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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore two financial inclusion measures adopted within the local welfare context of the city of Milan, Italy, examining their functioning and underpinning representations. The aim is also to understand how such representations take concrete shape in the practices of local actors, and their implications for the opportunities and constraints regarding individuals' effective inclusion. To this end, this paper takes a wide-ranging look at the interplay between the rise of financial inclusion and the individualisation and responsibilisation models informing welfare policies, within the broader context of financialisation processes overall. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on the sociology of public action approach and provides a qualitative analysis of two case studies, a social microcredit service and a financial education programme, based on direct observation and semi-structured interviews conducted with key policy actors. Findings: This paper sheds light on the rationale behind two financial inclusion services and illustrates how the instruments involved incorporate and tend to reproduce, individualising logics that reduce the problem of financial exclusion, and the social and economic vulnerability which underlies it, to a matter of personal responsibility, thus fuelling depoliticising tendencies in public action. It also discusses the contradictions underlying financial inclusion instruments, showing how local actors negotiate views and strategies on the problems to be addressed. Originality/value: The paper makes an original contribution to the field of sociology and social policy by focusing on two under-researched instruments of financial inclusion and improving understanding of the finance-welfare state nexus and of the contradictions underpinning attempts at financial inclusion of the most vulnerable.

Nel dibattito penalistico contemporaneo si è persa o è grandemente scemata la consapevolezza del valore e delle implicazioni del principio di uguaglianza. Solo recentemente la dottrina è tornata a ricomprendere il principio tra le norme fondamentali del diritto penale ed ha riconosciuto che è dalla garanzia costituzionale dell’uguaglianza nelle libertà che derivano per il legislatore vincoli di coerenza intra-sistematica e di razionalità rispetto ai “classici” principi penalistici.

La pandemia da Covid-19 è stato un evento che ha scosso profondamente le fondamenta sulle quali sono costruite le società contemporanee, generando un diffuso senso di insicurezza nella popolazione. L’interruzione delle attività economiche e il generale senso di incertezza hanno avuto un effetto immediato sul benessere degli individui, ma come sempre accade le categorie più fragili hanno subito le conseguenze più gravi. In questo contributo analizziamo quanto è accaduto in Italia sul fronte della povertà e delle politiche di contrasto. I primi due paragrafi sono dedicati, il primo, alla ricostruzione delle caratteristiche della povertà in Italia a partire dal concetto di ‘regime di povertà, per poi analizzare, nel secondo paragrafo, l’evoluzione del fenomeno nei due anni successivi allo scoppio della pandemia. Infine, il terzo paragrafo è dedicato all’analisi dell’efficacia degli strumenti messi in campo, sia di quelli strutturali (Reddito di Cittadinanza) sia di quelli straordinari (Reddito di Emergenza, vari bonus). Il contributo mette in luce come la pandemia abbia confermato i tratti di fondo del regime di povertà italiano, ma anche evidenziato la vulnerabilità di alcune categorie precedentemente al riparo dal rischio di povertà. In questo senso, l’insieme delle misure messe in campo ha consentito di limitare nel breve periodo gli effetti della pandemia, ma la loro natura temporanea dimostra che c’è ancora della strada da fare per disporre finalmente di un sistema strutturato di contrasto della povertà. In tale ottica rappresenta certamente un passo indietro la recente scelta del Governo di sostituire (a partire dal 1 gennaio 2024) il Reddito di cittadinanza (Rdc) con l’assegno di inclusione, una politica nuovamente categoriale, che farà tornare l’Italia ad essere l’unico paese europeo privo di una misura universalistica di contrasto alla povertà.

Purpose Campylobacter is a frequent cause of enteric infections with common antimicrobial resistance issues. The most recent reports of campylobacteriosis in Italy include data from 2013 to 2016. We aimed to provide national epidemiological and microbiological data on human Campylobacter infections in Italy during the period 2017–2021. Methods Data was collected from 19 Hospitals in 13 Italian Regions. Bacterial identification was performed by mass spectrometry. Antibiograms were determined with Etest or Kirby-Bauer (EUCAST criteria). Results In total, 5419 isolations of Campylobacter spp. were performed. The most common species were C. jejuni (n = 4535, 83.7%), followed by C. coli (n = 732, 13.5%) and C. fetus (n = 34, 0.6%). The mean age of patients was 34.61 years and 57.1% were males. Outpatients accounted for 54% of the cases detected. Campylobacter were isolated from faeces in 97.3% of cases and in 2.7% from blood. C. fetus was mostly isolated from blood (88.2% of cases). We tested for antimicrobial susceptibility 4627 isolates (85.4%). Resistance to ciprofloxacin and tetracyclines was 75.5% and 54.8%, respectively; resistance to erythromycin was 4.8%; clarithromycin 2% and azithromycin 2%. 50% of C. jejuni and C. coli were resistant to ≥ 2 antibiotics. Over the study period, resistance to ciprofloxacin and tetracyclines significantly decreased (p < 0.005), while resistance to macrolides remained stable. Conclusion Campylobacter resistance to fluoroquinolones and tetracyclines in Italy is decreasing but is still high, while macrolides retain good activity.

Financial education became a prominent concern in many countries in the aftermath of the 2008 economic and financial crisis. Since then, a lack of financial literacy has been deemed to prevent people from developing adequate self-protection strategies against both financial and social risks. This same issue has been raised during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to the poor financial ‘resilience’ of households to shocks and stresses. Starting from this assumption, its improvement turned into a key objective for policymakers and regulators at European and international level. This article concentrates on financial education with a view to exploring the wider relationship between finance, social policy and the governance of uncertainty and risks. It draws on the sociological literature on the financialisation and changing paradigms of welfare states to discuss the normative substrate of financial education. Based on this and a case study analysis, this paper shows how financial education has renewed pressure on the dynamics of depoliticisation and individualisation of risks and uncertainty management.

The pandemic has resulted in increased social needs and risks that have immediately challenged the ability of social policies to ensure adequate protection. The article focuses on local welfare responses to this crisis with the purpose of understanding whether and how local institutions, actors and communities reorganised. It also discusses the factors likely to favour or weaken the capacity for local social action and innovation in both current and future context. The analysis of the institutional and social actors’ responses originated in the city of Milan suggests that the pandemic has exerted strong pressure on local welfare actors and policies for the adoption of socially innovative modes of action and governance. This highlights at the same time some of the key features of recent welfare developments in Milan and, more broadly, the problems and potential of local welfare from a social innovation perspective.

In this doctoral dissertation, a comprehensive methodological approach for the assessment of river embankments safety conditions, based on the integrated use of laboratory testing, physical modelling and finite element (FE) numerical simulations, is proposed, with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the effect of time-dependent hydraulic boundary conditions on the hydro-mechanical response of river embankments. The case study and materials selected for the present research project are representative for the riverbank systems of Alpine and Apennine tributaries of the main river Po (Northern Italy), which have recently experienced various sudden overall collapses. The outcomes of a centrifuge test carried out under the enhanced gravity field of 50-g, on a riverbank model, made of a compacted silty sand mixture, overlying a homogeneous clayey silt foundation layer and subjected to a simulated flood event, have been considered for the definition of a robust and realistic experimental benchmark. In order to reproduce the observed experimental behaviour, a first set of numerical simulations has been carried out by assuming, for both the embankments and the foundation unit, rigid soil porous media, under partially saturated conditions. Mechanical and hydraulic soil properties adopted in the numerical analyses have been carefully estimated based on standard saturated triaxial, oedometer and constant head permeability tests. Afterwards, advanced suction-controlled laboratory tests, have been carried out to investigate the effect of suction and confining stresses on the shear strength and compressibility characteristics of the filling material and a second set of numerical simulations has been run, taking into account the soil parameters updated based on the most recent tests. The final aim of the study is the quantitative estimation of the predictive capabilities of the calibrated numerical tools, by systematically comparing the results of the FE simulations

The book Lezioni di Istituzioni di diritto e procedura penale (Lectures on Institutions of Criminal Law and Procedure) collects the lectures held by Aldo Moro at the Political Science Faculty of the Rome La Sapienza University in the academic year 1975-1976. The Lectures clearly show the marks of the cultural environment of the time, in which Moro began to elaborate his own legal-philosophical and penalistic thought. Nevertheless, the work retains a certain scientific relevance. Not only does it fill a few significant gaps in the knowledge of Moro's thought (for example, his position on the traditional problem of punishment); but it also updates the analysis of some fundamental theoretical or political-criminal issues (such as, for example, the legal limits of the State's punitive power), in a more modern key, in the light of the principles of the Constitution of the Italian Republic.

A core part of the rehabilitation scheduling process consists of planning rehabilitation physiotherapy sessions for patients, by assigning proper operators to them in a certain time slot of a given day, taking into account several legal, medical and ethical requirements and optimizations, e.g., patient's preferences and operator's work balancing. Being able to efficiently solve such problem is of upmost importance, in particular after the COVID-19 pandemic that significantly increased rehabilitation's needs. In this paper, we present a two-phase solution to rehabilitation scheduling based on Answer Set Programming, which proved to be an effective tool for solving practical scheduling problems. We first present a general encoding, and then add domain specific optimizations. Results of experiments performed on both synthetic and real benchmarks, the latter provided by ICS Maugeri, show the effectiveness of our solution as well as the impact of our domain specific optimizations. Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)., Comment: Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)

This paper develops a critical understanding of municipal entrepreneurship support policies (MESPs) by investigating the strength of convergence and divergence trends with respect to neoliberal modes of governance in this policy field. To do so, it draws on a comparison between Milan and Barcelona’s MESPs and investigates the ways local policy actors interpret, invalidate or reproduce a neoliberal approach to entrepreneurship policies. Findings from the analysis of grey literature and interviews with policy actors and practitioners show the role municipal governments and local socio-economic and institutional conditions play in shaping compound and divergent approaches to MESPs. On this basis, the article reflects on the agency of local governments and the way urban policies and governance may deviate from neoliberal trajectories.

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular declarative programming language for solving hard combinatorial problems. Although ASP has gained widespread acceptance in academic and industrial contexts, there are certain user groups who may find it more advantageous to employ a higher-level language that closely resembles natural language when specifying ASP programs. In this paper, we propose a novel tool, called CNL2ASP, for translating English sentences expressed in a controlled natural language (CNL) form into ASP. In particular, we first provide a definition of the type of sentences allowed by our CNL and their translation as ASP rules, and then exemplify the usage of the CNL for the specification of both synthetic and real-world combinatorial problems. Finally, we report the results of an experimental analysis conducted on the real-world problems to compare the performance of automatically generated encodings with the ones written by ASP practitioners, showing that our tool can obtain satisfactory performance on these benchmarks. Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)., Comment: Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)

This volume contains the Technical Communications presented at the 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023), held at Imperial College London, UK from July 9 to July 15, 2023. Technical Communications included here concern the Main Track, the Doctoral Consortium, the Application and Systems/Demo track, the Recently Published Research Track, the Birds-of-a-Feather track, the Thematic Tracks on Logic Programming and Machine Learning, and Logic Programming and Explainability, Ethics, and Trustworthiness.

Il contributo mira a verificare se i tempi siano ormai maturi per affrancare definitivamente la responsabilità da reato degli enti dalla previa realizzazione di un illecito penale da parte di un agente individuale, effettuando un ulteriore passo in avanti rispetto ai paradigmi ascrittivi attualmente disciplinati nel d. lgs. 231/2001, nel percorso di progressiva autonomizzazione della corporate criminal liability.

Il contributo mira a verificare se i tempi siano ormai maturi per affrancare definitivamente la responsabilità da reato degli enti dalla previa realizzazione di un illecito penale da parte di un agente individuale, effettuando un ulteriore passo in avanti rispetto ai paradigmi ascrittivi attualmente disciplinati nel d. lgs. 231/2001, nel percorso di progressiva autonomizzazione della corporate criminal liability.

Il saggio ricostruisce l’evoluzione legislativa e giurisprudenziale della liberazione condizionale e illustra i motivi costituzionali che giustificano, come richiesto dal giudice a quo, la conversione della libertà vigilata, ex art. 230 comma 1, n. 2 c.p., da obbligatoria a facoltativa e la conseguente attribuzione al giudice del potere di valutare discrezionalmente la sussistenza o il protrarsi della pericolosità sociale del detenuto, conformemente alla regola generale dell’art. 31 della legge 10 ottobre 1986, n. 663.

Saggio introduttivo a A. Moro, Lezioni di Istituzioni di diritto e procedura penale, Cacucci, Bari, 2005

0. Introduzione. — 1. Il diritto primitivo come ordinamento giuridico completamente decentralizzato basato sulla vendetta di sangue. — 1.1. I sistemi vendicatori come prima forma di diritto. — 1.2. Il diritto come tecnica sociale di motivazione indiretta basata su sanzioni coercitive. — 2. La vendetta di sangue come fenomeno sociale nella prospettiva sociologica e antropologica. — 2.1. L’aspetto soggettivo del carattere sociale della vendetta. — 2.2. L’aspetto oggettivo del carattere sociale della vendetta. — 3. La vendetta di sangue come fenomeno normativo nella teoria pura del diritto. — 3.1. La vendetta di sangue e il principio di imputazione. — 3.2. Il vendicatore come organo della comunità e il monopolio dell’uso della forza. — 4. La vendetta di sangue nell’evoluzione del diritto come specifica tecnica sociale. — 4.1. La vendetta di sangue come ordinamento giuridico decentralizzato. — 4.2. Dagli ordinamenti vendicatori al diritto degli stati moderni. — 4.3. La graduale differenziazione e centralizzazione delle tre fasi dell’applicazione del diritto. — 4.4. La rilevanza della dimensione procedurale nella teoria della vendetta di sangue di Kelsen.

Il saggio ricostruisce l'abolizione del delitto d'onore dai lavori preparatori del codice penale del 1930 fino all'avvenuta abrogazione nel 1981. Significativo notare come alcune volci isolate si levarano già all'interno delle commissioni incaricate di redigere il cosidetto codice Rocco, con argomentazioni che saranno riprese in peroche successive, pur essendo radicalmente mutato il clima politico-istituzionale.

ICLP is the premier international event for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions to ICLP 2022 were sought in all areas of logic programming, including but not limited to: Foundations: Semantics, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic reasoning, Knowledge representation. Languages issues: Concurrency, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher order, Types, Modes, Assertions, Modules, Meta-programming, Logic-based domain-specific languages, Programming techniques. Programming support: Program analysis, Transformation, Validation, Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Testing, Execution visualization. Implementation: Compilation, Virtual machines, Memory management, Parallel and Distributed execution, Constraint handling rules, Tabling, Foreign interfaces, User interfaces. Related Paradigms and Synergies: Inductive and coinductive logic programming, Constraint logic programming, Answer set programming, Interaction with SAT, SMT and CSP solvers, Theorem proving, Argumentation, Probabilistic programming, Machine learning. Applications: Databases, Big data, Data integration and federation, Software engineering, Natural language processing, Web and semantic web, Agents, Artificial intelligence, Computational life sciences, Cyber-security, Robotics, Education.

The essay, focused on the idea of “substantive criminal law”, explores the ways criminal legal system can adequately conveyan interpretation of norms really compliant with legality principle , being well known how the hermeneutic process is deeply affected by a pre-comprehension of facts to which norms are applied thus exposing judicial decisions to the risk of arbitrariness. In order to guide in the selection of relevant facts or features thereof, and then to rejuvenate a really weakened ability of criminal law ro substtaìtially steer legal decisions, the ultima ratio principle should be considered not just in the law-making, but also in judicial decisions, just for a better understanding of other basic principles like the harm and legality ones. This can be achieved through the awareness of the “positional” logic (in a meaning the author draws from Ludwig Wittgestnein’s philosophy) just inherent in the idea of criminal law as ultima ratio, namely to be deployed for social control only after having considered the ability of other means to protect relevant interests

The decoupling between the representation of a certain problem, i.e., its knowledge model, and the reasoning side is one of main strong points of model-based Artificial Intelligence (AI). This allows, e.g. to focus on improving the reasoning side by having advantages on the whole solving process. Further, it is also well-known that many solvers are very sensitive to even syntactic changes in the input. In this paper, we focus on improving the reasoning side by taking advantages of such sensitivity. We consider two well-known model-based AI methodologies, SAT and ASP, define a number of syntactic features that may characterise their inputs, and use automated configuration tools to reformulate the input formula or program. Results of a wide experimental analysis involving SAT and ASP domains, taken from respective competitions, show the different advantages that can be obtained by using input reformulation and configuration. Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)., Comment: Under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)

The development of complex software requires tools promoting fail-fast approaches, so that bugs and unexpected behavior can be quickly identified and fixed. Tools for data validation may save the day of computer programmers. In fact, processing invalid data is a waste of resources at best, and a drama at worst if the problem remains unnoticed and wrong results are used for business. Answer Set Programming (ASP) is not an exception, but the quest for better and better performance resulted in systems that essentially do not validate data. Even under the simplistic assumption that input/output data are eventually validated by external tools, invalid data may appear in other portions of the program, and go undetected until some other module of the designed software suddenly breaks. This paper formalizes the problem of data validation for ASP programs, introduces a language to specify data validation, and presents \textsc{valasp}, a tool to inject data validation in ordinary programs. The proposed approach promotes fail-fast techniques at coding time without imposing any lag on the deployed system if data are pretended to be valid. Validation can be specified in terms of statements using YAML, ASP and Python. Additionally, the proposed approach opens the possibility to use ASP for validating data of imperative programming languages. Under consideration for acceptance in TPLP., Comment: Under consideration for acceptance in TPLP

Studi in onore di Domenico Pulitanò

L’articolo si interroga sulla responsabilità politica e penale dei governanti nel controllo della pandemia da Covid-19 sulla base della ricostruzione del sistema mondiale e nazionale di prevenzione anti-pandemica e dell’esame degli atti normativi adottati dallo Stato e dalle Regioni (con specifico focus su Regione Lombardia) nella fase 1 dell’emergenza. La complessità dell’imputazione colposa di reati contro la persona o l’incolumità pubblica, dovuta a deficit di tipo cognitivo od organizzativo e alla natura discrezionale delle decisioni politiche dei soggetti istituzionali, suggerisce la massima cautela nell’intraprendere la strada della giustizia penale per sindacare loro eventuali responsabilità., The article questions the political and criminal liability of political decision-makers on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic on the basis of the reconstruction of the global and national anti-pandemic prevention system and of the review of each regulatory act adopted by State and Regions (with specific focus on the heavily hit Lombardy Region) in emergency phase 1. The complexity of the culpability for crimes against the person or against public safety - due to cognitive or organizational lacks and to the discretionary nature of the political decisions taken by institutional subjects - suggests the highest caution in taking the path of criminal justice to assess their possible liability.

La tesi ha come oggetto di studio le politiche comunali di supporto all’imprenditorialità. In particolare, mette a confronto le politiche promosse dalle città di Milano e Barcellona e le esperienze di giovani fino a trentacinque anni di età. Il quadro interpretativo attinge, da un lato, agli studi sulle politiche e la governance urbana di impronta neo-Marxiana e neo-Weberiana e, dall’altro, alla letteratura socioeconomica e alla documentazione istituzionale teoricamente rilevante sull’imprenditorialità anche nella cornice degli studi sulla riorganizzazione del welfare. Da questa letteratura sono emersi due macro-approcci analitici. Il primo mette in evidenza la convergenza verso modelli di governance e di welfare neoliberali improntati alle esigenze del mercato e della competitività a discapito della coesione sociale. Un trend di cui le politiche per l’imprenditorialità sembrano costituire un esempio paradigmatico. Il secondo, mette a fuoco le peculiarità della città Europea e la tenuta del compromesso tra crescita e inclusione sociale che la caratterizzerebbe, sostenendo la tesi opposta della differenza tra le città e della divergenza rispetto alle logiche neoliberali. In questo quadro, la ricerca ha messo al centro dell’analisi le differenze locali, il ruolo dei governi urbani e la loro capacità di governare le trasformazioni socioeconomiche e politiche in corso, e inoltre gli effetti in termini di redistribuzione di rischi e opportunità tra i destinatari delle azioni. Per farlo, si è avvalsa di un approccio interpretativo, una metodologia basata sullo studio di caso e sulla tecnica dell’intervista, e un’analisi comparativa, che mette al centro dello studio le differenze e i relativi fattori di influenza. Dopo aver situato l’oggetto di studio all’interno delle condizioni socioeconomiche e istituzionali che caratterizzano i due contesti, e sulla base dei risultati emersi, la tesi mette a fuoco, innanzitutto, l’eterogeneità che caratterizza le diverse d, The thesis deals with municipal entrepreneurship support policies (MESPs) through a comparison between the actions undertaken in this field by the municipalities of Milan and Barcelona and the experiences of young people up to thirty-five years of age. The theoretical framework has brought together the neo-Marxian and neo-Weberian approaches to urban policies and governance, and the socio-economic literature and theoretically valuable institutional documentation on entrepreneurship, also in the framework of welfare changes. Two analytical macro approaches emerged from this literature. The first highlights the convergence towards neoliberal governance and welfare models, oriented towards market and competitiveness at the expense of social cohesion. A trend of which the policies for entrepreneurship seem to constitute a paradigmatic example. The second one focuses on the peculiarities of the European city and on the compromise between growth and social inclusion that would characterise it, supporting the opposite thesis of the persistent difference between cities and of the divergence from the neoliberal logic. Against this background, the research focused on local differences and the role of municipal governments and their capacity to govern socio-economic and political changes. Besides, attention has been paid to the experiences of young people and policy outcomes in terms of redistribution of risks and opportunities. The analysis avails itself of an interpretative approach, a methodology based on the case study and the technique of the interview, and a comparative logic, which puts the differences and the related factors of influence at the centre of the study. After having placed MESPs within the socio-economic and institutional conditions of the two contexts, and given research findings, the thesis focused on the heterogeneity characterising different dimensions of MESPs. These include ideas and values, problems, objectives, measures and tools and outcomes. It hi

Con il d.lgs. 2 ottobre 2018, n. 121, sulla disciplina dell’esecuzione delle pene nei confronti dei condannati minorenni, si è inteso completare l’ordinamento penitenziario, dopo un’attesa durata più di quarant’anni dalla riforma del 1975, adattandolo alle esigenze dei detenuti minori di età in alcuni ambiti nevralgici. Il saggio si propone di verificare se e in quali termini le nuove disposizioni recepiscano e diano coerentemente attuazione agli impegni assunti dall’Italia con la sottoscrizione delle Carte internazionali che promuovono una giustizia penale “a misura di minore”, nonché ai principi e alle regole previsti da atti internazionali ed europei dedicati ai minorenni in materia di esecuzione delle pene.

Using Milan's entrepreneurship policies as a case-study, this paper explores the diversity that the broad policy category of 'inclusive entrepreneurship' may entail in terms of policy instruments and participants' experiences. To this end, the study considers policymakers, practitioners and young adults receiving local support to establish their own businesses. It does so by drawing on qualitative interviews. It argues that inclusive entrepreneurship policies may entail a 'differentiated inclusion' that is produced by the simultaneous interaction between diversified policy instruments and a system of inequalities that affect individual capacities to strategise entrepreneurial risks and opportunities.

La sentenza in commento ha fatto chiarezza sull’architettura del “nuovo” controllo di proporzionalità sulla misura della pena, sviluppato a partire dalla sentenza n. 236 del 2016. Quando il sistema legislativo offra plurime soluzioni, anche alternative tra loro, il vulnus costituzionale deve essere sanato attraverso una “soluzione costituzionalmente adeguata”, ancorché non obbligata, ossia sostituendo la norma sanzionatoria incostituzionale con un’altra norma idonea a svolgere nella misura maggiore possibile le logiche dell’ordinamento in armonia con il legittimo intento del legislatore. Il saggio analizza punti di forza e criticità del nuovo giudizio di costituzionalità sulla misura della pena, con particolare riferimento alla funzione e alle caratteristiche del tertium comparationis.

L'articolo indaga il rapporto tra innovazione sociale, solidarietà ed esperienze di attivismo socio-politico a livello urbano con una ricerca sulle risposte locali alla crisi sociale data dalla pandemia di Covid-19 a Milano e Napoli. Lo studio ha messo in luce il ruolo di alcune realtà urbane autorganizzate nelle azioni di contrasto agli effetti sociali dell'isolamento e le dinamiche di depoliticizzazione e ri-politicizzazione sottese alla governance dell'emergenza. Inoltre, ha evidenziato come la portata della crisi possa da unlato spingere verso coalizioni inedite potenzialmente in grado di ri-politicizzare la governance locale e, dall'altro, promuovere una convergenza verso le logiche della ‘post- welfare city', che rischiano di neutralizzare il portato innovativo delle trasformazioni., This article investigates the relationship between social innovation, solidarity and experiences of socio-political activism at the urban level by researching local responses to the social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in Milan and Naples. The study analyses the role of some urban self-organised groups against the social effects of isolation and the dynamics of de-politicisation and re-politicisation underlying the governance of the emergency. In addition, it highlights how the extent of the crisis can, on the one hand, push towards unprecedented coalitions potentially able to re-politicise local governance and, on the other, promote a convergence towards the logic of the ‘post-welfare city’, which risks neutralising the innovative effect of the transformations.