Le grammatiche del razzismo

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DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_book_647
dc.creator	Alietti Alfredo
dc.creator	Padovan Dario
dc.title	Le grammatiche del razzismo. Un’introduzione teorica e un percorso di ricerca
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This volume stems from the need to contribute systematically to the debate on racism and to offer the opportunity to reflect on the different theories that have followed one another over time. This work does not intend to be exhaustive about the vast and articulated theoretical and empirical literature. The authors intend to provide an introduction focused on those aspects that seem most pertinent in understanding the evolution of the phenomenon and unveiling the mechanisms that underlie the discourses and practices of rejection and denial of the Other. The narrative structure that has been pursued relates to the historical-sociological reconstruction of the main theories that have attempted to respond to the forms in which different racisms have presented themselves within different societies. Historical analysis and contemporary hermeneutics in the social studies are indispensable factors for the understanding of racism in its complex manifestations. The attempt is to go so far as to reveal the ‘grammars of racism’ as the basic structures through which racist dynamics are made explicit and determined. The themes addressed are manifold: from the birth of racism as a field of study, through classical anthropological studies, the issue of social distance, the studies of Adorno and Myrdal, to the broad contribution of social psychology and the so-called new racism. In addition, the text introduces a novel reflection on the current relationship between racialisation processes and climate change with reference to the broader debate on environmental racism. Most of the chapters are a re-proposal of the book published in 2000 to which a partially unpublished introduction and the unpublished last chapter have been added. In the socio-historical phase we are currently living through with the peremptory assertion of a public and political discourse increasingly against ethnic diversity, we consider this re-proposal important, accompanied by the idea that there is still much to be done and that it may encourage further necessary reflection and research.
dc.relation.ispartof	Migrazioni, mobilità, sconfinamenti
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-744-9
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-11-06
dc.dateAccepted	2023-07-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-05-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-745-6/
dc.identifier.eissn	2975-1519
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-744-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Antisemitism
dc.subject	Diversity
dc.subject	Environmental racism
dc.subject	Islamophobia
dc.subject	Islamophobia
dc.subject	Narratives
dc.subject	Narratives
dc.subject	New racism
dc.subject	Otherness
dc.subject	Otherness
dc.subject	Racialisation
dc.subject	Racism
dc.subject	Racism
dc.subject	Social distance
dc.subject	Social psychology

Monograph
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Un’introduzione teorica e un percorso di ricerca

Alfredo Alietti Università di Ferrara

Dario Padovan Università di Torino

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abstract

This volume stems from the need to contribute systematically to the debate on racism and to offer the opportunity to reflect on the different theories that have followed one another over time. This work does not intend to be exhaustive about the vast and articulated theoretical and empirical literature. The authors intend to provide an introduction focused on those aspects that seem most pertinent in understanding the evolution of the phenomenon and unveiling the mechanisms that underlie the discourses and practices of rejection and denial of the Other. The narrative structure that has been pursued relates to the historical-sociological reconstruction of the main theories that have attempted to respond to the forms in which different racisms have presented themselves within different societies. Historical analysis and contemporary hermeneutics in the social studies are indispensable factors for the understanding of racism in its complex manifestations. The attempt is to go so far as to reveal the ‘grammars of racism’ as the basic structures through which racist dynamics are made explicit and determined. The themes addressed are manifold: from the birth of racism as a field of study, through classical anthropological studies, the issue of social distance, the studies of Adorno and Myrdal, to the broad contribution of social psychology and the so-called new racism. In addition, the text introduces a novel reflection on the current relationship between racialisation processes and climate change with reference to the broader debate on environmental racism. Most of the chapters are a re-proposal of the book published in 2000 to which a partially unpublished introduction and the unpublished last chapter have been added. In the socio-historical phase we are currently living through with the peremptory assertion of a public and political discourse increasingly against ethnic diversity, we consider this re-proposal important, accompanied by the idea that there is still much to be done and that it may encourage further necessary reflection and research.

Published

Nov. 6, 2023

Accepted

July 11, 2023

Submitted

May 3, 2023

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978-88-6969-744-9

Keywords

Racism • Antisemitism • Social psychology • Racialisation • Environmental racism • Diversity • Islamophobia • New racism • Otherness • Narratives • Social distance

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