Carla Lunghi

Sovraffollamento, scarsa possibilità di reinserimento, aumento dei suicidi: sono davvero mortificanti le condizioni di vita dei detenuti nel nostro Paese. Un ventaglio di esperienze per suggerire un cambiamento possibile per un significativo miglioramento.

In contemporary Western societies, as Bourdieu had already clearly stated, capital can not be limited to the economic dimension because it embraces other aspects. Likewise, wealth and also poverty do not depend only by the availability of money but involve areas of experience traditionally excluded from economic calculation and financial exchanges. The article shows how, in the manifold universe of sharing economy, some experiences arise and can generate value (and in some cases also economic profits) starting from what today people most need: relationships, recognition of capacity and knowledge not always appreciated by the labor market, re-occupation of the local space, leisure time, safety, creativity. All these aspects are real forms of wealth, which are circulated thanks to the digital platforms studied in the research presented here, and prefigure a future in which the economic logic should include other dimensions traditionally left on the fringes of market exchanges.

The current economic and financial crisis is forcing a rethinking of dominant economic models and, at the same time, triggering innovative socio-economic processes. Over the past years, in the fashion and design industries several interesting experiences have emerged that partially recover traditional strategies, yet innovate thanks to digital technologies...

Una ricerca indaga come le abitazioni di persone indigenti si presentano in rapporto alla scelta e all’uso di oggetti, media, vestiti. Ne emerge un’immagine meno stereotipata, anonima e uniforme di quanto si pensi.

Ethnic, gender and cultural differences represent, for western society, not only a challenge for its social unity and identity but also an opportunity to debate and to cultural enrichment. Feminism and multiculturalism picked up this challenge producing new contributions on behalf on cultural differences. But if in the Seventies these two movements were allied in the struggle for recognition of diversity, now they are like enemies for several reasons. Firstly western feminism was accused of ethnocentrism by asian and african women movements: the effect was a weakening of struggle for equal rights as men. Secondly multiculturalism has forgotten the specific topic of gender and defended some culture that are internally patriarchal. Now the relationship between feminism and multiculturalism is more complicated by the strong presence of immigrant women in western societies. The article shows the critical stages of this debate, pointing out the likely and positive opportunity included in the recognition of social and cultural differences.