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This paper focuses on the public debate in Poland and Italy concerning the right to abortion in the contemporary rise of populist neo-conservative forces in Europe and of a global feminist movement. In both countries, the historical... more
This paper focuses on the public debate in Poland and Italy concerning the right to abortion in the contemporary rise of populist neo-conservative forces in Europe and of a global feminist movement. In both countries, the historical Catholic interference into women's reproductive rights and self-determination has been enforced by the renewed alliance of right-wing governments and pro-life groups to converge into a transnational “anti-gender war”. This represents a real backlash against women’s achievements over the last decades in terms of reproductive and sexual citizenship, which appears to be the battlefield for redefinition of western citizenship in times of global crisis. Although different genealogies, we identified a common framing of neo-conservative discourse, and of feminist claims and practices, as that of feminist strikes and social mutualism. In this perspective, we consider these practices as a normativity from below, arguing that feminist movement is addressing a new paradigm of citizenship.
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This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically,
it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability
required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations
of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose
condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the
experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing
competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure?
Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected
narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday
working activities and the private and family lives of early career researchers, with important
consequences also on their future prospects.
it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability
required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations
of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose
condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the
experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing
competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure?
Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected
narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday
working activities and the private and family lives of early career researchers, with important
consequences also on their future prospects.
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Recent public debate in Italy has been noteworthy for its renewed focus on issues of gender and sexual citizenship. The discussion is well summarized and symbolized by two opposing political discourses that have been engaged in a lengthy... more
Recent public debate in Italy has been noteworthy for its renewed focus on issues of gender and sexual citizenship. The discussion is well summarized and symbolized by two opposing political discourses that have been engaged in a lengthy struggle. On one side stands a neo-conservative Catholic movement that opposes the recognition of LGBTQ relationships and defends “the natural family”. On the other side there are the LGBTQ movements, which are claiming full civil, social and sexual citizenship. The present article analyzes this conflict, which was clearly illustrated by two public events held in Rome in June 2015 (Family Day and the Rome LGBTQ Pride). The paper, methodologically based on Critical Discourse Analysis, examines the most relevant political documents (manifestos and press releases) issued by the organizers of the two demonstrations, highlighting the existence of ambivalent discourses on the naturalization of sex and the universalization of social and sexual citizenship.
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Questo volume raccoglie ed estende il progetto Ricerca Precaria che nel 2015 ha rilanciato un dibattito fruttuoso sul nesso tra precarietà e accademia attraverso una serie di seminari itineranti. Riflette sulla precarietà nell’università... more
Questo volume raccoglie ed estende il progetto Ricerca Precaria che nel 2015 ha rilanciato un dibattito fruttuoso sul nesso tra precarietà
e accademia attraverso una serie di seminari itineranti. Riflette sulla precarietà nell’università italiana soffermandosi sulle condizioni economiche ed esistenziali di chi fa ricerca. I nodi affrontati sono molteplici: le carriere scientifiche, la mobilità internazionale, la dimensione di genere, l’insicurezza sociale. Emerge come la precarietà accademica sia un tema di ricerca rilevante e pregnante, che interroga l’accademia nel suo complesso oltre che i sindacati, le istituzioni e i movimenti politici e sociali.
Sommario
Introduzione: Francesca Coin, Alberta Giorgi, Annalisa Murgia
Tra passione e sopravvivenza. Prospettive, condizioni e aspettative dei lavoratori della conoscenza negli atenei italiani.
Orazio Giancola, Emanuele Toscano
Futuro incerto e felicità a momenti. Tempo, vita, politica nell’università precaria
Alessandro Arienzo
Inside/Out: Storie di precarietà nell’università italiana
Elisa Bellè, Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Caterina Peroni, Elisa Rapetti
Cosmopoliti dispersi: La mobilità dei ricercatori precari tra retoriche e pratiche
Luca Raffini
La fabbrica della conoscenza e delle precarietà: Riflessioni da un’autoinchiesta nell’università al tempo della crisi
Emiliana Armano, Paola Rivetti, Sandro Busso
Confusi confini: O dei frastagliati margini tra ‘dentro’ e ‘fuori’ l’accademia
Chiara Martucci
Alle origini di un trentennio insubordinato: Autobiografia di sommovimenti cognitari indipendenti
Giuseppe Allegri
Lavoro gratis e a pagamento nella ricerca universitaria in Italia
Roberto Ciccarelli
Profili bio-bibliografici
e accademia attraverso una serie di seminari itineranti. Riflette sulla precarietà nell’università italiana soffermandosi sulle condizioni economiche ed esistenziali di chi fa ricerca. I nodi affrontati sono molteplici: le carriere scientifiche, la mobilità internazionale, la dimensione di genere, l’insicurezza sociale. Emerge come la precarietà accademica sia un tema di ricerca rilevante e pregnante, che interroga l’accademia nel suo complesso oltre che i sindacati, le istituzioni e i movimenti politici e sociali.
Sommario
Introduzione: Francesca Coin, Alberta Giorgi, Annalisa Murgia
Tra passione e sopravvivenza. Prospettive, condizioni e aspettative dei lavoratori della conoscenza negli atenei italiani.
Orazio Giancola, Emanuele Toscano
Futuro incerto e felicità a momenti. Tempo, vita, politica nell’università precaria
Alessandro Arienzo
Inside/Out: Storie di precarietà nell’università italiana
Elisa Bellè, Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Caterina Peroni, Elisa Rapetti
Cosmopoliti dispersi: La mobilità dei ricercatori precari tra retoriche e pratiche
Luca Raffini
La fabbrica della conoscenza e delle precarietà: Riflessioni da un’autoinchiesta nell’università al tempo della crisi
Emiliana Armano, Paola Rivetti, Sandro Busso
Confusi confini: O dei frastagliati margini tra ‘dentro’ e ‘fuori’ l’accademia
Chiara Martucci
Alle origini di un trentennio insubordinato: Autobiografia di sommovimenti cognitari indipendenti
Giuseppe Allegri
Lavoro gratis e a pagamento nella ricerca universitaria in Italia
Roberto Ciccarelli
Profili bio-bibliografici
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Social movements' transform (digitally) and also the idea and ways of active participation. The authors underline the relevance of both online and offline forms of participation in a world where (hack)tivists and movements play an... more
Social movements' transform (digitally) and also the idea and ways of active participation. The authors underline the relevance of both online and offline forms of participation in a world where (hack)tivists and movements play an increasingly major role in local communities and in the global processes. From the tech universe to social feminist organizations, they highlight movements that have mapped out an important path in empowering citizens and brought citizens' voices into the public. The brochure concludes with some reflection about how participation will change in the future and about the necessary competences for participation of citizens under the conditions of the (digital) transformation age.
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Gender budgeting in academia provides an analysis and evaluation of the gender biases in management methods and decisionmaking processes in European academic institutions. Here gender budgeting is defined as: “…an... more
Gender budgeting in academia provides an analysis and evaluation of the gender biases in
management methods and decisionmaking processes in European academic institutions.
Here gender budgeting is defined as:
“…an application of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process. It means a gender;
based assessment of budgets, incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the
budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures in order to promote gender
equality.” (The Council of Europe, 2010).
The study was conducted between September 2014 and May 2015 in six academic
institutions; The University of Trento (Italy), The Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium),
Radboud University (the Netherlands), The University of Iceland, The University of Lausanne
(Switzerland) and The Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Science and
Arts.
The project is based on semi6structured interviews with key players, and secondary data
collection comprising of statistical data, public documents and institutional documents. The
overall objective of the project was to gain insight into the managerial and financial
frameworks of different European academic institutions and to analyse the budgetary
process in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Social
Sciences and Humanities (SSH). By selecting these two fields we assure that transforming
academia can be extended to all levels of the academic institution. Subsequently, a toolkit
for the integration of gender budgeting in academic institutions will be developed, based on
the findings of this report.
management methods and decisionmaking processes in European academic institutions.
Here gender budgeting is defined as:
“…an application of gender mainstreaming in the budgetary process. It means a gender;
based assessment of budgets, incorporating a gender perspective at all levels of the
budgetary process and restructuring revenues and expenditures in order to promote gender
equality.” (The Council of Europe, 2010).
The study was conducted between September 2014 and May 2015 in six academic
institutions; The University of Trento (Italy), The Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium),
Radboud University (the Netherlands), The University of Iceland, The University of Lausanne
(Switzerland) and The Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Science and
Arts.
The project is based on semi6structured interviews with key players, and secondary data
collection comprising of statistical data, public documents and institutional documents. The
overall objective of the project was to gain insight into the managerial and financial
frameworks of different European academic institutions and to analyse the budgetary
process in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Social
Sciences and Humanities (SSH). By selecting these two fields we assure that transforming
academia can be extended to all levels of the academic institution. Subsequently, a toolkit
for the integration of gender budgeting in academic institutions will be developed, based on
the findings of this report.
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The purpose of this report is twofold: first, mapping the existing work/life balance policies and programs available in each Garcia beneficiary institutions and universities. Second, pointing out the specific experiences and needs of... more
The purpose of this report is twofold: first, mapping the existing work/life balance policies
and programs available in each Garcia beneficiary institutions and universities. Second,
pointing out the specific experiences and needs of conciliations expressed by researchers
with a temporary position.
The focus are programs and policies designed to help researchers and the scientific
personnel of each Garcia institution to balance the responsibilities of their professional and
personal lives across various life stages and events such as pregnancy, childbirth,
marriage/cohabitation, career/job change, continuous professional development or
alternatively illness, stress and anxiety or disability. Particular attention has been paid to
the availability of these policies in relation to the nature of the employment contract, e.g.
temporary, tenure track or permanent.
and programs available in each Garcia beneficiary institutions and universities. Second,
pointing out the specific experiences and needs of conciliations expressed by researchers
with a temporary position.
The focus are programs and policies designed to help researchers and the scientific
personnel of each Garcia institution to balance the responsibilities of their professional and
personal lives across various life stages and events such as pregnancy, childbirth,
marriage/cohabitation, career/job change, continuous professional development or
alternatively illness, stress and anxiety or disability. Particular attention has been paid to
the availability of these policies in relation to the nature of the employment contract, e.g.
temporary, tenure track or permanent.
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Educational poverty limits children's right to education and their opportunity to develop the growth mindset and technical and human skills needed to succeed in school, work and life. Equip Today to Thrive Tomorrow is a project developed... more
Educational poverty limits children's right to education and their
opportunity to develop the growth mindset and technical and human skills
needed to succeed in school, work and life. Equip Today to Thrive Tomorrow is a project developed by Save the Children Italy (SC) aiming at contrasting this phenomenon by developing children's human and digital skills and enablingthem to make informed choices about education/training in a digitally changing world, with a focus on growth mindset and creativity within a gender/intersectional framework; raising awareness on STEM skills and gender equality among parents, teachers and local stakeholders. For the project, an explorative and qualitative Gender and Power (GAP) Analysis was conducted to examine the intersection of individual, relational, sociocultural, and structural
factors that prevent marginalized children in situations of educational poverty from accessing and advancing in STEM study and careers. It was based on focus groups and interviews with children, parents, SC educators and teachers. The research findings were integrated in all the activities of the project, through a Strategy. Educators, project staff and gender/intersectionality experts collaborated throughout the process of planning, implementation and MEAL to integrate a gender/intersectional perspective in the content of the activities and methodology to implement them.
opportunity to develop the growth mindset and technical and human skills
needed to succeed in school, work and life. Equip Today to Thrive Tomorrow is a project developed by Save the Children Italy (SC) aiming at contrasting this phenomenon by developing children's human and digital skills and enablingthem to make informed choices about education/training in a digitally changing world, with a focus on growth mindset and creativity within a gender/intersectional framework; raising awareness on STEM skills and gender equality among parents, teachers and local stakeholders. For the project, an explorative and qualitative Gender and Power (GAP) Analysis was conducted to examine the intersection of individual, relational, sociocultural, and structural
factors that prevent marginalized children in situations of educational poverty from accessing and advancing in STEM study and careers. It was based on focus groups and interviews with children, parents, SC educators and teachers. The research findings were integrated in all the activities of the project, through a Strategy. Educators, project staff and gender/intersectionality experts collaborated throughout the process of planning, implementation and MEAL to integrate a gender/intersectional perspective in the content of the activities and methodology to implement them.
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La ponencia propone una reflexión sobre los potenciales/la importancia de conectar la dinámicas globales (derecho internacional) con las dinámicas (identitarias) locales en el ámbito de la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos de... more
La ponencia propone una reflexión sobre los potenciales/la importancia de conectar la
dinámicas globales (derecho internacional) con las dinámicas (identitarias) locales en el
ámbito de la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos de los grupos más
vulnerados, discriminados y marginalizados: los “pueblos indígenas” (PI). Casos
estudios de nuestra análisis serán los pueblos Aka de Republica Centroafricana y San y
Bakgalagadi de Botswana.
En estos países asistimos a un fenómeno de apropiación estratégica de identidades
globales (“pueblos indígenas”) por parte de grupos locales de cazadores-recolectores
que con la utilización de un discurso de tipo global (derechos de los pueblos indígenas),
reivindican intereses locales (derechos culturales, socio políticos y económicos desde
siempre vulnerados), tanto desde arriba (adhesión del Estado a tratados internacionales)
cuanto desde abajo (adhesión de la sociedad civil a un movimiento internacional). Esta
dinámica, que siempre tiene como elemento fundamental el territorio, lleva a resultados
interesantes desde el punto de vista de la identidad (individual y grupal) y de la
capacidad de resistencia e incidencia a varios niveles (local, regional, internacional).
dinámicas globales (derecho internacional) con las dinámicas (identitarias) locales en el
ámbito de la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos de los grupos más
vulnerados, discriminados y marginalizados: los “pueblos indígenas” (PI). Casos
estudios de nuestra análisis serán los pueblos Aka de Republica Centroafricana y San y
Bakgalagadi de Botswana.
En estos países asistimos a un fenómeno de apropiación estratégica de identidades
globales (“pueblos indígenas”) por parte de grupos locales de cazadores-recolectores
que con la utilización de un discurso de tipo global (derechos de los pueblos indígenas),
reivindican intereses locales (derechos culturales, socio políticos y económicos desde
siempre vulnerados), tanto desde arriba (adhesión del Estado a tratados internacionales)
cuanto desde abajo (adhesión de la sociedad civil a un movimiento internacional). Esta
dinámica, que siempre tiene como elemento fundamental el territorio, lleva a resultados
interesantes desde el punto de vista de la identidad (individual y grupal) y de la
capacidad de resistencia e incidencia a varios niveles (local, regional, internacional).
Mapping organizational work-life policies and practices. Italy”. In S. Cucut Krilli?, E. Rapetti (eds.) Mapping organizational work-life policies and practices, Garcia Working Papers, n. 1
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<div> <p>Our contribution focuses on precariousness as experienced in the research sector. The article firstly offers a theoretical framework for precariousness, conceptualised as an interweaving and a co-construction of... more
<div> <p>Our contribution focuses on precariousness as experienced in the research sector. The article firstly offers a theoretical framework for precariousness, conceptualised as an interweaving and a co-construction of working and existential conditions. We then describe the most salient regulatory aspects of the academic labour market in Italy, in order to contextualize our research findings within the Italian university system. The research was conducted between 2014 and 2015 in two departments situated in the northeast of the country, the first belonging to the STEM field and the second to SSH disciplines. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with postdoctoral research fellows who, at the time of the research, worked, or had recently ended their collaboration, within the two departments under study. The section dedicated to the presentation of findings is focused firstly on the issue of invisibility of precarious researchers, declined both in terms of gender differences, and of the different level of recognition of postdocs' working activities in the STEM compared to the SSH department. Secondly, attention is paid to the status of postdocs, on their complicated positioning between formal and informal work and on their substantial exclusion from social protection. In the concluding section, our contribution put in dialogue the individual experiences analysed within the case study with recent movements developed at the national level by precarious researchers, which focus precisely on a collective claim about the issues of recognition of work and access to welfare.</p> </div>
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Il presente contributo sviluppa una riflessione intorno al binomio resistenze/esistenze precarie nel lavoro della conoscenza, a partire dall\u2019esperienza di un gruppo di assegniste coinvolte in un progetto di ricerca focalizzato su... more
Il presente contributo sviluppa una riflessione intorno al binomio resistenze/esistenze precarie nel lavoro della conoscenza, a partire dall\u2019esperienza di un gruppo di assegniste coinvolte in un progetto di ricerca focalizzato su genere e precariet\ue0 in accademia. L\u2019articolo affronta aspetti epistemologici e metodologici legati al posizionamento delle autrici, esse stesse parte del proprio \uaboggetto di studio\ubb. Utilizzando la traccia di intervista proposta ai/lle ricercatori/trici precari/e coinvolti/e nell\u2019indagine, viene presentata un\u2019analisi in chiave auto-riflessiva sul duplice posizionamento dei s/oggetti di ricerca. Nelle conclusioni, si discute della possibilit\ue0 di costruire soggettivit\ue0 collettive in un sistema accademico caratterizzato da una situazione di precariet\ue0 strutturale
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This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure? Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday working activities and the private and family lives of early career research...
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This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure? Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday working activities and the private and family lives of early career research...
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This paper focuses on the public debate in Poland and Italy concerning the right to abortion in the contemporary rise of populist neo-conservative forces in Europe and of a global feminist movement. In both countries, the historical... more
This paper focuses on the public debate in Poland and Italy concerning the right to abortion in the contemporary rise of populist neo-conservative forces in Europe and of a global feminist movement. In both countries, the historical Catholic interference into women's reproductive rights and self-determination has been enforced by the renewed alliance of right-wing governments and pro-life groups to converge into a transnational “anti-gender war”. This represents a real backlash against women’s achievements over the last decades in terms of reproductive and sexual citizenship, which appears to be the battlefield for redefinition of western citizenship in times of global crisis. Although different genealogies, we identified a common framing of neo-conservative discourse, and of feminist claims and practices, as that of feminist strikes and social mutualism. In this perspective, we consider these practices as a normativity from below, arguing that feminist movement is addressing a ...
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Negli ultimi anni studiose e studiosi hanno lavorato, e stanno lavoran- do, sul nesso tra precarieta e accademia, con diversi approcci e diverse focalizzazioni: mobilita, genere, carriera, mobilitazione politica, per no- minarne solo... more
Negli ultimi anni studiose e studiosi hanno lavorato, e stanno lavoran- do, sul nesso tra precarieta e accademia, con diversi approcci e diverse focalizzazioni: mobilita, genere, carriera, mobilitazione politica, per no- minarne solo alcuni. Ci sembra giunto il momento di mettere a confronto i diversi lavori di ricerca empirica, attraverso un ciclo di seminari che, pur mantenendo il filo rosso del comune oggetto di ricerca, si articoli in maniera itinerante, connettendo reti e persone in giro per l’Italia al fine di creare un dibattito ampio e condiviso e, soprattutto, plurale. Gli scopi sono tanti e diversi. Si tratta di sviluppare un lavoro di auto- riflessione critica all’interno dell’accademia, di condividere e rendere disponibili riflessioni teoriche ed empiriche su questo ambito di studi, di riconnettere reti di scambio e di confronto, di attivare dibattito e, non da ultimo, di saperne di piu di quello che accade nel posto – nei posti – dove lavoriamo, in forme e modalita dive...
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The aim of this article is to furnish insights of the Italian public debate on the recognition of LGBTQ rights, which can be understood as an interesting case study of the complex relationship between (multi)secularisation processes and... more
The aim of this article is to furnish insights of the Italian public debate on the recognition of LGBTQ rights, which can be understood as an interesting case study of the complex relationship between (multi)secularisation processes and re/definition of citizenship models. More specifically, the article analyses two political events related to this debate that took place in Rome in June 2015. The first is the Family Day demonstration, promoted by conservative Catholic groups; the second is the LGBTQ Pride parade, promoted by various gay, lesbian and transsexual/gender associations. We analyse the official statements issued by the two organising committees of the demonstrations, adopting the framework and methods of the Critical Discourse Analysis. Above and beyond an evident political conflict between the two discourses, we try to shed light on their mutual construction on the basis of what we call ‘naturalization’ and ‘universalization’ processes.
Research Interests: Sociology, Gender Studies, LGBT Issues, Gender Equality, Equality and Diversity, and 11 moreCritical Discourse Analysis, Secularization, Sexual citizenship, Citizenship, LGBTq Activisms, Equality and Non Discrimination, Citisenship, Conservative Catholic, Anti-Genderism, Anti-Genderismus, and anti-gender movements
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Our contribution focuses on precariousness as experienced in the research sector. The article firstly offers a theoretical framework for precariousness, conceptualized as an interweaving and a co-construction of working and existential... more
Our contribution focuses on precariousness as experienced in the research sector. The article firstly offers a theoretical framework for precariousness, conceptualized as an interweaving and a co-construction of working and existential conditions. We then describe the most salient regulatory aspects of the academic labour market in Italy, in order to contextualize our research findings within the Italian University system. The research was conducted between 2014 and 2015 in two departments situated in the northeast of the country, the first belonging to the STEM field and the second to SSH disciplines. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with postdoctoral research fellows who, at the time of the research, worked, or had recently ended their collaboration, within the two departments under study. The section dedicated to the presentation of findings is focused firstly on the issue of invisibility of precarious researchers, declined both in terms of gender differences, and of the diff...