BOOKS BY LUISA STAGI

Covid-19 has shed light on the Sino-Italian communities, usually perceived as a "minority model", based on their being considered as integrated, hard-working and silent. The media narratives about the relation between the spreading of the virus and the consumption of food framed as "disgusting" have neutralised the color-blindness usually applied to Asian migrants in Italy. The latent racism has been reinforced by a process of distinction focused on the disgust for an "abject" food. The reframing of the Sino-Italians as folk devils through the spread of gastro-panic has yet triggered processes of subjectivation, pushing them to make their voices heard on a public level. By the standpoint of 12 "Asian" restaurant owners in the city of Genoa, we explore the frame in which such dynamics have unfolded.

L’alimentazione è un fatto sociale complesso a cui corrisponde, oggi, uno spazio analitico sempre più vasto, stimolante e ricco di collegamenti e “contaminazioni”. Il volume vuole essere l’occasione per riflettere sul ruolo che l’educazione alimentare gioca nei percorsi di crescita dell’attore sociale, sul ruolo genitoriale per una sana alimentazione, sulle problematiche odierne riferite a stili di vita poco salutari, sulle certificazioni alimentari e sul rapporto tra cibo e religione.

After a long time during which the public discussion on it was socially banned, the issue of cancer finally found some places for its social representation. Such a space was initially opened up by some celebrities. The so-called pathographies were in the beginning mostly diary-shaped, while they developed later in multiple expression forms, ranging from videos on YouTube to blogs. This article will especially examine these latter expressions, studying their functions and the discursive repertoires that they adopt and they reproduce in a reflexive manner. In this sense, humour and positive thinking will be considered as major analytical keys for the comprehension of the grammar of these textual forms. Specifically, thanks to the analysis patterns utilised in previous researches, the narrative styles of some Italian cancer blogs, that became quite popular in the media, will be analysed.

Il cibo tra salute e cultura Tavola rotonda con: Riccardo Dalle grave, Antonio Guerci, Caterina Renna - The article deals with the theme of bulimia in a psycho-social view. We examine the changes of life-style in post-modern society, where eating disorders take the characteristics of an ethnic disorder that exasperates behaviours largely appearing in the normal context of life. Bulimia takes the characteristics of a metaphor of the liquid-modern society. Moreover, we consider the thinking process by which the social view is linked to the mental dynamic of the eating disorder. The relationship between food and the body is considered as a personal experience and in its personal and social representation. We examine the disorders connected to metaphoric thought and to abstract thought regarding the process of mentalisation. The concept of concretised metaphor is connected to the thought disorders of bulimia nervosa.

Key-words: bulimia nervosa, liquid-modern society, concretised metaphor, embodiment, mentalisation, health.

Parole-chiave: bulimia nervosa, società liquido-moderna, metafora concretizzata, incorporazione, mentalizzazione, salute.

Una riflessione sul rapporto tra genere e identità, e quindi sulla mai risolta tensione tra natura e cultura; un volume che si inoltra su terreni poco battuti (il corpo, l’erotismo, l’omofobia), attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare. Esplorare la complessità dell’identità, osservarla da differenti angolature (biologica, psicologica e sociologica) offre una preziosa opportunità di riflessione su se stessi e su una realtà sociale e culturale difficile da decifrare.

Un “discorso” culturale intorno al corpo. Sul corpo si gioca la lotta tra controllo e rischio, tra soggettività e ordine sociale, tra disciplinamento ed edonismo. Più l’individuo si sente impotente e impossibilitato a incidere sul suo destino, più avverte la necessità di essere unico e di lasciare un segno attraverso il corpo. La parabola che si è cercato di ripercorrere va da Marlène Dietrich a Madonna, dalla Barbie alle Bratz… dall’anoressia all’iperessia.