Nicoletta Pavesi

The aim of this paper is to propose a reflection on the methodological processes that can be suitable for the implementation of community development interventions consistent with the new approach of Responsible Welfare. Through the presentation of a participatory action research conducted on the theme of fragility and social marginality in a specific context, it will be possible to highlight how to guide each stakeholder, together with others, to become a promoter responsible for personal, others’ and community well-being through networking each other...

Il volume è frutto del percorso di ricerca che ha coinvolto un gruppo di studiosi riuniti in una Rete Interuniversitaria con l’obiettivo di offrire una proposta innovativa del sistema di welfare italiano.

This paper analyzes the concept of “social innovation” based on a perspective that considers the centrality of relationship among people, organizations, services etc. This concept is used to realize some case studies about three areas of welfare: the community, the municipality and the corporate welfare...

This paper presents a research about the project Caregiver Liguria realized by the Social District Genova IV for people who have relatives suffering from Alzheimer’s. This project was studied through the perspective of the best practices. The project Caregiver Liguria had two goals: first to train caregivers’ trainers and second to activate a series of initiatives, those are designed to ease the caregiver’s plight of strain and stress. This second goal was achieved through the creation and/or implementation of the network (formal and informal), through the enhancement of the proximity: this is an example of application of the horizontal subsidiarity. Forthermore, this project enhanced the relationships as a methodology of social work, as a goal, as tool. Finally, this project generated in the community a new association (AFMA), that works with social services for planning and managing projects in the community.

The Phenomenology says that every knowledge is a perspective knowledge, because every knowledge is situated in a time and in a space. The human’s embodiment discloses a perspective overview on the world. The paper claims the aim to analyze how the sexual and gender dimensions, which are incarnated in a determinate body, are present in the qualitative research, specifically into the ethnographic observation. First for all, we hypothesize that the gender is a border for the access into a field and not in other, so to be man or woman is not neutral for the knowledge of a specific social context. Moreover, the performative dimension of the gender, which shows the norms that pre-exist and that conduct the role’s interaction (i.e. the role’s gendered content and the role’s gendered language) is another tie in the participant observation. The awareness that all the knowledge is gendered, requires to the fieldworker to play a double competence (ability). The researcher must use the self reflexivity to point out his gender identity and his background on this theme: he must point out his background frame relatively to the gender, his gender behaviour’s expectations in the interaction, and his correlated opinions. The researcher, moreover, must know that exist a cultural mainstream about the gender, but that the concrete gender playing is based on the interaction in a concrete frame. So, we have a lot of concrete ways in which the gender is embodied. The researcher on the field, so, must enter in a knowledge’s circulation in which must point attention to: the epistemic interdependence, i.e. the knowledge borns in the symbolic interaction between the researcher and the subject; the gendered nature of the communicative interaction between the researcher and the subject; the negotiable nature of the concrete managing of the gendered role in the interaction.

La messa in atto in Italia di un modello di welfare plurale, che “intende promuovere le autonomie sociali e l’articolazione solidaristica tra le diverse autonomie esistenti” (Ranci, 2004: 52) richiede una rilettura attenta delle figure professionali coinvolte in tale processo. Il contributo intende mettere a fuoco la figura dell’Assistente Sociale, al quale vengono richieste nuove competenze. In un’ottica di welfare mix, infatti, si richiede agli operatori di essere in grado di leggere una realtà assai complessa e in profondo mutamento e insieme di muoversi entro una rete di attori sociali che spesso utilizzano linguaggi, pratiche e logiche d’intervento diverse: la flessibilità è però possibile solo se la formazione ha aiutato a costruire una dimensione di saper essere relazionale capace di cogliere i codici comunicativi propri dei diversi mondi. Nella consapevolezza, dunque, dell’importanza strategica della formazione, il contributo propone gli esiti di una ricerca svolta sull’offerta formativa di base e specialistica negli Atenei italiani sulle classi di Laurea che consentono l’iscrizione agli albi A e B degli Assistenti Sociali.