Category: Intercultural Theory

Dal diritto ecclesiastico coloniale al diritto ecclesiastico interculturale? A margine di un recente studio sul diritto ecclesiastico coloniale italiano.

The essay critically examines Italian colonial ecclesiastical law, starting from a recent volume by Andrea Miccichè, and highlights its pragmatic, differential, and hierarchical nature—designed to manage religious pluralism in colonial territories. This legal system did not aim to universalize principles, but rather to organize religious differences according to logics of…

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Comprendersi a Babele. La linguistica cognitiva e la ‘forza maggiore’ dell’egemonia culturale.

Linguistic proficiency in the host country’s language does not equate to cognitive or cultural consonance. The communicative asymmetry between institutional actors and migrant interlocutors is constituted by two interrelated dimensions. The first is linguistic: within the Italian legal–administrative context, normative texts — such as laws, decrees, and employment contracts —…

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…ma noi l’italiano lo parliamo! Processi di traduzione e alfabetizzazione giuridica fra i giovani delle seconde generazioni in Italia.

The accessibility of institutional communication in Italy, particularly for migrant populations, rises multifaceted challenges due to the diverse composition of communities, each of which is characterized by varying levels of integration. Despite the presence of initiatives designed to support these groups, many of them remain ‘invisible’ in terms of civic…

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Migrare come Abitare: verso la ricomposizione di un paradigma?

The essay explores the possibility of redefining migration through the category of dwelling, moving beyond the dichotomy between mobility and sedentariness. Starting from the need to recompose the legal and political paradigm of migration, it re-evaluates the ius migrandi and the Vattelian concept of the habitant perpétuel, examining the relationship between errancy and the new world order….

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Il Sabato, Babele e la traduzione

Is there a link between the Sabbath, inaction, and translation? And, again, between the Sabbath and the rhythm of relations with Otherness? This short essay seeks to probe, from a semi-anthropological perspective, the ternary relationship between three cultural categories/archetypes: the ‘Sabbath,’ ‘Babel,’ and ‘Otherness,’ respectively. ‘Translation’ is treated as the…

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Abitare il sacro e diritto alla città. Percorsi di costruzione della soggettività giuridica: da clandestini a cittadini attraverso le chiese cristiano-ortodosse

This essay offers an interdisciplinary analysis that investigates the connections between religious freedom, the regulation of places of worship, migration phenomena also in relation to the experience of work, and the protection of fundamental personal rights. All of these are analyzed focusing on the processes of the construction of legal…

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Un ambiente ‘preterintenzionale’? Radici del dualismo soggettivo/oggettivo nella transizione ecologica europea (Un’indagine etno-giuridica nell’immaginario ortodosso della Romania rurale)

This study explores the role of intention as a pivotal principle in the perception and application of concepts such as ‘justice’ and ‘sustainability’ within rural communities during the European energy transition. Through an ethnographic survey I personally conducted in 2023 among Christian Orthodox communities in rural Romania, I investigated the…

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City Portraits. Considerations on religious Otherness and buildings of worship between intercultural legal spaces and new semantic mappings

Starting from a study of the semiotic concept of the city as a closed text, stratified and negotiated by its inhabitants, this contribution focuses on the aedes sacrae as monument-logos that reflect the different cultural- religious identities that nowadays populate modern post-secular cities. Subsequently, moving from the phenomena of ‘spatial…

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Interculturalism: understanding the concept from a comparative perspective

The research analyses the prescriptive use of the term ‘interculturalism’ in the legal sciences, with the dual purpose of understanding: 1) how its content is indebted to theoretical elaborations from other sciences; 2) in a comparative perspective, whether interculturalism has a uniform application in the different legal systems in which…

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