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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 211-238, June 2026.Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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The Dual‐Edged State Paradox: Fighting for Justice When the State is Unreliable
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 689-714, November 2025.Sociological theories of collective resistance offer insights into how communities mobilize against oppression but often overlook the complexities when the state, an entity relied upon for justice, also acts as an agent of betrayal. Based on 8 years of ethnographic research in Palermo (2016–2024), this study examines the relationship between Sicilian ...
Baris Cayli Messina
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
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BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 105-130, February 2025.ABSTRACT This essay explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and “difficult” heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the freedom to remember) or a weakness (as when people are thought to repress uncomfortable or ...
PAOLO HEYWOOD
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Tempo di inquietudini. La segreteria Natta raccontata da L’Unità (1984-1989)
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2014 The paper aims to describe the years of Alessandro Natta as Secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1985 to 1988. It reconstructs the self-representation of the party’s leadership through its newspaper.
Michelangela Di Giacomo si è addottorata presso l’Università di Siena; è Borsista presso l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans di Barcellona e Cultore della materia presso il Dispi-Università di Siena. Ha vinto con le sue tesi il premio della Presidenza della Repubblica/Fondazione Spadolini nel 2012 e di quello del Senato della Repubblica nel 2009.
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Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy
Social Policy &Administration, Volume 58, Issue 7, Page 1119-1132, December 2024.Abstract There is ample literature to suggest that labour's interests are at odds with the extension of income protection to ‘outsiders’. Until recently, Italian unions were reluctant, if not outright obstructive, towards the introduction of a minimum income scheme (MIS). After the 2008 financial crisis and its dramatic social and economic consequences,
Luca Cigna, Bianca Luna Fabris
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Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 755-774, July 2024.ABSTRACT This article identifies a specific historiographical gap obfuscating communist women, namely, a ‘double blind spot’ rooted in the combined effect of the scant consideration of women in histories of communism and of communist activists in accounts of the women's movement.
Victor Strazzeri
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Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2014 This paper aims to analyze the role and the pattern of the militant lawyering of Leonida Casali, one of the leading members of Bologna section of the Italian Communist Party and of the Democratic Solidarity Committee during the postwar period.
Greta Fedele
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International Social Science Journal, Volume 74, Issue 252, Page 381-397, June 2024.Abstract The Sack of Palermo that took place from the 1950s to the 1980s dramatically changed the Sicilian capital's economic and social landscape. Vast tracts of what was agricultural land, including the Conca d'Oro citrus plain, were destroyed as the city was engulfed by concrete. The Mafia played a principal role in this process.
Vincenzo Scalia
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Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2014 This paper aims to analyze the role and the pattern of the militant lawyering of Leonida Casali, one of the leading members of Bologna section of the Italian Communist Party and of the Democratic Solidarity Committee during the postwar period.
Gianluigi Briguglio
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