REQUIRED RESERVED READING:
Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN number | Library Call Number | Comments |
Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City | Clough Marinaro, Isabella and Bjorn Thomassen (Eds) (2014) | Indiana University Press | 0253012953 | | |
Religion, Italian Style | Garelli, Franco (2014) | Ashgate | 147243644X | | |
RECOMMENDED RESERVED READING:
Book Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN number | Library Call Number | Comments |
Porta Palazzo: The anthropology of an Italian market. | Black, R. (2012). | Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. | 0812223152 | | |
Around the Tuscan table: Food, family, and gender in twentieth century Florence. | Counihan, C. (2004). | New York: Routledge | 0415946735 | | |
Ritual, rapture and remorse: A study of tarantism and pizzica in Salento. | Daboo, J. (2010). | New York: Peter Lang | 3039110926 | | |
The passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town: Folklore and the performance of modernity. | Del Negro, G. (2004). | Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press | 0773527397 | | |
Italy's Margins. | Forgacs, D. (2014). | Cambridge University Press | 1107052173 | | |
Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy. | Giordano, C. (2014). | Berkeley: University of California Press | 0520276663 | | |
Conceiving life: Reproductive politics and the law in contemporary Italy. | Hanafin, P. (2007). | Aldershot, England: Ashgate | 0754646351 | | |
Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins of Southern Italy Today | Lucht, H. (2011) | University of California Press | 0520270738 | | |
Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy: Mobbing, Well-being, and the Workplace. | Molé, N. (2012) | Bloomington: Indiana University Press | 0253223199 | | |
Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture | Moliterno, G. (2000). | London: Routledge. | 0415285569 | | |
The moral neoliberal: Welfare and citizenship in Italy | Muehlebach, A. K. (2012). | Chicago University Press | 0226545407 | | |
Sheltering women: Negotiating gender and violence in northern Italy. | Plesset, S. (2006). | Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press | 0804753016 | | |
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SCHEDULE
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Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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WK1A
20 Jan
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Introduction to the course
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WK 1B
22 Jan
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Introduction to the study of contemporary Italian society: Theoretical and methodological approaches
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WK2A
27 Jan
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Overview of Italian social change: 1861-1990s
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WK 2B
29 Jan
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Overview of Italian social change: 1861-1990s (cont’d)
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Read Quality of Life in European Cities Survey (PDF on MyJCU)
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WK3A
3 Feb
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Social change in urban Italy since the 1990s
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Andreotti, A. and P. Le Galès, Middle class neighborhood attachment in Paris and Milan. Partial exit and profound rootedness. In Blokland-Potters, T., & Savage, M. (2008). Networked urbanism: Social capital in the city. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. (PDF on MyJCU)
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WK 3B
5 Feb
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Changing community identities
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Read one of the following (assigned by professor and answer the questions on the handout posted on MyJCU):
* Cavanaugh, J. (2007). Making Salami, Producing Bergamo: The Transformation of Value. Ethnos 72(2):149-172. (PDF on MyJCU)_______________
* Carlestal, E. (2011). What a Marvelous Event: The Ever Becoming of an Italian Village. The Journal of Mediterranean Studies 20 (1). (handouts)________________
* Trabalzi, F. (2014) Marginal Centers. Learning from Rome’s Peripheries in Global Rome, Changing Faces of the Eternal City (book in library)
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WK4A
10 Feb
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Changing family dynamics
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LeÓn, M., & Pavolini, E. (August 27, 2014). ‘Social Investment’ or Back to ‘Familism’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Family and Care Policies in Italy and Spain. South European Society and Politics, 9, 1-17. (PDF on MyJCU)
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WK 4B
12 Feb
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Changing gender roles
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* Capuano, S., Simeone, S., Scaravilli, G., Raimondo, D., & Balbi, C. (January 01, 2009). Sexual behaviour among Italian adolescents: Knowledge and use of contraceptives. European J. of Contraception and Reproductive Healthcare, 14, 4, 285-289. (PDF on MyJCU)_______________________
* Bertone, C., & Ferrero, C. R. (January 01, 2009). Beyond the sex machine? Sexual practices and masculinity in adult men's heterosexual accounts. Journal of Gender Studies, 18, 4, 369-386. (PDF on MyJCU)
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WK5A
17 Feb
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Return to the land: Re-ruralization and food production
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Guano, E. (January 25, 2007). 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. (PDF on MyJCU)
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WK5B
19 Feb
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Environmentalism and civic ecology
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Trabalzi, F. (2014) Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban agriculture in Global Rome, Changing Faces of the Eternal City (book in library)
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WK 6A
24 Feb
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Workplace identities and precarious work
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WK 6B
26 Feb
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Class and political identities in post-industrial and ‘post-ideological’ Italy
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Bordignon, F., & Ceccarini, L. (December 01, 2013). Five Stars and a Cricket. Beppe Grillo Shakes Italian Politics. South European Society and Politics, 18, 4, 427-449.
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WK7A
3 March
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Mid-term exam
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WK 7B
5 March
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Changing Italy from below: civil society and grassroots mobilization
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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.Forno, F., & Ceccarini, L. (June 01, 2006).
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WK 8A
10 March
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Cont’d
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WK8B
12 March
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The body and the public sphere: disabilities
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Forgacs, D. and Rachele Tardi (2014) Introduction: Disability rights and wrongs in Italy, Modern Italy, Vol. 19, Issue 2
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WK9A
17 March
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The body and the public sphere: sexualities
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Crowhurst, I., & Bertone, C. (November 01, 2012). Introduction: the politics of sexuality in contemporary Italy. Modern Italy, 17, 4, 413-418.
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WK9B
19 March
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Pluriculturalism in a country of immigration
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Ben-Yehoyada, N. (January 01, 2011). The moral perils of Mediterraneanism: Second-generation immigrants practicing personhood between Sicily and Tunisia. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 16, 3, 386-403.
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WK10A
24 March
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Hybrid identities
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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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WK 10B
26 March
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Field visit – location TBA
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WK11A
31 March
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Secularism and the Catholic Church
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Ballarino, G. and C. Vezzoni, Social stratification and church attendance in contemporary Italy. In Keister, L. A., McCarthy, J., & Finke, R. (2012). Religion, work and inequality. Bingley, U.K: Emerald.
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WK11B
2 April
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Religious identities in the multiethnic context
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Garelli, F. (2013) Religion and Civil Society in Italy and other Latin Countries. In Hart, J. J. M., Dekker, P., & Halman, L. Religion and civil society in Europe. Dordrecht: Springer
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WK 12A
14 April
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Italian identities abroad
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Harney, N. D. M. (February 01, 2006). The Politics of Urban Space: Modes of Place-making by Italians in Toronto's Neighbourhoods. Modern Italy, 11, 1, 25-42.
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WK 12B
16 April
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Brain-drain and the cultural role of a highly-skilled diaspora
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Morano, F. S. (June 01, 2006). Key issues and causes of the Italian brain drain. Innovation: the European Journal of Social Science Research, 19, 2, 209-223.
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WK 13A
21 April
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Student presentations
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WK 13 B
23 April
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Student presentations
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WK 14 A
28 April
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Student presentations
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WK 14B
30 April
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Conclusions and review
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