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This article focuses on financial education with the aim to explore the relationship between finance, welfare policies and the governance of uncertainties and risks also in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The article discusses the normative substratum that lies at the intersection of daily life and changes in the institutional and regulatory st...
The article aims to suggest two different scenarios for the transformation of social policy and social work in Italy in relation with the emergence of new trends in the philanthropic sector. Over the past two decades, a growing body of literature has pointed to the shift that philanthropy is undergoing at the global level under the influence of Ven...
The pandemic has resulted in increased social needs and risks that have immediately challenged the ability of social policies to ensure adequate protection. The article focuses on local welfare responses to this crisis with the purpose of understanding whether and how local institutions, actors and communities reorganised. It also discusses the fac...
This paper introduces the FSE special session ‘Healthcare, Covid-19 and the Foundational Economy’, which uses the Foundational Economy (FE) approach to analyze the public health crisis determined by Covid-19. First, the paper briefly presents the FE approach, which consists of two macro-areas. The former, identified as a 'material' foundational eco...
At the time of its inception, in 1978, prevention and primary care were set as fundamental pillars of the Italian National Health Service (NHS), emphasizing the collective and social dimension of health. These principles were progressively neglected over the following four decades. Marketization, managed competition and managerialization privileged...
In this paper we point out the topic and the rational of the symposium aiming on the one hand to connect preparedness to the uncertainty that characterizes society-environment relation, on the other hand to emphasise the need for sociology not only to denounce the governmental implications of preparedness but also to engage constructively with this...
This is an introduction to the Symposium on “Preparedness in an Uncertain and Risky World”.
The current debate on philanthropy, while following the established research path on the nature and social determinants of giving, considers the close interweaving of charity and business as the distinctive, innovative core of the phenomenon.The article aims at moving this debate forward by outlining a research agenda on the most recent development...
The paper discusses the relation between city and diversity analyzing the case of Milan, more precisely three neighborhoods: the well established 19th century area of Sempione, the Bicocca neighborhood resulting from the redevelopment of a previous industrial area, the multiethnic via Padova neighborhood. The aim is to enlighten complex, contingent...
Through the application of Sen's capability approach, the article aims to understand which factors promote (or impede) the development of capabilities in young Neet in two policies for school-to-work transitions, in Naples and Warsaw. We analyse capacitating and incapacitating processes focusing on three main mechanisms: the provision of resources,...
The volume at hand was developed out of the insights and results of an EU collaborative research project with the title “Making Capabilities Work”. Within this project, 13 partner institutions from different disciplines (educational science, sociology, economics, philosophy, political studies and social work), which are located in ten European coun...
This mainly theoretical article addresses the core idea and concepts within the capability approach and serves as an introduction to our conception of the approach for the readings of the other articles in this volume. The concepts will be presented briefly, and their interdependent relations will be explained with a strong emphasis on the capabili...
This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve t...
The paper investigates the territorialization process with a twofold aim: to focus on the territory as the medium of the current relation between citizenship and governance; and to analyse the problems and opportunities created by governance and territorialization. After outlining an interpretative frame for territorialization in Europe, the paper...
Citizen participation, by now one of the main topics on the institutional agenda in many European countries, involves different fields of public action, mostly on a local level - social inclusion, urban renewal, development, the environment, health/social services, etc. It still remains, however, vague as a concept with a great variety of actors, p...
The aim of this paper is to analyze a project for young NEET in southern Italy in terms of capabilities. Our objective is to examine to what extent it is possible to promote capabilities for work, for voice and for education in a context of lack of resources and rights as the one the project is rooted in.
The paper focuses on the institutional, so...
The article focuses on some dynamics affecting the public in Italy in connection with the financial and economic crisis. The hypothesis is that, faced with a growing desire for state, processes of institutional mediation underway are further weakening. The analysis goes into depth in some Italian policy cases: university and secondary school on a n...
The discourses on the so-called “post-bureaucracy” emphasizes the importance of autonomy and freedom in present-day organizations.
Yet, differently to the discourses, the practices are not univocal and there is a mix of continuity and transformation to
be investigated. The article addresses these issues aiming to understand if and how organizationa...
As the sectors of intervention traditionally assigned to the responsibility of the State gradually become spaces of mobilization for a plurality of actors, the notion of “public” appears problematic: it is difficult to define what distinguishes the structures of governance, the actors involved, and the problems and interests treated, as being of a...
This article deals with the development of local welfare in Italy and is grounded on a research project focusing on activation as a main feature of change in Italian social policies. Along with decentralization processes, many Italian regions have been acting as policy laboratories, developing and testing very different approaches according to thei...
This article analyses four cases of governance in Italian local welfare systems. Following Law 328/2000, the design and management of the social services system in Italy involve different public responsibility levels, mainly regional and municipal. In order to manage social policies, Italian municipalities have to join in new inter-municipal groupi...
The 1990s witnessed the spread and broadening in Europe of different types of relationships between public administration and private organisations (both for-profit and non-profit), derived from the two main categories of contracting out and accreditation. These models, linked to the process of developing new modes of governance, also focus on form...
During the '90s, and with particular regard to social-assistance policy at the local level, we witnessed in Europe the spread of types of relationships between public administration and private organizations (profit and non-profit) derived from the two main categories of contracting out and accreditation. These models, linked to the process of deve...
In che misura determinati pro-cessi e trasformazioni della società alimentano e arricchiscono la sua dimensione pubblica o, al contrario, la impoveriscono? E vi-ceversa, in che modo le forme e i contenuti caratterizzanti le sfere sociali e istituzionali qualificabili come pubbliche condizionano e incanalano l’interazione sociale, nei diversi ambiti...
In line with what can be observed at a European level, the re-ordering of social assistance approved in Italy in the year 2000 establishes directives for change centring on three main criteria: integration, activation, localization. Taken as a whole, these criteria point to the affirmation of an emphasis on the social policies processes, in particu...
The article deals with the comparison of participation practices in It- aly and France. It particularly refers to three policy fields: the politique de la ville in France, social policies, and the Contratti di quartiere in Italy. A similar aspect of the two national contexts is the attempt to over- come the traditional policy approaches and to tack...
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