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 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.
1 - veduta di Palermo dal mare
2 - il porto
3 - la Porta Nuova da cui si accede a Corso Vittorio
4 - veduta aerea della città
5 - palmizi del giardino di Villa Bonanno
6 - il chiostro di San Giovanni ...degli Eremiti
7 - fontana Pretoria, Piazza Pretoria vista dall'alto
8 - altre inquadrature della fontana
9 - le statue della fontana
10 - dettagli delle statue
11 - mosaici nella Cappella Palatina
12 - un cortile con loggiato superiore
13 - il campanile della Martorana
14 - le cupole saracene della chiesa di San Cataldo
15 - il trecentesco Palazzo Chiaramonte o Steri che ai tempi della Controriforma ospitò il Sant'Uffizio
16 - un cancello del palazzo
17 - il cortile
18 - il grosso ficus di Piazza Marina
19 - il chiostro della Cattedrale di Monreale
20 - la cattedrale di Palermo
21 - campanile ed absidi della cattedrale
22 - tombe imperiali e reali
23 - tomba dell'imperatrice Costanza
24 - Palazzo dei Normanni
25 - il cortile interno
26 - la Cappella Palatina
27 - il Cassero e via Maqueda visti dall'alto
28 - i Quattro Canti o Piazza Vigliena o Teatro del Sole
29 - il barocco oratorio di Santa Cita del Serpotta e dei suoi allievi
30 - il grande affresco quattrocentesco del Trionfo della Morte nella Galleria regionale della Sicilia
31 - il dipinto Vuccirìa di Guttuso
32 - immagini del mercato della Vuccirìa
33 - si alternano le immagini di Guttuso con quelle reali del mercato
34 - un pescivendolo pulisce e prepara un pesce spada
35 - in una grande pentola viene cotto un polipo
36 - viene macellata una pecora
37 - un ponte su un letto asciutto
38 - dipinto della battaglia tra borbonici e garibaldini del 1860
39 - palazzo Butera
40 - le lussuose sale del palazzo
41 - villa Palagonìa (?)
42 - i mostri di pietra che ornano il giardino della villa
43 - le sale della pinacoteca nazionale nel palazzo della Galleria regionale della Sicilia
44 - crocifissi medievali
45 - l'Annunziata di Antonello da Messina
46 - mosaici del Duomo di Monreale
47 - veduta aerea della città
48 - il Teatro Politeama Garibaldi
14 - the Saracen domes of the church of San Cataldo
34 - a fishmonger cleans and prepares a swordfish
29 - the baroque oratory of Santa cites del Serpotta and his students
38 - painting of the battle between Bourbons and Garibaldini of 1860
15 - the three-hundred-year-old Palazzo Chiaramonte or Steri that at the time of the counter-reform hosted the Holy office
43 - the rooms of the national art gallery in the Palace of the regional gallery of Sicily
3 - the new door from which you access Corso Vittorio
30 - the great four-hundred fresco of the triumph of death in the regional gallery of Sicily
42 - the stone monsters that adorn the garden of the villa
33 - Guttuso's images alternate with real market images
7 - Pretoria fountain, Pretoria square view from above.
9 - the statues of the fountain
8 - other shots of the fountain
6 - the cloister of Saint John of the hermits
5 - palmizi of the garden of Villa Bonanno
48 - the Politeama Garibaldi Theatre
47 - aerial view of the city
46 - mosaics of the Cathedral of Monreale
45 - the Annunziata of Antonello da Messina
44 - medieval crucifixes
41 - Villa Palagonìa (?)
40 - the luxurious halls of the Palace
4 - aerial view of the city
39 - Butera Palace
37 - a bridge over a dry bed
36 - a sheep is slaughtered
35 - a polyp is cooked in a large pot
32 - images of the Vuccirìa market
31 - the painting Vuccirìa by Guttuso
27 - the Cassero and Maqueda street seen from above
26 - the Palatine chapel
25 - the inner courtyard
24 - Palace of the Normans
23 - tomb of Empress Constance
22 - Imperial and royal tombs
21 - bell tower and apses of the cathedral
20 - the Cathedral of Palermo
2 - the port
19 - the cloister of the Cathedral of Monreale
18 - the big ficus of Piazza Marina
17 - the courtyard
16 - a palace gate
13 - the bell tower of the Martorana
12 - a courtyard with upper loggia
11 - mosaics in the Palatine chapel
10 - details of the statues
1 - view of Palermo from the sea
28 - the four songs or Piazza Vigliena or Teatro del sole
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.