Filippo Barbera

• Master in Political Sciences
• Professor (Full) at University of Turin

The agricultural sector faces significant challenges in meeting rising food demands while addressing environmental sustainability and climate change. Adopting advanced technologies is crucial for transitioning to more sustainable farming practices. However, to ensure successful implementation of such technologies, consumers and other food supply ch...

The essay deals with the spatial organisation of daily life that qualifies our citizenship opportunities. The political season defined as neoliberal has been accompanied by the contraction of the public spaces that shape our interactions as everyday citizens. This contraction has reduced the repertoire of citizenship roles available to us. This ess...

piuttosto rilevanti in termini di movimentazione e pro-duzione, come Nestlè e Walmart. Questo diverso tipo di utilizzi e di esigenze ha portato a categorizzare ulteriormente le blockchain in pubbliche e private. Le prime seguono il modello originario nato per avere dei registri pubblici non modificabili, in cui l'inserimento è legato a un qualche m...

The different European NRPs have developed in different institutional contexts and have to do with a specific policy legacy. The inputs from the European Commission have been the same for all member states. However, the involvement of actors at the national level, such as national parliaments, and social stakeholders in the design and adoption of t...

Introduzione al volume "Migrazioni verticali": obiettivi e contenuti.

the key aim of this paper is to assess the role played by the critical capacity to shape a new paradigm of common resource management within the energy sector. To this end, we endeavor to discern empirically the interplay between the energy community as an expressive device that feed the social fabric of the local community and the organizational d...

Despite its political and public importance, there is no a single definition of the circular economy (Kirchherr J., Reike D., Hekkert M., (2017) Conceptualizing the circular economy: an analysis of 114 definitions, Resources, Conservation & Recycling.; Rizos V., Tuokko K., Behrens A., (2017) The Circular Economy: A review of definitions, processes...

Consensus does not currently exists on how to offset the residual environmental footprint generated by agricultural and forestry practices. This paper develops an environmental sustainability management framework to support the achievement of environmental impact neutrality in the primary sector of agriculture and forestry. The proposed framework,...

La montagna è vista sempre più come un'opportunità di vita, un'alternativa tutto sommato vicina, da quanti desiderano abbandonare le metropoli, soffocate dagli effetti dell'iper agglomerazione sociale e produttiva. Il movimento dei «montanari per scelta» ha tracciato la pista, seguito dalla crisi pandemica e dalla diffusione dello smart working: og...

Il libro è stato progettato per restituire una cartografia storico-politica di un riformismo radicale possibile e realizzato, oltre che auspicabile. È, quindi, la testimonianza che il domani può essere diverso dall’oggi e che la direzione del cambiamento può essere indirizzata da principî e strumenti informati dalla giustizia sociale e ambientale,...

Il cambiamento climatico nella metromontagna padana apre inedite prospettive per intervenire sulla attuale distribuzione della popolazione in rapporto al territorio, attualmente del tutto sbilanciata - come del resto in tutta le penisola - tra aree montane e interne a elevata rarefazione socio-abitativa e aree urbane a altissima densità insediativa...

https://www.laterza.it/scheda-libro/?isbn=9788858152539 Quante opportunità di cittadinanza ci offre, oggi, lo spazio pubblico? Quanto spesso abbiamo occasione di sperimentarci, insieme ad altri, in azioni pratiche dove le nostre necessità trovano soluzioni che chiamano in causa gli assetti sociali più generali e i bisogni degli ‘altri’? In molti...

The “Great Resignation” or “The Big Quit” represents a significant shift in people’s importance of employment. In September 2021, U.S. Department of Labor data revealed that 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs, an increase of over 1.13 million from September 2020. This study aims to explore the socio-psychological reasons behind the Great Resigna...

The Fridays for Future (FFF) movement has emerged as a critical force in environmental activism in response to pressing climate challenges. Despite its global prominence, few studies have delved deeply into the internal lines of thought within FFF communities. Our research fills this gap by exploring the diverse perspectives within the Italian FFF...

This chapter shows the interplay between the descriptive and prescriptive sides of the moral(ized) economy. This overlapping, it is argued, derives from the multiplicity of motives that drive social action at the borders of the social spheres we inhabit in a continuous and pre-reflexive way. The interplay between the moral economy and a moralized p...

L’8 ottobre 2021, in occasione del Festival della Sociologia, l’Italian Institute for the Future ha organizzato a Narni un panel dal titolo “Esiste la sociologia del futuro?” condotto da Mara Di Berardo, con i sociologi Filippo Barbera (Università di Torino), Paolo Jedlowski (Università della Calabria) e Vincenza Pellegrino (Università di Parma). Q...

In the last few years, many researchers have highlighted the economic and cultural impact that crafts have on the development of territories, enhancing local identities and traditions. Various researches also point to the close relationship between trade (sometimes called ‘neighbourhood’ trade), crafts and historic centres, in terms of quality of l...

L’Italia è piena di luoghi brutti, posti in cui i turisti non hanno nessun motivo per andare. Nonostante ciò si continuano a inseguire le chimere della turistizzazione. Le aree interne del paese chiedono politiche pubbliche attente alle specificità dei luoghi. Politiche non solo orientate dalla narrazione dei borghi e alla valorizzazione del turis...

The article presents the last decades’ equilibria, oppositions and conflicts that have contributed to the institutional reorganisation of Italian sociology, as well as to the evolution of its recruitment, evaluation, and promotion procedures. These changes are ongoing, and their supporters and opponents continue to confront each other. Therefore, t...

The article presents the last decades’ equilibria, oppositions and conflicts that have contributed to the institutional reorganisation of Italian sociology, as well as to the evolution of its recruitment, evaluation, and promotion procedures. These changes are ongoing, and their supporters and opponents continue to confront each other. Therefore, t...

The relationship between analytical sociology and cultural sociology is not, prima facie, a fruitful one. The esprit de géométrie that characterizes the former would appear not to agree with the esprit de finesse that marks the latter. While analytical sociology underlines the role of the mechanisms-based explanation, the beacon of cultural sociolo...

Rapporto finale della ricerca nazionale "Giovani Dentro", finalizzata ad indagare caratteristiche, percezioni, aspirazioni e progettualità dei giovani 18-39 anni, residenti in aree interne e montuose italiane.

Perché restare nelle aree interne, quali prospettive sono possibili, chi sono i giovani che le abitano e che le abiteranno in futuro, quali proposte ed azioni concrete si possono immaginare per supportare la vita sociale ed economica di questo segmento di popolazione? Per rispondere a queste domande, L’Associazione Riabitare l’Italia presenta il pr...

Immaginare il futuro è una delle funzioni, forse la principale, della politica. La democratizzazione del futuro è una priorità per le nostre società. Come sarà la città di Torino nel 2030? Quali trend demografici, tecnologici, ambientali e occupazionali stanno disegnando il perimetro dei suoi assetti? Il capitolo espone una ricerca sulle forze del...

La figura dell'innovatore è spesso descritta con le sembianze dell'eroe mo-derno: un individuo con caratteristiche eccezionali e comportamenti radicalmente diversi dal resto della popolazione. In virtù di questa supposta eccezionalità, è an-data sovrapponendosi la logica dell'innovazione con la logica dell'eccellenza, co-sicché, in diversi contesti...

Metromontagna è una parola nuova, che racchiude in sé un proposito radicale: riunire sotto un unico sguardo ciò che naturaliter ci appare diviso, decostruendo l'alterità tra città e montagna. Questo drastico cambiamento del punto di vista appare necessario e illuminante, in una fase come quella che stiamo attraversando e per un territorio come quel...

Immaginare il futuro è una delle funzioni, forse la principale, della politica. La democratizzazione del futuro è una priorità per le nostre società. Come sarà la città di Torino nel 2030? Quali trend demografici, tecnologici, ambientali e occupazionali stanno disegnando il perimetro dei suoi assetti? Quali le sfide, gli scenari e le missioni colle...

In this concluding chapter we focus on the relationship between the Foundational Economy and new emerging forms of citizenship. Our starting point is the argument that Foundational thinking is necessarily underpinned by the fostering of a new and universalistic model of citizenship; a model that emphasises the active and social nature of citizenshi...

Anticapitalism; sociology of critical capacity; public sphere

The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection. Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collect...

The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection. Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collect...

The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection. Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collect...

This chapter focuses on the relationship between FE, citizenship, democracy and social justice. We outline the scope of the Foundational Economy and proceed to focus on the importance of Foundational thinking for critiques of capitalist formations that involve financialization and extraction. We then discuss the relationship between the Foundationa...

The Foundational Economy encompasses those goods and services, together with the economic and social relationships that underpin them, that provide the everyday infrastructure of civilized life. Policies that promote commodification, privatization and financialisation have incorporated many of these goods and services within market logics, with pro...

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Living in a territory means being able to take on the “functioning of citizenship” related to moving, feeding, saving, buying, participating, taking care, thinking over time, investing in life plans, assuming social and political responsibility. Living in a territory is the way in which rights related to the status of “resident” become ways of “bei...

Introduzione L'emergenza seguita alla pandemia del Covid-19 è un "fatto sociale totale", nell'accezione resa celebre dal "Saggio sul dono" di Marcell Mauss (Torino, Einaudi 2002). Per Mauss, il dono come "fatto sociale totale" connette le pratiche e le cornici di senso riferibili ad aspetti mitopoietici, economici, politici, espressivi e religiosi...

Cos'è la città metromontana, oltre il metropolitano e insieme alla montagna 1. La città metromontana Oggi la "questione montana" non riguarda solo la montagna, tanto che il convegno 2019 della Società dei territorialisti è stato dedicato al tema di una "nuova centralità della montagna". Anche la città se ne è accorta, anche se in ritardo e con non...

Crisi della cittadinanza e diseguaglianze territoriali: il ruolo politico delle città

In the Covid-19 pandemic, the immediate concern of European citizens is with the spread of the virus and the public health crisis, with the lock downs and their economic consequences and with the response of governments. The crisis demonstrates the importance of the foundational economy. This is the part of the economy which cannot be shut down bec...

The article analyzes the role of appropriate technologies for mechanization and innovation in small-scale farming in the mountainous and hilly areas of Italy's Piedmont region. Our approach to appropriate technologies focuses on mountain farmers whose needs have not been met by advances in agricultural mechanization, which have largely served the i...

Introduzione Persone e mondi. Azioni individuali e ordine internazionale è un libro ambizioso. Lo è, anzitutto, per l'obiettivo che si pone: «tratterò del come e del perché l'agire degli individui, quali che siano i loro ruoli o le loro rispettive posizioni sociali, influenzi fenomeni "grandi", ap-parentemente fuori dalla loro portata, quali le riv...

Report della sperimentazione InnovAree "Vado a vivere in montagna" 2017-19, finalizzata a intercettare e supportare progetti innovativi di economia e di vita nelle terre alte del Piemonte.

In this chapter, Corsi, Barbera, Dansero, Orlando, and Peano present the general theoretical framework for the research described in this volume. They discuss the concept of Alternative Food Networks as presented in the literature and the criteria of “alternativeness” on which it is based (length of the chain, local origin, embeddedness), arguing t...

This chapter focuses on the analysis of quality conventions in five different food chains, both alternative and conventional ones. In line with quality conventions theory, we consider quality as an emergent social construct of a specific social field where strategic maneuvering takes place. After a descriptive analysis of how quality conventions ar...

This chapter deals with the problem of setting prices and quality conventions among small-scale agro-food producers. Barbera, Dagnes, and Di Monaco first show how producers decide sales prices for their products and, more precisely, how relational mechanisms (e.g., imitation) mix with the moral economy (e.g., legitimate price thresholds) and econom...

Con la scomparsa delle istituzioni intermedie, le Terre Alte rischiano una ulteriore marginalizzazione, diventando sempre più luoghi dimenticati dalle politiche pubbliche e dagli investimenti strategici. La "domanda di montagna", però, esiste ed è diffusa: piccoli numeri che-nei crinali e nelle aree interne a rischio di spopolamento-possono avere g...

Under what conditions and by which mechanisms do the defence and management of local commons open new spaces for the recovery of a universalistic model of citizenship, after the crisis of welfare capitalism regimes? To deal with this question we propose first to frame local commons within the range of Foundational Economy, namely the «civic infrast...

The article reconstructs an aspect of the neoliberal transformation that has been overlooked by social sciences: the transformation of the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation. After the Second World war, it has been assumed that capitalist accumulation, albeit its strategies and tools can change, is always a productive one. By the end of the 1970...

In this chapter, Corsi, Barbera, Dansero, and Peano review the main findings of the research presented in this volume. These findings support the concept of alternativeness as a continuum rather than a dichotomy, due to the heterogeneity of consumers’ and producers’ preferences for private, rival attributes of self-interest or non-rival, altruistic...

The subchapters analyse the role of consumers and their purchasing choices from different angles. All approaches acknowledge that AFNs are deeply shaped by agents’ intrinsic motivation and by the role of interpersonal relationships, but their understandings of these dimensions differ. In the economic approach, other-regarding motives are relevant a...

After illustrating the long-term trends that led to the birth of AFNs, this chapter discusses producers’ participation in AFNs, their motivations and behaviour. The most obvious motivation for producers’ participation in AFNs is arguably income, but subjective preferences and social and environmental motivations can play a role. Their coexistence a...

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited collection discusses what the main determinants of the participation of operators – both consumers and...

A dispetto dell'immagine che la vuole strettamente legata a una dimensione urbana, l'Italia è disseminata di «territori del margine»: dal complesso sistema delle valli e delle montagne alpine ai variegati territori della dorsale appenninica, e via via scendendo per la penisola, fino a incontrare tutte quelle zone che il meridionalismo classico avev...

Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. The end result is the degradation of the foundational economy. The foundational economy encompasses the material infrastructure at the foundation of civilised life - things like water pipes and sewers - a...

An agricultural alternative of proximity.-The proliferation of models which promote an alternative way of understanding production, distribution and agro-food consumption has attracted the attention of many humanistic-social disciplines. These range from anthropology to geography, from agrarian economics to sociology. These have now defined a ferti...

Alternative food networks (AFNs) are a comprehensive body of practices related to food provisioning which are different from the mainstream food systems. In this paper we deepen this topic from a sociological standpoint, focusing on a wide range of AFNs located in the Piemonte region of Italy. We articulate our analytical and empirical study focusi...

The paper illustrates the key conceptual dimensions of an international research project under way, whose aim is to develop an analytical framework to understand and support what is defined as "Foundational Economy". The focus is for the consequences of the financialization process on the production and supply of goods and services widespread in ev...

In sociology, the concept of development has two main strands, social change and progress, both derived from the social and intellectual contexts that shaped the discipline between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They mutually account for the reflexive nature of sociology, linking sociological knowledge to the core features of society. The...