Polygamy – a type of relationship where a person marries more than one partner - is one of the most divisive issues within modern Italian society. Yet, the international literature remains mostly silent on Italian citizens’ reasons against and for it. The present paper fills such a gap by highlighting the narratives of 22 individuals aged between their late-20s and mid-50s. Results show that most participants believe there is a troubling correlation between polygamy and harm to women and children. Slippery slope objections were commonplace in all the discussions. For instance, many respondents asserted that the practice leads to the most radical transformation of the notion of marriage and by consequence, of the family. Others felt it increases the likelihood that unmarried men resort to crime as a means to gain material and symbolic resources such as partners and status. Notably, these perspectives may be expected to mirror those of society at large. Future research should demonstrate whether balance can be struck between the measures required by Italian law to protect people from violence, and preserving the right to marry. However, scholars must avoid playing into the mainstream narrative that polygamy is inherently adversarial to Western values.
The work explores internet governance in China, via a review of the most recent literature, and through a sociological analysis of users’ narratives. For this investigation, relevant scholarships were retrieved from Google Scholar (GS). The criteria for inclusion encompassed articles, conferences’ proceedings, and books’ chapters. To disclose subjective experiences, 12 Chinese nationals studying in 3 Thai universities were interviewed in depth. All members of the cohort had English language competence, but they were heterogenous in terms of background. The interviews were semi-structured, and they occurred at places selected by the target population. Due to privacy concerns, names were modified in reports. Findings suggest that attitudes towards information technology (IT), are controversial. On the one hand, interviewees recognize the cyberspace as a vector of growth, and freedom. On the other hand, they evaluate possible risks that may threaten stability. Suggested recommendations are the promotion of adequate administrative protection of citizens’ interests against arbitrary executive power, and the creation of anonymous fora for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance.
In the People Republic of China (PRC), ideological apparatuses, and censorship exert strong influence over Internet’ users experiences. Allegedly, the aim of the government is to manufacture (Foucauldian) “docile bodies.†This would explain why, in the last decades, en entire corpus of empirical research has been built around organizational citizenship behavior. Although the PRC has the right to determine its own domestic policies on the principle of (cybers-) sovereignty, a variety of NGOs, and other non-state actors, have criticized its growing restrictions on grassroot activisms, and bottom-up governance (Wright, 2006). Per contra, proponents of the status quo points to the benefits of security, and of stability. An argument that seems to be validated by the country’ extraordinary economic rise (Li, 1998).
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