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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the recent changes in the forms of representation of workers and citizens in a historical and comparative perspective. The issue of exclusion from representation has been important for a long time among social scientists both with reference to citizen’s rights and to trade union coverage of insiders and outsiders. This issue became more important in the rece
At the end of the Second World War, Stalin forged the communist regimes in Eastern Europe as satellites of Soviet Union. After ten hard years of Soviet Stalinism, with the changings introduced by the 20th Congress of the CPSU, the leaderships of satellites' communist parties risked to be overthrown by their internal rivals. In Romania, in 1956, Party Secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej converted Roma
Tudo o que comemos gera impactos ambientais: do uso do solo na lavoura, passando pelo transporte, processamento, consumo e descarte de embalagens e resíduos. Entender esse impacto ambiental da alimentação é complexo, mas já existem informações suficientes para orientar decisões mais bem informadas.
In this article I conceptualise BDSM (Bondage, Domination and Submission, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) practices within the frame of contemporary intimacies. This article draws from an empirical research in Milan, involving qualitative interviews and participant observations. Initially, I present a definition of BDSM drawn from contemporary sociological and anthropological literature. Then, I
Las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza tienen el potencial de ofrecer múltiples ventajas de cara a diversos retos de sostenibilidad a los que se enfrentan las ciudades. Pueden ayudar a limitar el impacto del cambio climático, expandir la biodiversidad y mejorar la calidad medioambiental, así como contribuir a las actividades económicas y el bienestar social. Siga leyendo para descubrir en qué con
Recently, multi-agent systems have become a central study topic in many different disciplines including biology, engineering, physics, and social science. This has led to the emergence of large and constantly growing interdisciplinary research field, known as network science. The analysis of the mathematical models describing such systems has achieved significant results, but remains mostly an ope
Abstract in ItalianThe study presented here is part of a wider context of historical ecology and rural archaeology research projects carried out by the Laboratorio di Archeologia e Storia Ambientale (LASA, Dafist-Distav) of Genoa University. In particular, our contribution is focused on the reconstruction of agricultural practices connected to the historical transformation of breeding systems in t
"What lies hidden behind online ads for erotic services, or on streets on the outskirts of cities, or in the downtown apartments used by escorts? What is someone who buys sex risking? What can be done to prevent human trafficking? What rights to sex workers have? Why is it that Germany considers prostitution to be a service, while Sweden punishes it as one of the most shameful forms of violence ag
The present article analyses the relation between politics and historiography in communist Romania (1948- 1989). Since the beginning of the four-decades-long communist dictatorship, history has been turned into an ancillary discipline of the political discourse. The analysis of this peculiar kind of historiography starts from the processes that have determined its political nature and brought to i
