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This paper presents initial findings from an interdisciplinary study on the significance of food origin for contemporary Italian consumers. Despite the prolonged crisis and over 9 million people experiencing food hardships in 2022, the labeling of food origin remains a paramount concern for Italian consumers, significantly influencing their purchasing decisions. In this era of uncertainty, the food origin label has evolved into a symbolic construct, exacerbating omnivore dilemmas within an increasingly unreliable global landscape and contributing to a renegotiation of trust in expert knowledge, eroded by the prolonged crisis. By examining the cultural narratives underlying geographical indications of food products, their impact on consumer values and meanings, and their integration into daily communication and consumption practices, this study provides insights into the emerging contradictory axiology and social dynamics guiding food-related practices during times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to reflect on the socio-legal dynamics affecting the Algerian nomadic society, with particular reference to the period between 1830 and 1960. Algeria, which has been affected at the institutional and formal level by a decisive wave of re-Islamization since the second half of the eighties of the twentieth century, has not completely left behind its rich history of linguistic, cultural, religious and legal pluralism. In addition to the kaleidoscopic complexity of its substrate and heritage, it still carries within itself a significant minority of the population that has not abandoned the condition of nomadism. At a time when migratory flows pose questions such as that of polyethnic and multi-contextual rights to the Europe of jurists, and doctrine questions the operational possibilities of an orderly pluralism (mainly as a result of the partial decline of sovereignty under the lash of the repercussions of the economy), while legal practice is unfolding in new directions, such as that of automation, the law seems to be put to the test by two sets of questions: the erosion and redrawing of geographical boundaries that determine its effectiveness on the one hand, and the unpredictable possibilities freed up by the global non-place of virtual and market negotiations on the other. Speed, movement, wars, and the instability of effective boundaries seem to be the new stumbling blocks brought about by globalization, and the uncertainty of possible solutions is almost frightening; Studying the regulatory dimension of Algerian nomads reveals ancestral solutions whose functional capacity is not undermined by the perennial change of territories, landscapes, alliances - solutions that are not immediately expendable in the contemporary world, but which constitute significant food for thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the growing influence of radical right-wing parties, their main ideas appear more and more freely in the media and institutional circles. By adapting traits from the ideology of the right-wing (often post-fascist) into a globalized context, they put themselves forward as nativists, sovereignists, authoritarians and defenders of traditions. The ideologies of these political formations have also included gender issues within them, and the complex and articulated use of these issues is the subject of this paper. Specifically, we aim to analyze the increasingly prominent role that gender issues play within the ideologies of the Italian radical right wing parties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to propose, from the perspective of the sociology of conflict, a critical reflection on the problems of post-democracy and on the legitimacy of the instruments of intervention in international law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to provide a provisional overview of the 2024 US presidential election campaign. The analysis of the communication strategies adopted by Trump and Biden after one year in campaigning will focus on their political advertising. Adapting the methodology of videostyle, the analysis will describe the distinctive features of the two opposing electoral narratives. These include the tendency towards personalisation, the intensity of polarization, the dominant emotional frames adopted, and the ideological-value structures referenced. The objective is to provide insights into the American election campaign of 2024, identifying the communication styles of its two contrasting leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is intended to be a humble attempt to redeem sociology, a discipline unjustly perceived as a handmaiden among the human sciences, from the secondary role to which it is inappropriately relegated in deference to an evergrowing trend of technicalization and formalization, even algorithmic, of economics and law and even of certain specialized branches of sociology itself. On the contrary, an attempt is made to demonstrate, keeping in the background the great work of Mireilles Delmas-Marti, that it is precisely the most general, historically-anthropologically compromised and culturologically oriented part of this discipline that is the one most capable of accounting for the complexity underlying the local/global dynamics in progress, deciphering the asynchronic and destabilizing forces that corrode the effectiveness of the rules redesigning scenarios and destinies of social actors, and partially motivating the reasons involved. It seems all the more significant and urgent to us to push academic reflection towards a revival of the "great sociology" traditionally understood, in a season of disturbing juridical nihilism and worrying déshistoricisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarizes the contribution of Vincenzo Cesareo to the theme of war in Ukraine, laid out in his book "The War in the Heart of Europe". Fruit of a multidisciplinary approach, Cesareo's contribution is notable not only for its stylistic clarity, but also for the spirit and passion with which he illustrates the rights of Ukraine and the wrongs of Putin: a genuine "lesson" in times of analyses that are too often partisan and/or ideologically distorted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will attempt to reconstruct and understand the relationship between crisis, social development, legal order, and political decision-making as they have come to be intertwined in modern industrial society. Particular attention will be paid to the theme of "permanent crisis" and the problems of the "motorization of law," legal constructions, technical and scientific power in relation to processes of political legitimation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examining the pre-Islamic genesis and Islamic developments of contemporary Iran, the study analyzes the relationship between the feminine political principle permeating the pre-Islamic period and its resilience in the face of the rise to power of the dualist and patriarchalist Mazdean-Iranian conception. Despite the moralizing restrictions imposed by dualist biopower, the herstories of Iran problematize the time through which they pass with a modern critical and self-reflexive capacity, also when denied the means to govern. In our times, the perspectives of 'Women, Life, Freedom' claim non-hierarchical and non-hegemonic conditions of freedom for the entire Iranian society, inspiring global politics as an authentic democratic political subject that is capable to radically transform Iran's future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]