The article's intention is to stimulate the identification, among the scientific literature that covers youth, of coordinates of synthesis. Different trans-disciplinary paths of research, that are ...partially overlapping in scientific reflection, are synoptically presented to offer some elements for the elaboration of a perspective that sees in youth not only a field of research, but a starting point to contribute to the study of social change.
The article analyzes the relationship between social change and political change. The basic thesis is that, behind the widespread diagnosis of a political crisis a silencing "re-elaboration of the ...political" is happening. It’s a qualitative transformation of the places, of the actors, of the meanings of participation and, by this way, of the very definition of what is "political" that is deeply rooted in the "reinvention of the social". Social change profoundly alters the relationship between the individual and the collective sphere and transforms the role and functioning of political institutions. As a result, the forms and aims of participation are profoundly transformed. The "reinvention of the social" is a process of radical redefinition of the modalities of sociability between individuals and of the relationship between the individual and the collective sphere. The re-elaboration of the political, which finds expression in innovative practices of participation, promotes a process of re-politicization, which goes hand in hand with the process of de-politicization. Individualization does not mean atomization. It does not equate with depoliticization and it does not necessarily translate into eclipses of the public dimension and political solitude. The contribution suggests that the re-elaboration of politics is rooted in a “connected individualism”, while political solitude is expression of a “atomized individualism”.
L'articolo ha l'obiettivo di segnalare la dinamica di trasformazione dell'elaborazione del politico da parte dei giovani studenti italiani. Vengono presentate tre diverse coordinate attorno alle ...quali si è sviluppata la ricerca empirica italiana su giovani e politica e i rispettivi risultati. Successivamente vengono utilizzati i dati raccolti in una recente ricerca per presentare le discontinuità che propongono i “nuovi” giovani rispetto alle generazioni precedenti che costituiscono la base di una profonda trasformazione in corso della sfera del politico.
The contribution analysis the effects of digital transformation, provides a critical assessment of the policies on e-government in Europe and in Italy, and draft a research agenda focused on Liguria ...Region. The article moves from the need to conduct research aimed at analyzing the change in the relations between subject and institution in contemporary western societies. The article, focusing on official documents, explores the strategies of digital transformation adopted by the EU. Liguria is a case study of interest because, starting from the 2016-2018 Digital Strategic Program, has adopted a strong focus on the principles of Open Government and an explicit decision to invest in specific digital services for citizens and businesses.
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