Category: Legal Anthropology

Il soprannaturale dei luoghi come orizzonte accomunante della ‘civiltà mediterranea’. Una prospettiva antropologico-filosofica e antropologico-giuridica a partire da Simone Weil.

The paper draws inspiration from an insight by Simone Weil, based on a reflection on the crusade against the Cathars between the 11th and 13th centuries. According to the philosopher, this historical event constitutes a little-studied but decisive watershed between opposing conceptions of man, society, and law, which resolve themselves…

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Mortonian Insights for a Phenomenological Re-reading of Disability Law.

The article offers a critical analysis of Timothy Morton’s “post-environmentalist” theories through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology to explore their potential contribution to a philosophy of disability law. The first part investigates the concept of ‘vulnerability’ and how its traditional doctrinal understanding can be deepened through Morton’s speculative thought….

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La detenzione femminile. Riaprire il dibattito su un trattamento differente alla luce dei dati sulle carceri della Toscana.

Prison is an institution fashioned by male characteristics and needs, in which women are a minority, sharply separated by gender. The perspective of female difference allows us to grasp certain aspects of incarceration practices, such as the construction of female subjectivity—incompetent rather than guilty—and its identification with motherhood. The approach…

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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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…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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Anelli dell’invisibilità, anelli del potere. Alla ricerca di un equilibrio tra sorveglianza e democrazia a partire da Platone, Tolkien e Bentham.

Today, surveillance perpetrated by a few invisible entities on a large number of citizens is a widespread practice. However, in the field of surveillance studies, this situation is perceived as a threat to the smooth functioning of democratic regimes. Through this paper, three paradigmatic figures of rings capable of granting invisibility will…

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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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The Inescapable Radiality of Food and the Impossibility of Environmental ‘Restoration’

Though issues such as climate change, environmental protection and food security are often siloed in academic and political discussions, this essay moves from the premise that it is not meaningful to treat them as separate categories. Using the recently passed EU “Nature Restoration Law” as a springboard, the argument will…

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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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“Sumer, la tua giusta sapienza, in cui gli dèi furono generati, è inattingibile come il cielo”. Il millennio sumerico: l’invenzione della scrittura e la seconda demiurgia

Since the beginning of its history, Mesopotamia has been a multilingual (bilingual from a literary point of view) and multicultural land. Despite its long life as well as the several linguistic and cultural differences swarming inside it, the Mesopotamian civilization was made homogeneous by the persistence of its writing system…

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