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A partire dalla ricostruzione del contesto socio-politico che ha portato all’approvazione e successivamente alla promulgazione della Legge 194/78 e delineando il panorama internazionale in cui si inserisce oggi, la ricerca presenta alcune considerazioni sulla sua azione a garanzia della salute delle donne e dei diritti riproduttivi. Non vi è infatti solo l’obiezione di coscienza a condizionarne l’efficacia: ancor più in tempi pandemici e post-pandemici le limitazioni all’accesso all’IVG hanno a che fare con una dimensione di carenze sistematiche e strutturali molto più ampia. Oltre all’analisi dei processi che stanno mantenendo, quando non esacerbando, la discrasia tra diritto formale e sostanziale all’aborto, è fondamentale osservare cosa ciò comporti nella concreta esperienza di una donna che voglia accedere al servizio e per questa ragione la ricerca affonda l’analisi sul territorio concentrando nell’ultima parte uno studio di caso nel territorio veronese utilizzando una metodologia di tipo qualitativo etnografico (shadowing)., BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N. 1S (2023): Special Issue 1/2023

The aim of the paper is to provide a theoretical insight into the feminist concept of cuerpo-territorio and the strict interrelation between the two terms – body and territory –, both object of predatory capitalist exploitation and protagonists of resistance against patriarchal extractivism in Latin America. The research intends to shed light on how capitalism, through the exploitation of territories and natural resources, is able to exploit also the reproductive role of women, strengthening their subordinated position and their confinement within the patriarchal society in the name of the profit. In this scenario, the study adopts a gender-sensitive perspective to reveal to what extent men and women are differently affected by extractivism and, as a matter of fact, it supports the evidence that this dominant model of accumulation cannot be considered gender-neutral, as impacts on women are definitely more severe than on the male counterpart. Consequently, through some cases in Colombia, greater attention has been put on women’s status, roles and capacities of challenging the system, in order to highlight the gendered implications of capitalist extractivism and to stress the capabilities of women in creating an alternative conception of development, aware of women’s needs and pointing at a more fair and inclusive society., Scienze del Territorio, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022): Territories and power, a two-way relationship

A venticinque anni di distanza dall’epurazione etnica avvenuta nei territori della ex-Jugoslavia possiamo registrare come oggi quella guerra sia ancora pienamente in atto: finiti i massacri senza distinzione tra civili e militari, dopo gli stupri di migliaia di donne e bambine musulmane e non musulmane, le armi non sono più le stesse. Le armi della guerra oggi sono quelle altrettanto distruttive e micidiali del silenzio, della vergogna, del disagio, del dolore delle donne e degli uomini sopravvissuti al genocidio del loro popolo. Conclusa l’azione Tribunale Penale Internazionale per l’Ex-Jugoslavia con la condanna di molti dei capi militari del genocidio, in tema di giustizia riparativa, l’istituzione nel 2015 del Tribunale delle Donne dei Balcani, proprio a Sarajevo, appare poco più di un atto simbolico, in uno scenario dai contorni ancora estremamente nebulosi e perciò pericolosi, e in cui la parola giustizia non sarà forse mai pienamente pronunciata. E tuttavia si tratta di un passo decisivo per costruire – almeno – un racconto comune della guerra, il segno che qualcosa – forse – sta cominciando realmente a cambiare, non solo nei discorsi istituzionali, ma nella mentalità delle singole persone. Ciò che si intravede finalmente è la volontà seria di superare il confine, fino ad oggi invalicabile, di una storia profondamente divisa, scritta – o meglio sovrascritta – dopo aver cercato di cancellare del tutto le memorie precedenti, dopo aver pervicacemente cercato di negare il genocidio. La ricerca rende conto di questo difficile e lunghissimo percorso di presa di coscienza collettiva, dando voce principalmente alle donne, che furono allora e sono ancora oggi dolorosamente protagoniste di quella che fu non solo l’implosione deflagrante della nazione costruita Tito nel 1945, ma – come sostiene la filosofa Rada Iveković- una vera e propria guerra europea. Twenty-five years after the ethnic cleansing that took place on the territory of former Yugoslavia, we can realise that, even if by now the massacres that did not distinguish between combatants and civilians and the rape of thousands of Muslim and non-Muslim women and girls are over, that war is still going on, although with different weapons. The weapons employed in the current war are no less destructive and mortal than the previous ones: they are the silence, shame, unease and pain of the women and men who survived their people’s genocide. Concerning restorative justice, after the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia concluded its activity by passing judgments on the military leadership responsible for the genocide, the establishment of the Court of Women for the Balkans in Sarajevo in 2015 seems to be little more than a symbolic gesture, in the background of a situation that is still extremely unclear and thus dangerous, in which justice may never really materialize. Yet, this is a decisive step to build at least a shared narrative of the war, a sign that maybe something is really beginning to change not only in institutional discourse, but also in each and every person’s mentality. What can be seen at last is a serious willingness to cross the border, until now uncrossable, of a deeply divided history; a history written – or more precisely overwritten – on previous memories that some have attempted to erase by wilfully trying to deny the genocide. This research accounts for this difficult and extremely long path towards collective awareness by giving voice mostly to women, who were then and are still today painfully at the centre of what was not just the resounding implosion of the nation built up by Tito in 1945, but also – as maintained by the philosopher Rada Iveković – a truly European war., Nazioni e Regioni, N. 16 (2020)

Considering the role of feminist movements in history as fundamental as much as in the current period and given the brutal attack that women’s rights are undergoing worldwide today, I wondered why feminism has grown so unpopular and, more specifically, why the mention of the word “feminism” so frequently gives rise to negative, disdainful responses. I wondered if the increasing violation of women’s rights had, to a certain extent, a connection with this feeling of detachment and rejection of feminism, which is a reality that feminists must take into consideration. I have, thus, decided to undertake an analysis of antifeminism to understand the profound reasons for this denigration and refusal. I tried to use a feminist methodological framework to select, describe and analyse the data and the literature in this book, in the belief that feminist research is a perspective in a given field of inquiry rather than a specific set of research field in itself. The book is addressed to my students and testifies to a little piece of the journey I have made with them reasoning about this and everything that has to do with freedom.

La presente ricerca, che si sviluppa nell’alveo del community engagement e nella prospettiva di passaggio da individuazione di stakeholder a quella di community- holder (Messina e Turchi, 2019), ha come scenario alcune municipalità situate nella zona Sud di Padova, in quella parte della cartografia che non ha un toponimo identificativo ed è chiamata comunemente ‘bassa padovana’. Un territorio liminale, ritagliato negli interstizi tra zone di influenza urbane e vie di transito tra entroterra e mare. Un’area non tanto ‘fragile’, quanto più semplicemente ‘non vista’, dimenticata. In questo luogo il nostro gruppo di ricerca ha progettato e co- costruito con gli attori locali una mappa generativa di comunità. I lavori si sono concentrati in un periodo molto particolare, tra gennaio e luglio 2020, nel cuore della pandemia. Portare avanti durante il lockdown un progetto pensato per le metodologie della ricerca sul campo ha rappresentato una sfida complessa, che ha dato una svolta imprevista sia al processo con cui sono stati raccolti i dati sia al risultato finale dell’azione. Abbiamo deciso di piegare alla necessità dell’emergenza le tecniche della psico-geografia e la poetica della deriva, forti dell’empatia che subito si è creata con le persone coinvolte. Il risultato di questa interazione è stato non semplicemente la costruzione di una nuova ‘carta geografica’ della bassa padovana, ma l’apertura di un processo generativo di comunità che ha dato vita ad una piattaforma interattiva di idee e di spunti per il futuro, frutto di questo tempo nuovissimo e incerto, che non ammette conclusioni e in cui costruire relazioni e connessioni sembra per certi versi sia la cosa più necessaria che la più difficile da realizzare. The present research is developed in the area of the concept of community engagement and in the perspective of shifting from the identification of stakeholders to the identification of community-holders (Messina and Turchi, 2019). The scenario is represented by some small municipalities located south of Padua, in that part of the map that does not have an identifying toponym and is simply called ‘bassa padovana’. A liminal territory, cut in the interstices between areas of urban influence and transit routes between inland and sea. An area that more than ‘fragile’ appears ‘invisible’, forgotten. In this scenario, during our workshop we developed a generative map of communities with local actors. The work was concentrated in a very particular period, i.e. between January and July 2020, in the heart of the pandemic for Covid19. Carrying out a project conceived as ethnographic using field research methodologies, however, represented a complex and transformative challenge, which certainly gave an unexpected turning point to the process by which data and elements useful for research were collected, and also the result at the moment has outcomes that are all to be evaluated. We decided to bend the techniques of psycho-geography and the poetics of drift to the necessity of emergency, combining them with a strong empathy that was immediately created with the people involved, due to the fact that we were all actually inexperienced in those conditions. The map in this way has been self-constructed with a certain ease and an interactive platform of cues for the future has emerged, an open product resulting from this new and uncertain time, which does not admit conclusions and in which building relationships between people seems in some ways the most necessary and even the most difficult thing to do., Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare di Studi Urbani, N. 8 (2020): FARE E CONOSCERE, INSIEME: SUPERARE GLI OSTACOLI E LE SFIDE DELLA RICERCA-AZIONE PER RENDERE IL MONDO UN POSTO MIGLIORE / TO DO AND KNOW SOMETHING TOGETHER: OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES OF ACTION-RESEARCH IN MAKING BETTER URBAN WORLDS

The new and uncertain times into which the Covid pandemic has thrown us make it clear that we need to rethink the way we live in the city, in our neighborhood, and even in the interior spaces of our homes. How this change should take place is not entirely clear, nor should we expect a standard recipe. Certainly, the direction to follow is that of an increasing sustainability – in all the meanings that this word can assume – environmental, economic, social sustainability. Not necessarily this direction points straight out of the city and into the countryside villages, as many of the current speeches seem to support. In this paper, we want to talk about different and creative ideas for a sustainable and socialized living, in the direction of a sharing of services and functions, using also an historical perspective for setting up scenarios and contexts of possible practices., Scienze del Territorio, 2020: SPECIAL ISSUE: Abitare il territorio al tempo del Covid / Living the territories in the time of Covid

For the women’s movement – in particular for those groups that had not seen the law as a necessary path towards the affirmation of a right of freedom, as well as for those who believed in the juridical path, but were disappointed by the result – that May 23rd, 1978 (the day after), represents certainly a hard time. The research goes through the salient moments of the debate around the 194/1978 law, taking into consideration that, even today, a fundamental question remains unresolved, in order to fulfil the concept of “citizenship” for women: the recognition of the freedom to decide on their own body, a right that is still precarious, continually threatened and everywhere, at all latitudes and in all cultures, subject to dangerous regressions. The hypothesis is that, in many countries, anti-abortion activism continues in waves to find its strength within a definition of women as a weaker subject. The vision of abortion as a social drama and the portrait of women as victims, has always been substantially accepted in every time and in every part of the world, by the left as well as by the right and of course by a lot of women. But the price to pay was of leave out others, all “others”. An unresolved issue that makes evident and every day necessary, even among women, to question on this issue again and again. Keywords: body, right, conflict, feminism., AG About Gender - Rivista internazionale di studi di genere, V. 8, N. 15 (2019): Con o senza diritto. Il diritto e le disuguaglianze di genere

Gender Policies, the subject I teach at the University of Padua, is not a very common topic in Italian Academia for at least three reasons. The first is that in our country there is little recognition of the category of ‘gender’ from the perspectives of both political science and political history.