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The paper deals with a topic particularly relevant in the current international sociological debate such as the varieties of capitalisms and their evolutions. In particular, looking at the Italian experience, in a context of increasing uncertainty and inequalities, it focuses attention to the main socio-economic changes and their impact on economy and society, searching for a more equal, sustainable and inclusive model of capitalism. These changes induced the scholars to talk about a new "great transformation" by adopting the famous expression of Karl Polanyi, used to describe the birth of the market economy. Starting from the literature and available data, the paper suggests new possible paths as well as complementary or even alternative practices that keep together economy and society in order to start a new age of a more sustainable, social and inclusive capitalism. The central idea is that self-regulating markets do not perfectly work; their deficiencies, not only in their internal workings, but also in their consequences for less advantaged people, are so great that the state intervention becomes necessary and that the pace of change is of central importance in determining these consequences. We argue that a paradigm shift is urgently needed, but this will certainly take time and a new governance which requires the involvement of several key political, economic and social actors such as international organizations, national governments, economic organizations along with social movements and no-profit organisations embedded at national and local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a reflection on two concepts, related to the theme of sustainability. The first is scarcity, the latter is sovereignty. The article considers the institution of the scarcity on a social level. In this perspective, scarcity is a set of goods and resources insufficient to satisfy the needs of all people. The paper emphasizes not only a natural dimension linked to human needs, but also a social dimension: the conditions for the institution of scarcity are not only economic, but related to power and interest to manage a resource. In this sense, scarcity is not just a natural fact. The idea of scarcity is socially established and the social institution of scarcity is a means of controlling the conflict. Secondly, the paper proposes the Bataillean concept of dépense, which includes not only the excessive consumption, but also the dimensions of luxury, of play, of art, of the sacred. In such dimensions, time and resources are not destined to a profit, but are an end in themselves, in a non-utilitarian way. The dépense implies sovereign attitudes and behaviours of people over things, thanks to a way of consuming goods according to a non-servile logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a review of Cesarale’s book. The aim of this paper is to discuss the possibility of a political and theoretical radical space outside the framework of the capitalist mode of production. The work of the author depicts a useful political map of the positions of “radical thought”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper, starting from a broad analysis of the weberian sociological conception, investigates the problem of "meaning" by comparing it with other similar concepts (use, customs, etc.) and arriving at the more general one of the "images of the world" (weltbild) which is less themed but undoubtedly central in his thought. The second part of the paper examines the visions of the world that generated capitalism, modern political imaginaries and contemporary metamorphoses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature is an important source for sociological discourse, since in narratives it can find inspiration, a tool for comparison and a lively representation of its analytical categories. Thus, this paper aims to analyse some of the most important books of Italian mid-twentieth century industrial literature: Tempi Stretti and Donnarumma all’assalto by Ottiero Ottieri, first, then Il calzolaio di Vigevano and Il maestro di Vigevano by Lucio Mastronardi, and Memoriale by Paolo Volponi. The representations described in these books – immersed in the specific historical context of their time – reflect, consolidate, and interact with the categories and concepts through which many important sociological thinkers have interpreted industrial modernity. They can provide indications on the meanings through which it was possible to understand modern society. The main categories used in this analysis will be industrial work, the figure of the capitalist and social conflicts [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to highlight the importance – and problematic nature – of the relationship between materialism and dialectics within the theoretical-political reinterpretation of Marxism proposed by Karl Korsch in the early 1920s. According to Korsch, from the standpoint of a genuine “materialist dialectic” should follow a thorough critique of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of what could be called “the orthodox Marxism” of the Second International. As both critical and revolutionary, the dialectic represents the core of Marx’s theory and thus the starting point of a science able to achieve an understanding of the “totality” of bourgeois society, pursuing at the same time its practical overthrow. However, Korsch’s theorisation of an “immediate” link between the theory of Marxist dialectic and the reality of proletarian revolution hinders in fact a coherent analysis of the objective conditions of the latter and, as a consequence, a suitable theory of transition from capitalism to socialism in the age of imperialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows the complementarity of two streams of sociological literature on capitalism -- namely the global value chains perspective and the varieties of capitalism approach -- and contends that their integration may contribute to conceptually advance our grasp of current capitalist organization and dynamic. Among others, such a convergence highlights the density and dynamism of the institutions involved in capitalist regulation, the variety of competition models pursued by firms and their being vectors of institutional contamination, the agency of actors that populate the current institutional architecture of capitalism and, among them, the state. More than questions concerning the reproduction of institutions (or their marginalization/absence) and the centrality of technological and market imperatives, the analysis is oriented by the dynamic interaction between institutional and economic processes whose conditions, modalities, effects and direction of change need to be observed. The evidence concerning the substantial interdependence between national economies and the development of transnational networks of productive relationships calls for the consolidation of a research programme that combines the study of companies in different countries, sectors or markets and the new logics of the transnational economy. The ultimate aim of the paper is to intensify the dialogue between compatible strands of alternative comparative capitalism theorizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims analyzing the emergence of the so-called platform capitalism through informal economy studies. Starting from research developed in the '80s and '90s in the United Kingdom about poor people's survival strategies, the author shows how contemporary platform capitalism reproduces economic forms that used to be considered informal. The article taking into consideration this temporal sequence enables to consider platform economy as a response to the typical paradoxes of the domain of informality, differently from analyses that consider platform capitalism as a mere transference of private activities into the digital sphere in order to reduce transaction costs. The article concludes on the concept of "conversion" through which Peruvian economist de Soto aims at transforming informal economies of the poor into the motor of the capitalist development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a possible reading path through the more than one thousand six hundred pages which compose the work Lutero. Un cristiano e la sua eredità. 1517-2017, edited by Alberto Melloni. In fact, the eight essays of the volume are examined which mention, illustrate and/or critically discuss Max Weber's renowned thesis on the connection between the protestant ethics and the spirit of modern capitalism, together with its complex theoretical and philosophical premises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The epistemology of the word "silence" leads us to the Latin distinction between tacere and silere, whose meanings express both its ambivalence either as absence of speech and as original dimension, the latter completely independent from speech. It seems like that the contemporary western world has lost recollection of the meaning of silere. In the so-called commons perspective, silence seems to fit well within the description of non-exclusive and nonrival good, as well as a potentially unlimited and totally ecological one. This paper proposes an epistemological revolution based on an ecology of silence, not only in relation to a perceptive and concretistic dimension, but also as an existential attitude or state of mind in relation to the symbolic and experiential aspects of our lives. Thus, silence becomes a practice of absence, diametrically opposed to the capitalist concepts of storage / filling / dogma of presence that informs our modus operandi and our mindset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a reflection on two concepts, related to the theme of sustainability. The first is scarcity, the latter is sovereignty. The article considers the institution of the scarcity on a social level. In this perspective, scarcity is a set of goods and resources insufficient to satisfy the needs of all. The paper emphasizes not only a natural dimension linked to human needs, but also a social dimension: the conditions for the institution of scarcity are not only economic, but related to power and interest to manage a resource. In this sense, scarcity is not just a natural fact. The idea of ​​scarcity is socially established and the social institution of scarcity is a means of controlling the conflict. Secondly, the paper proposes the Bataillean concept of dépense, which includes not only the excessive consumption, but also the dimensions of luxury, of play, of art, of the sacred. In such dimensions, time and resources are not destined to a profit, but are an end in themselves, in a non-utilitarian way. The dépense implies sovereign attitudes and behaviours of people over things, thanks to a way of consuming goods according to a non-servile logic.

The modern concept of "nature " vas bom in the XVIIIth Century: a nature as object, submitted to man's reason. A long tradition sees the origin of the modern notion of nature in the Greek phúsis. To go from phúsis invites us on the contrary to be critical towards the modern paradigm of a nature opposed to culture. Actually the domination of nature and the exploitation by man of what are for us "natural resources " is at the core of the ideological, economical and financial model imposed on us by neoliberal capitalism. This model shapes and destroys the communities of men as well as their environments. To face anthropologically the Greek phúsis invites us to break off with a technological capitalism based on a destroying productivism. Greek reflection on the relationships between phúsis and nomos leads us to consider the inevitable interactions beWeen the human societies, their technical abilities, and their environments, in a perspective of "anthropopoiesis" and "ecopciesis". This paper represents the Italian version of the first chapter and : he last part of an essay devoted to the interactions mentioned above wita an eco-socialistic approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses his attention on a specific form that Deleuze's political thought has taken, especially in the Eighties: believing in the world. Through the analysis of the different figures that the loss of this belief has engendered, the author tries to diagnose the contemporary annihilation of thought and reason from one hand, and of any political faith from the other. It is then with the help of contemporary French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and specifically through the concept of 'algorithmic govenrmentality' as borrowed from Antoinette Rouvroy, that Deleuze's (and Guattari's) formulations of the automatization of the human relation with the world, today embodied in the notion of the Anthropocene, will be extended to the critique of the newest form of computational capitalism and its weapons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The heterogeneous literature on the subject shows how every society has developed its own idea of what the soul is, and how each of these ideas of soul has led to specific social effects. However, for too long and perhaps unfoundedly, the soul has been considered a construct alien to sociological reflection as an empirical social science. In the first part, this paper investigates the concept of the soul from a sociological perspective, starting from the reflections on some classics of sociology (Durkheim, Sombart, Fromm). In the second part we review the current sociological concepts on the soul, embedding them in the context of late capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to critically display the notion of ecstasy (estasi) in Elvio Fachinelli’s work, delineating both the psychoanalytical applicability and the ethico-political horizons of it. The first part of the work concentrates on the definition of Fachinellian ecstasy, defining its meaning and its application: Fachinelli refuses a unitarian conception of ecstatic (estatico), that is too much confined in mysticism or inappropriately inscribed in the aesthetic circle of the artistic creativity; rather, Fachinelli opts for an open definition of ecstasy, which embraces forms and experiences that are structurally different. These apparently unmeasurable phenomena have something in common: the constructs of timelessness, perceptual expansion and the abolition of the conscious Ego. The second part of the paper will face the political implications of ecstasy, answering to the accusations that sees Fachinelli as one of several emancipative and anti-repressive thinkers and then referring to the elaboration of the fundaments of narcocapitalism, moving it away from its eschatological opposites (from the end-of-the-world narration to the abjuration of technique). On the base of this premises, in Fachinelli ecstasy reveals as a trans-historical notion, fundamental to make a wide criticism of the “apologies of defense”: all discourses and theories that sells an ideological vision of the subject, who is seen as constantly vulnerable and harassed by the need to protect himself. The notion of ecstasy, that in Fachinelli’s work seem to tend to the psychedelic tout court, not only problematizes the well-known relation between psychotropics and psychopathology in a nonmedical way, but it also questions the notion of subjectivity, giving back to it its constitutive ambiguity that the current occidental individualism has culturally “abduct”.

Georg Simmel believed that the true nature of modern societies could only be grasped if one had a thorough understanding of the social sphere of aesthetics. In other words, the social system could be effectively interpreted by analysing the way in which artistic languages are applied on a daily basis to many different forms of expression (such as fashion, design, advertising and so on). If this was true during the age of Simmel then it is all the more true today, when the immaterial components of the economy and society have undergone more than a century of development. This paper will analyse the social role played by aesthetic dimension. It will put forward the thesis that from this point of view the Seventies were a particularly crucial moment and that this period changed our perception of goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the essential conditions to implementation of market oriented appraisal methods is to identify a comparable properties sample that meets comparability criteria in terms of "similarity degree", which means that properties features are to be close one to the other, and reliability of the real estate selling prices, which could be conditioned by fortuitous cir-cumstances and present different "reliability degree". This paper aims to define some measures to quantitatively assess properties' comparability degree, and set up a procedure able to perfect adjustment grid methods, correcting possi-ble anomalies and dissimilarities in the appraisal sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses Giuliano Scabia's Fantastica visione, a drama written in 1973. The text will be studied in two directions. Initially, elements will be identified that allow it to be defined as a rewriting of the myth of Faust, according to the criteria of Brunel’s Mitocritica. Two aspects of the myth will be highlighted: its being potentially a text of the fantastic genre (as in other rewritings of the same years by Buzzati, Landolfi and Calvino) and a critique of capitalism (as in Marxist readings by Lukács and Cases). After that, the hypothesis that drama is an antecedent of the contemporary New Weird, characterised precisely by the fantastic and the critique of reality, will be supported. To conclude, these two readings will be placed in dialogue.

The article discusses Walter Benjamin’s reception and adaptation of both Marx’s writings and contemporary Marxist discourse, arguing that the “Marxist Benjamin” cannot be understood as just a fellow-traveller of early Frankfurt School. Departing on the one hand from György Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness (1923) as well as closely working, on the other, both with Theodor W. Adorno and Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin’s original take on Marx and historical materialism traverses and transcends the discourse of Neo-Marxism, pointing to (post) surrealist as well as psychoanalytical discourses. The first section of the article introduces the development, posthumous reception and context of Benjamin’s Marxism. The second section focuses on Benjamin’s political emphasis on class struggle and a new historical materialist concept of (counter) history. The third one presents Benjamin’s theory of revolution and its anti-progressivist thrust. The last section examines Benjamin’s reception of Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism and his intervention into the discourse of Neo-Marxist ideology critique. Finally, the last part raises the question of Benjamin’s symptomatic (mis)understanding of Marx’s critique of political economy and concept of “capital”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article challenges the established interpretations of personal autonomy, asserting that it can serve as a valuable lens for understanding contemporary society. In the article several reflections are provided on the implications and declinations of the topic, focusing on its paradoxes and ambivalences. The analysis starts from a specific field of observation, namely poverty and its contrast, and subsequently expands into broader considerations. In its prevalent declinations of independence and self-sufficiency, the concept encapsulates arguments that connote contemporary capitalism or the «performance society». By highlighting the pitfalls of such a conception, the article advocates for a redefinition of the concept in the meaning of interdependence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a critique of J.D. Vance’s widely read but “terribly misleading” Hillbilly Elegy. For the most part, Vance – who actually knows very little about Appalachia – writes about the experience of Appalachian migrants to the midwestern United States. Ignoring the well-documented history of the exploitation of the Appalachian region and how capitalism has devasted the communities to which Appalachian peoples have migrated, Vance instead focuses on what he contends are the bad personal choices that Appalachian individuals have made in the face of economic decline. Playing what the article calls the “blame game,” Vance stresses personal choice and responsibility as the factors that account for hardship, a typical theme of neoliberal ideology. In such context, Billings explores the reasons why the book has been so popular. In particular, he analyses the term “Trumpalachia” as a badge of the attempt by liberals, influenced by Vance’s depiction of the Appalachian region, to blame the 2016 election of Trump to the US Presidency on a false understanding of the Appalachian vote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution is aimed at shedding light on how the concept of utopia is closely linked, both in terms of content and method, to the gender perspective and, more specifically, to feminist reflection. We do so by dwelling on some of the most influential voices that have contributed to the recent rediscovery of utopia as a sociological method and mobilizing force for critiquing and reacting to advanced capitalism and existing arrangements of gender relations.The article closes with some reflections on how utopian realism can enable us to overcome the fear of change in gender relations and counter the risk of "retrotopias". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The root causes of the Italian decline lie in the distortions of collective action, which enhance the perverse behavior of both the elite and the people. The elites are "packs of wolves" that extract income and wealth to the detriment of society, shaping formal institutions. The people cultivate myriads of small special interests, operating as "swarms of locusts", by circumventing and emptying formal institutions. The dualism of wolves and locusts derives from the many atavistic national dualisms and strengthens them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Genealogy of the capitalistic imagery. From the « sacred cosmos » to the spiritual and Netechnological « canopy ». The promises of capitalism seem to have produced a world that escapes more and more from the control of human beings because of the disintegration of the collective and individual matrix of meanings. The capitalist imagery, however, offers its inhabitants symbolic roofs under which they can shelter. In the first part of the paper I will analyze the imagery of premodern society, focusing on the sacred dimension of social existence, understood as a brake on the affirmation of capitalism. In the second, I will show the sociological reasons behind the huge change of the imagery that has allowed the triumph of the logic of capitalism. In the fourth, I will discuss the Netechnological and spiritual « canopy » – recalling the title of a famous book by Peter Berger – intended as imaginal reactions against the fragmentation of stable universes of meaning caused by the development and radicalization of capitalism.

Capitalism and Imaginary. The cave, the labor and the algorithm. The aim of this paper is to discuss the controversial relationship between capitalism and imaginary. Using Adorno’s concept of constellation in science, we shall underline different kind of relationship between those. we will try to identify vital conceptual nodes that can illuminate the relationship between capitalism and the imaginary. In the first part we discuss address the attention to two different perspectives aboutof the interrelationship dichotomy between capitalism and imaginary. Starting from Bataille’s reflection on Lascaux’s wall painting, we highlight focus on the difference between instrumental activity and expressive activity, while in a social and historical perspective, we pay attention on the irreconcilable contradiction of these activities that emerge with the modern concept of labor. In the second part, we analyze a case study - an algorithm called “The Next Rembrandt” - in order discuss aesthetical and cultural condition of the contemporary capitalism. How we show in the last part, the aesthetical and cultural dilemmas not only offer us a possible link between capitalism and imaginary but, at the same time, allow us to face up the ethical dimension of contemporary cultural logic of capitalism.

The article presents abstracts on agricultural topics including the relationship between land and labor in contemporary capitalism by Vando Borghi, the rural class dynamics of capitalism by Henry Bernstein, and rural development policies in developing countries by Mario Zamponi.

The article presents abstracts on several topics including institutional change and capitalism in China, economic development policies in Italy, and the social and economic environment in Great Britain.

The formal logic has found out that numeric functions and algorithms have a common root. This means that either the dominant cognitive knowledge (the mathematical representation of the world), or the dominant performative knowledge (the organization of processes according to formal rules) are based on the same logic and on the same culture, which is that of the recursive formalism. Using the recursivity concept, it is possible to understand better the historical and conceptual relationships among phenomena which have marked the transition from the traditional world to the modern word. That allows us - and this is the goal of this paper - matching different approaches to the social disembedding problem, typical of modern society. Understanding that calculus (used by both science and capitalism) and algorithms (used by bureaucratic organizations) have worked with a common logic makes possible to overcome the apparent contrast between the recent concept of «disembedding» as a result of «time-space distanciation», and the classic ideas of «alienation», «atomization», etc, tied to the formalization of the «work-discipline». At the same time, studying these concepts with the same analysis grid -- freeing them from different models of interpretation -- allow us to compare them on the bases of their common characteristics and different peculiarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's economy has become an economy of symbolic or, in other words, of symbolic goods, of experiences, a "feeling economy", or a "fiction economy". The consequence of this circumstance is that new and tighter connections between economy and culture, as well as between management and human sciences, have emerged. But today's economy is not only an advanced or creative sector of economy or human sciences; a sector that study new symbolic consumer behaviours. Its development determines a change in the nature itself of what is called "symbolic". People treats it in a neutral, operative, and technical way: they are not sufficiently conscious of it, with the result that there are dangers they ignore. The scope of the paper is to provide a critical reflection on such a change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the crisis of new economy beginning on the 2000 and the coming out from the crisis, that spatially redesign the restarting of the cognitive capitalism at the world's level. New balances linked to the world's cognitive capitalism are pointed out, with the inversion of abroad investment's flows, the precariousness of cognitive workers in the developed countries and the multiplication of new Silicon-Valley-like models in the economically emerging countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the fall of the empire and the establishment of the Republic of China (1912), the Chinese borders suddenly opened up to more intensive and profitable exchanges with the outside world. As a result, an increasing number of Chinese were able to travel to Europe, and Chinese travel literature production about Europe boomed in the 1920s and 1930s. One of these travellers was Zou Taofen (1895-1944), a journalist forced to leave China in 1933. He authored a three-volume book entitled Messages from an Unending Wandering. Zou was one of the most famous journalists of his era. In his overseas "Messages", he was able to detect the conflicts and contradictions lurking behind the prosperity of Europe, to reveal the dark side of the society at the time and the exploitation caused by capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines women's self-determination within patriarchal discursive regimes, specifically in the cultural texts produced by the fashion industry. In westernized capitalist consumer societies, women's gender identity is structured according to oppressive patriarchal figurations of femininity that dominate popular culture. Endorsing aesthetic dissonance as a political practice, women can reclaim their voices by producing a counter-discourse based on alternative fashion practices and disruptive self-imaginings. This is enacted by the unconventional fashion blogger Courtney Trop.

Consciousness and estrangement. The politics of capitalism on the threshold of self. The turning towards the “psychic dimension” is a characteristic of late capitalism that projects a specific cultural logic on the “self” and on the "isolated individual”. It is necessary, therefore, to rethink the idea of consciousness - a prerequisite for the marxian analysis - that in past years didn't have the due attention in social studies, while it obtained in other fields (in the field of neuroscience for example). The aim of the article, therefore, is to investigate, at what level, in advanced capitalism, the attention that in fordism was oriented to the politics of the body, is oriented towards the psyche and the consciousness in late capitalism, reducing the “collective to the individual” and to the "internal resources" of the subjects. This paper moves from these assumptions to re- interpret the concept of estrangement in advanced capitalism.

Wisdom as the universal category was mostly replaced by its instrumental variant in the intellectual discourse of the 20th century. Dystopian thought, that brings nihilism and absurd in the life of a contemporary man, dominated in the mentioned century. Universal life values as the connective tissue of the civilization, ideal which was permanently present in history of the human race, is not on the prominent place in modern era. Despite those unfavorable circumstances certain philosophers will answer to modern challenges through their creativity and show the existence of values the civilization cannot live without. Erich Fromm was an important person who was thinking about life in affirmative way and searching for the current status alternative. This paper connects his essentialism with the widely known and applicable term “nobility of spirit”. It also describes Fromm’s critics of capitalism and socialism as unsuitable social systems. Fromm’s vision of the ideal human nature or the character type whose aim are growth and development of all human capabilities is opposed to the modern reality which is considered as the world without alternative. Productive thinking and productive love belong to the most valuable human capabilities. The highest form of productivity is attributed to the revolutionary character or life orientation which is identified with mankind, it uses universal criteria and nourishes propensity and love for life. It is concluded in the end that the vision of mature life cannot last without spiritual nobility.

How can architecture, a discipline so tightly intertwined with money, resist neoliberalism? Is architecture inevitably consigned, with Tafuri or Aureli, to a stoic or eremitic resignation? Or, with Sorkin, to a series of disconnected tactics? This paper takes a hint from Fredric Jameson to suggest that Deleuze and Guattari’s positive transformation of Marx’s quintessentially capitalist notion of surplus value can allow us to rewrite the ontology (and epistemology) of architecture as a differential and multiple reticulation. Architecture conjugates all sorts of things (“flows”, in the terminology used here) to create a surplus value beyond (or before) the capitalist surplus value that is only one negative instance of a broader positive phenomenon. This non-essentialist and non-formalist idea of architecture allows us to respond to Spencer’s criticism of the neoliberal “architectural Deleuzism”, and shows how effective political action is entirely feasible within the broad discipline of architecture.

This article aims to analyze first the relationship between tourists and natives in a liminal area such as the villages built on the road that takes tourists to Mursiland, and the dialogical construction that derives from it, which is in all respects a representation, and secondly in which way tourism has changed external and internal relations in the Mursi society. The dialogue between these two groups, tourists and Mursi, gives rise to an image that is the product of both the expectations of the visitors, and the idea Mursi women, the main subject of the photos, have about these expectations. The outcome is a representation of the savage who often conflicts, given its aggressiveness, venality and unreliability with that of the kind, well-mannered Rousseau-an primitive. In this liminal area, with the mimesis of the wild Savage, the Mursi on the one hand enter the market economy and globalization, but maintaining some control in the process. On the other hand, they adapt their society by creating new figures of cultural brokers, as well as allow the weaker sector of society, girls and women, to acquire 'agency' and access to a new type of wealth, money, and not only cattle on which the Mursi's patriarchal society is based. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transformations of the processes of valorisation that have innervated the passage from Fordist-Taylorist to bio-cognitive capitalism have also highlighted the transformations of the welfare system. In this essay, we intend to analyse the process according to which welfare institutions have been transformed into productive factors, capable of influencing the mechanism of capitalist valorisation. Starting from what emerged in the field survey conducted in three pilot countries (Italy, Holland, Croatia) from the Horizon 2020 research "Pie News", we can observe that there are attempts to bottom-up experiments within the social body, thanks to which it is possible to resist the growing uncertainty and economic insecurity generated by the new models of neo-liberal governance (Butler, 2015, Leroy, 2015). From this point of view, the theme of the centrality of social reproduction and care expropriated by contemporary production paradigms is addressed. Far from being a simple cost, the reproduction and enhancement of the living being is becoming, thanks also to the development of private forms of health and social insurance, more and more directly or indirectly productive. In this context, the final paragraph is dedicated to the presentation of the Commonfare proposal (Welfare of the Common), originating from the analysis of good welfare practices from below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to discuss some fundamental dimensions of the entaglement between the changes in the modern understanding of the temporality of the past and the future, the current transformations of the relations between nature and society, as expressed by Anthropocene concept, and some significant developments in the contemporary sociological theory about agency and the change of capitalism. These dimensions are reconstructed in a theoretical itinerary in which is discussed a double contribution of Koselleck to sociological theory: on the one hand, his work on the temporality of moderns, particularly his conceptual reconstruction of the categories of nature and history, focuses connections and developments that go beyond the analysis of the theoretical horizon of modernity. The reinterpretation of these categories in an actor-network perspective allows us to rethink, on the basis of Latour's work, the modern distinction of nature and history in the connection between agency and sociomateriality and assumptions of meaning of interactional situations. On the other hand, the aim is to highlight how the dynamism of the conceptual couple "experience and expectation" that Koselleck identifies as a result of modern temporality, finds in the recent theory of Fictional Expectations by Jens Beckert an original and productive theoretical view for the sociology of capitalism and the study of its change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Social sciences will have to ensure that the contemporary individual, often alone, misfit and bored by the banality of everyday life, is able to reappropriate that Ubi Consistam, that can only be sought and founded only through one's own life and the "Individual law". The prevailing, the resignation, the paralysis or the laziness in the individual must not prevail, because this would favor the utilitarianism and economicism that characterize contemporary society. It is necessary to reactivate the desire to grasp, feel, perceive its fundamental unity and multiplicity in research, trying to safeguard and reactivate their emotional heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The essay offers a critical review of the historical debate on global trade in the early modern age and a consideration of the current methodological status of economic history. Retracing the main guidelines established in the last decades in Anglo-Saxon economic history, the cliometric and the neoinstitutionalist one, it highlights the progressive hegemony of neoclassical theory as well as of a methodological approach that replaces analysis to explanation, data to sources, model to contexts. In the light of modernist historiography, it examines the substantial limits of this literature, which can be traced back to its constitutive theoretical premises: the avoidance of a historical and plural definition of State and institutions, the simplification of economic agency in a rational choice scheme, the persistence of methodological nationalism. Starting from the affirmation of a radical alterity of the historical approach compared to the theoretical one of the rational choice, the essay closes with a glance at the emerging historiographic trends, such as the New History of Capitalism, aiming at re-evaluating the contribution of economic anthropology and the economic history of the Annales to the historical study of the markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the nature of Islamic economics as a scientific paradigm which claims to be alternative to conventional economic thinking. To critically evaluate this claim, the work investigates the peculiar religious and moral principles that shape the idea of social justice in Islam. Subsequently, it outlines how Islamic economics derives from these principles a specific conceptualization of property rights and commercial relations that embraces parameters of (1) primacy of real economy; (2) transactional equilibrium; (3) and profit- and risk-sharing. By endorsing the conceptual autonomy of Islamic economics from conventional capitalism, the article also refers to the current emergence of the Islamic financial market at a global stage, and the possible implications for a plural financial system in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most troubling aspects of cultural studies, is the lack of comparative cases to expand the horizons of micro-sociology. Based on this, the present paper explores the effects of gentrification in one neighborhood, Riverwest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. This essay-review explores the role of arts, not only as creating an image of neighborhoods, but as a mechanism to prevent the commoditization of spaces. Riverwest has never been commoditized as a tourist-product like many other tourist-sites. The concept of patrimony and heritage are placed under the lens of scrutiny in this investigation. To some extent, some cities are produced to be consumed while others do not, is one of the intriguing points this research explores.

Se da una estadística trágica que revela una gran cantidad de personas muertas en Argentina producto de enfrentamientos en espectáculos de fútbol. La violencia en este deporte es algo del cual se ha hablado mucho, pero pocas medidas efectivas se han llevado a cabo por el estado argentino. Dentro de esta coyuntura, el presente trabajo de revisión conceptual intenta proveer un nuevo modelo para comprender el fenómeno. La violencia no solo es un motor de cambio entre los agentes sociales que mantienen los bordes de la identidad, sino que se articula o desarticula hacia fuera en tanto se pueden establecer pactos de hospitalidad (amistad) entre las hinchadas. No obstante, lejos de desaparecer, la violencia se canaliza hacia dentro del club. Por el contrario, aquellas hinchadas que no celebran pactos de amistad, disminuyen la violencia dentro de sus filas pero la exteriorizan. Al ser un deporte nacido de la lucha bélica, el futbol está condenado a la violencia. | Given the tragic and sad numbers of the killed persons in Argentina resulted from clashes and acts of hooliganism, the present paper explores not only in the nature of violence, a point well and widely debated in the media, but also in the State inefficiency to eradicate the problem. In this vein, this essay-review provides readers with an all-encompassed model to understand the hooliganism. Violence not only is a key factor to promote the solidarity among citizens, but also keep the borders of community and its sense of security. Our thesis is that those hooligans who celebrate hospitality with others are penchant to exert violence inner wards while the violence does not disappear, but she is re-channelled towards the boundaries. The lack of hospitality reduces the internal violence but increase the hostility beyond the limits of community. The discourse of football has emerged from the army machinery of West and violence is enrooted in its own nature.