
Eugenia MercuriUniversity of Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro | UNIPMN · Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Eugenia Mercuri
PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research
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Introduction
I am currently a Research fellow in Sociology at the University of Eastern Piedmont - Department of Humanities. My main research interests are within family, gender and intergenerational relations in a life course perspective. I have worked on constructions and representations of fatherhood and masculinity, parental separation and parenting practices, ageing processes, and family policies. I am currently involved in a National Recovery Plan project on ageism in social and healthcare services.
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The article examines how Italian news coverage on Facebook has influenced the debate on cancel culture, linking it to phenomena like political correctness and framing it as an assault on freedom of expression. By analysing posts from 2020 to 2021 on the Facebook pages of major Italian newspapers, sourced through the CrowdTangle platform, the articl...
The introduction of the Single Universal Child Allowance in 2021 marked a sharp turning point in Italian family policy. Presented as a major revolution aimed at combating the country's alarmingly low birth rates as well as child poverty, the reform was also meant to rationalise the benefits system while overcoming the historical fragmentation and u...
Over the last 20 years, ageing has been studied through the lens of an active ageing perspective, which considers older adults as responsible for their own conditions. However, the COVID-19 health emergency has highlighted its limits. Drawing on a sample of semi-structured interviews – collected before and during the pandemic – with people aged 65...
The article explores how fatherhood in prison is conceived and supported by policy intervention in Italy. Despite the fact that, in 2020, 96% of adults detained in Italian prisons were men and half of them had at least one child, fatherhood in prison, a gendered space and institution where masculinities are (re)produced, is an underdeveloped resear...
Che cos'è davvero la cancel culture? Quali sono le origini di quest'espressione, ormai diffusissima, e quali le sue caratteristiche?Dove e come è nata, e cosa è successo quando è arrivata in Italia? Il volume prova a rispondere a queste domande, illustrando il modo in cui il tema della cancel culture è stato declinato nel dibattito pubblico italian...
The idea that older people should be active agents has dominated policy discourse across health, social care and housing that has a core care function. In the context of ageing population, the active and successful ageing paradigm risks to exacerbating existing inequalities and disadvantages that take shape along the life course and that cross seve...
In the last few years, the informal network – called manosphere – of forums, websites and blogs, where commentators are mainly men and focus on issues relating to masculinity, has been gaining members and visibility. The article’s objective is to explore the politics of fatherhood and masculinity that an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum e...
This work aims at investigating gendered embodiment in fathering practices in a national context, Italy, where understandings of fatherhood, at the institutional as well as the individual level, are still more centered on the provider ideal than on a model of nurturing and caring fatherhood. This qualitative research on Italian first-time fathers o...