Domenica Farinella

Domenica Farinella
  • University of Messina

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This article shows how, from the modern era up to the present day, Sardinian pastoralism has been increasingly incorporated into global capitalism, despite essentialising narratives about the primitiveness and backwardness of shepherds that have been propagated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present neoliberal phase. The case-study consider...
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Dans le débat actuel, l’innovation sociale est analysée comme un outil politique utile pour renforcer le développement rural et contrecarrer la marginalisation dans les zones rurales. Dans ce contexte, il est nécessaire de valoriser la fonction sociale de l’agriculture en tant que productrice de valeurs hors marché et ancrées dans le territoire. La...
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The COVID-19 pandemic introduced changes in people’s lives that affected their mental health. Our study aimed to explore the level of psychological distress in the academic population during the lockdown period and investigate its association with the new working or studying conditions. The study sample included 9364 students and 2159 employees fro...
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La qualità della fornitura dei servizi essenziali è fondamentale per promuovere i diritti di cittadinanza. La mancanza di efficienza nella distribuzione dell'acqua rende Messina un interessante caso di studio. La crisi idrica del 2015, quando la città è rimasta senza acqua per 24 giorni, ha evidenziato tutti i paradossi e le contraddizioni che cara...
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This article explores responses of farmers and other agricultural experts to organic farming in two cultural spheres as examples of the cultural adoption of pro-environmental innovations. The data is based on semi-structured interviews with agricultural actors conducted in Kainuu, Finland, and Sardinia, Italy, and it was analysed using qualitative...
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In this article, we present a historical analysis on how Sardinian pastoralism has become an integrated activity in global capitalism, oriented to the production of cheap milk, through the extraction of ecological surplus from the exploitation of nature and labour. Pastoralism has often been looked at as a marginal and traditional activity. On the...
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While the literature’s focus has been on the role of international migrant workers in intensive agricultural systems, little attention has been given to more marginal agro-ecological settings where capital-based production is not feasible. These areas cover a large part of the Euro-Mediterranean region and are affected by deep-rooted processes of e...
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In this article, we present a historical analysis on how Sardinian pastoralism has become an integrated activity in global capitalism, oriented to the production of cheap milk, through the extraction of ecological surplus from the exploitation of nature and labour. Pastoralism has often been looked at as a marginal and traditional activity. On the...
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Measures implemented in many countries to contain the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a change in lifestyle with unpredictable consequences on physical and mental health. We aimed at identifying the variables associated with psychological distress during the lockdown between April and May 2020 in the Italian academic population. We conducted a multic...
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The Mediterranean represents a rich and fragile setting, in agro-ecological, as well as in socioeconomic terms. The region is increasingly beset by a growing human presence, as well as by climate change dynamics. A number of complementary and contradictory trends are putting huge pressure on the natural resource base, the traditional systems of res...
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Focusing on pastoralism, this article reflects on five diverse cases across Africa, Asia and Europe and asks: how have COVID-19 disease control measures affected mobility and production practices, marketing opportunities, land control, labour relations, local community support and socio-political relations with the state and other settled agrarian...
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While most of the existing literature on rural migrations focuses on immigrant workers in intensive agricultural systems, this work tries filling existing gaps by addressing more marginal and remote rural settings. The mountainous, inner and island territories that cover a large part of the Mediterranean are particularly affected by intense demogra...
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This book investigates the dynamics that are reshaping human and natural landscapes in the European agrarian world, with a specific focus on Mediterranean Europe. We focus here on more marginal rural settings, where the potential for agricultural intensification is structurally limited. These areas in particular have suffered from the geographical...
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This chapter focuses on the ambivalent nature of contemporary migrations in European rural areas. The growing presence of immigrants in these areas is a direct result of the restructuring of agriculture and global agri-food chains. Evidence indicates that while agricultural work and rural settings are decreasingly attractive to local populations, t...
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This chapter looks at the implications, impacts and consequences of rural migration on the areas of origin, where oftentimes portions of the family, and of the family assets, remain.
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In this chapter we provide a framework to assess and analyse ongoing rural migration dynamics from the perspective of areas of destination, with a view to answer to the following questions: What are the impacts on the local economy and society? Which are the practices, programs and policies that underpin the presence and integration of migration? W...
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Agriculture and rural development represent critical domains for the economy, the society as well as the ecosystems of Euro-Mediterranean countries. Important changes and challenges have though reconfigured food production, natural resource management as well as rural livelihoods in recent decades in the region.
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This open access short reader looks into the dynamics which have reshaped rural development and human landscapes in European agriculture and the role of immigrant people. Within this framework it analyses contemporary rural migrations and the emergence of immigrants in relation to the incorporation of agrarian systems into global markets, the Europ...
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This chapter introduces the notion of disaster and provides a selection of key themes derived from the current sociological and anthropological debate on undesired events. Disasters are interpreted as elements that can revitalize old fractures and lines of separation that are at the very basis of the processes of national formation. These crises ge...
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The Italian south, the Mezzogiorno, is often described as being impervious to modernization, with an innate attitude of inertia and even illegality. Contrary to similar narrations, the chapter suggests that the south mirrors dynamics and organizational choices that pertain to the Italian State formation process. Since the Unity, the national divisi...
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Following the 1908 earthquake, the establishment of new channels for financing reconstruction and the creation of special agencies for the financial management of economic flow casted Messina into the hands of small groups of interest that reconfigured the city both socially and physically. In particular, the considerable extension of the post-disa...
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This chapter discusses how subjects belonging to subaltern classes have made use of the gaps left open by local powers, to access forms of fragmented and unstable social mobility. Through biographical analyses, this part of the study provides some reflections on the subaltern condition in the city of Messina and, to some extent, in southern Italy a...
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The present chapter summarizes the findings of a monographic study on the long-lasting effects of a disastrous earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908. The analysis shows that the political logic, structure, and ties that characterized the city before the crisis survived the earthquake. In spite of this form of continuity, however,...
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Starting from an analysis of the public discourse, identitarian representations, and practices, this chapter aims to show that stereotypical and essentialist representations can sometimes be changed, challenged, adapted, and politically activated by the subaltern in order to make specific claims and can also often be reversed. In particular, this c...
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This chapter discusses how the construction of urban public and private space in the city of Messina followed lines of intervention that, from post-earthquake reconstruction onwards, relegated marginalized subjects to specific areas of the city, and housed them in specific types of accommodation in order to make the most of ground rent, favor specu...
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Background When communicating risks to the general population, the format of the epidemiological results may affect individual reactions. In environmental epidemiology, no study has compared the use of different statistical formats in communicating results to the population. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the degree of concern expr...
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This is a study on the long-lasting consequences of a disastrous earthquake that hit the city of Messina, Sicily, in 1908. The quake killed about 86,000 people, and destroyed one of the most important portal cities of the Mediterranean. The book investigates both the forces that shaped that event and made it possible – firstly, urban speculation pr...
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Mediterranean rural regions represent rich and fragile settings in agro-ecological and socio-economic terms. The region is increasingly beset by growing human presence and climate change dynamics. Agropastoral systems are still important activities in terms of employment and income, but also for ecosystem functioning and landscape management. Tradi...
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Participatory approaches to environmental research and decision-making require that all social stakeholders are involved from the onset of the debate. In such a setting, communication among different expertise is crucial, but language and technicalities may represent a barrier. In the clinical setting, decisions regarding treatment preferences may...
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This study explores the historical development of a deprived class in Messina, a Southern Italian city. By means of 85 in-depth interviews and the analysis of the most important phases of the reconstruction following a disastrous earthquake which took place in 1908, the authors investigate the forces that, over the course of a century, shaped the f...
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On the one hand, in favour of the EMU, there were those who, inspired by the neoclassical model, argued that through the European Community's economic and social cohesion policy it would be possible to eliminate not only so-called external diseconomies (lack of infrastructures, presence of crime, lack of human capital etc.), but also all those inst...
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L’articolo analizza la riemersione del modello contadino come risposta alla crisi del paradigma della modernizzazione agricola. Si affronta il tema della multifunzionalita agricola come mezzo per stimolare economie esterne, beni collettivi territoriali e forme di innovazione. Si evidenzia poi l’importanza delle specificita territoriali nella produz...
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La riproduzione di uno spazio subalterno Abitazione, classi marginali e resistenza in una città del Sud di DOMENICA FARINELLA E PIETRO SAITTA This study explores the historical development of urban stratification in an Italian Southern city, Messina. By means of 85 in-depth interviews and the analysis of the most important phases of the reconstruct...
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This article describes the outcomes of a 2009 study into the reasons for the regional differences in implementation of “stroke networks” in Italy. Evidence shows that early diagnosis and delivery of treatment in specialized stroke units, including rehabilitation therapy, can reduce the risks of death and disability. Nevertheless, there are signific...
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In the mid 1990s a number of essays have explored the possible effects of a European Monetary Union (EMU) in the weakest areas and the South of Italy. In particular, these studies have started a debate on the hypothesis that a common currency could help solving the «Southern Question» («Questione meridionale ») - a debate raising both optimistic an...
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The article discusses the outcomes of the first phase of a study conducted in 2009. The research aims to investigate the reasons of the regional differences in the implementation process of the «stroke networks» in Italy. By employing 50 in-depth interviews addressing key-actors operating in the health systems of six Italian Regions, the following...
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To what extent can PSM be considered a characteristic that evolves in the course of the individual's working life? After offering this question as a contribution to a research agenda on PSM, the article examines in what way the different dimensions of PSM, held by a group of employees in the Italian Revenue Agency, relate to their perceptions of re...
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Following Perry's argument, a great deal of research has been dedicated to how public service motivation (PSM) is related to different aspects of employees performance in government jobs. The basic argument for PSM is that doing a job that is helpful to others is in itself rewarding. That is where the difference lies between the rewards a job in th...

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