Bøger udgivet af Mimesis International

The experience of democratic self-government of migration practiced in the village of Riace, Calabria, is an important case study for the potential development of migration in relation to three aspects of last Italian government's policies, all of which have both European and international relevance: the failure to sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration; the securitarian management of the migration crisis; and distorted media narratives around migration. This book derives from the collective efforts of a group of young social scientists in the fields of politics, law, economic geography, and media analysis, all of whom have past and present practical experience in the field. The book focuses on thehigh-impact local policies implemented in the small Calabrian village which turned out to possess one of the best vantage points for examining human migration on a global level. The volume represents an attempt to speak to a broad public in order to challenge 'common sense' and easy narratives on the complex issue of migration.

This book aims to reflect on mental illness through considering the influence that criticism and German idealism exerted on directions of philosophical, scientific and psychoanalytical thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and which can still be perceived today.

How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? This is the ambitious question that animates the current volume.

Increased migration is a global phenomenon associated with regional instabilities and insecurities, including long-term push factors and other elements related to processes of globalization that influence economics (the gap between the global South and the global North), politics (expectations of human rights and democratic practices), demographics (declining population in the North, rising population in the South) and technology (innovation in transport and communication). Local push factors are also extremely important, however, and need to be properly assessed in order to understand on-going migration processes and their variations.In many parts of the world, the closure of nearly all legal channels for entry risks increasing irregular migration, with the collateral effect of encouraging people smuggling and human trafficking. Furthermore, unsafe methods of entry increasingly involve women and children. But despite the urgency of the question, we are still very far from the development of any rational, holistic approach to migration issues, even while they have become a highly divisive, conflictual site of confrontation between countries, and between regional, national and international bodies.The current volume demonstrates some of the limits and inadequacies of current migration initiatives, while also identifying - as in the case of the Global Compact (signed in Morocco in December 2018) - inclusive strategies that respect human rights and international law, and safeguard global security. As the Global Compact emphasizes, migration should be considered as "a cooperative structure" that examines human movement in all its dimensions. This collection brings together essays that propose new ideas, themes and approaches that speak to different aspects of migration studies, including socio-economics, politics, legal studies and philosophy, fields that can open up new ways of looking at migration that go beyond the logic of emergency, improving international cooperation.

Cultural studies do not represent a historicist approach focused on the origins and development of particular social and cultural expressions, but - especially in its most recent form - instead analyses and engages with specific socio-cultural contexts and their formation, as well as bringing critical sensitivity to the conjunctural and contextual - especially in terms of tensions, contradictions and crises. Within this new framework, migration studies - with its interest in forms of regulation and management, control and practices of resistance - has become an essential platform not only for updating conceptual categories but also for highlighting the "contested terrain" of contemporary cultural studies itself.The current volume aims to explore the connection between these two fields of study, proposing new ideas, themes and approaches that speak to the varied field of migration studies, starting from the approach of cultural studies and post-colonial studies, both of which open up horizons and trajectories that often remain invisible in other discourses and narratives.The collection includes articles that address: the issue of migration starting from critical race theory, feminism, and transnationalism (underlining the role played by race and sex in the formation of processes of subjectivation within migratory processes); migration practices and (contested) migration politics; the representation and spectacularization of migration; and mapping, counter-mapping, media and communication.

In the light of contemporary artistic and marketing practices, in which food osmospheres are staged in order to convey emotions and drive consumer behavior, this work speculates on the socio-political aesthetic implications of osmospheric foodification attempting to capture the essence of today's urban and domestic dwelling.

Written by four hands, the current volume moves on two planes that fruitfully intersect and sometimes conflict in their interpretations.

American pragmatism has been often interpreted as a form of crass utilitarianism applied to all areas of philosophy - a precipitation of the "industrialist" spirit of the United States. This book demonstrates how such an interpretation is misguided.

Since the 1990s, deliberative democracy has been the focus of increased scholarly attention, as well as the locus of initiatives intended to directly engage the public in matters of public concern.

The book places suffering at the center of its socio-critical considerations, replacing the famous alienation motif of the Frankfurt School. It begins by critiquing the concept of alienation and its long tradition in social and political philosophy, especially in Critical Theory.

What can we learn from the way artists live and operate in the world?

Failed revolutions that have unfolded in our digital age in countries such as Myanmar, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, Hong Kong and Belarus, bring to light the great and often successful efforts of authoritarian regimes to use new technologies for surveillance, oppression, propaganda, censorship, and the suppression of fundamental rights.

The studies included in this edited volume explore discourses surrounding the ageing population, those who assist them, their families and the institutions/organisations that offer services to them.

Today, the Western idea of society, founded on a contract between citizens and limited to the cohabitation of human subjects (just as the idea of citizenship is based on the fundamental rights of people) faced with the challenges of the pandemic, of climate change and those posed by the latest generation of intelligent networks, turns out to be ina

After researching the life of a British Special Operation Executive agent, Oliver Churchill, who operated over the summer of 1944, Andrea Cominini found that his brother, Peter, had also been an SOE agent operating in France during WWII. Peter carried out four missions, spending 225 days in enemy territory.

In this book, Montani defends the reasons to place Kant's concept of imaginationa in a paleo-anthropological framework, linking it to the imaginative practices that preceded and prepared the advent of articulated discourse.

A historical and philosophical approach to understanding COVID-19 from scholars with diverse perspectives and opinions.

This volume examines the rise and apparent fall of 'neo-liberalism' by analyzing today's current climate, dominated by a range of political mediatic populisms that run across the contemporary political scene, and the failure of the multicultural paradigm in terms of the Lockean concept of tolerance.

The current volume brings together a collection of essays from the conference "The Postmodern Condition: Forty Years Later" held at University of Genova on December 2019 and inspired by Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition.

Examines the Japanese concept of Yonaoshi and the global connections it reveals.

The current volume brings together a reconstruction of Carrington's biography with a detailed analysis of her artistic production, beginning with her fleeing English high society to follow a dream of freedom, her crazy love affair with Max Ernst and her time in the small village of Saint Martin d'Archèche in the south of France.

Collects little-know or newly translated essays to foster contemporary discussion on Pasolini's work.

Prefazione di Pier Aldo Rovatti.

The volume consists of a collection of fifteen contributions to Political Theory, the focuses of which represent an interaction between different themes and perspectives. The collection brings together a series of philosophical, moral, political, psychological, medical, anthropological and mytho-symbolical issues, divided into three main sections.

An historical reconstruction on the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985.

An exploration of the role that culture can play in the protection of our world.

Qual è il modo giusto per trattare la disabilità? Kamil è un bambino come tutti gli altri: è allegro e vivace, ha cinque anni, va all'asilo e ama fare battute stupide. Ma allora cosa lo rende speciale? È cieco dalla nascita. Non è stato semplice crescere con una disabilità visiva, ma con l'aiuto dei suoi cari Kamil ha imparato ad affinare l'udito, allenare la fantasia e "guardare con le mani". La sua visione della vita è ricca, ironica, a volte divertente, a volte toccante. Ma allora è davvero così diverso dagli altri? Le avventure di Kamil, con le sue sfide e i suoi successi, ci ricordano una cosa che non dobbiamo dimenticare mai e che tutti abbiamo in comune: se lo vogliamo, possiamo riuscire a fare qualsiasi cosa! Un libro sulla rottura delle barriere, perché anche un bambino cieco può fare qualsiasi cosa. Età di lettura: da 5 anni.

Explores the affinities between the work of Marx and Wittgenstein.