity experiences. As in the tragedies of classical Greek theater, there are circumstances in which there is no right and wrong, since theses ...
La scienza e la rete
(2009)
The advent and spread of Internet and the Web have radically transformed the modes of communication. This book considers a particular ambit of online communication, namely that of science. In the first place, the author ...
Chapter Parte seconda. Buone pratiche di Public History per la formazione e il territorio
(2022)
In keeping with the ten essays collected in the first part of the volume, this section proposes thirty Best Practices files, selected from the most recent and stimulating ones. These are real models of educational action ...
Chapter A statistical information system in support of job policies orientation
(2021)
A significant problem for labour market policies relies on the individuation of the most advisable skills to have and to enhance through focused training offers. Vocational training systems and institutions are called to ...
Chapter Предисловие
(2023)
Foreword. Dostoevsky: Paradox, Humor, Deconstruction. A foreword to the present book and to each of the 15 articles that are part of it. While the analysis of humor, paradox, and deliberate deconstruction has generally ...
ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
(2021)
This book includes 40 peer-reviewed short papers submitted to the Scientific Conference titled Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation, aimed at promoting new statistical methods and applications for the ...
Strumenti per una medicina del nostro tempo
(2015)
The contribution provided by this publication represents an innovative initiative in the field of training for projects to improve the quality of care. The need for theoretical models, tools and methodologies that favour ...
Chapter Evaluation of Immersive VR Experiences for Safety Training of Construction Workers: A Semi-Qualitative Approach Proposal
(2023)
The diffusion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and advanced visualization technologies in the increasingly digitalised construction sector is fostering the development and implementation of disruptive approaches for ...
Chapter Corrections à quelques documents de Vienne
(2019)
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Chapter Progettare e realizzare percorsi didattici di Storia della scuola per la primaria con la Public History
(2022)
The essay illustrates some basic themes underlying the teaching of history of education in primary school. Some examples of workshops for elementary school students are then illustrated, recently carried out in the School ...
Chapter Lake Garda lemon houses: a mediterranean landscape in an internal lake
(2020)
Lemon houses (limonaie) are ancient terraced citrus gardens that shape the landscape along the NW shore of Lake Garda (Northern Italy). We propose an interpretation of limonaie as a deeply anthropogenic, labour intensive, ...
Chapter Saramago e i valori di Sassoli: del mitico e dell’etico in Caino
(2023)
Cain resumes the biblical story of the genesiacs brothers to recount it in a heterodox way. Based on the canonical biblical texts, the ethical perspective of David Maria Sassoli and in ideological discourses, José Saramago ...
Chapter Emergency remote teaching: an explorative tool
(2021)
The worldwide rapid spread and severity of the infectious disease caused by Coronavirus forced the WHO to declare a global state of pandemic emergency during March 2020, by leading the governments around the world to adopt ...
Chapter Regeneration of historic centers in Mediterranean cities: the case study of the Venice district in Livorno
(2022)
The article talks about an experience of design research, aimed at the regeneration of a portion of the waterfront of the city of Livorno, which is now fragmented and in a state of decay and strongly characterized by the ...
Chapter Il ‘canto dell’acqua’: Leonardo nel progetto dei nuovi Navigli milanesi
(2023)
After a long process, the reopening of Milanese canals has become one of the fundamental actions of the Town Plan approved in 2019. A strategic project that plans to reactivate the covered section of the Naviglio Martesana ...
Chapter Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario
(2021)
Society and policy makers demand innovation systems oriented towards several goals of sustainable development. Therefore, recent literature has dedicated a growing interest to both innovation and sustainability in the ...
Chapter Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners
(2023)
The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the ...
Chapter «E la nodosa podagra, con gravissima noia di chi l’ha, tiene tutto il corpo quasi imobile e contratto». Note sul lessico medico-anatomico nel Boccaccio volgare
(2022)
After providing a brief description of medicine in the Middle Ages, the work collects and examines the terms attested in three vernacular works by Boccaccio (Decameron, Corbaccio and Esposizioni sopra la Comedia) that can ...
Chapter Solar and Chthonic Deities in Ancient Anatolia: The Evolution of the Chthonic Solar Deity in Hittite Religion
(2023)
The “Sun-goddess of the earth” and the less clearly defined category of “chthonic solar deities” of Hittite religion have been the objects of various studies in recent years. This paper aims to examine the significance of ...
Chapter Le radici storiche dell’economia della conoscenza
(2023)
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Chapter Valori e tecniche in tema di disciplina dei poteri datoriali
(2022)
The article deals with the controversial topic of the limits in which the immanent "values" in the legal system and especially in the Italian Constitution can affect the operations of interpretation of the norms of positive ...
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
(2022)
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope ...
Chapter Didattica immersiva nell’Ingegneria Agraria. Un caso d’uso nel Laboratorio di Agricoltura Digitale e di Alta Tecnologia
(2022)
The chapter describes experiences of 360° videos use by the Agrismart Lab Group of the University of Florence. The Agrismart Lab Group focuses on the technological transfer of information obtained during the research phase ...
Chapter Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s De laudibus Rhacusae and His Early Years
(2020)
This paper deals with Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s early childhood years marked by exile from the recently fallen Despotate of Morea, a short and unconfirmed stay in Dubrovnik and, finally, by his arrival in Naples. A ...
Chapter Rivivere la storia tra scuola e territorio. Due esperienze di re-enactment e living history in Toscana
(2022)
The essay describes how Living History, an activity of concrete evocation of past events in the present, linked to the daily actions of the historical period described, is intertwined with the approach of "material ...
Chapter Chinese returnee students and cultural production: the case of ex-students of Opera in Italy
(2023)
The aim of this chapter is to point out the connection between mobility and cultural activities of Chinese returnee opera students. Many Chinese students in Italy attend cultural and artistic university courses. They may ...
Chapter “Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings
(2021)
This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and ...
Chapter Il filo da riannodare: Massimo Quaini, una letteratura per la geografia e una geografia per la letteratura
(2021)
With regard to the relationship between literary works and geographical studies, Massimo Quaini’s interest consolidated into a heuristic imprint whose originality has not yet been adequately enlightened. Through the analysis ...
Chapter Seagrass detritus as marine macroinvertebrates attractor
(2022)
Seagrass detritus is used as food, physical habitat and shelter. Using natural and artificial detritus, we tested if: 1) the colonisation was related to substrate availability rather than food 2) the assemblages were similar ...
Chapter Determination of natural radioactivity levels of sludges collected from wastewater treatment plants of Antalya/Türkiye
(2022)
226Ra (10.8), 232Th (13.4) and 40K (135.7) and 137Cs (3.2) concentration levels (Bq kg-1) of the wastewater treatment plant sludges in Antalya were assessed and were found to be consistent with the literature. The absorbed ...
Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800
(2023)
The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of ...
Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800
(2023)
The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of ...
Chapter Fostering Critical Reflection in The Frame of Transformative Learning in Adult Education: Italian and Nigerian Comparative Case Studies
(2020)
Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical ...
Chapter The modal meaning za pripomnjane of the Bulgarian imperfect tense and its counterparts in other Slavic languages
(2023)
Amongst Slavic languages, only Bulgarian (and Macedonian) has retained the imperfect, a synthetic past tense inherited from Protoslavic. Apart from its temporal meanings, the Bulgarian imperfect occurs in a variety of modal ...
Chapter Determination of natural radioactivity levels of sludges collected from wastewater treatment plants of Antalya/Türkiye
(2022)
226Ra (10.8), 232Th (13.4) and 40K (135.7) and 137Cs (3.2) concentration levels (Bq kg-1) of the wastewater treatment plant sludges in Antalya were assessed and were found to be consistent with the literature. The absorbed ...
Piccole zone di simmetria
(2011)
If it intends to enhance awareness and to stimulate intellectual and cultural maturity, literature cannot ignore – and when it survives over time does not ignore – the great conquests of philosophical thought and the ...
73° Congresso dell'Unione Zoologica Italiana
(2013)
This volume collects the contributions to the 73rd Congress of the Italian Zoological Union, held in Florence in September 2012, and organised together with the “Leo Pardi” Department of Evolutionary Biology. The Congress, ...
Chapter Fostering Critical Reflection in The Frame of Transformative Learning in Adult Education: Italian and Nigerian Comparative Case Studies
(2020)
Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical ...
Chapter On the dynamism of aspectual pair formation in Czech
(2017)
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between. perfectivisation and secondary imperfectivisation in Czech. Recent data show for loan verbs a strong tendency, after a short phase of biaspectualism, towards the creation ...
Chapter Market assessment and risk prediction: resources and know-how of a seventeenth-century bookseller of Venice coping with competition
(2023)
this article explores the likelihood that early modern printers had de-veloped rudimentary practices aimed at assessing their market of refer-ence to pursue strategic commercial planning. It surreys the inner evi-dence of ...
Percorsi recenti degli studi medievali
(2008)
This book brings together the proceedings of the study days organised to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Florence University PhD course in Mediaeval History. It offers, first and foremost to the broad public of young ...
Chapter The Writing of County Histories in Early Modern England
(2023)
The writing of county history in England experienced its first boom from the 1570s to the 1650s, during which time a series of outstanding county histories were written, including William Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, ...
Chapter I viaggi europei di Ljubomir Nenadović
(2019)
This article examines travel letters that Ljubomir Nenadović (1826-1895) wrote from Switzerland (1847), Italy (1850-1851) and Germany (1870). Marking three different phases in the literary biography of their author, these ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche
(2009)
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University ...
Chapter Ritirata sostenibile! I tanti modi con cui possiamo adattarci al cambiamento
(2020)
This Chapter examines the paths along which we humans could create an economy within planetary boundaries. To prevent the contraction of human activities from translating into a traumatic collapse, we should accept that ...
Chapter Caterina Colombini, o della cugina sedotta. Una ‘ricostruzione’ della figura di Caterina attraverso i testi
(2020)
In this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters ...
Diario social di un Rettore 3
(2018)
«Chemistry and fantasy, art and science, photography and music, education and play, technology and communicative desire, civic passion and didactic commitment did not formerly (or not only) create a nicely original and ...
Chapter Employability-Oriented Curriculum: Strategies and Tools to Train Young Graduates. The PRIN EMP&Co. Project
(2018)
This paper focuses on the impact of employability-oriented modules on the design, planning, and implementation of work transitions. It takes its lead from the PRIN EMP&Co project developed by the University of Florence in ...
Chapter L’eredità teatrale e artistica di Savva Mamontov: un ponte tra Oriente e Occidente
(2017)
The present issue focuses on Savva Mamontov as main creator of a theatrical-synaesthetic experimentation in Russia, based on the research of a common Slavic and pre-Helenic civilizations root to create a universal artistic ...
Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies
(2023)
«We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading ...
Studi di poesia greca tardoantica
(2013)
The volume contains the documents of the study day held in Florence on the 4th October 2012 and presents the contributions of nine young scholars of proven competence, belonging to different Italian universities. The ...
Chapter The Old Serbian Version of the Antiochene Recension of Samuel-Kings: Some Preliminary Issues in Textual Criticism
(2018)
The article discusses several textual features of the second Church Slavonic version of 1–4 Kingdoms, which has come down to us in two manuscripts, written in Serbian Resavian orthography. The earliest copy dates from 1418 ...
Chapter Institutional Learning in Higher Education and Graduate Transitions
(2023)
The ‘learning exclusion equilibrium’ strategy in Italy also governs young adults’ possibilities of accessing higher education institutions (HEIs) and entering and being successful on the labour market. The upshot of this ...
Chapter Un’introduzione ai servizi eco-territoriali
(2020)
The text supports the introduction, alongside ecosystems services, of eco-territorial services, which unlike the former depend for their very existence on human care actions. To assess them (under a monetary or other ...
Digital Storytelling for Employability
(2010)
This publication results from the research work undertaken by the partner institutions involved in the KA3-ICT Project Transversal Lifelong Learning Programme, Learn about finding jobs from digital storytelling(143429-20 ...
Technological innovation and change in the university
(2003)
It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, ...
Chapter La révolte des mousquetaires (strel’cy) de 1698 dans les lettres de l’envoyé danois Paul Heins
(2017)
The four documents published for the first time in extenso are dedicated to the memorable events such as the last uprising of Strel’tsy, the two investigations organized by the authorities, and the execution of the culprits. ...
Chapter Psychometric properties of a new scale for measuring academic positive psychological capital
(2021)
Positive psychological capital (PsyCap) is the name given to a set of psychological dimensions (hope, resilience, self-efficacy, and optimism) that may support students in their effort to achieve better academic results ...
Chapter Resistenze e storie di rom e sinti per costruire insieme la memoria collettiva
(2022)
The contribution aims at discussing the word "Resistenza" in the framework of the life of the communities sinti and rom, between present and past decades. On one side the paper aims at highlighting the contribution rom and ...
Chapter Супралексический префикс по- в русском и болгарском языках
(2017)
The aim of this paper is to compare the superlexical prefixes of Russian and Bulgarian. The main focus is on delimitative and attenuative po- in derived PF forms as well as in secondary IPF verbs. Using the Russian-Bulgarian ...
Chapter Apertura
(2023)
The volume, created by the collaboration between the University of Florence and the University of Lisbon, aims to celebrate the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, a year after his death in january 2022. ...
Chapter Ostrogoths vs. Franks: Imagining the Past in the Middle Ages
(2022)
This introductory essay aims at highlighting some aspects concerning the connections between the Ostrogoths and Franks in the Middle Ages. To this end, cases from different contexts and chronologies have been examined: ...
Chapter Didattica immersiva all’università: obiettivi e azioni del progetto SEPA360
(2022)
This chapter introduces the relevance of the digital technologies for a constant update of the teaching and learning practices in the Higher Education and the challenges to cope with for their effective development, ...
La valorizzazione economica del patrimonio artistico delle città d'arte
(2001)
This book addresses the issue of the potential economic significance of the artistic heritage in an art city – more specifically Florence – taking as a concrete example for the purpose of scientific research the figure of ...
Chapter Conclusioni
(2022)
The Atlas wanted to bring attention to the role of digital platforms as an interface between the space of flows and the space of places by highlighting the digitally-mediated (socio-spatial) effects in the emerging platform ...
Chapter Per la critica della crescita illimitata e della crescita verde
(2020)
We focus on two great narratives: unlimited growth and green growth. The problem of the compatibility between the increase of human economic activities and the ecosystem seems to be solved by each of the two narratives. ...
Memoria Viva
(2015)
“Not forgetting” and “not remembering”. These two contradictory aspects have always furrowed the autobiographical and collective memory of dramatic historical events, such as the Holocaust. This volume, whose origin lies ...
Chapter Cassiodorus’ Variae in the 9th Century
(2022)
The fate of Cassiodorus’ Variae during the Early Middle Ages is largely unknown, since the manuscript tradition begins with the eleventh century, and long quotations taken from them are attested only from that period. ...
Chapter Bullismo etnico pregiudiziale: il ruolo di fattori individuali e contestuali
(2022)
Multi-ethnic societies have the potential to enrich societies culturally (Mok et al. 2007), but they can also foster intolerance and anti-immigrant movements, where minorities may be more likely to be discriminated (Baysu ...