Ricerc@Sapienza

Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi sulla prima guerra mondiale

The volume edits papers on "Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century", collecting contributions in parts devoted to "The Impact of Modernization: Old and New Bias in the Age of Transition", "The Anti-Semitic Disease: From Prejudice to Annihilation", "Shaping Identities and National Consciousness", "Ethnic and Religious Conflicts", "Balkanization", "The Russian Neighbour", "Multidisciplinary Perspectives", "A Question of Gender" and "Dealing with Prejudice: Responses and Analysis of Discrimination".

The paper aims to focus on the debate about mega event, and in particular on the effects that an important “media event” is able to generate on the territory and on its tourism attractiveness. On the one hand, mega events can be considered as a strong tourist attraction, and as powerful opportunities to improve the image of the city and to attract national and international visitors (Mihalik and Simoneita, 1998); on the other hand, they can represent a real barrier to development, “contributing to the naturalization of social inequalities” (Horne, 2007).

Una delle principali sfide della fase di transizione nella quale ci troviamo, riguarda l’aumento delle diseguaglianze e della povertà alla scala urbana. Roma assiste da tempo all’aggravarsi di questi fenomeni urbani che pare lasciare all’inerzia e all’assenza di una azione di governo, per altro non stimolata da una guida o da indirizzi nazionali chiari o stabili. In questo quadro, sembra necessario attrezzarsi a meglio pesare e affrontare la dimensione delle diseguaglianze lontano da approcci caritatevoli e rimediali, ma con chiari obiettivi di coesione.

Even though they have been considered out of fashion for years in the mainstream public debate, research practices and urban policies, the peripheries of the big cities are still a problem in Italy. Due to the economic crises and its effects at the urban scale, especially in terms of urban poverty and social exclusion, the problems of these areas are clearly increased without appropriate tools.

In previous papers, we proposed an extension of Spider Diagrams to object-oriented modelling, called Modelling Spider Diagrams (MSDs), as a visual notation for specifying admissible states of instances of types, and for verifying the conformance of configurations of instances with such specifications. Based on this formalisation, we developed a notion of transformation of MSDs, modelling admissible evolutions of configurations.

The paper is structured as follows. In section 2 we clarify the concept of inequality used in the paper, pointing out the various steps that contribute to shape inequality in disposable income. Next, in sections 3 and 4 we present data about trends in disposable income and market income inequality in developed countries, respectively. We then focus on the role played by redistribution, also presenting some caveats about the interpretation of the inequality reducing effect of taxes and transfers (section 5).

In the contemporary city, we are today more and more witnessing different practices and processes of “re-appropriation of space”: regeneration of empty buildings, spaces of cultural production, urban gardens, green areas given renewed significance and re-shaped public spaces, and so on. Beside this, we could also mention experimentations that are activating new social services and welfare spaces, and finally squatting projects, which are defining different modes of co-existence, housing and service provision.