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Although there is strong evidence suggesting that obesity influences periodontal health, there is not enough proof to demonstrate the association in young subjects. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between obesity and periodontal disease in young patients through a systematic review.

Following a conference on urban activism in 2019 and an article on activist*scholarship published in the last issue of this journal, we present here a reflection on how the recent convergence of housing activism and urban scholarship can contribute to articulate a new form of producing knowledge for action. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the elements that were already stimulating outburst of rebellion throughout the world; the role of activist*scholars may be crucial to connect and convey local episodes into a global view, and way, for change., This work was supported by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie EU Global Fellowship programme under Grant number 752547, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant number SNF 100013_176459. URL: https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2021/editorial-5/

David Graeber, anthropologist and political activist born in New York, prematurely passed away in the Fall of 2020. His ability to communicate to a broader audience, his courage in tackling the 'great questions' of classical social science, and his pragmatic approach to anarchism as a political horizon for the present, made him an inspiring figure for scholars, activists, and public intellectuals worldwide. This article focuses on his ground-breaking theoretical contribution to the fields of economic and political anthropology, which I consider an antidote to the intellectual paralysis that dominates contemporary radical thought.

A conference organized in September 2019 at Harvard University brought together a group of activists and scholars from North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, to discuss the political and theoretical implications of the convergence between urban activism and urban scholarship. The interventions and debate are summarized here in relation to the shifting political context that followed the conference. We argue that the global demand to reframe the relationship between people and institutions should be addressed by reframing the production of knowledge, and we put forward three proposals: that academic departments develop permanent relationships with social movements that struggle against housing and resource dispossession, that research institutions demand that binding social impact assessments are undertaken for each development project, and that activists and scholars develop forms of collaboration on a broader scale to connect different models of grassroots governance into designing a new social contract.

First chapter of the book "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy", edited by Cindy Milstein, AkPress, 2020

Account on the 'right to stay put' against gentrification-induced displacement, applied to Southern European countries and especially Italy., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 752547

In the 2000s Barcelona’s City Council initiated the demolition of the working-class neighborhood of Bon Pastor as part of a ‘participatory’ urban plan aimed at integrating a deprived population into the city. However, the residents’ narratives show that tearing down the traditional one-story houses built in 1929, and relocating people into new and taller buildings nearby, disrupted the social forms crucial for the cultural, social, and political identities of residents. The physical verticalization of space dispossessed people not only of the old horizontal (one-story) houses they rented for many decades, but also of the practice of horizontal, face-to-face interactions in the streets, which mediated conflicts, prevented social and ethnic tensions, and kept out unwanted intrusions from the authorities. These techniques were rooted in the anarchist counterculture of Barcelona’s working-class neighborhoods of the 30s, when street life was considered a tool of the workers against the State, and which had been crucial in the urban resistance to Francisco Franco’s military regime. For these reasons, the demolition of Bon Pastor, although upheld through a progressive rhetoric of citizens participation which allowed most residents to remain in the neighborhood, severed the links between people and the streets, and as a result fragmented a community whose historical recalcitrance towards the State had been a defining feature since before the Spanish war.

This an account for an Italian magazine of the policy of urban displacement, that tries to trace its diffusion from the US and UK to Southern Europe. The hypothesis is that Marshall's plan has been crucial in popularizing an idea of large-scale movements of people that had its roots in the post-war massive population transfers.

This is a divulgative article about urban renewal, gentrification and planned shrinkage in the Roman neighborhood of San Lorenzo, one of the field sites of MC project 'SDD-752547'.

This is a guest essay published on the website of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, referring to the demolition of a peripheral neighborhood in Northern Casablanca, shortly after the demolition took place.

Es descriuen aquí alguns dels punts de partida teòrics i dels dispositius pràctics a través dels quals es desenvolupa l'activitat del Centre Georges Dévereux, fundat a Paris pel psiquiatra Tobie Nathan i orientat a la cura de pacients migrants. La necessitat d'evitar les simplificacions dins de la traducció entre cultures va portar Nathan i el grup de professionals del Centre a elaborar una teoria crítica de la modernitat i del paradigma psiquiàtric actual, a partir dels ensenyaments de l'antropologia contemporània i de la necessitat d'ajudar a la disciplina psicoanalítica a enfrontar-se amb els reptes de la època present. Per a la antropologia, l'etnopsiquiatria representa una possibilitat concreta de contribuir a la construcció d'un coneixement pràctic., Se describen aquí algunos de los puntos de partida teóricos y de los dispositivos prácticos a través de los cuales se desarrolla la actividad del Centre Georges Dévereux, fundado en París por el psiquiatra Tobie Nathan y orientado a la cura de pacientes migrantes. La necesidad de evitar las simplificaciones en la traducción entre culturas llevó a Nathan y al grupo de profesionales del Centro a elaborar una teoría crítica de la modernidad y del paradigma psiquiátrico actual, a partir de las enseñanzas de la antropología contemporánea y de la necesidad de ayudar a la disciplina psicoanalítica a enfrentar los retos de la época presente. Para la antropología, la etnopsiquiatría representa una posibilidad concreta de contribuir a la construcción de un conocimiento práctico., This article describes some theorical premises and practical devices developed at Centre Georges Dévereux, founded in Paris by psychiatrist Tobie Nathan and devoted to the treatment of immigrant patients. Moved by the need to avoid simplifications in translations between cultures, Nathan and the équip of the Centre developed a critical theory of modernity and of the current psychiatric paradigm, based on the teachings of contemporary anthropology and on the urge to help psychanalitic discipline to deal with the defies of present times. For anthopology, ethnopsychiatry represents a possibility to contribute in the building up of a practical knowledge.

David Graeber, anthropologist and political activist born in New York, prematurely passed away in the Fall of 2020. His ability to communicate to a broader audience, his courage in tackling the 'great questions' of classical social science, and his pragmatic approach to anarchism as a political horizon for the present, made him an inspiring figure for scholars, activists, and public intellectuals worldwide. This article focuses on his ground-breaking theoretical contribution to the fields of economic and political anthropology, which I consider an antidote to the intellectual paralysis that dominates contemporary radical thought.

This is a divulgative article about urban renewal, gentrification and planned shrinkage in the Roman neighborhood of San Lorenzo, one of the field sites of MC project 'SDD-752547'.&nbsp

In the 2000s Barcelona’s City Council initiated the demolition of the working-class neighborhood of Bon Pastor as part of a ‘participatory’ urban plan aimed at integrating a deprived population into the city. However, the residents’ narratives show that tearing down the traditional one-story houses built in 1929, and relocating people into new and taller buildings nearby, disrupted the social forms crucial for the cultural, social, and political identities of residents. The physical verticalization of space dispossessed people not only of the old horizontal (one-story) houses they rented for many decades, but also of the practice of horizontal, face-to-face interactions in the streets, which mediated conflicts, prevented social and ethnic tensions, and kept out unwanted intrusions from the authorities. These techniques were rooted in the anarchist counterculture of Barcelona’s working-class neighborhoods of the 30s, when street life was considered a tool of the workers against the State, and which had been crucial in the urban resistance to Francisco Franco’s military regime. For these reasons, the demolition of Bon Pastor, although upheld through a progressive rhetoric of citizens participation which allowed most residents to remain in the neighborhood, severed the links between people and the streets, and as a result fragmented a community whose historical recalcitrance towards the State had been a defining feature since before the Spanish war., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 752547.

Accepted manuscript, forthcoming in the special issue of ACME journal based on the panel 'Narrating displacement' at the 2015AAG (American Association of Geographers) conference in San Francisco, USA.

This is a divulgative article about urban renewal, gentrification and planned shrinkage in the Roman neighborhood of San Lorenzo, one of the field sites of MC project 'SDD-752547'., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 752547.

David Graeber, anthropologist and political activist born in New York, prematurely passed away in the Fall of 2020. His ability to communicate to a broader audience, his courage in tackling the 'great questions' of classical social science, and his pragmatic approach to anarchism as a political horizon for the present, made him an inspiring figure for scholars, activists, and public intellectuals worldwide. This article focuses on his ground-breaking theoretical contribution to the fields of economic and political anthropology, which I consider an antidote to the intellectual paralysis that dominates contemporary radical thought.&nbsp

David Graeber, anthropologist and political activist born in New York, prematurely passed away in the Fall of 2020. His ability to communicate to a broader audience, his courage in tackling the 'great questions' of classical social science, and his pragmatic approach to anarchism as a political horizon for the present, made him an inspiring figure for scholars, activists, and public intellectuals worldwide. This article focuses on his ground-breaking theoretical contribution to the fields of economic and political anthropology, which I consider an antidote to the intellectual paralysis that dominates contemporary radical thought.&nbsp

This is a guest essay published on the website of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, referring to the demolition of a peripheral neighborhood in Northern Casablanca, shortly after the demolition took place., Link to essay: https://www.ijurr.org/news/eviction-and-displacement-from-the-neighbourhood-of-douar-wasti-in-casablanca-morocco/

This is a guest essay published on the website of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, referring to the demolition of a peripheral neighborhood in Northern Casablanca, shortly after the demolition took place.&nbsp

In the 2000s Barcelona’s City Council initiated the demolition of the working-class neighborhood of Bon Pastor as part of a ‘participatory’ urban plan aimed at integrating a deprived population into the city. However, the residents’ narratives show that tearing down the traditional one-story houses built in 1929, and relocating people into new and taller buildings nearby, disrupted the social forms crucial for the cultural, social, and political identities of residents. The physical verticalization of space dispossessed people not only of the old horizontal (one-story) houses they rented for many decades, but also of the practice of horizontal, face-to-face interactions in the streets, which mediated conflicts, prevented social and ethnic tensions, and kept out unwanted intrusions from the authorities. These techniques were rooted in the anarchist counterculture of Barcelona’s working-class neighborhoods of the 30s, when street life was considered a tool of the workers against the State, and which had been crucial in the urban resistance to Francisco Franco’s military regime. For these reasons, the demolition of Bon Pastor, although upheld through a progressive rhetoric of citizens participation which allowed most residents to remain in the neighborhood, severed the links between people and the streets, and as a result fragmented a community whose historical recalcitrance towards the State had been a defining feature since before the Spanish war.