Davide GrassoUniversità degli Studi di Torino | UNITO · Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
Davide Grasso
Ph.D. in Moral, Theoretical Philosophy and Hermeneutics
Bottom-up institution building and social movements, ecology and theory of change, conflicts and cultural heritage
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Introduction
I hold a Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy and a Research Fellowship in General Sociology at the University of Turin, teaching at the IUC of Turin and the TCS of Milan-Bicocca. I conducted archive and field research in Italy, Syria, Ukraine, Germany, UK, Iraq and Turkey. After having been visiting at the Columbia University (New York) and the IJN-EHESS-ENS (Paris), I collaborated with the CNRS in Paris and held a EHESS Research Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University.
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Institutions are committed to a constant work aimed at classifying cultural heritages, in order to preserve selected objects from decay or disappearing. In this domain of policy, a significant role is played by architecture and by the preservation of the architectural heritage of cities. How is it possible, however, to determine the value in the fi...
- The association of truth with history gives rise to three different theoretical questions: how to characterise historical truth, what is the criterion to discover it, and what is historical truth as such. The author takes this third issue into account by making a series of conceptual distinctions, and formulating an ontological thesis about the o...
Following the 2011 events, a government led by the PYD controls areas of the Northeast of Syria, lands inhabited by Kurds, Arabs and Syriacs. New institutions have been created and a new legal system is partly implemented since then. Linguistic and religious pluralism are crucial for the PYD’s ideology, contributing to an institutional system organ...
The paper introduces to the most remarkable features and achievements of the confederal movement in Northern Syria, as effort to outline an alternative path for society in the current century. An introductory summary outlines possible outcomes of concepts such as “revolution”, “reform”, “left” and “right” after 1989. The subsequent subsections sing...
The article aims to clarify some general features of the institutional domain through the illustration of a case study that is a borderline case as well: the operation of “Anti-terror units” in Syria, emanations of Ypg revolutionary army working in the Northern part of the country, whose initiatives are directed not only against the Islamic state,...
The paper analyses the military invasions and demographic engineering perpetrated by the Republic of Turkey in the Syrian Arab Republic from 2016 to 2024. In particular, it focuses on the lasting effects of the 2018 and 2019 invasions to address the following question: Which identification process is more relevant to understanding the Turkish opera...
The current growth-oriented and fossil-based energy system is undergoing a transformation toward renewable energy. However, simply swapping out technologies without addressing the deeper socio-economic structures risks perpetuating the actual social inequalities and environmental degradation. To counter this threat, it’s imperative to (re)politiciz...
Historically, significant energy transitions have coincided with turning points in human history, such as shifts from human to animal energy, from animal and biomass to fossil and nuclear energy, and more recently, from fossil to renewable energy due to the climate and ecological crisis. These transitions have led in the past to profound societal t...
L’analisi dei conflitti bellici attraverso una lente energetica, o l’indagine sulle strette relazioni tra energia e guerra, è abbastanza comune nella letteratura politologica e delle relazioni internazionali). Tuttavia, queste analisi sono state spesso troppo caratterizzate da una visione “realista” delle relazioni e dei conflitti regionali e globa...
Like a virus making a species jump, the concept of resilience has been the protagonist of an impressive interdisciplinary spill over. This article focuses on the difficulties of including this concept in the epistemic plane of the social sciences, and proposes an analysis of the limitations encountered when it is applied beyond physical and natural...
The violence affecting Syria since 2011 has led to a loss of effective sovereignty of the Syrian state over swaths of its territory, with varying extents in space and time. In some cases, the establishment of de facto institutions has been imposed by armed movements with an Islamist orientation. A de facto institution emerged during the war has pro...
Since the capitulation of Nazi Germany in May 1945, postwar institutions and the entire German population have been faced with a complex relationship to the past. The military defeat was accompanied by the responsibility of having unleashed a war of unprecedented dimensions and the outrage of the rest of the world for the crimes against Jews that w...
Un concetto nuovo e alternativo di identità nazionale è più che mai necessario, per contrastare le appropriazioni imperialistiche tanto dell'idea ancestrale di Stato-nazione, quanto della sua concezione civica; la condizione prima per giungere a una visione democratica e perciò laica di nazione è opporsi, concretamente e storicamente, a qualsivogli...
The institution of the Commune, in both its gender-mixed and women’s variants, has been in Syria at the core of the PYD’s political action, and revolutionary perspective, since 2003. Between 2011 and 2012, the Syrian social uprising allowed the party to extend, and claim in the open, the activities of the Communes. It structured them into a system...
Les analyses qui décrivent le Rojava comme une expérience pure d’autogestion populaire semblent insuffisantes tout autant que celles qui le dépeignent comme une illusion politique (une dictature militaire sous la forme illusoire d’une révolution libertaire). Ces thèses unilatérales – idéalisation et diabolisation – rendent chacune compte d’une tens...
No dia 26 de fevereiro 2020, no Il Manifesto, Giorgio Agamben publicou seu ponto de vista sobre o coronavírus. Não precisaria dizer o título do artigo: «O estado de exceção provocado por uma emergência imotivada». Alguém poderia se perguntar, o que mais poderia ter escrito o filósofo romano? Mas esse é justamente o problema.
Grazie a riferimenti storici e curiosità sulla Guerra fredda, Davide Grasso illustra il processo di costruzione e caduta del muro di Berlino, estendendo l’orizzonte di analisi alla proliferazione dei muri tra il 1989 e il 2019. Per farlo, per creare un ponte tra il fatidico 1989 e ciò che è avvenuto dopo, si rivolge anche al passato prossimo, quell...
Ottobre 2017: gli ultimi miliziani dell’Isis lasciano Raqqa. Marzo 2018: i com- battenti delle Ypg-Ypj si ritirano da Afrin, invasa dalla Turchia. Sono passati tre anni dalla resistenza di Kobane ma la Siria del nord è ancora attraversata dalla guerra, mentre gli equilibri tra i diversi attori internazionali continuano a mutare causando nuove devas...
Il 21 gennaio 2014 il Cantone curdo di Cizire, o Giazira, nel nord-est della Siria proclama la propria autonomia; sul proprio territorio i rapporti saranno d'ora in poi regolati secondo la carta del Contratto sociale del Rojava, la cui promulgazione era stata annunciata da alcuni mesi. Si tratta di un testo che sancisce la volontà, da parte della p...
The article is aimed at pointing out the correctness of the basic assumptions of Maurizio Ferraris’ documental theory of social reality, illustrating the results of a case study research. The theoretical analysis leads to an argument that shows that only the reference to the role of writing (and to a broad and diversified conception of Documentalit...
The article highlights the deep connection, both ontological and epistemological, between culture and archive on one hand, and history and philosophy on the other. The relationship between history and philosophy is identified throughout the acknowledgement of the written nature of socio-cultural reality in the first place; this reality is essential...
Da alcuni decenni l'attività legislativa delle istituzioni nazionali e internazionali promuove un'opera di tutela e conservazione di ciò che il dettato giuridico definisce beni culturali. Che cos'è, tuttavia, un bene in fatto di cultura? Che cosa un male? Si tratta di espressioni che presuppongono un giudizio soggettivo o di qualifiche obiettive? P...