Francesca Cappelletto's research while affiliated with University of Verona and other places

Publications (3)

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This article addresses the issue of how long‐term memory of extreme conditions is socially transformed. It focuses on elements of the social structure and pre‐war habitus that might help understanding of the divided memory of massacres that were perpetrated by the Nazis in three rural Tuscan villages between 1943 and 1944. Within the “mnemonic comm...
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The article analyses narratives of massacres by German troops in two villages in Tuscany during the Second World War. It explores the mechanisms of construction of group memory, considering the recollections from the perspective of both their social patterning and their emotional quality. Working from Bloch's assertion that there is no difference b...
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This article reconstructs how workers perceived asbestos hazards, using narratives from a group of migrant workers at the crocidolite mine of Wittenoom Gorge, Western Australia. The mine employed about 7000 workers over the entire period of its operation from 1943 to 1966-relying heavily on migrant workers. The exposure to asbestos dust caused a hu...

Citations

... Histórias são fiéis ao fluxo de experiência e as histórias afetam a direção desse fluxo. (Frank, 1995, p. 22, tradução livre) Uma "virada narrativa" acontece na psicologia por volta da década de 80 41 , quando os psicólogos começam a se interessar não tanto em como as pessoas representam suas realidades no que narram, mas em como elas constroem suas memórias nas realidades narradas (Bruner, 1991 (Bosi, 2003;Cappelletto, 2003). ...
... This study, with others, promotes an understanding that including people's experiences may usefully inform more effective risk communication [35,48,49] that is transparent, clear and empathetic [50]. The perceived lack of transparency from visiting government officials fuelled community members' distrust. ...