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This is a nice article, in view of a debate which in my opinion will not have anything to envy to what is happening around national identity in France...Il manifesto, 2 marzo 2010. Alberto Mario Banti Il mito strabico del ...
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After the nice conference in Oxford, I'll be moving to Torino beginning of March, where I will start a 9-month research at FIERI on public policies vis-a-vis Romanian and Romani migration to the city. I will aslo analyze the media ...
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As it has always been the case in my recent years, there is one thing which conforts me when I need to be exceptionally hard in going on with my activities, or in taking other directions: time. Time is a ...
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I'm still on the review, because I want to write a comprehensive comment on the recent state racism against Roma in Italy showing that scholarly research is now more than ever needed in order to widen our narrow views on ...
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This is the title of the book review essay I am writing. I review two books:Cherchi, R. e Loy, G. (acd), Rom e Sinti in Italia. Tra stereotipi e diritti negati, Roma 2009.Vitale, T. (acd), Politiche possibili. Abitare le città ...
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There are people with whom during the first meeting I realize that they know quite much about me because they are familiar with texts and authors with which I am also familiar. It's a nice thing, I like it. One ...
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The story I have told so far was an important part of my path through my research. The continuation of this blog is intended as a more comprehensive path through my life in the post-Ph.D. period. I can tell you ...
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The dissertation is done. I just sent it off to the three professors of the commettee. It was 248 pages, 1,28 kg...Again, I want to thank all of you who intervened in this blog, making it a really enriching experience ...
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Comparison: Pescara-Cluj. Everyday idioms of identification. Local knowledge and political framework.Florence-Pescara - brief sketch of a comparative framework for further research. Main source: Almagisti 2006.Citizenship. First variable is public sense and understanding of Roma. Belonging to the urban polity - ...
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Share your work with other people...it improves so much....
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I thought that since I am approaching the end of this pathway, it would be good to have some sorts of guidelines or good tips to carry on reflexively the job that I am in. Today I want to begin ...
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I am going to leave New York with many provocative and fascinating insights on my dissertation. Especially I could benefit from a paper on the 'ethnomanagement' of Hungarians and Germans in Romania - for the institutional part. And from the ...
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Columbia is done as well. Now I have one month to put together all the pieces of the dissertation in a logic, consistent and good shape. I'll mainly concentrate on the premises and the conclusion, and will put the ethnographic ...
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People,this blog was opened two years ago in order to account for an in fieri Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology that has costed time, energies, tears and smiles. Surely, it has meant work every single day, apart from few short and ...
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A post about the city where I am right now...(writing in a coffee shop in Kingsway...very postmodern...).In comparison with Paris there is one thing that really stricks me. Not less energetic, not slower, not less beautiful, not less stylish. London ...
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Are social scientists unable to analyse the fundamental principles of their own society because the lenses through which they see the world are coloured by these very principles - in the same way that looking through, for example, yellow glasses, ...
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In what is commonly known as the debate around racism and differentialism, there is one element which seems to me to be growing. I have a special 'privilege' to follow the debates around Roma/Gypsies in Europe, because I receive e-mails, ...
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In this sense, work on the contemporary consists in the scientific and ethical labour of linking the recent past to the near future, and the near future to the recent past. By ethical here I don't mean the more or ...
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The ones below are recently posted Youtube videos. I am really sorry that they have no English subtitles. He is a historian living in Bologna, Italy. He taught in Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UCLA and other universities. Since 2006 he teaches ...
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Ginzburg (in French) on the futures of Fascism...
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Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with two persons I had just met, with whom it was a real pleasure to stay and talk. Among the several topics we discussed, we approached Roma, and I happened to realize that my ...
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I really couldn't think that the present Italian government was able to go that far. I really couldn't....
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I am currently writing a paper for a conference which will take place at LSE, at the end of March. The paper is a comparative analysis of the political and conceptual framework in which the 'Gyspy problem' has been constructed ...
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The first line of this article. The pleasures of reading critical social science....
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Gopk
Every step in the understanding of something in life is a leading force to go on in the same direction. This is what normally happens to me, and since it is going on like that for decades, I can relaxely ...
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This blog does not always feel the need to intervene in the actual global news, unless they are in a way related to the topic of the dissertation. Today I decided to intervene.Yesterday at the European Parliament there was a ...
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Last day, talking with one of my readers, I realized that blaming the overemphasis of culture by the political power (i.e., the "politicization of culture" - e. g. Wright 1997 ) is not enough. "Actually, Giovanni, you need to state ...
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We thus return to the primary historical mission of critical thought, which is to serveas a solvent of doxa, to perpetually question the obviousness and the very framesof civic debate so as to give ourselves a chance to think the ...
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'There is no reason to suppose that the investigation of structures of social life (which, if done one-sidedly, can certainly be called 'objectivistic') and the investigation of the meanings of various aspects of social life as experienced by the people ...
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If in the west substantial citizenship was used as a form of social integration, in contrast, in east-central Europe, it was rather the formal citizenship that prevailed.C. Iodarchi, Citizenship and National Identity in Romania, 33. Drawing on Gellner, The Condition ...
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The history of Gypsies in Romania, or of Romanian Gypsies, is intriguing. But what I find even more interesting is the way of narrating it. The most quoted book on the history of Gypsies in Central and Eastern Europe (i.e. ...
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Dear Mr., we are happy to inform you that your paper has been accepted to our conference. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!...