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In a globalized world in which the paths of life project the subjects even in places distant from the birth one and in which the feeling of identity is pluralized and becomes more and more complex, new and stronger mechanisms of resistance and preservation of ties and sense of belonging are generated. The roots tourism represents an answer realized by the emigrants of first, second or even successive generations, able to preserve the link with the territory of origin and, through this, their own identity. This specific form of tourism is therefore, more than any other, a journey into its own history, characterized by the desire to (re)find places connected to its own past or family history. It seems that the identity sought a spatial, physical roots and, in experiencing those places, a sort of confirmation of the fullness of identity. In some cases, however, the return, even when periodic, to the country of origin or to which people feels to belong, is not felt as sufficient to bridge a distance experienced as a lack of identity. This complex dynamic sometimes takes the form of the choice to reproduce in the territory of arrival and in which subjects have consolidated their presence, especially religious traditions that reproduce, in form and manner, those of the city of origin. The aim, more or less consciously pursued, is to build and strengthen an individual and, at the same time, shared imaginary and an identity continuity that prescinds from the material distance that separates the places to which subjects feel to belong. A significant example is represented by the celebration of Mary SS. of Buterrito, also venerated as Madonna del Campo and whose feast falls on August 15, the day of the Assumption of Mary. This is an important celebration for the identity of the inhabitants of Ceglie del Campo, not only an historical place of the city of Bari but its original nucleus, is represented in an identical way also by the community of Ceglie emigrants who now lives in the city of Chicago in Illinois. The contribution aims to analyze these practices in their identity value. This first object will be flanked by a second one that will show, once again but in different forms, how much the re-proposal and especially the reproduction of religious rites is functional to build and maintain an identity bond with the place of origin. The proposed analysis will be enriched by a photographic apparatus that will not only make clearer the overlap and the coincidence of the forms of the religious ritual, but will be an integral part of the analysis itself., Fuori Luogo. Rivista di Sociologia del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia, Vol 14 No 1 (2023): Vol 14 No 1 (2023): Fuori Luogo Rivista di Sociologia del Territorio, Turismo, Tecnologia - Special Issue Roots Tourism

Cities have always been characterized by economic and cultural differences. More and more ethnic differences have progressively been added and very often combined to the others, generating a perverse multiplier effect of the social fragility of migrants. The model of territorial distance for decades “protected” cities from diversity, which was made “invisible” through its being relegated to the margins of the city itself. Today this model does not work any longer and the differences coexist in the same urban spaces. In the absence of an intercultural dialogue capable of building and reinforcing an attitude of “active engagement” of urban areas, the solution that is too often sought is the assimilatory integration, which reinforces the disadvantage of alterity. Instead, the tension towards more complex processes of inclusion implies the overcoming of the concept of foreigner and the recognition of diversity and alterity in the name of the right of recognition of diversity. The role of the third space becomes central, as a complex and dynamic result of the contamination among public, semi-public and private spaces that offer opportunities to stop and meet. Therefore, the strategies that can be activated in the cities are fundamental.[...], Italian Sociological Review, V. 12 N. 1 (2022)

Malgrado l’apparente costanza delle sue forme fisiche e dei luoghi comuni con cui viene vissuta e rappresentata, Bari è mutata profondamente negli ultimi trent’anni. E’, però, una città che scivola sul presente e non ama ricordare il passato. Forse perché non si ama, Bari oscilla costantemente tra l’indifferenza verso ciò che è stato ed il ricorso alla retorica, quando è proprio necessario raccontarlo. Le immagini prendono spesso il posto della realtà anche perché lo sforzo di costruire per la città un’immagine forte e positiva è sempre stato impegno principale delle sue classi dirigenti. Una città non è pensabile senza la sua immagine così come non lo è una persona senza la propria ombra; l’immagine non è però la città. Dello scarto tra la città raccontata e la città reale Sociologia di Bari intende dare conto.

Nowadays, we all live in a globalised world, a scenery where the control on their own daily experience is getting more and more evanescent. In this variable and dangerous scenery, food is becoming a source of incertitude and danger, too. A lot of people, as consumers, perceive that their relationship of trust with food producers is cracked, so the watchword is now “to distrust”. But totally opposite sign processes live alongside these processes and these political fractures. Crisis of politics, meant in the traditional sense, in fact, if one side has alienated many people from political life, it has also changed the forms of participation. In fact, many people have started to vocalize their dissent through channels very different from the traditional ones. Consumption choices are included between them. In this essay we focused our attention on food consumption choices, and specially on biological food consumption, which shows that the relationship between man and environment is complicated and full of deep implications. In order to investigate this relationship, we have realized a qualitative survey by using semi-structured interviews addressed to a “sample”of 81 people who live in Apulia, selected in random way. They have been asked what kind of products they buy, the frequency of their purchases and, moreover, the motivations which encouraged them to make their choices.In checking the interviews, we find a composed classification. Different types start from the highest level of individualism arriving to the highest level of political interest. It shows as consumption of biological food, may actually be the result of very different, and even opposite, motivations., Italian Sociological Review, Vol 4, No 2 (2014)

The Italian population, in line with what is happening in other Western countries, is becoming increasingly older and older. In addition to the proportion of older people, the significance of being elderly has substantially changed as it is no longer regarded as a mere residual step in adult life, but a real phase of opportunities and possibilities, though also of limitations and difficulties. It is precisely this sort of growing fluidity that this essay will focus on by trying to reflect on what the variables are that can influence or determine the very different outcomes and situation of the elderly. The phenomenon of the "third age" is extremely complex and at times even contradictory. In order to investigate this changeable and varied scenario a qualitative investigation was carried out using semi-structured interviews in various towns and cities of Apulia in order to understand the relationship between the perception that older people have of themselves and the characteristics of their daily lives., Italian Sociological Review, Vol 4, No 3 (2014)

The difficult relationship between women and work in Italy appears disconcerting at national level and becomes really alarming at Southern Italy ones. We have chosen here to consider a particular phenomenon which, in Italy, is especially referred to women: «discouragement». This is the condition of some women who, after having looked for a job for long time and uselessly, at the end, decide to give up looking for it. Going beyond quantitative data, we have made also a empiric survey on one hundred of unemployed women to investigate discouragement process in a Southern Italy region., Italian Sociological Review, Vol 1, No 3 (2011)

In the present scenario, education plays a very strategic role. It is an investment with a postponed productivity, unfortunately uncertain, but necessary. It is, especially today, an investment both on the personal and on the social level, a necessary bet. Especially in this period when the occupation is linked to the capability of handling your own flexibility, the outcomes of the personal fields depend especially on the quantity and quality of personal, cultural, economic and social means which are already at every person’s disposal. With the following risk to start a widespread process of social immobilization and temporary occupation of a larger group of new poor people. The “Neet”, an acronym for “Not Educational, Employment or Training” are, potential, some of these new poor. They are less qualified people or however they are not ready to improve their own competences according to a life long learning plan in order to respond to the requirements of a market that calls for a competition upwards. Neet risk strongly to face a situation of structural unemployment which will force them to a condition of “irreversibly” weak people, with following expenses as lack of working forces both on a personal level but also on a economic and social level. Within this worrying and dangerous phenomenon, women have a particular weakness, that is a result of traditional gender representation and specific labor market characteristics. This analysis is focused on Apulian female Neet, on their school career and the educational idea, on their strategies of seeking a job, and on their future perspectives. And it aimed to observe different types of female Neet, according to the complexity of this phenomenon., Italian Sociological Review, Vol 2, No 2 (2012)

Occorre una certa dose di strabismo per approcciarsi alla politica barese e coglierne la contraddizione fondativa: conservatrice e novatrice ad un tempo. La sua classe dirigente si è dimostrata capace di far propri i diversi modelli di regolazione politica che si sono succeduti nel tempo, massimizzando in ogni stagione i benefici attingibili dalle configurazioni egemoni. Forte di questa duttilità, Bari si atteggia a prima della classe dentro lo scenario meridionale (e non solo), ma la sua aura novatrice fa spesso velo alla continuità, poiché l’obiettivo di fondo resta sempre quello di offrire ai detentori del potere e delle risorse ciò di cui essi fanno di volta in volta richiesta. Spesso il ritardo con il quale giunge ad un appuntamento con la storia (determinato quasi sempre dalla riluttanza a staccarsi dagli assetti di potere consolidati) permette a Bari di ritrovarsi in anticipo sugli appuntamenti successivi. Per questo, appare contemporaneamente culla dell’innovazione e rifugio della conservazione. Anticipataria e ritardaria. Disorientando gli analisti. Questo “ossimoro” è stato declinato in maniera specifica in ciascuna delle principali stagioni politiche dell’era repubblicana.