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Civil Society Elites
This open access book introduces a groundbreaking concept - civil society elites - and serves as an essential resource for scholars, researchers and students interested in the complexities of power and influence within contemporary civil societies. Through a series of unique empirical studies, the authors offer a comprehensive examination of the individuals occupying the upper echelons of influential civil society organisations and movements. By delving into the factors that propel individuals into key positions and examining the connections between civil society leaders within and across sectors, the book offers insight into the mechanisms that shape access to powerful positions in civil societies. As a reflection of current debates on elites and populism, the book furthermore explores the expression and conceptualisation of counter-elite positions and criticism of civil society elites. With its original approach, the book serves as a catalyst for further research into inequalities, power structures and elites within civil societies.
Gentrification and Diversity
This book examines lived experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the upscale commercial gentrification of the Milan Chinatown. It inquires about the significance of diverse neighborhoods as emerging multicultural spaces? Are we talking about neighborhood entrepreneurs providing services and entertainment to create local urban culture, or are we talking about political/economic forces in the commodification of ethnic and cultural diversity? Starting from these questions, this book uses innovative visual ethnography and critical urban research to understand the relationship between community-based entrepreneurs, local politics, residents’ sense of belonging, and patterns of city branding strategies in Milan, the fashion capital of Italy. This book is intended for researchers and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, urban studies, geography, and urban planning. Additionally, it is appropriate for practitioners in the fields of urban planning, housing policies, and community development.
The Lyon Terence
An interdisciplinary approach to establish the significance of the first illustrated edition of the plays of Terence, its commentary and iconographic traditions and legacy in sixteenth-century Italy and France.
The Book World of Early Modern Europe
This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
From Silence to Protest
The editors of this book examine social movement scholars’ use of contemporary concepts and paradigms in the study of protest as they analyse the extent to which these tools are valid (or not) in very different regional - and thus political or cultural - contexts. The chapters cover examples including urban riots in France and in Great Britain, the World Social Forums of Dakar and Nairobi, the struggles of precarious workers in Italy and Greece, unemployed mobilization in Germany and Ireland, the mobilization of the Roma and Muslims in Europe, the Brazilian landless movement, the mobilization of small farmers in France, as well as mobilization in authoritarian states such as Morocco and Cuba.
Filippo Ghisolfi
Filippo Ghisolfi è un tipografo e calcografo milanese, la cui attività copre un arco temporale di 40 anni, dal 1629 al 1669. Fin dagli esordi la sua bottega svolge molti lavori su commissione. Ai suoi torchi ricorrono numerosi colleghi, compreso Giovanni Battista Bidelli. La produzione analizzata in questi annali è ampia: i titoli sono indicativi delle tendenze e dei gusti della società e possono fornire indizi per ricostruire il clima culturale del tempo. Libri di pregio si affiancano a prodotti correnti: ciò che conta è la disponibilità economica del committente. È un eccellente artigiano che, dietro pagamento, mette a disposizione capacità e strumenti propri. Una conferma della perizia tecnica è data dall’attività calcografica: è nella stampa delle incisioni che rivela le migliori capacità. Lo dimostrano le numerose dispute di tesi o conclusione, impegnativi manifesti di circa un metro, composti da due o tre lastre, in cui venivano articolati il testo e la parte figurativa.
Oltre la paura
Per andare oltre le paure sociali grazie a una politica di sicurezza democratica. Il dibattito pubblico si sviluppa attorno a espressioni – come tolleranza zero, certezza della pena, lotta all’immigrazione – che, sebbene invocate dalle proteste di piazza, non sono in grado nemmeno di cogliere quali siano i problemi di insicurezza, convivenza e ordine caratteristici della vita nelle città. Questo libro intende contrastare la tendenza diffusa a adagiarsi su soluzioni preconfezionate, fornendo in modo semplice e chiaro spunti di riflessione sulla dimensione penale e approfondisce i fondamenti delle attuali politiche di sicurezza allo scopo di orientarle in senso democratico.
