Sara Riva
Biographic Data
| ID | 936632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Riva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Riva |
| SIGNATURE | RIVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2153-0169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hommage à Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking
BACKGROUND: The use of burden of disease (BoD) metrics in policymaking is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. However, there is currently no information available regarding their utilisation in policies at the European level. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the use of BoD metrics within the European legislation. METHODS: Systematic searches on EUR-Lex were conducted for documents published between 2004 and 2023, to account for Euro…
Border Abolition Now
Innocence and danger at the border
Media and political discourse in the USA often depict migration as an invasion and people who cross borders as criminals dangerous to the nation. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two places on the USA-Mexico Southern border, we want to analyze how invasion narratives influence practices on-the-ground. We first explore how these narratives inform the views of a border militia who see themselves as protectors of the nation and understand…
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project
In the United States, Central American Indigenous women who seek asylum are officially classified as Latinas or Hispanic. The erasure and consequent invisibility of Indigenous identity not only causes assimilation but also \njeopardizes Central American Indigenous women’s procedural rights. Using a transnational feminist lens combined with a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, and drawing on fieldwork research, I address the complex relation…
Topologie et anarchie dans la pensée d'Eboussi Boulaga, hier et aujourd'hui
La relecture de la pensée de Fabien Eboussi Boulaga montre la capacité du philosophe de se détourner de la vision binaire qui oppose temps et lieux par le biais de l'origine. Si « passé et avenir sont des points de fuite », il faut « penser spatialement » afin d'envisager l'être humain non comme un produit historique, et ses œuvres non comme le résultat d'une « évolution » dans le temps, mais comme le fruit d'une « réinvention » toujours nouvelle…
The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises
Many refugees fleeing from persecution across borders, find navigating the refugee registration system extremely complicated. In many border spaces, destination or transit countries, the difficult registration processes and the lack of support services requires the intervention and support of many non-state actors. Over the past decades, neoliberal policies have increasingly relegated public responsibilities to the private sphere. In this vein, a…
Écopoétiques décoloniales
Répliquant au cliché colonial d'une proximité des « sauvages » ou des « primitifs » avec la nature, les dynamiques littéraires récentes s'en prennent à des conceptions impériales de l'environnement, qui ont permis de mettre sous tutelle dans un même mouvement des populations et des écosystèmes. Dans le cadre du combat contre l'extractivisme et son cortège de dégradations environnementales et sociales, l'approche postcoloniale se méfiait déjà de l…
Global Congo. Politiques et esthétiques d’une littérature (et d’une critique) mondiale
Dans cet article introductif à la lecture du dossier « Global Congo » et aux nombreuses interventions qui le composent, Silvia Riva explore la valeur multi-sémantique du mot « global », tout en renversant les termes de la dialectique centre/périphérie et afin de mettre en valeur l’utilité critique et gnoséologique d’une approche collaborative (écrivain.e.s, critiques, artistes) et du décloisonnement des barrières disciplinaires qui s’ensuit
Reinforcing and contesting neoliberal citizenship
This article explores the mechanisms in which, through the US family detention asylum process, neoliberal ideas of citizenship are reinforced and contested. Through ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian lens, we take a closer look at the neoliberal processes involved within so-called family detention. Specifically, we focus on legal advocates who are helping detained women prepare for their legal interviews. This paper argues that humani…
Cognitive tips for changing mindsets
It is difficult enough to persuade people to adopt a healthy lifestyle, such as eating well, doing physical exercise or avoiding smokingall of which have a direct impact upon their lives; however, it is an even greater challenge to persuade them to take significant actions for the future benefit of others.One such challenge is related to the protection of our environment.Unfortunately, people consider environmental protection as a separate domain…
Understanding frailty
Innovative methods to manage frailty are critical to managing the needs of an ageing population. Evidence suggests there are opportunities to reverse or prevent frailty through early intervention. However, little is known about older adults’, families’ and practitioners’ beliefs about the malleability of frailty. This study examined European stakeholders’ accounts of the acceptability and feasibility of frailty screening and prevention to inform …
Optimistic bias in young adults for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
Optimistic bias defines the tendency for human beings to underrate risk when it pertains to themselves compared with their view of risk pertaining to other people in the same conditions. The aim of this work is to investigate the optimistic bias in risk perception and health-related behaviours for three specific conditions in a young adult sample: cancer, respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Young adults showed an optimistic bias re…
Ambiguity and uncertainty tolerance, need for cognition, and their association with stress. A study among Italian practicing physicians
JSQ: Job stress questionnaire; NFCS: Need for cognitive closure scale; PRU: Physicians' reactions to uncertainty; TFA: Tolerance for ambiguity
Pour une ethnologie du présent en littérature
Dans cet article nous étudions des textes francophones contemporains à l'aune d'une lecture « métonymique » qui interroge la notion d'ethnologie du présent par l'intermédiaire de la phénoménologie foucaldienne. L'étude d'un roman initiatique fondé sur l'oniromancie et ses symboles issus du patrimoine luba, et d'une épopée lyrique qui fait recours à des éléments de la tradition malinké et luba, nous donnera l'occasion de poser quelques questions-c…
Across the border and into the cold
Thousands of Central American families are fleeing from violence in their own countries and seeking protection in the US. However, once they enter the country they are immediately confined in temporary holding cells – also called hieleras (iceboxes) due to their extremely low temperatures, where they undergo violence and neglect. The hieleras become the site where the categories of the asylum-seeker, the immigrant, and the criminal become conflat…
A Survey of Current Knowledge on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexual Behaviour in Italian Adolescents
Worldwide, 500 million people a year acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Adolescents, accounting for 25% of the sexually active population, are the most affected. To analyze sexual behavior among Italian adolescents and their knowledge of STDs, with the goal of preventing their transmission, a questionnaire was administered to 2867 secondary school students (1271 males and 1596 females) aged 14-21 years. For the study, 1492 students wer…
Sokthan Yeng, The Biopolitics of Race
Patient participation in discharge planning decisions in the frame of Primary Nursing approach
The application of the ICF CY model in specific learning difficulties
Background: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and adolescents (ICF CY) has been proposed as a possible framework for evaluating assessment and rehabilitation practice in children with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs)
The landslide hazard and human vulnerability in La Paz City, Bolivia
Landslides in the city of La Paz, Bolivia are complex in space and time. Their distribution within the city is differentiated by geographical variations in slope gradient, the nature of overlying surface deposits, and drainage density patterns. When mapped, the distribution of the most landslide-prone locations in the city coincides with the most mobile surface deposits on the higher and steeper slopes of the city. The timing of landslides is tri…
Across the border and into the cold
Thousands of Central American families are fleeing from violence in their own countries and seeking protection in the US. However, once they enter the country they are immediately confined in temporary holding cells – also called hieleras (iceboxes) due to their extremely low temperatures, where they undergo violence and neglect. The hieleras become the site where the categories of the asylum-seeker, the immigrant, and the criminal become conflat…
The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises
Many refugees fleeing from persecution across borders, find navigating the refugee registration system extremely complicated. In many border spaces, destination or transit countries, the difficult registration processes and the lack of support services requires the intervention and support of many non-state actors. Over the past decades, neoliberal policies have increasingly relegated public responsibilities to the private sphere. In this vein, a…
The landslide hazard and human vulnerability in La Paz City, Bolivia
Landslides in the city of La Paz, Bolivia are complex in space and time. Their distribution within the city is differentiated by geographical variations in slope gradient, the nature of overlying surface deposits, and drainage density patterns. When mapped, the distribution of the most landslide-prone locations in the city coincides with the most mobile surface deposits on the higher and steeper slopes of the city. The timing of landslides is tri…
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
Understanding frailty
Innovative methods to manage frailty are critical to managing the needs of an ageing population. Evidence suggests there are opportunities to reverse or prevent frailty through early intervention. However, little is known about older adults’, families’ and practitioners’ beliefs about the malleability of frailty. This study examined European stakeholders’ accounts of the acceptability and feasibility of frailty screening and prevention to inform …
Reinforcing and contesting neoliberal citizenship
This article explores the mechanisms in which, through the US family detention asylum process, neoliberal ideas of citizenship are reinforced and contested. Through ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian lens, we take a closer look at the neoliberal processes involved within so-called family detention. Specifically, we focus on legal advocates who are helping detained women prepare for their legal interviews. This paper argues that humani…
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project
In the United States, Central American Indigenous women who seek asylum are officially classified as Latinas or Hispanic. The erasure and consequent invisibility of Indigenous identity not only causes assimilation but also \njeopardizes Central American Indigenous women’s procedural rights. Using a transnational feminist lens combined with a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, and drawing on fieldwork research, I address the complex relation…
Écopoétiques décoloniales
Répliquant au cliché colonial d'une proximité des « sauvages » ou des « primitifs » avec la nature, les dynamiques littéraires récentes s'en prennent à des conceptions impériales de l'environnement, qui ont permis de mettre sous tutelle dans un même mouvement des populations et des écosystèmes. Dans le cadre du combat contre l'extractivisme et son cortège de dégradations environnementales et sociales, l'approche postcoloniale se méfiait déjà de l…
Optimistic bias in young adults for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
Optimistic bias defines the tendency for human beings to underrate risk when it pertains to themselves compared with their view of risk pertaining to other people in the same conditions. The aim of this work is to investigate the optimistic bias in risk perception and health-related behaviours for three specific conditions in a young adult sample: cancer, respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Young adults showed an optimistic bias re…
Innocence and danger at the border
Media and political discourse in the USA often depict migration as an invasion and people who cross borders as criminals dangerous to the nation. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two places on the USA-Mexico Southern border, we want to analyze how invasion narratives influence practices on-the-ground. We first explore how these narratives inform the views of a border militia who see themselves as protectors of the nation and understand…
The landslide hazard and human vulnerability in La Paz City, Bolivia
Landslides in the city of La Paz, Bolivia are complex in space and time. Their distribution within the city is differentiated by geographical variations in slope gradient, the nature of overlying surface deposits, and drainage density patterns. When mapped, the distribution of the most landslide-prone locations in the city coincides with the most mobile surface deposits on the higher and steeper slopes of the city. The timing of landslides is tri…
The application of the ICF CY model in specific learning difficulties
Background: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and adolescents (ICF CY) has been proposed as a possible framework for evaluating assessment and rehabilitation practice in children with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs)
Patient participation in discharge planning decisions in the frame of Primary Nursing approach
Sokthan Yeng, The Biopolitics of Race
A Survey of Current Knowledge on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexual Behaviour in Italian Adolescents
Worldwide, 500 million people a year acquire a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Adolescents, accounting for 25% of the sexually active population, are the most affected. To analyze sexual behavior among Italian adolescents and their knowledge of STDs, with the goal of preventing their transmission, a questionnaire was administered to 2867 secondary school students (1271 males and 1596 females) aged 14-21 years. For the study, 1492 students wer…
Ambiguity and uncertainty tolerance, need for cognition, and their association with stress. A study among Italian practicing physicians
JSQ: Job stress questionnaire; NFCS: Need for cognitive closure scale; PRU: Physicians' reactions to uncertainty; TFA: Tolerance for ambiguity
Pour une ethnologie du présent en littérature
Dans cet article nous étudions des textes francophones contemporains à l'aune d'une lecture « métonymique » qui interroge la notion d'ethnologie du présent par l'intermédiaire de la phénoménologie foucaldienne. L'étude d'un roman initiatique fondé sur l'oniromancie et ses symboles issus du patrimoine luba, et d'une épopée lyrique qui fait recours à des éléments de la tradition malinké et luba, nous donnera l'occasion de poser quelques questions-c…
Across the border and into the cold
Thousands of Central American families are fleeing from violence in their own countries and seeking protection in the US. However, once they enter the country they are immediately confined in temporary holding cells – also called hieleras (iceboxes) due to their extremely low temperatures, where they undergo violence and neglect. The hieleras become the site where the categories of the asylum-seeker, the immigrant, and the criminal become conflat…
Understanding frailty
Innovative methods to manage frailty are critical to managing the needs of an ageing population. Evidence suggests there are opportunities to reverse or prevent frailty through early intervention. However, little is known about older adults’, families’ and practitioners’ beliefs about the malleability of frailty. This study examined European stakeholders’ accounts of the acceptability and feasibility of frailty screening and prevention to inform …
Optimistic bias in young adults for cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases
Optimistic bias defines the tendency for human beings to underrate risk when it pertains to themselves compared with their view of risk pertaining to other people in the same conditions. The aim of this work is to investigate the optimistic bias in risk perception and health-related behaviours for three specific conditions in a young adult sample: cancer, respiratory disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Young adults showed an optimistic bias re…
Cognitive tips for changing mindsets
It is difficult enough to persuade people to adopt a healthy lifestyle, such as eating well, doing physical exercise or avoiding smokingall of which have a direct impact upon their lives; however, it is an even greater challenge to persuade them to take significant actions for the future benefit of others.One such challenge is related to the protection of our environment.Unfortunately, people consider environmental protection as a separate domain…
Global Congo. Politiques et esthétiques d’une littérature (et d’une critique) mondiale
Dans cet article introductif à la lecture du dossier « Global Congo » et aux nombreuses interventions qui le composent, Silvia Riva explore la valeur multi-sémantique du mot « global », tout en renversant les termes de la dialectique centre/périphérie et afin de mettre en valeur l’utilité critique et gnoséologique d’une approche collaborative (écrivain.e.s, critiques, artistes) et du décloisonnement des barrières disciplinaires qui s’ensuit
Reinforcing and contesting neoliberal citizenship
This article explores the mechanisms in which, through the US family detention asylum process, neoliberal ideas of citizenship are reinforced and contested. Through ethnographic research, and using a Foucauldian lens, we take a closer look at the neoliberal processes involved within so-called family detention. Specifically, we focus on legal advocates who are helping detained women prepare for their legal interviews. This paper argues that humani…
The aporia of refugee rights in a time of crises
Many refugees fleeing from persecution across borders, find navigating the refugee registration system extremely complicated. In many border spaces, destination or transit countries, the difficult registration processes and the lack of support services requires the intervention and support of many non-state actors. Over the past decades, neoliberal policies have increasingly relegated public responsibilities to the private sphere. In this vein, a…
Écopoétiques décoloniales
Répliquant au cliché colonial d'une proximité des « sauvages » ou des « primitifs » avec la nature, les dynamiques littéraires récentes s'en prennent à des conceptions impériales de l'environnement, qui ont permis de mettre sous tutelle dans un même mouvement des populations et des écosystèmes. Dans le cadre du combat contre l'extractivisme et son cortège de dégradations environnementales et sociales, l'approche postcoloniale se méfiait déjà de l…
Tracing Invisibility as a Colonial Project
In the United States, Central American Indigenous women who seek asylum are officially classified as Latinas or Hispanic. The erasure and consequent invisibility of Indigenous identity not only causes assimilation but also \njeopardizes Central American Indigenous women’s procedural rights. Using a transnational feminist lens combined with a Critical Latinx Indigeneities framework, and drawing on fieldwork research, I address the complex relation…
Topologie et anarchie dans la pensée d'Eboussi Boulaga, hier et aujourd'hui
La relecture de la pensée de Fabien Eboussi Boulaga montre la capacité du philosophe de se détourner de la vision binaire qui oppose temps et lieux par le biais de l'origine. Si « passé et avenir sont des points de fuite », il faut « penser spatialement » afin d'envisager l'être humain non comme un produit historique, et ses œuvres non comme le résultat d'une « évolution » dans le temps, mais comme le fruit d'une « réinvention » toujours nouvelle…
Border Abolition Now
Innocence and danger at the border
Media and political discourse in the USA often depict migration as an invasion and people who cross borders as criminals dangerous to the nation. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two places on the USA-Mexico Southern border, we want to analyze how invasion narratives influence practices on-the-ground. We first explore how these narratives inform the views of a border militia who see themselves as protectors of the nation and understand…
Performing Border Externalisation
Migration deterrence campaigns are part of a set of border externalisation strategies that extend one nation’s border into other territories. Building on the literature of border externalisation, migration deterrence, and feminist media studies, we address these campaigns as critical performative strategies that enact neoliberal ideologies and depoliticise migration. We analyse three cases – two from the US and one from Europe – in which nations …
Hommage à Valentin-Yves Mudimbe
The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking
BACKGROUND: The use of burden of disease (BoD) metrics in policymaking is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. However, there is currently no information available regarding their utilisation in policies at the European level. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the use of BoD metrics within the European legislation. METHODS: Systematic searches on EUR-Lex were conducted for documents published between 2004 and 2023, to account for Euro…
Political science (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works)