LIBRI DI CHIARA FRANCESCONI

Il volume presenta una ricerca sul fenomeno degli hikikomori, giovani adolescenti che, sempre più numerosi nel nostro Paese, scelgono l’isolamento volontario chiudendosi nella loro “stanza”. Con le conoscenze ottenute si è giunti a un modello interpretativo e di lettura utile per orientare gli interventi di politica sociale e da socializzare negli ambiti educativi. I risultati sono stati in seguito integrati all’interno dell’impianto narrativo di un prossimo film di fiction, a cui viene delegata la presentazione del fenomeno.

Il turismo sportivo si propone oggi quale possibile volano di uno sviluppo sostenibile anche in territori a forte vocazione turistica, costretti a riposizionare la loro offerta dall’attuale contesto socio-culturale ed economico. Il volume presenta alcuni casi studio che documentano, con riferimento ad esperienze in corso nella riviera romagnola, come una ridefinizione e pluralizzazione dell’offerta turistica possa avvalersi, in misura importante, dell’organizzazione di eventi sportivi a forte attrattività perché collegati alle peculiarità ambientali e culturali del territorio.

This abstract is resulting from a sociological visual research about the Tourism whose aim is to understand the changes and the permanent aspects of the local and territorial structure of a specific area of the Italian East Coast: the area of Cervia. Having at our disposal a postcards collection about this area covering the first 60 years of the past century, a specifical and new method of research has been used: re-photographing, many years later, the same places showed in the postcards. In this way, the abstract try to make clear the potentiality of this new original research tool.

In this essay we shall discuss the relationship between glocalism and city development, with special attention to the development of periurban areas. In order to do so, the difference between the concepts of social belonging and social inclusion is reinterpreted according to the "types of action" classification by Weber, as well as to the community/association distinction. Our aim is to identify new possible research patterns in the field of social bonds within urban settings.

Research into the processes leading to impoverishment in urban environments has, in recent years, given much space to the study of the final stage in the «careers» of these subjects, which can be defined as extreme poverty. However, we believe it is also necessary to investigate the steps preceding the final phase (summed up in the concept of vulnerability proposed by R. Castel). This paper therefore focuses on the phenomenon of vulnerability, which by definition privileges the dynamic component - that is, a chain of events that affect the lives of the subjects - of the processes leading to impoverishment. From this point of view it is necessary to turn our attention to methodologies concerned with the process, and we propose an investigation based the analysis of case-studies through the study of «biographical paths». For this purpose we offer some thoughts about the conceptual dimensions and the analytic paths linked to situations of vulnerability, for use in the hypothetical «biographical reconstruction» in order to give the investigation a suitable «operative» direction.