Silvia Mugnano

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca | UNIMIB · Department of Sociology and Social Research

Governments’ attempts to link the provision of welfare services to (more) responsible self-conduct of citizens (i.e. responsibilization) is seen as a distinctive feature of the post-welfare state. Responsibilization often requires welfare receivers to comply with specific duties or behavioural patterns (i.e. conditionality). Except for UK-based stu...

The nature of housing management has often been contested between two main orientations, business-like (i.e. economic efficiency) and social welfare (i.e. social support), reflecting the dual identity of social housing providers, as both private enterprises and welfare promoters. Research shows that housing management is particularly susceptible to...

1. Introduzione A causa del peculiare contesto geodinamico in cui si trova, l'Italia è uno dei paesi Europei più fre-quentemente soggetto a terremoti. Consultando la banca dati dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV, 2017), si evince che dal terremoto catastrofico di Messina del 1908 ad oggi, si so-no verificati 30 eventi sismici...

European countries are facing rising demand for affordable housing by a widespread and differentiated audience. Both in Italy and in the Netherlands policy-makers and practitioners address this emerging need by implementing new social housing projects targeting diverse social groups – such as students, young households, welfare dependents, and refu...

Littering is the abandonment of small waste in public areas and the night economy concur to its increase. Many creative neighbourhoods are the centers of nightlife and local authorities are struggling to reduce the conflict that they might arise - including the management of littering. The paper presents the results of research conducted in Milan i...

The article is an introduction to a special issue of "Sociologia Urbana e Rurale" whose aim is to present a significant overview of Italian sociology of disaster. In order to better frame the contents of the issue, the article starts with a short reconstruction of the sociological reflection on the topic, putting it in relation to the changes that...

In molte città del Nord Europa i processi di segregazione residenziale su base etnica risalgono alla metà degli anni Settanta. In questi contesti la crescente concentrazione spaziale degli immigrati è stata a lungo percepita come una minaccia alla coesione sociale dei quartieri, alimentando politiche urbane di desegregazione e dispersione territori...

Although Italy is ranked as one of the five European Countries with a high probability of being exposed to a natural hazard, 75 % of Italian housing stock does not meet any anti-seismic criteria. In addition to this already fragile scenario, the fact that Italy is one of the countries characterised by a rich cultural heritage opens new issues regar...

This paper argues for a multidisciplinary framework to assess the relationship between environmental processes and social sciences that can be adapted to any geographic location. This includes both physical (earthquake hazard) and human (social vulnerability) dimensions in the context of disaster risk reduction. Disasters varies drastically dependi...

The aim of this paper is to assess social vulnerability index (SVI) against natural hazards at national scale for Italy. The methodology applyed is based on the application of SoVI method, proposed by Cutter et al. in 2003. After a careful selection of socio-economic indicators for Italian country, 15 proxy variables were prepared as input data for...

L’articolo intende confrontare l’Italia con altri Paesi europei (quali Francia, Olanda e Gran Bretagna) sulle politiche di mix sociale, inteso principalmente come prossimita di tipologie miste di alloggi. L’articolo evidenzia che in Lombardia, e soprattutto a Milano, la sola prossimita residenziale non favorisce la coesione sociale e che l’interven...

At the turn of the new millennium the reform of the Italian constitution (2001) marked a change from national to local welfare. Housing policies shifted from central state provision towards a multi-level local governance organised into partnerships between regions, municipalities, third sector and private investors. Lombardy, and specifically Milan...

Images of cities play an ever-increasing role in urban competitiveness. The image of a place is an essential element in the attraction of new economic activities. If the image is good, policy-makers of cities and city-regions may decide to support and maintain, perhaps even strengthen, that image by continuous branding campaigns, even though they a...

Peripheral neighbourhood has drastically changed over time taking different meanings. The work will look particularly at two different definitions: social periphery and geographical periphery. Indeed, the term peripheral neighbourhood can identify an urban phenomenon that analyses the notion of social exclusion into the spatial term, and looks at t...

This chapter evaluates the role of partnership in housing-regeneration initiatives, focusing on four housing estates in Spain and Italy. It examines the theoretical issues related to governance, paying special attention to the implementation of the governance concept in the urban arena, and describes the specific practices of urban governance in th...

Introduction In Chapter Three, it was argued that the political paradigm on which the large estates were built – characterised by dirigiste state-led provision of many public goods and services, including housing – had been superseded by a new paradigm characterised by the participation of a wider array of stakeholders – government, business and ci...