Se questo è un lavoro. Meccanismi estrattivi e pratiche di resistenza nell'economia fondamentale

Barbera, Filippo; Dagnes, Joselle; Salento, Angelo

doi:10.3280/sl2016-142001

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“…Firstly, there is a growing area of non-contentious environmental movements that invest in practice-based engagement (such as the network of Ecovillages, Permaculture and Transition Towns), that I do not investigate in this article, which seeks to improve understanding about how contentious collective actors relate to Europe in the current conjuncture. These non-contentious subjects represent a sort of environmental 'third sector' (Osti, 1998), and are particularly relevant in the global North (Schlosberg & Coles, 2016) but are also emerging in Italy (Barbera, Dagnes, Salento, & Spina, 2016). Some authors used the notion of 'radical reformism' to point to this area (Brand, 2016;Leahy, 2018).…”

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Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Bertuzzi

2020

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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Based on 19 interviews with key activists, the paper discusses different visions of Europe and democracy within the Italian environmental archipelago. A clear dichotomy has emerged. On the one hand, institutional ENGOs conduct lobbying activities, adapting to different multilevel political opportunities: their attempt is to reform the current structure of the EU, which also contributes to institutionalise the innovative perspectives of 'another Europe' advanced by the Global Justice Movement in the early 2000s. On the other hand, grassroots groups suggest going 'beyond this Europe', as they are critical of its current geographical borders and political institutions. They normally do so by adopting contentious actions in a domestic dimension. Furthermore, two divergent democratic paradigms can be identified. I propose to call them ecological democracy and green democracy. The latter stands for a conception of the environmental issues as subordinated to, or at least unthinkable outside, the (Western) representative democracy and the gospel of economic growth. Ecological democracy involves a conception of democracy as effective only if based on ecological perspectives, within a vision which stigmatises capitalist economy and the institutions supporting it. These paradigms resonate with the interpretation of the current (ecological) critical juncture as the Anthropocene or as the Capitalocene.

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Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Bertuzzi

2020

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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“…One of the reasons for this undoubtedly lies in the widespread reliance on a financial approach and its instruments in many areas of daily life, in a scenario of continuing economic and financial crisis. More and more households rely on financial markets to access essential goods and services for social reproduction and individual well-being (Barbera et al, 2016).…”

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Housing Inequality: The Need for a Shift in Public Policy Intervention

Filandri

Semi

2018

Sociological Research Online

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On the night of 14 June 2017, a 24-storey skyscraper in North Kensington, London, caught fire, leaving 71 people dead and hundreds homeless. Grenfell Tower was a public housing block, built in the early 1970s in Brutalist style, which underwent a controversial refurbishment in 2016. This tragedy in one of the richest areas of one of the richest cities on earth points to a contemporary paradox: the need for more affordable housing is far from being behind us and, indeed, is returning to the fore as a social problem. Our starting point is that housing policies in most European societies have gradually reduced their scope and, breaking with the postwar tradition of cross-class mass housing, are now limited to supporting the more vulnerable households. One of the many effects of this public policy transformation is that public intervention is now conceived as marginal, leaving the market as the main vehicle for service provision (housing, in this case). A second effect can be seen in public facility maintenance: cost cutting has trumped improvements. The Grenfell Tower fire draws attention to several aspects. Here, we will focus on three: the rise of a homeowners' society, the link between social inequalities and housing, and the financialization of housing. The article suggests the need for a radical shift in housing policies, tackling the nexus between inequality reproduction, extraction mechanisms, and living conditions.

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A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy

Pellegrini

Tasciotti

Spartaco³

2021

Ecological Economics

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Se questo è un lavoro. Meccanismi estrattivi e pratiche di resistenza nell'economia fondamentale

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Housing Inequality: The Need for a Shift in Public Policy Intervention

A regional resource curse? A synthetic-control approach to oil extraction in Basilicata, Italy

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