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Utopie per fare la differenza: dimensioni post-eurocentriche e post-antropocentriche dell’utopico
The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people – are deeply influenced by a new attention towards the plurality of differences, with their intertwinements and intersections, inspiring a new conceptualization of immanent utopia looking beyond binarism, androcentric, Eurocentric and anthropocentric standpoints. The article highlights how, by reassembling existing resources and knowledges, utopia appears today more as a method than a goal.
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Youth multidimensional political activism between singularization and mutualism : the case of Up network
In the past two decades, research in both “social movements studies” and “critical youth” studies has recorded the growing criticism, by youth political activism, of the individualizing processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperation and mutualism can build local forms of the common and the collective. In the first part of the article, we describe our analytical tools such as singularization, mutualism and generation, and the way in which they can highlight current political imagination of Italian youth; in the second part we present the results of our investigation and the way in which interviewees claim to belong to a wider frame of the transformation of politics in individualized societies.
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Framing Social Theory
This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors or schools of thought. In so doing, it endeavours to bridge epistemological approaches and locate critical claims shared by the main trajectories and notions of sociological theoretical debate. The book explores the current forms of social science theorization through the key themes of Agency, Anthropocene, Coloniality, Intersectionality, Othering, Singularization, Technoscience and Uncertainty. Focusing on these key themes, it highlights their usefulness for discussions of inequality, neoliberalism, eurocentrism, androcentrism or anthropocentrism – in order to examine these issues in a new light and look beyond the classic divides of social theory. Intended for an academic audience interested in social theory, scholars and post-graduate students in sociology, social sciences, anthropology, social geography, social psychology and globalization studies will find this book useful. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Children of immigrants in a globalized world : a generational experience
This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from America and Northern Europe.
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A VULNERABLE GENERATION? YOUTH AGENCY FACING WORK PRECARIOUSNESS
Agency and vulnerability are not alternative terms; rather, their encounter designates a distinctive characteristic of agency: that of the ?weaker? struggling between constraints and the discovery of new opportunities. After theoretical discussion of the relation between agency and vulnerability, and of the transformations of subjectivation processes, this article focuses on the specific situation of vulnerability in the job market experienced by the current generation of young people. It analyses the limits and potentials of young people's agency as a duty in regard to work precariousness with the help of research conducted in Italy from 2013 to 2017. The aim is to highlight how agency and vulnerability -more than being intrinsic characteristic of the individual- are related to temporary positions, as an intersection of categorizations and resources, in relational and situated conditions.
Journal Article
Utopie per fare la differenza : dimensioni post-eurocentriche e post antropocentriche dell'utopico
The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias - especially those driven by young people - are deeply influenced by a new attention towards the plurality of differences, with their intertwinements and intersections, inspiring a new conceptualization of immanent utopia looking beyond binarism, androcentric, Eurocentric and anthropocentric standpoints. The article highlights how, by reassembling existing resources and knowledges, utopia appears today more as a method than a goal.
Journal Article
Agency
Agency is a familiar, polymorphic and widespread concept, whose heterogeneity can be traced back to the foundation of sociology, and to the modern philosophical conceptualizations of the agent; it is used to explain the potential to construct society from a grassroots perspective, as well as to explain the tension between the single individual and the social structure with its coercive rules. The aim of this chapter is to focus, on the one hand, on the unresolved issue of agency's intertwining with the definition of the agent, and on the other hand, to shed light on the consequences of this on the possibility of a critical agency. After a cartography of the debate on agency in social sciences, the chapter analyses the entanglement of the theoretical approaches to agency with the theoretical definitions of what an agent can do, including contemporary reflections on the material, environmental and technological consequences of human agency.
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