Wednesday, September 25, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Europa Hall – CNR-IRPPS

The author, Alessandro Mulieri, will discuss with Daniele Archibugi, Gianni Cuperlo, Maria Grasso, and Tommaso Visone.

September 27, 2024

h. 09.30 – 13.00

Marconi Room, CNR Headquarters, Rome

Speakers will include Marco Omizzolo, who edited the issue; Anna Milione, Pietro Demurtas, and Mara Tognetti, who co-direct the journal; and Salvatore Capasso, Director of the CNR-DSU.

Welfare & Ergonomia, recognized as an Anvur Class A journal, originated as an IRPPS editorial project and is published by FrancoAngeli.

The call is now open to contribute to the next issue of the journal Welfare & Ergonomia, dedicated to “Social agriculture between new and old social work practices, theoretical perspectives and policy innovations“, edited by Angela Genova and Tiziana Tarsia.

The issue will collect theoretical contributions and empirical research (both subject to peer review) related to:

• case studies at local, national and international level capable of producing critical reflections that highlight the challenges in implementing social agriculture, with a multidisciplinary approach

• study of policies and their effects with specific attention to national and regional regulatory contexts and practices that connect emerging themes such as innovation processes in the primary sector and the diversification of agricultural activities, energy transition, the return of young people to agricultural activities, attention to well-being and the environment in a one health perspective
  
• analysis of the results of social research evaluating social agriculture experiences as a mechanism for rehabilitation processes and social participation of people in disadvantaged situations, but also for promoting community activities and social cohesion.
  

Potential authors of this issue of Welfare & Ergonomia are invited to submit by September 25, 2024 an abstract of approximately 3,000 characters, and, if accepted, by January 20, 2025 the full contribution.

Read the complete call (English).

Born from a CNR-IRPPS project, Welfare & Ergonomia is a biannual journal published by Franco Angeli and recognized in 2017 in ANVUR’s class A for the field of Political and Social Sciences.

For information and contacts: welfarergonomia.rel@irpps.cnr.it.

The book Social History of Italian Emigration: From Unification to the Present, by Enrico Pugliese and Mattia Vitiello and published by Il Mulino, has received the 2024 Memorie Migrate Award from the Municipality of Castelluccio Inferiore.

The volume adopts a historical-sociological approach to the history of Italian emigration abroad, highlighting the significance of emigration in the transformations of our country.

Watch the interview with the authors and read the review in Il Manifesto.

In the article Intersectional Approach within Italian Antiviolence Centres. Challenges for Research and Policies, Angela Toffanin, IRPPS researcher, analyzes whether and how antiviolence centers in Italy manage to respond to the needs of women victims of violence with an intersectional approach, considering how different levels of vulnerability interact with each other.

The empirical part of the article discusses some of the representations of “women in situations of violence” and “women accessing services” shared by operators of antiviolence centers and shelters in Italy, collected in qualitative research conducted in 2019-20. At the same time, the article discusses some quantitative results on the training and professional practices of antiviolence centers regarding intervention with women who embody multiple vulnerabilities.

The article examines the relational dimension that is at the center of the debate on intersectionality and its potential in research activities. The objective is to contribute to the scientific debate on intersectionality as a theoretical and empirical tool, useful for avoiding the unconscious reproduction of inequalities and privileges during research activities and in professional practices, through a reflexive approach to the categories used and one’s position in a specific social context.

Listen to the author’s audio abstract.

Toffanin A. M. (2023). Intersectional Approach within Italian Antiviolence Centres. Challenges for Research and Policies. Fuori Luogo Journal of Sociology of Territory, Tourism, Technology, 16(3), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.6093/2723-9608/9511

On June 29, researcher Fabrizio Pecoraro from the IRPPS Health and Society group participated in the 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐢 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚 𝐏𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐚 (Telemedicine Conference in Pescara). The conference provided an opportunity to discuss the opportunities opened by the decree of September 28, 2023 for the innovation of the National Health Service, driven by the transition toward new technological infrastructures dedicated to both Telemedicine—the set of healthcare services that can be performed remotely through innovative technologies—and the Electronic Health Record, which enables the digital collection of a patient’s clinical history.

Pecoraro’s contribution focused specifically on the Electronic Health Record, emphasizing the need to develop a tool containing structured information that is interoperable with other health information systems. Furthermore, the Record must serve not only as a care support tool—facilitating patient management and diagnostic and treatment operations across different professionals and healthcare facilities—but also as a source of data for decision-makers and the research community for epidemiological and governance studies.

You can listen to the researcher’s intervention here.

The latest IRPPS Working Paper, to which the Health and Society group contributed, is instead dedicated to the user experience of a Telemedicine service piloted at the San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital in Rome. You can read it here.

July 10, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Sala Europa

The study day with Prof. Maurizio Atzeni is organized as part of the activities of the ERC Project Illicit Labour and the Photovoltaic Industry.

Attendance is in person and the number of seats is limited. Please confirm your attendance by sending an email to riccardo.martinelli@irpps.cnr.it

To participate in the meeting, reading the following texts is recommended:

Atzeni, M. (2023). The labour process and workers’ rights at Mercado Libre: hiding exploitation through regulation in the digital economy. Work in the Global Economy, 3(2), 181-200. Retrieved Jul 2, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2023D000000003

Atzeni, M., & Cini, L. (2023). New theories and politics for working class organizing in the gig and precarious world of work. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231201009

Short Bio
Maurizio Atzeni divides his time between Argentina and Chile, working as a researcher at CEIL/CONICET and as a Professor of Industrial Relations at the Alberto Hurtado University. His research revolves around two main axes. The first is the study of the nature and dynamics of labour conflict and forms of collective organization of workers. It covers a wide range of cases (the automotive industry, the delivery industry in pre- and post-digitalization contexts, self-managed factories and cooperatives, the informal labour market) to map conflicts and forms of work organization. A second research axis studies the forms of work produced on the basis of contemporary developments in capitalism. This axis refers to a global and interdisciplinary dimension that has been pursued in particular in the publications of the Handbook of the Global Political Economy of Work and previously in Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism. In 2022, he founded the international summer school, LabourTransfer, in Sardinia, which combines the academic world of labour studies with trade union activism and territorial development.

On World Refugee Day, we recall the shared Statement on migration promoted by the Convention of the Italian Network of UNESCO Chairs, of which CNR-IRPPS researcher Angela Paparusso is a member.