Reversible Destinytraces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. ...Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.
Cultural warfare and trust Gunnarson, Carina
2013, 2008., 20130719, 2008, 2008-03-01, 2013-07-19, 20080101
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Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust. The existence of generalised trust ...and confidence in a society is decisive for economic development and an effective democracy. Is it possible to fight persistent values of distrust and non-cooperation? Is it possible to support the development of generalised trust through public action and education? The book addresses these questions by examining political efforts to combat Palermo’s Mafia-controlled heritage and to turn a tradition of non-cooperation and distrust into cooperation and trust. In particular, it focuses on the school program launched in Palermo during the mid-1990s, which was designed to break the Mafia’s territorial and mental control. Combining theories on social capital and civic education, the author presents and analyses new quantitative and qualitative research carried out in seven public schools in Palermo. This book will be valuable to students, academics and researchers interested in social capital and trust, Italian politics, civic education, organised crime, local government and democratic practice.
The frescos that adorn the residences of the eighteenth century Palermitan aristrocacy are among the most interesting artistic testimonies of that age, not only because they celarly express the ...evolution of the taste from baroque to rococo and neoclassic style, but also and above all because they allow us to reconstruct peculiar traits and aspirations of the nobility. Princes and barons, always committed in claiming their political role e their status, hired the artists in vogue in the city to convey self celebrating messa-ges in glories, triumphs, mythological and literary scenes.
Starting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always following a rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. ...This section of the Journal, Review Notes, is the expression of a continuous updating of emerging topics concerning relationships among urban planning, mobility and environment, through a collection of short scientific papers. The Review Notes are made of four parts. Each section examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage within the main interests of TeMA Journal. In particular, the Urban Practices section aims at producing, analyzing and reporting data on recent and relevant policies in the urban domain. The present note in particular reports on the recent initiatives undertaken by two major Southern Italian cities to foster sustainable mobility: Palermo and Cagliari. To this aim, the note briefly introduces the legal background and current developments of the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), a framework developed by the European Commission to support local administrations in developing holistic urban mobility strategies. This is followed by (i) an overview of the mobility situations in Palermo and Cagliari and by (ii) an analysis of the objectives, the strategies and the measures set in their respective SUMPs.
La sezione Storia e Memoria di questo numero ospita un documento inedito: l’intervista a Giovanni Falcone raccolta nel 1988 da Chiara Lupani e Paola Monzini, allora studentesse impegnate in un lavoro ...di tesi sulla mafia siciliana. Il testo è introdotto dalla testimonianza di Chiara Lupani che ripercorre in modo vivido il viaggio-ricerca a Palermo che condusse con la sua amica-collega Paola Monzini, purtroppo scomparsa nel 2017. Nella ricostruzione di Lupani e nelle profonde e precise parole condivise da Falcone nel corso dell’intervista emerge chiaramente tutto il valore della fonte orale nello studio della mafia.
Este estudio tiene un perfil exploratorio que busca observar y catalogar tendencias en el campo de la investigación en diseño a nivel doctoral. Para tales fines se estudiarán las tesis doctorales ...defendidas en la Universidad de Palermo (República Argentina) entre los años 2017 y 2021, observando particularmente los cambios de paradigma que menciona González Erber (2020), en su tesis doctoral titulada Tendencias sociales del Diseño Gráfico en Chile: Discursos sobre el patrimonio cultural, social y natural. Análisis de los proyectos de título de la carrera Diseño Gráfico de la Universidad de Chile (2000-2015). La autora propone la observación de un cambio de paradigma en la concepción y rol del diseño, antes ligado a aspectos meramente mercantiles, hacia una mirada sensible acerca de las problemáticas de patrimonio cultural. Reflexiona puntualmente sobre el papel que juega la academia en la transmisión de estos nuevos esquemas teórico-conceptuales. Se puede concluir que las tesis analizadas en este trabajo abordan en su totalidad temáticas ligadas a lo sociocultural y a los lineamientos de investigación vinculados a dichos temas.
The 12th national congress of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) has been held in Palermo from Novembre 12th to 14th, 2019; hereafter a short picture of congress subjects, ...participation and comments are reported.
The article takes up the contributions of the monographic issue with some notes on three categories: intentionality, purpose and use. By analogy with the intentionalities crystallized in the words ...exchanged in living dialogues (Bakhtin), the author highlights the contrast between the intentionalities that the ethnographic device mobilizes, those of the researcher and those of his/her interlocutors, who invest the former's live ethnographic gesture with unexpected meanings, putting it at the service of other purposes. These different uses of ethnography allow to question again the distinction between information and useful information that defines, in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, the difference between basic anthropological research and applied research. Starting with a case study from Palermo, the author suggests rethinking this distinction in relation to the modus operandi in the field. From the perspective of implication, it is impossible to completely dissociate the intention of the ethnographic gesture from the knowledge it generates and the text that inscribes it.
Transnational organized crime and the fight against it are big challenges for the world. That is why international cooperation plays an important role in the fight against transnational organized ...crime. Two types of international cooperation should be distinguished: the cooperation between courts and judicial institutions and international police cooperation. In Georgian legislation, they are sharply separated from each other. The Law of Georgia “On International Cooperation in the Field of Criminal Law” regulates international cooperation between courts and judicial cooperation. The mentioned law is one of the important documents from the point of view of international cooperation. It regulates matters related to the revealing of legal aid in criminal cases, extradition, forwarding of criminal case materials or their duly certified copies, execution of judgments, international cooperation related to confiscation of property, and transfer of persons sentenced to imprisonment. The article will directly discuss confiscation as a mechanism of fighting against transnational organized crime based on the Palermo Convention and the law of Georgia, “On International Cooperation in the Field of Criminal Law”. The norms governing confiscation in the Criminal Code will be discussed, as well as the Civil Code of Georgia, the provisions of which provide the opportunity to file a lawsuit for confiscation of property.
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