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Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.
The Dragon and the Dazzle
"In the worldwide circulation of the products of cultural industries, an important role is played by Japanese popular culture in European contexts. Marco Pellitteri shows that the contact between Japanese pop culture and European youth publics occurred during two phases. By use of metaphor, the author calls them the Dragon and the Dazzle. The first took place between 1975 and 1995, the second from 1996 to today. They can be distinguished by the modalities of circulation and consumption/re-elaboration of Japanese themes and products in the most receptive countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany and, across the ocean, the United States. During these two phases, several themes have been perceiv...
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools’ entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.
Integrating Immigrants in Europe
This open access book explores how research and policymaking in the field of migrant integration have developed historically and how this interrelationship plays out in the strongly politicised climate of opinions on migration in Europe. It features interdisciplinary theoretical contributions as well as original empirical studies on research-policy dialogues at both the EU and country level. The chapters study not only how the dialogue between research and policy is structured (such as advisory bodies, research agencies, and ad-hoc committees), but also how these dialogues affect policymaking and the development of migrant integration research itself as well. The analysis reveals profound ch...
La magia nella fiaba
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Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750-2000
In this book some 25 scholars focus on the relationship between religion, children's literature and modernity in Western Europe since the Enlightenment (c. 1750). They examine various aspects of the phenomenon of children's literature, such as types of texts, age of readers, position of authors, design and illustration. The role of religion in giving meaning both in a substantive sense as well as through the institutionalised churches is studied from an interdenominational point of view (Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Anglicanism). Finally, the contribution of pedagogy and child psychology in the interaction between modernity, religion and children's literature is also discuss...
Noi domani
Dalle montagne del cuneese ai quartieri periferici di Torino, Milano e Roma, dalle scuole dei piccoli indiani sikh, nei paesi della pianura padana, agli esercizi di patriottismo costituzionale nel Salento. Dalla radio libera in un asilo multietnico di Bologna ai viaggi in Cina di studenti e professori toscani, alle maestre poliglotte del quartiere Ballarò a Palermo: un'inchiesta originale sulla scuola che verrà. Dai nostri bambini impariamo moltissime cose. E quante altre potremmo impararne, da tutti i bambini del mondo. Ora che i nostri bambini vanno a scuola con bambini di ogni parte del mondo, è tempo di tornare tra i banchi anche per noi. Grazie a questo libro appassionato e ricco di ...
Social Justice in Multicultural Settings
This book presents insights into social justice issues through the work of educators in Israel, the US, the UK, Italy, Canada, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Each chapter provides local or global theoretical insights, and these combine to provide a rich international perspective. The book offers practical strategies for the classroom, methods of teaching social justice to future teachers in various curriculum areas, and knowledge for researchers and those working in higher education. The book is unusual in its combination of local and international perspectives, practical and theoretical wisdom, and its inclusion of a variety of voices. Readers will gain new insight into concepts like radical pedagogy, interculturalism, multiculturalism, failed citizenship and cultural identity.
Il mio letto è una nave
Quando Gianpaolo Donzelli – che al momento dell’estensione del libro era presidente della Fondazione dell’Ospedale Pediatrico Anna Meyer – mi chiese di scrivere un libro sulle molte attività ed esperienze che quotidianamente integrano il percorso di cura dei bambini e dei ragazzi ricoverati, l’impresa mi è sembrata ardua: tante le sollecitazioni, tante le elaborazioni teoriche messe a punto negli anni. Se nel panorama editoriale non mancano pubblicazioni che si occupano dei processi mentali di bambini e adolescenti posti drammaticamente di fronte all’ospedalizzazione, inedito ci è sembrato il tema relativo al ruolo dell’immaginazione. Ed è questo che abbiamo inteso approfon...
