Giacomo Lampredi

University of Milan | UNIMI · Department of Social and Political Sciences

This essay analyzes the affective and intimate dimensions of the criminalization of solidarity towards migrants. The core argument is that the criminalization of solidarity is a form of governance that acts through affectivity. It is mainly a way of containing migration by trying to govern the emotions of citizens, fostering feelings of hostility a...

Care is activist when acts of care produce acts of citizenship: acts of breaking the dominant models of being responsible. This article has the theoretical objective of parsing how some acts of care become activist because they subvert the dominant norms of involvement and produce new ways of being mutually linked. They break established habits and...

This article examines migrant homesharing programs in Italy through a dwelling lens, which seeks to understand how homesharing transcends the home and provides new opportunities for migrants to build a life as more than temporary guests. Homesharing is a growing reception practice across the Global North, and it sees residents house migrants in the...

This article defines a possible pragmatist approach to the sociology of emotions by discussing and delimiting the concept of “affective rupture.” According to this approach, emotions emerge from the breaking of habits in the face of the transformation of situations, producing reflexivity and relational adjustments. The pragmatist approach problemat...

Some residents of Mount Amiata in Tuscany, Italy, are experiencing emotional distress and solastalgia due to changes in their beloved land. Mount Amiata is witnessing protests by citizens’ associations and activists who criticize the alleged social, economic, and environmental sustainability of geothermal energy. The analysis of the environmental c...

Quali sono le trasformazioni affettive nella vita dei solidali verso i migranti? Quali sono le conseguenze intime e politiche di tali trasformazioni affettive? Questo libro risponde a queste domande tramite un ricco percorso di ricerca etnografica nelle reti di solidarietà verso i migranti di Torino e Firenze. L’affettività è intimamente costitutiv...

The aim of this paper is to show how emotions and citizenship are inextricably intertwined in the analysis of migrant solidarity. It does so by highlighting the ‘disrupting’ dimensions of emotions as processes that redefine the very criteria by which one is included or excluded, close or distant, intimate or foreign, in every situation. The essay d...

Questo contributo affronta il concetto di cittadinanza affettiva per interpretare le trasformazioni sociali, affettive e politiche prodotte dalle migrazioni forza-te. Il concetto mette in luce come ogni politica prefiguri implicitamente model-li relazionali che prescrivono ai cittadini cosa devono provare verso sé stessi, verso gli altri e verso gl...

The essay aims to outline the theoretical framework through which analyze the relationship between emotions and involvement. This allows us to understand the social dimension of emotional life as linked to what it involves, which requires attention and practical responsiveness. The involvement highlights two fundamental aspects of emotions: 1) they...

The paper relates Elias’s thought to Mead’s, starting from the embodied dimension of emotions. The approach of the two authors to emotions is affected by a conception of society as deeply intertwined with biological and somatic aspects. Rediscovering and enhancing these aspects is configured as a radical challenge to the disciplinary barriers with...

This paper’s main focus is a proposal for reorganizing the notions of «relationship» and «affectivity» (emotions, feelings and moods) in the framework of the social sciences, influenced by the theory of complex systems. In this context we suggest viewing the two concepts as intertwined and self-sustaining. We argue that relationships – intended as...

This article has the aim to discuss the ways through which takes place the autoorganizations of social forms, and how this can represents a redefinition of the role of social sciences. The idea is to be able to trace a sociology as “science of emergent proprieties”. In fact the social phenomena aren’t the results of individual proprieties, and neit...