Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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WK1A
Jan 21
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Introduction to the course
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WK1B
Jan 23
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Introduction to the study of contemporary Italian society:
Imagined Italy and multiple Italies
Theoretical and methodological approaches
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Mignone, M. Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium, Introduction (pp. 13-28)
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WK2A
Jan 28
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Overview of Italian social change and identity: 1861-1990s
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Castellanos, E. (2010). The Symbolic Construction of Community in Italy: Provincialism and Nationalism. Ethnology 49 (1), 61-78.
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WK2B
Jan 30
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Cont’d
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Mignone, M. Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium, Chapter 5 (pp. 131-156)
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WK3A
Feb 4
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Italian youth since the 1990s
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Argentin, G. New generation at a crossroads: decline or change? Young people in Italy and their transformation since the nineties. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy, Ebook pp. 77-88
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WK3B
Feb 6
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Cont'd
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WK4A
Feb 11
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Social change in urban Italy since the 1990s
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Tintori, G and M. Colucci From manpower to brain drain? Emigration and the Italian state, between past and present. The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy, Ebook pp. 37-48
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WK4B
Feb 13
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Local and global identities
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Carlestal, E. (2011). What a Marvelous Event: The Ever Becoming of an Italian Village. The Journal of Mediterranean Studies 20 (1), 13-25.
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WK4C Friday, Feb 15
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Cont’d
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Trabalzi, F. (2014) “Marginal Centers. Learning from Rome’s Peripheries”, in Global Rome, Changing Faces of the Eternal City, pp. 219-231
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WK5A
Feb 18
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Changing families and gender roles
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Ruspini, E. “Role and perceptions of women in contemporary Italy”, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy (ebook), pp. 64-76
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WK5B
Feb 20
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Cont’d
RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC, RESEARCH QUESTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND OUTLINE DUE
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Gender Gap Report Italy
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WK6A
Feb 25
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The body and the public sphere: sex, sexualities and disabilities
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Capuano, S., Simeone, S., Scaravilli, G., Raimondo, D., & Balbi, C. Sexual behaviour among Italian adolescents: Knowledge and use of contraceptives. European J. of Contraception and Reproductive Healthcare, 14 (4), 285-289.
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WK6B
Feb 27
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Cont’d
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Guano, E. Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City. Journal of American Folklore, 120 (475), 48-72.
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WK7A
Mar 4
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Uncivil society: Mafias
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Europol. Italian Organized Crime Threat Assessment
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WK7B
Mar 6
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Cont’d
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WK7C Friday, Mar 8
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Cont’d
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Partridge, H. The determinants of and barriers to critical consumption: a study of Addiopizzo. Modern Italy, 17 (3), 243-263.
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SPRING BREAK
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WK8A
Mar 18
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North-South divide
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Chambers, I. “The ‘Southern Question’ . . . again”, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy, (Ebook) p. 13-22
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WK8B
Mar 20
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MIDTERM EXAM
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WK9A
Mar 25
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Civil society movements
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Hajek, A. (December 01, 2013). Learning from L'Aquila: Grassroots mobilization in post-earthquake Emilia-Romagna. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 18 (5), 627-643.
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WK9B
Mar 27
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Populisms and changing media
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Fabbri, M. & Diani, M. “Social movement campaigns from global justice activism to Movimento Cinque Stelle” The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy, Ebook p 225-236
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WK10A
Apr 1
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Cont’d
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Fabio Bordignon & Luigi Ceccarini (2013) Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics, South European Society and Politics, 18 (4), 427-449.
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WK10B
Apr 3/(5-Friday: inclement weather make-up day as necessary)
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Religion and secularism
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Lopreino, D. “Religion and the state” The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Italy Ebook pp. 145-154
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WK11A
Apr 8
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Cont’d
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Pace, E. (2007). A peculiar pluralism. Journal of Modern Italian Studies 12 (1), 86-100.
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WK11B
Apr 10
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Student presentations
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WK12A
Apr 15
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Immigration, the “refugee crisis” and second generations
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Musarò, P., & Parmiggiani, P. (2017). Beyond black and white: the role of media in portraying and policing migration and asylum in Italy. International Review Of Sociology, 27 (2), 241-260.
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WK12B
Apr 17/(19-Friday: inclement weather make-up day as necessary)
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Cont’d
FINAL DRAFT OF PAPER DUE
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Arnone, A. (January 01, 2011). Talking about identity: Milanese-Eritreans describe themselves. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16 (4), 516-527.
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WK13
Apr 24
(no class Apr 22)
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Cont’d
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WK14
Apr 29
(no class May 1)
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Course conclusions/review for exam
FINAL EXAM DATE AND TIME T.B.A. (EXAMINATION SESSIONS MAY 6-10)
FINAL EXAM IS CUMULATIVE
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