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Cover of the ActionAid's book "Il diritto di cambiare"

On the occasion of the United Nations’ World Day of Social Justice, ActionAid International Italy launched a new book: Il diritto di cambiare. Le sfide della giustizia sociale in Italia e nel mondo [The right to change. The challenges of the social justice in Italy and in the world] (ed. Infinito).

“Social justice – as we read on the back cover – is the opportunity for everyone to be included in her/his own society, to participate to the decision making that affect him/her, and to be granted a sufficient level of security, of education and of access to information”.

But why “the right to change”? In order to mainstream social justice, a deep change is needed; and the willingness of a person and of a community «to engage him/herself is the first requirement for those who pursue a change» (p. 10).

The book points out some cases of promotion of the social justice, in the Southern as in the Northern part of the world, organised in three main areas: food right, women rights and citizen participation.

The book resulted from a joint work within the organisation. I contributed with the research for the case related to food right in Italy.

ActionAid International Italy web site.

Link to book page on the publisher website (in Italian).

[EN] Now is possible to see if and how two persons/ institutions are related one to another.

On the “list” page of the tropos website, choose two persons/ institutions and see if they are related, and who’s the “bridge” between the two ones.

The results are still limited to a two-step relationship; in other words, if there are three step from one persons/ institution until another one, the relationship won’t be found).

[PT] Agora você pode ver se duas pessoas ou instituições têm relações entre elas.

Na página “list” do site tropos, escolhe duas pessoas/ instituições e veja se elas têm alguma relação, e quem é a “ponte” entre elas.

Por enquanto, os resultados estão limitados a relações de “dois degraus”; quer dizer que, se entre uma pessoa/ instituição e uma outra têm tres “pontes”, a relação não será encontrada.

[IT] Ora puoi vedere se due persone/ istituzioni hanno una relazione e quale.

Nella pagina “list” del sito tropos, scegli due  persone/ istituzioni  e osserva se hanno qualche relazione, e qual è il “ponte” tra loro.

Per ora, i risultati sono limitati a relazioni di “secondo grado”; ovvero, se tra una persona/ istituzione e un’altra ci sono tre “ponti”, il motore di ricerca non individuerà la relazione.

My curricula vitae in English,  Italian and Portuguese were updated.

Some links to social network tools I use (twitter, facebook, delicious, linkedin) were added to my website.

[EN] I’m launching today the tropos project; on tropos you can see the relationships between scholars, organised into a map.

The beta version includes only Brazilian o Brazil- related anthropologists.

The Greek word tropos means “direction”, and by this project I would like to help to understand the knowledge flow between people (and between people and institution).

The project page is http://www.lucafanelli.net/tropos.

[PT] Estou lançando hoje o projeto tropos; graças à tropos, você pode ver as relações entre pesquisadores, organizadas em um mapa.

A versão beta inclui somente antropólogos brasileiros, ou relacionados ao Brasil.

A palavra grega tropos significa “rumo”, e com este projeto quero ajudar no entendimento do fluxo de conhecimento entre pessoas (e entre pessoas e instituições).

A página do projeto é http://www.lucafanelli.net/tropos.

[IT] Lancio oggi il progetto tropos; con tropos, si possono vedere le relazioni tra ricercatori, organizzati in una mappa.

La versione beta comprende solo antropologi brasiliani o che hanno qualche relazione con il Brasile.

La parola greca tropos significa “direzione” e con questo progetto vorrei aiutare a comprendere il flusso di sapere tra persone (e tra persone e istituzioni).

La pagina del progetto è http://www.lucafanelli.net/tropos.

«Morphological correspondences form the basis of phylogenetic reconstruction» (Norman MacLeod, Peter L. Forey (orgs.), Morphology, shape and phylogeny, Taylor & Francis, London – New York 2002, p. 1).

See the course at the EHESS “Morphologie : des sciences sociales aux sciences du vivant et à l’architecture“.

Patchwork above, generated by Google Image, by a self-incremental series of pictures.

June the 24th ActionAid organized in Turin the debate “Una Mole di lavoro: prospettive e interrogativi sulla lotta alla povertà tra Nord e Sud del mondo” (A lot of work: perspectives and questions about the fight against poverty in the global North and global South). Tiziana Ciampolini (responsible person of the Caritas’ Study center about Poverty and Resources) and Marco De Ponte (ActionAid’s Italian Secretary general) discussed with the participants what poverty in a country of the global South and in Italy have in common; whether promoting human rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America could suggest sound strategies and best practices to resist social exclusion and inequalities in a city as Turin, or not.

This debate inaugurated the activities of ActionAid’s territorial presence in Torino. I participated to the organization of this meeting, as a part of my new job at ActionAid in Italy. Some analysis brought me back to Italy: the fading of the dichotomy between the North and the South, new and widespread kinds of poverty in Italy, the depression of the social and relation capital in Europe, the opportunity to use in the North practices and methodologies I adopted during my work promoting sustainable development in Brazil.

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