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Introduction
Cirus Rinaldi currently works at the Dipartimento di Culture e Società, Università degli Studi di Palermo. Cirus does research in Social Theory, Communication and Media and Qualitative Social Research. Their current project is 'Male sex work, masculinity and violence'.
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- Associate professor of Sociology of law Deviance and Social change
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March 2006 - October 2015
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Publications (38)
Maschi si nasce o si diventa? Nonostante le discipline socio-criminologiche abbiano nel tempo trascurato il rapporto tra violenza e maschilità o lo hanno trattato in termini essenzialisti e bioriduttivisti, le prospettive costruzioniste più recenti sono state in grado di guardare alla (o, meglio, alle) maschilità come prodotti costruiti e negoziati...
Ripercorrendone in modo rigoroso le principali teorie e tematiche, il volume aggiorna il dibattito critico sul discorso socio-criminologico, colmando il vuoto esistente nel mercato editoriale italiano su prospettive e sviluppi contemporanei delle teorie sociologiche della devianza e del crimine e proponendosi come un utile strumento di formazione c...
The article aims to discuss if and how medical labels and practices create sex-anatomical standards with respect to which those who do not align with them are labeled as “abnormal”, thus also legitimizing some forms of violence and social marginalization. The case study of the German legal framework, where the third sex registry has recently found...
Il presente articolo, approfondendo dei dati etnografici sul sex work maschile di strada raccolti dall'autore tra il 2011 e il 2018, intende evidenziare i significati attribuiti allo scambio sessuo-economico e delineare le relazioni gerarchiche che si definiscono per via della costruzione egemonica di genere e sessuale ma anche, inevitabilmente, pe...
L'intersezione di omosessualità e prostituzione, ha prodotto un particolare tipo di attore sociale che si trova a convertire le sue risorse sessuali in pecuniarie, dando vita così a nuove forme di maschilità come quella del sexworker. Lo scopo di questo intervento è quello di evidenziare, attraverso una revisione della letteratura in-ternazionale,...
Homophobic violence can be considered as an expressive act. Violent behavior can be considered as anti-homosexual when victims are chosen because they are considered or perceived as homosexual. Following this reasoning, hate crimes as homophobic crimes have a communicative value, since they represent a range of “masculinization” practices within th...
This chapter aims to challenge heterosexual norms in society by analyzing heterosexual families when confronted with the coming out of one of their children. Starting with the essentialist construction of identities and gender norms supported by the symbolic structure of the natural and traditional (straight) family, we reconstruct paths and dynami...
- Francesco Benigno, Vincenzo Lavenia (2021) Peccato o crimine. La Chiesa di fronte alla pedofilia
- Raffaella Sette, Simone Tuzza (2021) Promuovere ambienti educativi sicuri. Prevenire gli abusi nei contesti ecclesiali
Symbolic interactionist approaches to sexuality state that human beings become sexual as they become whatever else and learn sexual definitions and sexual meanings just like they learn any other kind of meaning. Therefore, interactionist analysis shifts the focus of inquiry into sex from being sexual towards becoming sexual, which takes into accoun...
Edwin M. Lemert è uno dei maestri della sociologia della devianza, in grado di rivoluzionare il rapporto tra soggetto e società con la sua teoria della reazione sociale e di influenzare la teoria dell’etichettamento. Grazie a figure come Franco Basaglia, questo autore ha ricevuto anche in Italia un immediato riconoscimento che purtroppo si è scontr...
This analysis assesses the theoretical value and importance of published Colombian criminological research and its significance in the international academic context. It is based on documentary sources and digital records of citations indexes concerning research products and authors commonly consulted on the World Wide Web, and offers comparisons w...
The entry focuses on the cultural relationship between online environment and the social reproduction of bodily standards. Online harassment, and especially online fat‐shaming, can be framed as the social reproduction of hegemonic gender, normative sexualities, and ideal bodies. In particular, such processes are deeply connected to “normalization”...
The mediatization of emotions emerges as an affordance of social media, the study of which involves paying attention to digital practices and to the construction and expression of public affection. This happens both for the great events and for the daily demonstrations of support or its denial. In this article we work on the phenomenon of the media...
This article explores the methodological and ethical issues that arise from ethnographic research in sexual practices in the study of non-normative sexualities. It explores the researcher as a subject in the research as well as doing the research. Taking a queer approach, it identifies key themes and issues that the reflexive researcher faces when...
Walby, K. 2017. ‘Stories, Scripts, and Encounters: Interactionist Views of Male Sex Work’. In Sexual Scripting Revisited, Cirus Rinaldi (ed). Milan: Franco Angeli. ‘Storie, copioni e incontri: prospettive interazionista sul sex work maschile’. In I Copioni sessuali. Storia, Analisi e applicazioni. Milan: Mondadori Education. Pp 163-180.
The article discusses the multiple discrimination, normalization and stigmatization experienced by deaf LGBT youth in Sicily, Italy, on the basis of a study of their everyday life (specifically school years and peer interactions). So far in Italy, very little attention has been paid to multiple discrimination and, specifically, to homophobic violen...
A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's a man only as long as he can. Moms Mabley@ Se l'unica costante all'alba del terzo millennio è il cambia-mento. Allora la sfida sta nel pensare ai processi, piuttosto che ai concetti. Braidotti (2003, pp. 9-10)@ 1 Introduzione: scenari e spazi delle sessualità tardo-moderne Raramente i sociologi...
