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Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00Angela Perulliangela.perulli@unifi.itOpen Journal Systems<div><strong>OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS 2024</strong>: Please click <a href="https://journals.fupress.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CAMBIO-CALL-26_MS.pdf"><strong>here </strong></a>to read the open call for papers or visit our <strong><strong class="date"><a href="https://journals.fupress.net/call-for-papers/?filter=393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CALL FOR PAPERS SECTION</a></strong></strong></div> <div><a href="https://journals.fupress.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CAMBIO-CALL-26_MS.pdf"><img src="https://oaj.fupress.net/public/site/images/piernoalessandro/screenshot-2024-02-27-alle-11.35.31.png" alt="" width="1059" height="344" /></a></div> <hr /> <p><strong>PREMIO LORENZO BARGELLINI 2023</strong>: Please click <a href="https://journals.fupress.net/premio-lorenzo-bargellini/"><strong>here </strong></a>to read the announcement of the award</p> <div align="justify"><hr /><img src="https://oaj.fupress.net/public/site/images/piernoalessandro/screenshot-2023-12-21-alle-11.57.04.png" alt="" width="1059" height="281" /></div> <div><hr /> <h2>Cambio. An International Journal on Social Change</h2> <p><em>Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni</em> <em>sociali</em> is a peer-reviewed and open-access electronic journal now in its nineth year. It aims to promote theoretical and analytical debates at international level arising from contributions focused on processes of change that are affecting present-day individuals and societies at both local and global levels. <strong>CAMBIO</strong>'s main inspiration is sociological, but it has deliberately chosen to place itself in the open field of the social sciences, convinced that there can be no real depth of specialization without acceptance of the challenge of complexity, a challenge that must be faced in any attempt to interpret, understand, explain or comprehend. </p> <div>Editor-in-Chief:</div> <div id="group"><strong>Angela Perulli</strong>, Università di Firenze, Italy</div> <div>e-ISSN<strong>:</strong> <strong>2239-1118</strong></div> <div><hr /><strong>CAMBIO. 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Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali is supported by: </strong></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.poiein-lab.eu/"><strong><img src="https://oaj.fupress.net/public/site/images/piernoalessandro/POIEINLAB-ITA-colore1.png" width="310" height="86" /></strong></a></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/38"><img src="https://oaj.fupress.net/public/site/images/piernoalessandro/Cambio1.gif" width="523" height="294" /></a></p>https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/13255George Herbert Mead e Norbert Elias. Un dialogo a partire dalle emozioni.2023-02-28T14:13:15+00:00Giacomo Lampredigiacomolampredi@gmail.com<p class="p1">The paper relates Elias’s thought to Mead’s, starting from the embodied dimension of emotions. The approach of the two authors to emotions is affected by a conception of society as deeply intertwined with biological and somatic aspects. Rediscovering and enhancing these aspects is configured as a radical challenge to the disciplinary barriers with which such topics are traditionally addressed. This allows to relate the thought of the two authors within a theoretical framework that can shed light on the embodied aspects of emotional action.</p>2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Giacomo Lampredihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14754La dimensione corporea nella sociologia eliasiana2023-05-25T07:31:10+00:00Novella Livinovella.livi@cultura.gov.it<p class="p1">This paper focuses on why and how the human body and corporeality change in the long-term civilization process. Through the Eliasian’s sociological prism, it explores the relation sociogenesis/psychogenesis and the interweaving between biological and social processes. In a processual perspective, that goes beyond dichotomies, the corresponding formation of social and psychic structures leads to make emerge the construction of personality, behaviour, emotions, identity, habitus, in the Eliasian’s concept of individuals and society as a whole. The figurational dynamics of changing societies create pressures, tensions and conflicts that are experienced by the human body, in the ineludible interweaving between evolutionary, development, social and psychic processes. The framework of the evolutionary biology and the great evolution is integrated in the Elias’s sociological perspective, in his overall vision of interdisciplinary research. The paper outlines how drives control become automatic, enlightened by the recent studies in neurosciences and evolutionary psychology; research is still open.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Novella Livihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15298Francesca Romana Lenzi. La sede dell’identità. L’Europa come laboratorio in Norbert Elias 2023-10-31T06:20:55+00:00Roberto Albanocambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Roberto Albanohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15301Cesare Bianciardi, Roberto Albano. Povertà nascoste. Il fenomeno dell’homelessness sul territorio metropolitano torinese2023-10-31T06:27:05+00:00Arianna Radincambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Arianna Radinhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15299Ignazia Bartholini. Jessie Bernard. Paradossi dei matrimoni felici e della maternità incondizionata2023-10-31T06:22:58+00:00Edmondo Grassicambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Edmondo Grassihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15300Ombretta Ingrascì, Monica Massari (a cura di). Come si studiano le mafie? La ricerca qualitativa, le fonti, i percorsi2023-10-31T06:25:05+00:00Vittorio Metecambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Vittorio Metehttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14740La digitalizzazione della didattica nelle università italiane durante la prima fase di emergenza Covid-19. Una prima esperienza di transizione digitale? Problemi e prospettive2023-05-22T07:10:53+00:00Flavio Ceravoloflavioantonio.ceravolo@unipv.itFranscesco Ramellafrancesco.ramella@unito.itMichele Rostanmichele.rostan@unipv.it<p class="p1">The pandemic has forced all organizations, public and private, to suddenly change the way they operate to adapt to the limitations imposed by governments. According to many authors, the pandemic period represented a moment of enormous acceleration of the digital transition process that we were all already experiencing. Even universities needed to convert all their assets very quickly according to remote/agile work paradigm. Teaching activities were reconfigured to be conducted with remote teaching tools, largely using digital communication platforms. This article presents the results of a research involving a national representative sample of university teachers. They were asked, on the one hand, to reconstruct the main features of the teaching experience during the first phase of the pandemic, and on the other, to evaluate its effectiveness and results. Finally, they were asked to evaluate how much the techniques learned could be useful in the post-Covid period in ordinary teaching and how useful they consider adopting a hybrid or blended model of teaching. The data presented allow us to offer some initial reflections on the effective acceleration of the digital transition process of university teaching and the actual level of transformation that the pandemic period has triggered.</p>2023-06-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Flavio Ceravolo, Michele Rostan, Franscesco Ramellahttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/13204L’embeddedness del terziario innovativo nelle periferie. Il caso della Calabria2023-02-07T14:47:44+00:00Carmela Guarasciocarmela.guarascio@unical.it<p class="p1">The analysis focuses on the development of the innovative tertiary sector in Calabria, presenting some analysis on the role of innovative tertiary sector in peripheral areas, which have deep-rooted weaknesses, and yet numerous resources that are not duly activated. For this reason, it is necessary to understand what are the variables that activate these resources. This pushes to consider the non-political as well as the non-economic dimensions (Coleman 2005; Granovetter 1985; Ramella 2013) as central to the unfolding of innovation, especially if considered as a collective social action (Trigilia 2007). The method used is qualitative and quantitative. The first part focuses on the local economic structure using data from Istat, the Ministry of Labor, and Aida updated to 2020. In the second part, there is a multidimensional qualitative study, through the analysis of thirteen semi-structured interviews with innovative entrepreneurs of the context. The results highlight a central role of non-political institutions, the structure of the market and of the networks to which they belong, in reinforcing innovative organizational dynamics, which are also useful for others local productive sectors.</p>2023-01-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Carmela Guarasciohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14408Benessere epistemico, mass media, disinformazione e cambiamento climatico2023-03-13T13:17:56+00:00Claudia Hassanhassan@lettere.uniroma2.it<p class="p1">The article analyzes one of the crucial junctures in the fight against climate change, namely its relationship with the media and disinformation. A dense network of actors is involved in the creation and dissemination of disinformation that has long been supported by the economic interests of the oil and coal industries and is now fully embedded in the post-truth climate. The absence of direct experience and perception of the effects of climate change has emphasized the public’s cognitive dependence on the media, which, however, have lagged far behind and manifested inadequacy with respect to the emergence of the global warming issue. In dialogue with a vast scientific literature and Pew Research Center data, the paper analyzes the widespread post-factual and social attitudes ranging from skepticism to outright militant denialism.<br />In this context, the article proposes and signals the need for a healthy epistemic environment, understood as an indispensable index of the quality of democracy and of critical subjectivity as a preconditions for any positive action against countering climate change.</p>2023-05-17T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Claudia Hassanhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14373The legacy of the Turin 2006 Olympic Games through a long-term development perspective. Reflection and opinion about the physical and social change in the post-Olympic period2023-03-03T11:52:08+00:00Valerio della Salavalerio.dellasala@gmail.com<p class="p1">The Olympic legacy, whether temporary or transitory, can manifest itself before, during or after the Games. It can quickly disappear after the event if efforts are not made to keep it alive through, for example, cultural programming, new environmental legislation, public awareness programming or new, more comprehensive applications. The study has the objective of recounting the Olympic legacy of the Torino 2006 Games through the results of the qualitative interviews held with the main actors of the event. In recent years, the Olympic legacy and the planning of the Olympic legacy have become increasingly important in the choice of host cities. The importance has allowed many cities, such as London, Sydney, and Tokyo, to develop an entity in charge of planning and managing the post-Olympic legacy. The intangible possibility of training and involving new profiles in the territory is fundamental to managing the Olympic structures in the post-Olympic period. The professionalism of resources, the definition of objectives, management tools and human resources are some of the critical elements for the organisation of a working team that can promote the post-Olympic transformation of host cities. The promotion of an Olympic city and an urban model to pursue can catalyse supra-local transformations that support the intangible knowledge of citizenship. The social transformations through the promotion of the city and its image can become a “Know-How” of the organising committee which, in the post-Olympic phase, will support the future strategies of the city regarding the organisation and planning of the mega-event. These elements allow us to advance a new hypothesis on the development of new modernity induced by sports and mega-events.</p>2023-07-18T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Valerio della Salahttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/13370La campagna per il Referendum Costituzionale 2020 e la comunicazione antipopulista su Facebook: un’applicazione di Content Analysis dagli esordi accademici del primo Crowdtangle2023-03-03T11:42:44+00:00Gabriella Punzianogabriella.punziano@unina.itFrancesco Marrazzofrancesco.marrazzo@unina.itSuania Acampasuania.acampa@unina.it<p><audio class="audio-for-speech"></audio></p> <div class="translate-tooltip-mtz undefined sm-root translate hidden_translate"> <div class="header-wrapper"> <div class="header-controls"> <p class="p1">Closing free access to online platform APIs has changed social research in digital spaces. Access to data is now managed and regulated exclusively by proprietary platforms, which have shared various tools to data extraction with precise rules to data access. Several scholars and researchers have many doubts about these rules and the possibility that these tools can significantly support research in the field of social sciences. This work was born from the interest of testing one of the tools made available to researchers by the Facebook platform called CrowdTangle and proposes a thrust into the epistemological problems and the methodological implications of its use in the investigation of social phenomena in digital spaces. The object of the study is the Italian 2020 Constitutional Referendum. What emerges from the work is how much the tool used for data collection forces researchers to reflect methodologically in order to identify its potential and pitfalls. Starting from these reflections, a scalable analytical model based on Content Analysis is proposed from a double perspective: quantitative automated, and interpretative hermeneutic. The results obtained help to overcome the pitfalls of the collection tool through a combined perspective and merged into an exploratory application of analysis of multiple correspondences in the end. The analysis of multiple correspondences was an indispensable step to arrive at the definition of latent dimensions in anti-populist communication.</p> </div> </div> </div>2023-04-04T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Suania Acampa, Francesco Marrazzo, Gabriella Punzianohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/13251From the Pseudo-environment to the Meta-verse. Recontextualising Lippmann’s thought2023-01-20T07:57:41+00:00Simone D'Alessandrosimone.dalessandro@unich.it<p class="p1">The Social Sciences have been investigating the processes of Public Opinion formation since the second half of the 19th century. From Tocqueville to Le Bon, from Toennies to Allport, from Lazarsfeld to Habermas, from Niklas Luhmann to Pierre Bourdieu, from Noelle-Neumann to Landowski. Among these authors, Lippmann stands out for his theoretical-practical orientation that anticipated themes and scenarios. Exactly one hundred years ago, in his best-known work Public Opinion (Lippmann 1922) he had opened the way to the inevitability of the construction of a world “beyond the real”, through the concept of “pseudo-environment”. The need for representation determines “pseudo-environments”, interstitial realities made up of stereotyped images and contents that the public interprets to construct shared imaginaries that do not adhere to reality: «The world outside and the picture in your head» (Lippmann 1992: 3). Pseudo-environments enable decision-making and action, reducing complexity (Luhmann e De Giorgi 1992). This phenomenon anticipates the concept of simulacrum, in the sense of Braudillard (1985), but also that of Second Life and the Meta-verse in the sense of Stephenson (1992). Starting from Lippmann’s vision, this proposed paper intends to recontextualise his thought.</p>2022-10-19T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 Simone D'Alessandrohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15296Cancel Culture? Lo spazio pubblico tra resistenze e rimozioni2023-10-31T05:10:49+00:00Sofia Scaccosofia.scacco@unito.itLorenzo Bazzanocambio@dsps.unifi.itGiulia Giraudocambio@dsps.unifi.itStefano Pirisicambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Sofia Sacco, Lorenzo Bazzano, Giulia Giraudo, Stefano Pirisihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14613La creazione mediatica della paura: lo spettro della censura tra cancel culture e politicamente corretto2023-04-18T13:40:44+00:00Maddalena Cannitomaddalena.cannito@sns.itEugenia Mercurieugenia.mercuri@unito.itFrancesca Tomatisfrancesca.tomatis@unimi.it<p class="p1">The article examines how Italian news coverage on Facebook has influenced the debate on cancel culture, linking it to phenomena like political correctness and framing it as an assault on freedom of expression. By analysing posts from 2020 to 2021 on the Facebook pages of major Italian newspapers, sourced through the CrowdTangle platform, the article explores the journalistic portrayal of cancel culture. It also considers how this media depiction has fostered an atmosphere of fear in a society where anxiety and unease, intensified by media representation, lose their tangible essence yet become increasingly pervasive. The thematic analysis identified two primary dimensions within the Italian journalistic discourse: the nature of cancel culture’s targets (people/objects) and their temporal context (present/past). The results indicate that contemporary journalism constructs the notion of a “cancel culture”, associating it with topics such as censorship, potential identity erosion, and the reinterpretation or denial of cultural and historical facets. This portrayal, intensified by the media, influences public perception and gives rise to growing feelings of unease and tension, culminating in a general climate of fear.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Maddalena Cannito, Eugenia Mercuri, Francesca Tomatishttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14763Cancel culture o decolonizzare i saperi e la cultura?2023-05-27T11:21:41+00:00Miguel Mellinomiguel.mellino@gmail.com<p class="p1">In recent decades, the intense development of feminist, anti-racist and indigenous peoples’ movements has given rise to a profound struggle as much for the reconstitution in a more egalitarian sense of traditional material relations of domination as for the political and cultural dissolution and resignification of those colonial, racial and patriarchal hierarchies that have shaped single spheres of modern social life since the rise of western capitalist modernity. The dimension of such a global movement could not but raise the question of the existence of a centuries-old white privilege underlying the very linguistic and cultural signification of the modern social world and its dominant systems of classification and representation. Our paper will attempt to highlight three issues, which we feel are important in order to understand the real stakes behind the accusation of ‘cultures of erasure’ levelled at these movements: (a) the existence of a modern white privilege to be understood as a ‘total social fact’, (b) the symptomatic nature of the very emergence of the ‘cancel culture’ paradigm, i.e. its constitution as a reaction of that same white privilege to the emergence of other positionings, knowledge, narratives and systems of representations that are entirely external to its historical, economic, ontological and political grammar.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Miguel Mellinohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14800Cancel culture: strategie della memoria e politiche identitarie2023-06-07T08:49:47+00:00Fabio Deifabio.dei@unipi.it<p class="p1">The following contribution analyzes the controversies surrounding the so-called <em>cancel culture</em>, which arose within the “culture wars” in the United States. These wars pit ultraconservative and anti-liberal movements, which support religious fundamentalism, xenophobia, and extreme nationalism, against movements that fight for social justice and minority rights. <em>Cancel culture</em> is part of this struggle and involves the practice of canceling, revising, or inventing aspects of the past to support dominant views in the present. This struggle is based on identity politics, interpreting social justice based on belonging to specific social groups, such as race, gender, and sexual orientation, often ignoring social class. The “third wave” of social justice movements develops in a context where equal rights are widely recognized, and anti-racism and inequality ideologies are hegemonic. This has transformed the nature and strategies of the movements, which now focus on symbolic and communicative actions, fueling political correctness in a more invasive way. The most well-known cases of <em>cancel culture</em> also fuel conservative propaganda and provide them with the opportunity to present themselves as defenders of free speech. From the perspective of social sciences and anthropology, the phenomenon of <em>cancel culture</em> raises two aspects of interest: the first concerns the influence of activism on social theory and research methodology, which can lead to ideological caricatures; the second concerns the creation of an atmosphere of suspicion, accusations, and confessions in public spheres, which connects to the Puritan roots of Anglo-American culture.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Fabio Deihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14586Un fenomeno con nomi diversi. La cancel culture, tra intersezionalità e marxismo2023-04-04T16:46:35+00:00Bruno Montesanobruno.montesano@unito.it<p class="p1">In the public debate, on the one hand, the so-called cancel culture (CC) is stigmatised as an attack against the Western tradition and the rationality of dialogue, on the other, it is associated with the oblivion of material issues, substituted by identity claims. These two readings can be opposed by a third that frames the events subsumed under CC in a positive way as ‘intersectionality’, and a fourth that, while appreciating its purpose, challenges its liberal grammar of rights. CC, identity politics and intersectionality – although they identify both broader and more specific sets of problems – can thus be read as the names that different scholars give to the same dynamics. After briefly reviewing some of the literature on the topic, the paper will focus on the conflict between economic instances and identity, first by recalling some reflections from the Marxist tradition on the subject of ‘race’ and gender, and then by looking at two contemporary Marxist texts, by Asad Haider and Ashley Bohrer. With a different stance on intersectionality, but criticising economicist determinism, the two authors reason about ways of composing social heterogeneity in a political project. This allows for an original reading of some of the issues involved in the discussion about CC.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Bruno Montesanohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14779La cancel culture e il senso della storia2023-05-31T06:52:48+00:00Marcello Floresfloresmarcello@gmail.com<p class="p1">The essay intends to analyze the phenomenon of the destruction of statues, and more generally of cancel culture, through the prism of the relationship between memory and history, between political, moral and identity needs of the present, especially on the part of some discriminated groups, and the need to contribute to an understanding of history with all its complexities and contradictions, without reducing it to the binary and identity choice of being for or against, as often happens when collective memory predominates.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Marcello Floreshttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14569Memoria diabolica. Interpretare i conflitti sul passato, tra cancel culture e mutamento sociale2023-03-31T13:09:52+00:00Andrea Apollonioandrea.apollonio@unito.it<p class="p1">The article examines the social and political importance of current conflicts surrounding public memory. It suggests that these manifestations are often characterized by assigning alternative values and meanings to collective memories, rather than enforcing historical censorship or perpetuating destructive forgetting. In a second passage, the article advances a more general idea and explores its implications: we are witnessing a global movement of political reactivation of the past and democratization of history, which consists of the recent and sudden emergence of the memories of a galaxy of groups and actors ‘for whom rehabilitating their past is part and parcel of reaffirming their identity’ (Nora 2002). What explains these fluctuations in the relationship between memory and social change? What new entrepreneurs break into the structure of participation in the definition of institutional memory? To what extent does this dynamic stand in discontinuity or continuity with the past?</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Andrea Apolloniohttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/14576Il Capitale Morale. L’inclusività nelle organizzazioni tra incentivi economici e resistenze culturali2023-06-01T06:57:25+00:00Stella Pinna Pintorstella.pinnapintor@unito.itRaffaele Alberto Venturaraffaelealberto.ventura@unito.it<p class="p1">The sociological and cultural changes sweeping today’s societies are driving profound change in organizations. The increasing focus on inclusion and equality is encouraging organizations to develop programs for more effective diversity management. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, focusing on the various actors involved in the inclusion economy, the constraints and incentives for implementing diversity management policies, and finally, the main criticisms of inclusion policies, focusing on those that decry the risks of essentializing identities and overlooking certain forms of exclusion, such as class. By engaging with recent sociological and managerial literature, we aim to draw attention to the ways in which multifactorial matrices of subordination – where economic, symbolic, and “moral” capital differences come into play alongside cultural and gender differences – determine actors’ strategies of compromise, identity negotiation, or, alternatively, resistance (backlash).</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Raffaele Alberto Ventura, Stella Pinna Pintorhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15297Tra beneficienza, controllo sociale e interesse privato2023-10-31T05:16:27+00:00Paolo Giovanninipaolo.b.giovannini@gmail.com<p>Lo scritto che segue risponde a una curiosità nata frequentando la Valletta, un pezzo di verde incastrato nell'ampia curva di corso Firenze che si affaccia dietro l'Albergo dei Poveri di Genova. Che storia nasconde quell'enorme edificio? Forse, pensavo, guardandolo dal retro rivelerà più cose di quelle che la superba bellissima facciata gli permette di dire.</p> <p>L'Albergo dei Poveri. Questo nome internamente così contraddittorio, letto alla rovescia come nello specchio di Leonardo, poteva suggerire qualcosa di un po’ meno scopertamente agiografico sulla munificenza genovese? Forse l'ombra dell'edificio ne avrebbe attenuato il bagliore, avrebbe permesso di leggere le tracce più vere e più profonde, e quindi più persistenti nel tempo, del carattere dei genovesi. Dove (forse) facciata e retro si confondono, verso gli altri come verso se stessi.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Paolo Giovanninihttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/15302Profiles2023-10-31T06:28:30+00:00Editorial Cambiocambio@dsps.unifi.it<p>.</p>2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Editorial Cambio