A M Pusceddu
Biographic Data
| ID | 17156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A M Pusceddu |
| GIVEN NAMES | A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pusceddu |
| SIGNATURE | PUSCEDDU A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5677-9816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Antropologia, ecologia, política
Entre 2018 e 2019, um movimento de protesto espontâneo abalou a França de Emmanuel Macron. O movimento dos “coletes amarelos” (assim nomeado pelo colete de segurança amarelo usado pelos manifestantes) protestava contra o aumento dos preços dos combustíveis, devido à introdução de uma taxa sobre as emissões de carbono que afetaria diretamente as classes trabalhadoras e de rendimento médio-baixo. Os inúmeros protestos e bloqueios em todo o país, du…
Chega desta falsa guerra
Este artigo mobiliza as ecologias de valor como um quadro concetual para dar conta dos conflitos, contradições e dilemas decorrentes da experiência da crise socioecológica contemporânea. Baseia-se num trabalho de campo etnográfico em Brindisi, cidade industrial da Itália do Sul. Através do exame das fricções entre trabalhadores industriais e ambientalistas, o artigo revela os dilemas socioecológicos subjacentes aos seus quadros de valorização. Ab…
Anuac 2024
Anuac 2024
Nel 2022 Anuac ha tagliato il traguardo decennale. Da allora abbiamo cominciato a ragionare intorno ad un progetto di rilancio della rivista, che finalmente si concretizza con questo nuovo numero, il primo che pubblichiamo su OpenEdition Journals, dove ci troverete d’ora in avanti.Un progetto che ha cominciato a definirsi attraverso la formazione di un Collettivo editoriale, cioè una direzione a più voci, che con questo numero assume piena respon…
Connections and contradictions
Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term "political ecology" through the lens of political economy in the early 1970s. However, he never engaged with what by the 1980s was already a growing transdisciplinary field. An inspiring book in the genealogy of political ecology, Europe and the people without history said little about the emerging approach. Nevertheless, I argue that despite its limited focus on ecological issues, the …
Energopolitics of Transition
This article examines the current mining revival in Europe, focusing on the dispute over lithium mining projects in Portugal. Lithium's growing role in energy storage explains its global speculative boom and its popularity in the socio-technological imaginary of the energy transition. In Portugal, lithium mining applications have skyrocketed in the last decade following the European call for the internal supply of critical raw materials. In 2018,…
Engaging with Spontaneous Anthropologies
This paper reflects upon the relevance of 'spontaneous' anthropologies for the ways anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated, understood and made relevant either in teaching settings or in the broader public discourse. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's observations on 'spontaneous philosophy' and 'common sense', I consider 'spontaneous' anthropologies those conceptions and views - often fragmentary and contradictory - through which people…
On the common sense of social reproduction
Southern Chronicles
This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and environmental struggles. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists in Brindisi, an industrial city in the Italian South, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and …
Cirese 101
This Anniversary Forum commemorates the figure and work of Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese's reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum is built around the re-edition of the English translation of Cirese's essay Gramsci's Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct. The essay is foll…
Amc 100 + 1
Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le 'Osservazioni sul folclore' di Antonio Gramsci, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022
The Moral Economy of Charity
Welfare state transformation has resulted in the expansion of private associations and the increased role of religious charities. In the context of the austerity crisis, the paper addresses how Caritas volunteers in an impoverished urban area in southern Italy deal with the bureaucratisation of resource distribution in face of increasing demands of 'aid'. The categorisation of poverty by welfare agents and the moral evaluations that underlie volu…
Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe
In this article, we examine the making of austerity as common sense, located at the intersection of state interventions and the everyday practices and moral logics through which austerity emerges as an acceptable livelihood possibility for individuals, households and communities. Our argument is based on a comparative analysis of austerity in Italy and Portugal, with a focus on popular austerities among working-class households in two post-indust…
Ernesto De Martino - La fine del mondo
Book forum su Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, nuova edizione a cura di Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre e Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016
Introduzione
Introduzione al book forum su Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, nuova edizione a cura di Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre e Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016
Grassroots Ecologies of Value
In this article I examine socio-environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing from a single case study, an industrial city in southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio-ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to life. Focusing on the trajectory of local environmentalism and the specific case of a women group, the article shows how the intensi…
Unevenness and deservingness
Berardino Palumbo - Lo strabismo della DEA
International book forum on the volume by anthropologist Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia [The Goddess' Strabismus: Anthropology, Academy, and Society in Italy], Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289. Comments of Mara Benadusi, Michael Blim, Riccardo Ciavolella, Caterina Di Pasquale, Adriano Favole, Noelle Molé Liston, Ivan Severi, Valeria Siniscalchi. With a reply by Berardino Pal…
Riccardo Apuzzo, Roberta Garruccio, Sara Roncaglia, Sara Zanisi, Il polline e la ruggine
Recensione di Riccardo Apuzzo, Roberta Garruccio, Sara Roncaglia, Sara Zanisi, Il polline e la ruggine: Memoria, lavoro, deindustrializzazione a Sesto San Giovanni (1985-2015), Italia, 2015, 45 minuti, DVD
Jonathan Friedman - Politicamente corretto
Book forum su Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, a cura di Piero Zanini, traduzione di Francesca Nicola e Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348
Dealing with boundaries
The chapter examines two Muslim festivals in a multi-religious district on the Southern Albanian frontier that were resumed within the post-socialist transition to liberal democracy and integration into global capitalism. Building on Gramsci’s theorization of ‘common sense’, it investigates the intersection between religious and secular mobilities, the interplay of symbolic and material boundaries, and the ethnicization of (formal and informal) c…
Antropologia del lavoro e della crisi in Italia e altrove
Nota critica di Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2014, pp. 298; Fulvia D'Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi, eds, Antropologia della crisi: Prospettive etnografiche sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e dell'impresa in Italia, Torino, L'Harmattan Italia, 2016, pp. 242
To work or not to work
This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks - from administrative to labour and welfare reforms - in a particular locale, I emphasize the analytical relevance of the formal-informal linkage in understanding the production of spheres of informality and negotiation within a bureaucracy
Contested Mediterranean spaces. Ethnographic essays in honour of Charles Tilly edited by Kousis, Maria, Tom Selwyn and David Clark
Local Brothers, National Enemies
The paper presents a general overview of an ongoing research on representations of multi-religious Epirote society in local textual narratives. Aim of the paper is to explore the interplay between the Greek nationalistic script of anti-Muslim discourses and the local narratives of the Ottoman past. The focus is on the objectification of local memories in textual narratives and how this process has been affected by the diglossic relationships betw…
Grassroots Ecologies of Value
In this article I examine socio-environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing from a single case study, an industrial city in southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio-ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to life. Focusing on the trajectory of local environmentalism and the specific case of a women group, the article shows how the intensi…
The Moral Economy of Charity
Welfare state transformation has resulted in the expansion of private associations and the increased role of religious charities. In the context of the austerity crisis, the paper addresses how Caritas volunteers in an impoverished urban area in southern Italy deal with the bureaucratisation of resource distribution in face of increasing demands of 'aid'. The categorisation of poverty by welfare agents and the moral evaluations that underlie volu…
Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe
In this article, we examine the making of austerity as common sense, located at the intersection of state interventions and the everyday practices and moral logics through which austerity emerges as an acceptable livelihood possibility for individuals, households and communities. Our argument is based on a comparative analysis of austerity in Italy and Portugal, with a focus on popular austerities among working-class households in two post-indust…
On the common sense of social reproduction
Southern Chronicles
This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and environmental struggles. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists in Brindisi, an industrial city in the Italian South, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and …
Local Brothers, National Enemies
The paper presents a general overview of an ongoing research on representations of multi-religious Epirote society in local textual narratives. Aim of the paper is to explore the interplay between the Greek nationalistic script of anti-Muslim discourses and the local narratives of the Ottoman past. The focus is on the objectification of local memories in textual narratives and how this process has been affected by the diglossic relationships betw…
Contested Mediterranean spaces. Ethnographic essays in honour of Charles Tilly edited by Kousis, Maria, Tom Selwyn and David Clark
Local Brothers, National Enemies
The paper presents a general overview of an ongoing research on representations of multi-religious Epirote society in local textual narratives. Aim of the paper is to explore the interplay between the Greek nationalistic script of anti-Muslim discourses and the local narratives of the Ottoman past. The focus is on the objectification of local memories in textual narratives and how this process has been affected by the diglossic relationships betw…
Dealing with boundaries
The chapter examines two Muslim festivals in a multi-religious district on the Southern Albanian frontier that were resumed within the post-socialist transition to liberal democracy and integration into global capitalism. Building on Gramsci’s theorization of ‘common sense’, it investigates the intersection between religious and secular mobilities, the interplay of symbolic and material boundaries, and the ethnicization of (formal and informal) c…
Antropologia del lavoro e della crisi in Italia e altrove
Nota critica di Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella, eds, Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2014, pp. 298; Fulvia D'Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi, eds, Antropologia della crisi: Prospettive etnografiche sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e dell'impresa in Italia, Torino, L'Harmattan Italia, 2016, pp. 242
To work or not to work
This piece examines the position of workfare scheme recipients in the municipal administration of a southern Italian city. Looking at the interplay between different regulatory frameworks - from administrative to labour and welfare reforms - in a particular locale, I emphasize the analytical relevance of the formal-informal linkage in understanding the production of spheres of informality and negotiation within a bureaucracy
Jonathan Friedman - Politicamente corretto
Book forum su Jonathan Friedman, Politicamente corretto. Il conformismo morale come regime, a cura di Piero Zanini, traduzione di Francesca Nicola e Piero Zanini, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 348
Unevenness and deservingness
Berardino Palumbo - Lo strabismo della DEA
International book forum on the volume by anthropologist Berardino Palumbo, Lo strabismo della DEA: Antropologia, accademia e società in Italia [The Goddess' Strabismus: Anthropology, Academy, and Society in Italy], Palermo, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2018, pp. 289. Comments of Mara Benadusi, Michael Blim, Riccardo Ciavolella, Caterina Di Pasquale, Adriano Favole, Noelle Molé Liston, Ivan Severi, Valeria Siniscalchi. With a reply by Berardino Pal…
Riccardo Apuzzo, Roberta Garruccio, Sara Roncaglia, Sara Zanisi, Il polline e la ruggine
Recensione di Riccardo Apuzzo, Roberta Garruccio, Sara Roncaglia, Sara Zanisi, Il polline e la ruggine: Memoria, lavoro, deindustrializzazione a Sesto San Giovanni (1985-2015), Italia, 2015, 45 minuti, DVD
Grassroots Ecologies of Value
In this article I examine socio-environmental conflicts through the category of value. Drawing from a single case study, an industrial city in southern Italy, I address the revaluation projects underpinning the conflict around socio-ecological arrangements that are considered unfair, unsustainable and detrimental to life. Focusing on the trajectory of local environmentalism and the specific case of a women group, the article shows how the intensi…
Austerity, the state and common sense in Europe
In this article, we examine the making of austerity as common sense, located at the intersection of state interventions and the everyday practices and moral logics through which austerity emerges as an acceptable livelihood possibility for individuals, households and communities. Our argument is based on a comparative analysis of austerity in Italy and Portugal, with a focus on popular austerities among working-class households in two post-indust…
Ernesto De Martino - La fine del mondo
Book forum su Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, nuova edizione a cura di Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre e Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016
Introduzione
Introduzione al book forum su Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all'analisi delle apocalissi culturali, nuova edizione a cura di Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre e Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [ed. fr. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles, Éditions EHESS, 2016
Engaging with Spontaneous Anthropologies
This paper reflects upon the relevance of 'spontaneous' anthropologies for the ways anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated, understood and made relevant either in teaching settings or in the broader public discourse. Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's observations on 'spontaneous philosophy' and 'common sense', I consider 'spontaneous' anthropologies those conceptions and views - often fragmentary and contradictory - through which people…
On the common sense of social reproduction
Southern Chronicles
This article focuses on class as a central concept for analyzing the common ground of labor and environmental struggles. Through the examination of the frictions between industrial workers and environmentalists in Brindisi, an industrial city in the Italian South, the article unravels the socio-ecological dilemmas underlying their valuation frameworks. It addresses the job blackmail as a central element of the framework through which workers and …
Cirese 101
This Anniversary Forum commemorates the figure and work of Alberto Mario Cirese (1921-2011), a prominent Italian anthropologist, on the 101st anniversary of his birth. Cirese's reading of Gramsci has been highly influential. For this reason, the forum is built around the re-edition of the English translation of Cirese's essay Gramsci's Observations on folklore: Conceptions of the world, spontaneous philosophy and class instinct. The essay is foll…
Amc 100 + 1
Introduzione a Anniversary Forum Cirese 101. Rileggere le 'Osservazioni sul folclore' di Antonio Gramsci, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022
The Moral Economy of Charity
Welfare state transformation has resulted in the expansion of private associations and the increased role of religious charities. In the context of the austerity crisis, the paper addresses how Caritas volunteers in an impoverished urban area in southern Italy deal with the bureaucratisation of resource distribution in face of increasing demands of 'aid'. The categorisation of poverty by welfare agents and the moral evaluations that underlie volu…
Anuac 2024
Anuac 2024
Nel 2022 Anuac ha tagliato il traguardo decennale. Da allora abbiamo cominciato a ragionare intorno ad un progetto di rilancio della rivista, che finalmente si concretizza con questo nuovo numero, il primo che pubblichiamo su OpenEdition Journals, dove ci troverete d’ora in avanti.Un progetto che ha cominciato a definirsi attraverso la formazione di un Collettivo editoriale, cioè una direzione a più voci, che con questo numero assume piena respon…
Connections and contradictions
Eric Wolf is conventionally credited with reframing the term "political ecology" through the lens of political economy in the early 1970s. However, he never engaged with what by the 1980s was already a growing transdisciplinary field. An inspiring book in the genealogy of political ecology, Europe and the people without history said little about the emerging approach. Nevertheless, I argue that despite its limited focus on ecological issues, the …
Energopolitics of Transition
This article examines the current mining revival in Europe, focusing on the dispute over lithium mining projects in Portugal. Lithium's growing role in energy storage explains its global speculative boom and its popularity in the socio-technological imaginary of the energy transition. In Portugal, lithium mining applications have skyrocketed in the last decade following the European call for the internal supply of critical raw materials. In 2018,…
Antropologia, ecologia, política
Entre 2018 e 2019, um movimento de protesto espontâneo abalou a França de Emmanuel Macron. O movimento dos “coletes amarelos” (assim nomeado pelo colete de segurança amarelo usado pelos manifestantes) protestava contra o aumento dos preços dos combustíveis, devido à introdução de uma taxa sobre as emissões de carbono que afetaria diretamente as classes trabalhadoras e de rendimento médio-baixo. Os inúmeros protestos e bloqueios em todo o país, du…
Chega desta falsa guerra
Este artigo mobiliza as ecologias de valor como um quadro concetual para dar conta dos conflitos, contradições e dilemas decorrentes da experiência da crise socioecológica contemporânea. Baseia-se num trabalho de campo etnográfico em Brindisi, cidade industrial da Itália do Sul. Através do exame das fricções entre trabalhadores industriais e ambientalistas, o artigo revela os dilemas socioecológicos subjacentes aos seus quadros de valorização. Ab…
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