Costruire e leggere correttamente una tabella o un grafico, partendo da dati appropriati, è un passaggio fondamentale per chiunque voglia sintetizzare, capire, e interpretare criticamente i principali fenomeni demografici, sociali e politici. In questo seminario verranno sviluppate le competenze per il reperimento di fonti di dati, la valutazione della tipologia e della qualità del dato, e l’organizzazione dei dati per la successiva analisi.
Course Content - Part H
Title: Politics of carelessness and care.
Contents: through readings and documentaries we will talk about planned obsolescence, garbology and wasteocene.
Course Content - Part L
Seminar title:
What is happiness.
Course Content - Part N
The suffering of others. International humanitarianism in the 20th century
The sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues being debated today actually have roots that go back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime.
Armiero Marco, Wasteocene: Stories from the Global Dump;
ARTE Reportage
Egypt: Rags and Riches (2021).
Bauman Zygmunt, Vite di scarto;
Block Hans, The cleaners. Quello che i social non dicono (2018);
Latouche Serge, Usa e getta. Le follie dell'obsolescenza programmata;
Ferrante Antonia Anna, Cosa può un compost. Fare con le ecologie femministe e queer;
Hiroki Ryuichi, Tokio Trash Boy. Movie (2000).
Hunter D., Chav. Solidarietà Coatta;
Humes Edward, Garbology. Our dirty love affair with Trash;
Spelman Elizabeth, Combing through the trash;
Varda Agnes, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000) (documentario)
Walker Lucy, Waste Land, 2011 (documentario)
S. Bartolini, Manifesto per la felicità. Come passare dalla società del ben-avere a quella del ben-essere, Donzelli, Roma 2010.
E. Cabanas, E. Illouz, Happycracy, Come la scienza della felicità controlla le nostre vite, codice, Torino 2019.
D. D’Andrea, E. Donaggio, E. Pulcini, G. Turnaturi, (a cura di), Felicità italiane. Un campionario filosofico, il Mulino, Bologna 2016.
F. De Luise, G. Farinetti, Storia della felicità. Gli antichi e i moderni, Einaudi, Torino 2001.
R. Dworkin, Felicità artificiale. Il lato oscuro del benessere, Tropea, Milano 2006.
F. Rigotti, L’era del singolo, Einaudi, Torino 2021.
S. Salvatici, A history of international humanitarianism: in the name of others, Manchester University Press, 2019
Learning Objectives - Part B
Stimolare le capacità di analisi critica e di interpretazione dei dati.
Learning Objectives - Part H
Developing critical and argumentative skills.
Learning Objectives - Part L
Stimulating the development of critical and reflective skills.
Learning Objectives - Part N
The seminar aims to provide students with the necessary tools to critically read the contemporary humanitarian regime and its connections to the political and social context
Prerequisites - Part B
Nessuno
Prerequisites - Part H
None.
Prerequisites - Part L
No specific requirement is made. It is sufficient a good knowledge of political and social history; and a basic information on the main issues of our time.
Prerequisites - Part N
None
Teaching Methods - Part B
Seminari interattivi con gli studenti. Presentazione argomenti ed esercitazioni in classe.
Teaching Methods - Part H
Documentary screening, readings and discussion of proposed materials. Short written and oral presentation by attendants are going to be used.
Teaching Methods - Part L
The workshop will consist of both lectures and discussions guided by the professor.
Teaching Methods - Part N
Seminar will have an interactive character, ample space will be allocated to discussion with the participants, who will be urged to intervene on the issues addressed, also starting from specific documents (images, newspaper articles, films). If possible, the concluding meetings will be real seminars in which the participants will be asked to present the contents of the readings previously agreed upon with the lecturer.
Further information - Part L
No.
Type of Assessment - Part B
Gli studenti (individualmente o a gruppi) dovranno preparare e presentare un breve report di ricerca.
Type of Assessment - Part H
Active participation during the seminars.
Short written and oral presentation.
Type of Assessment - Part L
Final oral exam or writing of a short paper.
Type of Assessment - Part N
Active participation in seminar meetings is a means of evaluation
Course program - Part B
- La statistica: cos’è e a cosa serve. Brevi note introduttive ed esempi.
- Dati, fonti e misure per gli studi demografici, sociali e politici.
-Rappresentare le informazioni: grafici e tabelle; come leggere e interpretare i dati; come presentare i risultati
- Open Data: che cosa sono, come trovarli e come analizzarli. Indicazioni per il calcolo di media, varianza, correlazione in Excel
Course program - Part H
Trash, refuse, garbage, junk, filth are some of the terms we resort to when describing things, but also people, that we prefer to leave on the margins. What does trash say about us, about our society? Why has the contemporary era been defined wasteocene? This seminar aims to discuss garbology, wasteocene, planned obsolescence and the politics of neglect through the analysis of texts and the screening of films and documentaries.
Course program - Part L
S. Bartolini, Manifesto per la felicità. Come passare dalla società del ben-avere a quella del ben-essere, Donzelli, Roma 2010.
E. Cabanas, E. Illouz, Happycracy, Come la scienza della felicità controlla le nostre vite, codice, Torino 2019.
D. D’Andrea, E. Donaggio, E. Pulcini, G. Turnaturi, (a cura di), Felicità italiane. Un campionario filosofico, il Mulino, Bologna 2016.
F. De Luise, G. Farinetti, Storia della felicità. Gli antichi e i moderni, Einaudi, Torino 2001.
R. Dworkin, Felicità artificiale. Il lato oscuro del benessere, Tropea, Milano 2006.
F. Rigotti, L’era del singolo, Einaudi, Torino 2021.
Course program - Part N
The suffering of others. International humanitarianism in the 20th century
The 'refugee crisis', the sea rescues of migrants, the recent health emergency, the reception of refugees from Ukraine, all these recent events have been accompanied by an intense, sometimes heated, public debate on the reasons, legitimacy, and effects of international aid. The issues debated today actually have roots in the past and hark back to the long history of the contemporary humanitarian regime. The seminar will focus precisely on this path, and will devote specific attention to the different actors of humanitarian actions (national governments, intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations, aid-recipient societies) and their interaction.
The meetings will have an interactive character, ample space will be allocated to discussion with the participants, who will be invited to intervene on the issues addressed, also starting from specific documents (images, newspaper articles, films). If possible, the concluding meetings will be real seminars in which the participants will be asked to present the contents of the readings previously agreed upon with the lecturer.
Topics of the meetings
What is meant by humanitarianism? What does it mean to study its history? What are the links between the issues of the present and those of the past? The introductory meeting will start from these questions.
The first post-war period, the League of Nations and international aid as instruments for the transition to the new post-war order
The inter-war years and the emergence of an international refugee regime
The post-World War II period and the birth of the United Nations: can we really speak of the 're-foundation' of contemporary humanitarianism?
The post-colonial order and international aid, the case of the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970)
"Do they know it's Christmas": international mobilisation for the Ethiopian famine.
The humanitarian regime in the post-bipolar world.