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While the effects of the remotisation of work during the pandemic have been largely explored in the literature, little has been written on how remote work is used in the post-pandemic phase. Moreover, although the literature has mainly focused on the effects of remote work on the organisation of labour and individual experiences, we argue that to understand the ongoing changes, it is necessary to analyse the organisational contexts in which these processes are taking place. In this regard, the perspective of trade unions is a valuable tool for comparing the experiences within different organisational contexts and reflecting on emerging challenges and opportunities. Based on empirical data collected in the metropolitan area of Milan, the paper explores the extent to which companies and trade unions are pushing to maintain the use of this working method or, rather, pressing to return to working on-site. It also identifies some factors that explain the different positions on the issue. Our analysis stresses that the prevailing working modality can be defined as «hybrid», as it combines both days of face-to-face work with others carried out remotely, which has many consequences for both companies' and unions' activities. In this phase of transition, trade unions find themselves tense between the desire of workers to continue working remotely at all costs and the awareness of the risks that remote work represents in terms of rights protection and bargaining capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present an unedited original autograph letter by the orientalist Eugenio Griffini preserved in the Angela Codazzi Collection at the Central Municipal Library in Milan, known as Sormani Library. The letter, dated January 5, 1922, was written by Eugenio Griffini during his stay in Egypt as librarian and archivist at the court of King Aḥmad Fuʾād I and was addressed to Angela Codazzi. The study focuses on the translation of the text of the letter from Arabic into Italian and on the analysis of some of the most significant terms and expressions contained therein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Eight letters of Symmachus's correspondence are the only sources for the senatorial embassy that in 402, in the middle of Alaric's first invasion of Italy, arrived at the court of Milan. The motivations and the outcomes of this legatio are unknown. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the historical and social setting that led the Roman aristocracy to feel the urgency to talk with the emperor Honorius and his regent Stilicho. Besides Symmachus' letters, two sources are examined: Claudian's verses on the Gothic invasion and the epigraphic evidence for the restoration of the Aurelian wall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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So far, food-delivery riders have been addressed in reference to broad socio-economic processes related to the diffusion of digital labour platforms. Adopting a dispositional approach, this paper frames the rider’s occupation as a specific and openended occupation. We try to shed light on the dynamics of differentiation and positioning within this occupational space, thus recomposing its heterogeneity. The article is based on a mixed-methods research carried out in Milan in 2020, centred on an “observant participation” of seven months, during which the researcher worked as a rider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The conversion of the urban economy in a creative and knowledge industry dimension required a strong strategic investment in improving the attractiveness of cities, focusing, above all, on young talents. Such a process happened without considering the distance between high cultural capital and low economic capital of this population which, from the housing point of view, translates into extreme fragility, showing the issue of affordability in all its contradictions. The outbreak of the pandemic has exposed social and housing weakness of young talents who represent the new urban vulnerability of post-industrial cities. The paper is based on empirical research carried out during the first lockdown on a sample of newcomer families residing in Milan since less than 5 years, aimed at understanding how this population experienced the emergency phase between 30 April and 24 May 2020. The results highlight aspects of economic fragility and social isolation due to the lack of social networks in the neighborhood. At the same time, however, in times of crisis there is a significant increase of relationships, interactions and exchanges between subjects, more likely to create or enhance a sense of intersubjective solidarity. Furthermore, for many new residents the experience of confinement in the attractive city triggered a process of change of future residential preferences, assuming new possible scenarios in the postpandemic city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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While — for historical, political, and socio-economic reasons — the artistic and cultural value of dubbing has been acknowledged in Italy since the introduction of sound films in the late Twenties, subtitling has often been considered as a second-rate form of translation, wavering between experimentations devoid of any connection with actual speech and mere informativeness. The idea that captioning is a mechanical practice aimed at summarizing the contents of the dialogues, thus depriving them of their pragmatic and aesthetic complexity, is still widely accepted. In contrast with this view, from the double perspective of film studies and linguistics, the authors of the paper argue that subtitling requires, along with linguistic and technical expertise, as much focus and research on the cultural specificity of the audiovisual text as dubbing and is therefore to be regarded as a knowledge-based and knowledge-producing practice. The subtitling of the television series White Teeth (Channel 4) by MA students attending the Course in Audiovisual Translation at IULM University, Milan, in 2019/20 was a testing ground that brought to the fore interconnected technical, linguistic, and cultural challenges. Interestingly, many of the issues were related to the diachronic gaps within Zadie Smith’s novel, which spans from the Indian Mutiny in mid-nineteenth century and 2000, as well as between the publication of the book in the same year and the airing of the English series in 2002, and, finally, between the appearance of the original series in Britain and the proposed translation for an Italian audience almost twenty years later. In two decades, the cultural attitude of a society can indeed have entirely changed. And yet, paradoxically, it is precisely thanks to these asynchronies that unexpected consonances have occurred in the re-localization of the series in a different cultural context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper contributes to the political economy of cities and territories investigating a fraction of the urban élite in the Municipality of Milan. It investigates the profile and the relational structure of the network of the local public companies' board members, considering a time span of twenty years. To do so, the contribution explores: whether and to what extent there is a prevalence of politicians against managers in the boards; whether and to what extent these members form a cohesive local élite; and whether and to what extent a change in the political belonging of the Municipal Council affects the structure of power. Results show that boards of local public companies are mainly composed by middle-aged, educated men, a relatively homogeneous and compact social group, although not particularly dense. Politicians represent only one third of the board members, while the remaining members are managers and professionals issued by the civil society. The analysis of the network structure allowed us to identify a «core élite» made of politicians who are in the most powerful positions in structural terms, and who mainly work in the transport mobility sector, pushing the development of the city in that direction. Finally, the diachronic analysis highlighted that the advent of the left-wing government, after fifteen years of right-wing governments, affected the cohesion of the past networks, resulting in a major fragmentation of the network structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the experiences of young people beneficiaries of entrepreneurship support measures of the municipality of Milan. It aims to examine how, and under what conditions, different motivations and push factors at the basis of the entrepreneurial choice may combine. Based on the results of qualitative research using semi-structured interviews with young people and policy actors, this study shows the pluralism of motivations and factors informing the strategies of the young people interviewed, while highlighting the relevance of urban policies and social, economic and institutional conditions in which this pluralism takes shape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the issue of accessibility to urban cultural services in the city of Milan, in relation to the socio-economic status. Through a statistical and spatial analysis of census and administrative data, the article highlights the inequalities of cultural accessibility between urban and suburban neighborhoods, of lower and higher socio-economic status. The study reveals a «selective» trend that characterizes the polycentric nature of the cultural services distribution: as a result of the process of urban regeneration, the suburban areas have become the new cultural centers, with a higher socioeconomic-cultural status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Benefits and well-being perceived by green spaces users during heat waves. In urban environments, green spaces have proven to act as ameliorating factors of some climatic features related to heat stress, reducing their effects and providing comfortable outdoor settings for people. In addition, green spaces have demonstrated greater capacity, compared with built-up areas, for promoting human health and well-being. In this paper, we present results of a study conducted in Italy with the general goal to contribute to the theoretical and empirical rationale for linking green spaces with well-being in urban environments. Specifically, the study focused on the physical and psychological benefits and the general well-being associated with the use of green spaces on people when heat stress episodes are more likely to occur. A questionnaire was set up and administered to users of selected green spaces in Italy (metropolitan area of Milan and Bari - n=400). Results indicate that longer and frequent visits of green spaces generate significant improvements of the perceived benefits and well-being among users. These results are consistent with the idea that the use of green spaces could alleviate the perception of thermal discomfort during periods of heat stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper examines the elements on which the success of the cognitive-cultural economy in the Milan metropolitan area is based, focusing in particular on the importance of interactions and social networks. We present the relationship between social capital and local development with respect to the social transformations characteristic of the post-Fordist economy; the objective is to determine to what extent traditional research concepts and hypotheses are still capable of serving as effective instruments for the analysis of contemporary society. We thus investigate the most innovative and representative segment of the contemporary urban economy, in particular its relational elements, in order to understand how the city sustains (or hinders) the emergence or development of the local economy. The analysis of social relations within communities proves to be a key element in the effort to construct an image of the complexity of urban development in the post-Fordist economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the future of the second and third generations in Italy by developing a generational perspective. Through the adoption of a constructionist theoretical approach, informed by works on globalization and the new social movements, it tries to advance beyond the limits of theories and observations at time of fordism, based on concepts of either assimilation or integration. The paper presents an on-going research on students of foreign origins who attend high schools in Milan. By doing so, it focuses on the specificity of the Italian situation and it highlights new and innovative forms of identification, as they are changing alongside current ideas of belonging, membership, citizenship and difference. Hence, the actual experience of the second and third generations, and their new forms of identification, emerge as a useful starting point to understand some peculiarities of the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the active role of the baby consumer with in places of consumption, through the first results of an ethnographic study conducted with 60 children in various Milan clothing stores. The analyses focused on how baby consumers were able to subvert the ordinary meanings of spaces, products and exhibition structures through a number of practices that have been labeled as playful re-appropriation of spaces and goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper relays the results of an empirical study investigating the way in which consumers the public areas with a suburban shopping complex in Milan. By using a dual perspective of analysis, semiotics and ethno graphics. A side from this the efficiently organizing the space of these micro areas and inscribed logic of fruition, which tries to trace the use of these spaces effectively, with the aid of this empirical study beyond presupposed strategies. The aim of this survey is achieve an understanding of the complexed process of negotiations involving the planning for a commercial shopping centre and the practical process to which consumers attach meaning and value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses intercultural miscommunication from a micro-sociological perspective. Drawing on an empirical research that was done in some public services for foreign immigrants in Milan, it starts introducing the main perspectives from which the relations between miscommunication and cultural diversity are usually studied. Then it focuses on how the perception of heterogeneous language competences, background commonsense knowledge and cultural traits can stress the taken for granted assumptions which assure shared meanings and common understanding in ordinary everyday interactions. Putting into brackets the relevance per se of cultural differences as a good explanation for intercultural miscommunications, it investigates how people who experience it accounts for misunderstanding. Particular attention is devoted to incongruent definitions of situations and their management, as well as to difficulties to attach social attributes to people, when language competences are difficult to evaluate, shared communication schemata can not be assumed as resources at hand and cultural differences are supposed to shape social action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on a research conducted in order to determine the integration of immigrated women with the existent socio-economic structure in Milan, Italy. The research is meant to demonstrate how the institutional factors can influence on the processes of economic integration of immigrants. It also aims to demonstrate the relation between the economic and social integration of immigrants. In the corporative welfare systems, job is regarded as the principal instrument of social inclusion of immigrants that results in social disparity.