Paola Rebughini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256221 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paola Rebughini |
| NOMBRES | Paola |
| APELLIDO | Rebughini |
| FIRMA | REBUGHINI P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5563-8202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Hegemonies of the social imaginary
The concept of social imaginary is central in the social sciences to grasp the cultural dimension of social and political action. The classic works of Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor have traced – in their difference and complementarity – the theoretical contours within which to frame the concept of social imaginary, also in temporal terms. This article critically reviews the idea of these two authors to underline the importance of consi…
The social imaginary as a battlefield
This article introduces a conflictual perspective to the study of social imaginaries, emphasizing their capacity to represent spaces of social critique. Critically revisiting the now classic conceptions of Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor, the article proposes to look at the social imaginary as a battlefield for the hegemony of shared meaning and the definition of social reality. It engages in a theoretical analysis that foregrounds the p…
Navigating political emotions and agency among italian youth in the post-pandemic urban landscape
This study explores attitudes toward civic involvement in public life in the post-pandemic context, informed by recurring political emotions among young individuals between 16 and 26 years of age living in the metropolitan area of Milan and its hinterland. Drawing on 66 in-depth interviews conducted between 2022 and 2024 with young participants, the article traces the political emotions of this generation of under-30s in response to multiple cris…
Gender Potential in Italian Youth Activism
The article focuses on the intersection of youth and gender studies, analysing the complex relationships between gender and youth identity as experienced both in individual biographies, and within the context of participatory practices. Thus, the focus is on the legacy of feminisms in current mobilization practices. In the article, we refer to empirical material collected in Italy from 2017 to the present. What emerges from our empirical material…
La "posta in gioco" nei conflitti di lavoro
Il riemergere dell'attenzione sociologica sui conflitti di lavoro rivela non solo la presenza di nuovi e vecchi attori e nuove e vecchie forme di espressione, ma anche diversi contenuti. La traiettoria della sociologia tourainiana offre spunti per studiarne i diversi contenuti come "posta in gioco", corrispondente a tre fasi che si sovrappongono: organizzazione del lavoro e labour process; nuove identità collettive e coalizioni con nuovi moviment…
When the war strikes back
This article explores how the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is represented through videos circulating on TikTok and how the consumption of this content impacts young people’s imaginary of war. After 2 years since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the centrality of TikTok in the communication around this conflict has become apparent. In this study, we are interested in the ‘domesticating’ effect produced by the circulation and consumption of content …
Enchanted realism
Our aim in this article is to analyse youth aspirations for self-fulfilment through work in the interplay between individualization and self-entrepreneurship. Theoretically, we discuss the main approaches of individualization and self-government in contemporary youth studies. Empirically, we focus on urban youth in the post-pandemic context, in the Italian city of Milan, paying specific attention to the transformation of their aspirations and soc…
Utopie per fare la differenza
The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people – are deeply influenced by a new attention towards …
Youth multidimensional political activism between singularization and mutualism
In the past two decades, research in both “social movements studies” and “critical youth” studies has recorded the growing criticism, by youth political activism, of the individualizing processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperati…
Configurations of otherness and globalization of the Othering Machine
The aim of this introductory article is to shed light on the complexities and ambiguities of the definitions, uses, and categorizations of what is termed ‘racism' or alternatively, in a more flexible and protean manner, ‘othering'. However, while racism and otherness have been forged within the history of modernity, coloniality and capitalism, the current concreteness and linguistic use of these notions is a matter of discussion also within post-…
Framing Social Theory
Starting from the Latourian first definition of technoscience, the chapter follows the evolution of this concept within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This offers the occasion to discuss some crucial distinctions – such as science and technology, science and society, human and not human – that are usually assumed by social sciences as an implicit starting point for their analysis. Technoscience rather invites to rethink their …
Individualization and Individualism
The aim of this article is to show how young people in Italy deal with the structural injunction to become individuals. While there is a substantial number of works on how institutions converge in promoting individualization and an 'entrepreneurial self', in this article we investigate how young people give shape and meaning to social relations in the framework of the injunction to become autonomous entrepreneurs of themselves. The research prese…
Processus de singularisation et analyse sociologique
1. La singularisation comme processus de changement structurel de la société, l’épreuve comme outil analytique, l’extrospection comme renouvellement méthodologique sont les trois piliers qui composent le cadre théorique de La Société singulariste. Dans ce livre, Danilo Martuccelli développe et, en même temps, synthétise ses analyses sur la société contemporaine, acheminées par étapes dans les nombreux ouvrages précédents consacrés à la sociologie…
Agency in intersectionality. Towards a method for studying the situatedness of action
The aim of this article is to offer a reflection on intersectionality as an analytical tool to investigate agency as a situated form of subjective action. In this article, the reference to intersectionality will be considered a useful epistemological and methodological tool to investigate a double specific characteristic of agency: the capability of the subject to deal with relevant social categorizations, such as gender or ethnicity; and situate…
A sociology of anxiety
The aim of this article is to investigate the role of anxiety as an emotional state frequently identified as the most characteristic of the history of modern Europe, and of the 'Global North'. Starting from an assessment of the main supporters of this interpretation in social theory - such as the risk society approach of Ulrich Beck, and the role of expert knowledge in Anthony Giddens - the article discusses the current relevance and limitations …
Youth and the Politics of the Present
This chapter investigates the link between uncertainty in the labour market and young adults’ autonomy in Italy and Estonia. It focuses on young adults leaving the parental home and being able to financially provide for their own needs, highlighting the coping strategies youth put in place in different institutional contexts. The results come from a comparative qualitative analysis lasting three years in the frame of the EXCEPT project − Horizon …
A vulnerable generation? Youth agency facing work precariousness
Agencia y vulnerabilidad no son términos alternativos; al contrario, su encuentro hace emerger una característica distintiva de la agencia: la del "débil" que se enfrenta con dificultad a las restricciones y que descubre nuevas oportunidades. Tras una discusión teórica en torno a la relación entre agencia y vulnerabilidad y de las transformaciones de los procesos de subjetivación, este artículo se centra en la situación específica de vulnerabilid…
A generational attitude
For almost 10 years there has been talk of the economic crisis affecting the European area, with more evident effects in the Mediterranean countries. Yet the expression ‘economic crisis’ has become too wide and blurred to be useful for describing how the current socio-economic conjuncture is affecting different categories of young people in different ways. Precariousness and reduced job opportunities, with their consequences for social mobility, …
Embodied emotions between constructivism and ontologism
This article investigates the issue of embodied emotions in social sciences, in a context characterized by increasing theoretical attention to overcoming the nature/culture dualism, but also by a growing dualism between constructivist and ontological approaches to emotions. We take as pivot of the analysis the way in which this topic has been debated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. The first section of the article locates the work of …
Critical agency and the future of critique
The aim of this article is to offer a cartography of the current debate on critical agency, starting from the inner ambivalences of the modern notion of critique as resistant negation and affirmative creation of new practices. First, the article discusses the double-faced nature of critique and its interpretations in the European tradition of critical thought. It then engages in reflection on some alternative pathways to conceptualizing critical …
Subjectivation et désubjectivation
À partir des concepts de subjectivation et de désubjectivation mobilisés par Michel Wieviorka et les sociologues de l’action, ce livre développe une réflexion sur les processus de subjectivation dans le contexte historique de la globalisation, du pluralisme culturel et identitaire, d’inégalités croissantes et de vulnérabilité. Cet ouvrage traite de ces enjeux contemporains en se basant sur l’analyse d’expériences et de débats aussi bien français …
Introduction générale
Un penser global de la subjectivationCe livre développe une réflexion sur la sociologie du sujet au temps de la globalisation, du multiculturalisme, de la pluralité des formes d’inégalité et de vulnérabilité, avec une attention particulière pour les questions de la violence et de la souffrance, de la combinaison entre individualisation et globalisation, des ambivalences entre multiculturalisme et intégration sociale. Il s’agit de questions centra
Italian thought and social theory
The aim of this article is to explore how, and to what extent, Italian thought - by its focalization on pre-modern theoretical issues and its distance from classical modern topics, such as the philosophy of conscience or the transcendence of language - can offer a different insight on contemporary social theory and critical theory, after the dissolution of the idea of totality as a foundational concept of modernity. In the last decades, a frame n…
Framing emancipations
This article deals with the topic of emancipation in the social sciences and its transformation in recent decades. Despite its centrality for sociological analysis, emancipation is a topic characterized by ambivalent meanings - autonomy and authenticity, contingency and normativity, free will and negative freedom - and by 'Eurocentric' and 'postcolonial' interpretations. After a long period in which emancipation was considered the unified express…
Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World
Introduction The Future of the Second Generation in a Globalized World Framing Contexts and Actors A Specific Generational Location Multiple Belonging Complex Identifications Children of Immigrants in Search of Justness
Different But Not Stranger
This article deals with the problem of the future of the second generation in Italy. After a brief overview of the main perspectives currently adopted to theorise the future of the second and subsequent generations, the Italian situation is introduced. Our objective is to see whether and how the observations made especially in contexts with a long tradition of immigration, where migration processes are now culturally and institutionally embedded,…
A sociology of anxiety
The aim of this article is to investigate the role of anxiety as an emotional state frequently identified as the most characteristic of the history of modern Europe, and of the 'Global North'. Starting from an assessment of the main supporters of this interpretation in social theory - such as the risk society approach of Ulrich Beck, and the role of expert knowledge in Anthony Giddens - the article discusses the current relevance and limitations …
Individualization and Individualism
The aim of this article is to show how young people in Italy deal with the structural injunction to become individuals. While there is a substantial number of works on how institutions converge in promoting individualization and an 'entrepreneurial self', in this article we investigate how young people give shape and meaning to social relations in the framework of the injunction to become autonomous entrepreneurs of themselves. The research prese…
Friendship Dynamics between Emotions and Trials
The aim of this article is to analyze friendship ties and the emotions connected to them in some particular phases of life: periods when subjects are faced with difficult challenges such as mourning, separation, job loss or illness. Under these circumstances, friendship ties and emotions take on exceptional intensity. To investigate these moments I will use the analytical concept of trial and I will outline its heuristic utility in the analysis o…
Agency in intersectionality. Towards a method for studying the situatedness of action
The aim of this article is to offer a reflection on intersectionality as an analytical tool to investigate agency as a situated form of subjective action. In this article, the reference to intersectionality will be considered a useful epistemological and methodological tool to investigate a double specific characteristic of agency: the capability of the subject to deal with relevant social categorizations, such as gender or ethnicity; and situate…
A generational attitude
For almost 10 years there has been talk of the economic crisis affecting the European area, with more evident effects in the Mediterranean countries. Yet the expression ‘economic crisis’ has become too wide and blurred to be useful for describing how the current socio-economic conjuncture is affecting different categories of young people in different ways. Precariousness and reduced job opportunities, with their consequences for social mobility, …
Critical agency and the future of critique
The aim of this article is to offer a cartography of the current debate on critical agency, starting from the inner ambivalences of the modern notion of critique as resistant negation and affirmative creation of new practices. First, the article discusses the double-faced nature of critique and its interpretations in the European tradition of critical thought. It then engages in reflection on some alternative pathways to conceptualizing critical …
Framing emancipations
This article deals with the topic of emancipation in the social sciences and its transformation in recent decades. Despite its centrality for sociological analysis, emancipation is a topic characterized by ambivalent meanings - autonomy and authenticity, contingency and normativity, free will and negative freedom - and by 'Eurocentric' and 'postcolonial' interpretations. After a long period in which emancipation was considered the unified express…
Critique and social movements
This article aims to confront the principal arguments of the concept of critique in sociology and to demonstrate the emergence in recent years of a re-dimensioned conception of critique, on the one hand, of a pragmatic, pluralistic and contingent nature, and, on the other, show how the need for a strong and transcendental concept of critique that does not renounce the possibility of individual and collective emancipation is still present. This ar…
When the war strikes back
This article explores how the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is represented through videos circulating on TikTok and how the consumption of this content impacts young people’s imaginary of war. After 2 years since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the centrality of TikTok in the communication around this conflict has become apparent. In this study, we are interested in the ‘domesticating’ effect produced by the circulation and consumption of content …
Embodied emotions between constructivism and ontologism
This article investigates the issue of embodied emotions in social sciences, in a context characterized by increasing theoretical attention to overcoming the nature/culture dualism, but also by a growing dualism between constructivist and ontological approaches to emotions. We take as pivot of the analysis the way in which this topic has been debated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. The first section of the article locates the work of …
The Consumption Styles of Immigrant Families in Italy
The purpose of this article is to show how consumption patterns can provide insight into the way in which immigrant parents and their children negotiate their identities, deal with their social status, and try to build a new life in their country of arrival. There is a lot of research on consumption—especially about the role of objects and brands as identity markers—and migrant families—especially evaluating their social status or their reduced c…
Consommation et cultures de la différence chez les jeunes descendants d'immigrés. Réflexions à partir du cas italien
Cet article s’occupe des pratiques et cultures de la consommation chez les jeunes descendants d’immigrés en Italie. En effet les modèles de la consommation représentent une perspective particulièrement intéressante pour observer à la fois les aspects structuraux de l’intégration, liés à la position socioéconomique des familles immigrées, et les aspects interprétatifs et symboliques de la différence culturelle, aspects qui caractérisent les pratiq…
Different But Not Stranger
This article deals with the problem of the future of the second generation in Italy. After a brief overview of the main perspectives currently adopted to theorise the future of the second and subsequent generations, the Italian situation is introduced. Our objective is to see whether and how the observations made especially in contexts with a long tradition of immigration, where migration processes are now culturally and institutionally embedded,…
Critique and social movements
This article aims to confront the principal arguments of the concept of critique in sociology and to demonstrate the emergence in recent years of a re-dimensioned conception of critique, on the one hand, of a pragmatic, pluralistic and contingent nature, and, on the other, show how the need for a strong and transcendental concept of critique that does not renounce the possibility of individual and collective emancipation is still present. This ar…
Consommation et cultures de la différence chez les jeunes descendants d'immigrés. Réflexions à partir du cas italien
Cet article s’occupe des pratiques et cultures de la consommation chez les jeunes descendants d’immigrés en Italie. En effet les modèles de la consommation représentent une perspective particulièrement intéressante pour observer à la fois les aspects structuraux de l’intégration, liés à la position socioéconomique des familles immigrées, et les aspects interprétatifs et symboliques de la différence culturelle, aspects qui caractérisent les pratiq…
Friendship Dynamics between Emotions and Trials
The aim of this article is to analyze friendship ties and the emotions connected to them in some particular phases of life: periods when subjects are faced with difficult challenges such as mourning, separation, job loss or illness. Under these circumstances, friendship ties and emotions take on exceptional intensity. To investigate these moments I will use the analytical concept of trial and I will outline its heuristic utility in the analysis o…
Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World
Introduction The Future of the Second Generation in a Globalized World Framing Contexts and Actors A Specific Generational Location Multiple Belonging Complex Identifications Children of Immigrants in Search of Justness
Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World
This book explores the generational experience of children of immigrants growing up in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, comparing the lives of Mediterranean youths with those from
The Consumption Styles of Immigrant Families in Italy
The purpose of this article is to show how consumption patterns can provide insight into the way in which immigrant parents and their children negotiate their identities, deal with their social status, and try to build a new life in their country of arrival. There is a lot of research on consumption—especially about the role of objects and brands as identity markers—and migrant families—especially evaluating their social status or their reduced c…
Framing emancipations
This article deals with the topic of emancipation in the social sciences and its transformation in recent decades. Despite its centrality for sociological analysis, emancipation is a topic characterized by ambivalent meanings - autonomy and authenticity, contingency and normativity, free will and negative freedom - and by 'Eurocentric' and 'postcolonial' interpretations. After a long period in which emancipation was considered the unified express…
Subjectivation et désubjectivation
À partir des concepts de subjectivation et de désubjectivation mobilisés par Michel Wieviorka et les sociologues de l’action, ce livre développe une réflexion sur les processus de subjectivation dans le contexte historique de la globalisation, du pluralisme culturel et identitaire, d’inégalités croissantes et de vulnérabilité. Cet ouvrage traite de ces enjeux contemporains en se basant sur l’analyse d’expériences et de débats aussi bien français …
Introduction générale
Un penser global de la subjectivationCe livre développe une réflexion sur la sociologie du sujet au temps de la globalisation, du multiculturalisme, de la pluralité des formes d’inégalité et de vulnérabilité, avec une attention particulière pour les questions de la violence et de la souffrance, de la combinaison entre individualisation et globalisation, des ambivalences entre multiculturalisme et intégration sociale. Il s’agit de questions centra
Italian thought and social theory
The aim of this article is to explore how, and to what extent, Italian thought - by its focalization on pre-modern theoretical issues and its distance from classical modern topics, such as the philosophy of conscience or the transcendence of language - can offer a different insight on contemporary social theory and critical theory, after the dissolution of the idea of totality as a foundational concept of modernity. In the last decades, a frame n…
A generational attitude
For almost 10 years there has been talk of the economic crisis affecting the European area, with more evident effects in the Mediterranean countries. Yet the expression ‘economic crisis’ has become too wide and blurred to be useful for describing how the current socio-economic conjuncture is affecting different categories of young people in different ways. Precariousness and reduced job opportunities, with their consequences for social mobility, …
Embodied emotions between constructivism and ontologism
This article investigates the issue of embodied emotions in social sciences, in a context characterized by increasing theoretical attention to overcoming the nature/culture dualism, but also by a growing dualism between constructivist and ontological approaches to emotions. We take as pivot of the analysis the way in which this topic has been debated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. The first section of the article locates the work of …
Critical agency and the future of critique
The aim of this article is to offer a cartography of the current debate on critical agency, starting from the inner ambivalences of the modern notion of critique as resistant negation and affirmative creation of new practices. First, the article discusses the double-faced nature of critique and its interpretations in the European tradition of critical thought. It then engages in reflection on some alternative pathways to conceptualizing critical …
Youth and the Politics of the Present
This chapter investigates the link between uncertainty in the labour market and young adults’ autonomy in Italy and Estonia. It focuses on young adults leaving the parental home and being able to financially provide for their own needs, highlighting the coping strategies youth put in place in different institutional contexts. The results come from a comparative qualitative analysis lasting three years in the frame of the EXCEPT project − Horizon …
A vulnerable generation? Youth agency facing work precariousness
Agencia y vulnerabilidad no son términos alternativos; al contrario, su encuentro hace emerger una característica distintiva de la agencia: la del "débil" que se enfrenta con dificultad a las restricciones y que descubre nuevas oportunidades. Tras una discusión teórica en torno a la relación entre agencia y vulnerabilidad y de las transformaciones de los procesos de subjetivación, este artículo se centra en la situación específica de vulnerabilid…
Processus de singularisation et analyse sociologique
1. La singularisation comme processus de changement structurel de la société, l’épreuve comme outil analytique, l’extrospection comme renouvellement méthodologique sont les trois piliers qui composent le cadre théorique de La Société singulariste. Dans ce livre, Danilo Martuccelli développe et, en même temps, synthétise ses analyses sur la société contemporaine, acheminées par étapes dans les nombreux ouvrages précédents consacrés à la sociologie…
Agency in intersectionality. Towards a method for studying the situatedness of action
The aim of this article is to offer a reflection on intersectionality as an analytical tool to investigate agency as a situated form of subjective action. In this article, the reference to intersectionality will be considered a useful epistemological and methodological tool to investigate a double specific characteristic of agency: the capability of the subject to deal with relevant social categorizations, such as gender or ethnicity; and situate…
A sociology of anxiety
The aim of this article is to investigate the role of anxiety as an emotional state frequently identified as the most characteristic of the history of modern Europe, and of the 'Global North'. Starting from an assessment of the main supporters of this interpretation in social theory - such as the risk society approach of Ulrich Beck, and the role of expert knowledge in Anthony Giddens - the article discusses the current relevance and limitations …
Framing Social Theory
Starting from the Latourian first definition of technoscience, the chapter follows the evolution of this concept within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This offers the occasion to discuss some crucial distinctions – such as science and technology, science and society, human and not human – that are usually assumed by social sciences as an implicit starting point for their analysis. Technoscience rather invites to rethink their …
Individualization and Individualism
The aim of this article is to show how young people in Italy deal with the structural injunction to become individuals. While there is a substantial number of works on how institutions converge in promoting individualization and an 'entrepreneurial self', in this article we investigate how young people give shape and meaning to social relations in the framework of the injunction to become autonomous entrepreneurs of themselves. The research prese…
Utopie per fare la differenza
The aim of this article is to analyse, on the one hand, the relation between modern ideas of utopia and post/decolonial criticism of the Eurocentric sources of such conceptualizations of utopia and, on the other hand, to expand this critique of historicism and teleological approaches with the help of ecofeminist visions. Current forms of everyday utopias – especially those driven by young people – are deeply influenced by a new attention towards …
Youth multidimensional political activism between singularization and mutualism
In the past two decades, research in both “social movements studies” and “critical youth” studies has recorded the growing criticism, by youth political activism, of the individualizing processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperati…
Configurations of otherness and globalization of the Othering Machine
The aim of this introductory article is to shed light on the complexities and ambiguities of the definitions, uses, and categorizations of what is termed ‘racism' or alternatively, in a more flexible and protean manner, ‘othering'. However, while racism and otherness have been forged within the history of modernity, coloniality and capitalism, the current concreteness and linguistic use of these notions is a matter of discussion also within post-…
When the war strikes back
This article explores how the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is represented through videos circulating on TikTok and how the consumption of this content impacts young people’s imaginary of war. After 2 years since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the centrality of TikTok in the communication around this conflict has become apparent. In this study, we are interested in the ‘domesticating’ effect produced by the circulation and consumption of content …
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