Letizia Carrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 3936491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Letizia Carrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Letizia |
| FAMILY NAME | Carrera |
| SIGNATURE | CARRERA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7160-347X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Urban Space as a Laboratory of Democratic Change
This article investigates the intricate interplay between ressentiment—as social emotion—social love, and solidarity in democratic societies, focusing on the urban environment as the primary stage where these processes materialize. Far from being a marginal emotion, ressentiment is deeply intertwined with democratic life, arising from the gap between proclaimed values and lived conditions. It represents an affective reaction to the perceived betr…
Rethinking ressentiment
The article explores the complex interplay between resentment and democratic society, and the material and visible forms that this emotion takes within the city. Ressentiment emerge as key explanatory categories, influencing individuals' perceptions and actions within social processes. Resentment is portrayed as a deeply democratic sentiment, arising from the perceived betrayal of the promise of equality inherent in democratic ideals. The article…
Age tourism
For many decades, the large part of developed countries has been experiencing the progressive ageing of their populations. This quantitative change is also accompanied by a qualitative shift in social representations of the third age . Within these changes, a fundamental role is played by the desire to experience opportunities for socializing, leisure, and culture that can shape a new and more complex concept of well-being. Within this context, t…
Women’s Wise Walkshops
This paper presents the Women’s Wise Walkshops (WWW) project, a participatory feminist methodology for urban co-design implemented in Ferrara, Italy. The research explores how women’s situated knowledge and lived experiences can inform inclusive urban planning through collaborative urban traversals and participatory design processes. Drawing on feminist epistemologies and combining elements of flâneuserie and Situationist dérive, the WWW methodol…
The elderly and the right to an active aging
The older citizens represent a portion of the population that is not only already high but is also expected to increase according to trend analyses from major national and international research reports. The pandemic experience has shown how they feel the scarcity of relationships and the loneliness of their homes as factors that significantly impact the quality of their daily lives. This challenging historical moment has provided an opportunity …
Women and cities. The conquest of urban space
In the city of the Nineteenth-century, transformed by the values of the French revolution and by the modernity, women did not have yet full citizenship. The public space was still strongly a male space and women, still with a weak public subjectivity, remained the object of the male gaze. Women have begun a process of conquering urban space by claiming their right to the city, through their physical presence in the city itself. Through physical s…
Active aging and urban policies
Aging is one of the most important challenges of our times. As stated by United Nations' report on 1983, "Policies to meet the challenge of a growing, healthier and more active seniors population -based on the view of the ageing of society as an opportunity to be utilized -automatically benefit the individual ageing person, materially and otherwise. Similarly, any effort to ameliorate the quality of life for the seniors, and to meet their diverse…
Co-Housing as a Strategy to Combat Relational Poverty of Older People
The pandemic experience from Covid-19 has heightened the awareness of the impact that relational poverty has on the quality of life, especially of older people’s lives. The obligation to stay inside their homes to protect them from the risk of infection has had the indirect effect of precipitating many elderly people into a state of solitude from which, at least in part, the city had been protecting them until then. The pandemic has shown how old…
"Tornare a casa". I viaggi delle radici degli albanesi residenti in Puglia
Le radici rappresentano la metafora di un senso di appartenenza che va oltre la presenza fisica nel paese di origine. La crescente attenzione al turismo delle radici testimonia lo spazio riconosciuto a un bisogno di identità e di radicamento avverti-to in misura crescente in un mondo altamente mobile e interconnesso. La ricerca dal titolo "Tornare a casa. I viaggi di ritorno degli albanesi residenti in Puglia", è un'indagine esplorativa centrata …
Migrations and culture. Essential reflections on wandering human beings
It is possible that our century and the one just past will be remembered in the future as the centuries of migration. Faced with the extent of migration today, social scientists have posed several questions, and in particular they have examined the causes of migration, the integration of immigrants into host countries, and the development of their cultural identity. The newcomers are almost always poorer than those who settled before them, and ha…
Pedonalità e attrattività degli spazi turistici urbani nelle città mediterranee
At the present, marked by the frequent and widespread use of private motorised means of transport, pedestrian mobility is increasingly considered an element of quality and a proper access and use of urban public spaces. For these reasons, the ability to access and walk in the city, as well as to have areas suitable for walkability has become an objective of urban policies of redevelopment and revitalization of neighborhoods, also in order to incr…
Centri storici tra specificità e processi di mutamento
Il dibattitto italiano sui centri storici, caratterizzato per lungo tempo da un andamento carsico, è stato spesso carente sia sul piano del riconoscimento della loro specificità, sia su quello di un'analisi processuale delle loro caratteristiche. Il punto di partenza è riconoscerli come parte integrante della città ma, allo stesso tempo, come parti caratterizzate da tratti specifici. Alcune volte i centri storici sono considerati come una risorsa…
Gli anziani e la domanda di città
The process of the increasing number of elderly people is linked with the important change of social representations of third age. Elderly people forcefully claim a new urban protagonism. They look at the city to satisfy not only their needs but also the conditions for their existential planning
La città e l'esperienza della crisi
City makes visible the crisis, it is home to the impoverishment processes that are generating a range of new poors, giving form to the heavy impact they are having on lifestyles and urban experience of the subjects. The public spaces and especially the places of consumption testify these substantial changes that characterize the lives of Italians in the last few years. At the same time, the crisis gives visibility to the city, it increases awaren…
Sentire la città. (G. Amedola, emozioni urbane. Odori di città, Liguori, 2015)
Camminare nella città tra velocità e flânerie
Walking is probably the most natural of human activities. However, walking in the city or , better, to experience a city walking is considered an unusual practice. The road has been progressively removed as a space of experience or it has been limited to its place of transit of cars in more heave logic of the modern movement . \nThe walk through the city, however, can be the tool to experience the city itself, to (re ) discover the landscapes and…
I Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale. Una proposta solida nella societŕ liquida
In the currently liquid and uncertain world, purchasing represents a dimension where individuals live the illusion of control over their own lives. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (or GAS, an Italian acronym for Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale) aree an attempt to reverse this model, and to build relationships not despite but through the market and purchasing. They choose products and producers on the basis of respect for the environment and solidarity b…
Active aging and urban policies
Aging is one of the most important challenges of our times. As stated by United Nations' report on 1983, "Policies to meet the challenge of a growing, healthier and more active seniors population -based on the view of the ageing of society as an opportunity to be utilized -automatically benefit the individual ageing person, materially and otherwise. Similarly, any effort to ameliorate the quality of life for the seniors, and to meet their diverse…
I Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale. Una proposta solida nella societŕ liquida
In the currently liquid and uncertain world, purchasing represents a dimension where individuals live the illusion of control over their own lives. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (or GAS, an Italian acronym for Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale) aree an attempt to reverse this model, and to build relationships not despite but through the market and purchasing. They choose products and producers on the basis of respect for the environment and solidarity b…
I Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale. Una proposta solida nella societŕ liquida
In the currently liquid and uncertain world, purchasing represents a dimension where individuals live the illusion of control over their own lives. Solidarity Purchasing Groups (or GAS, an Italian acronym for Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale) aree an attempt to reverse this model, and to build relationships not despite but through the market and purchasing. They choose products and producers on the basis of respect for the environment and solidarity b…
Camminare nella città tra velocità e flânerie
Walking is probably the most natural of human activities. However, walking in the city or , better, to experience a city walking is considered an unusual practice. The road has been progressively removed as a space of experience or it has been limited to its place of transit of cars in more heave logic of the modern movement . \nThe walk through the city, however, can be the tool to experience the city itself, to (re ) discover the landscapes and…
Sentire la città. (G. Amedola, emozioni urbane. Odori di città, Liguori, 2015)
La città e l'esperienza della crisi
City makes visible the crisis, it is home to the impoverishment processes that are generating a range of new poors, giving form to the heavy impact they are having on lifestyles and urban experience of the subjects. The public spaces and especially the places of consumption testify these substantial changes that characterize the lives of Italians in the last few years. At the same time, the crisis gives visibility to the city, it increases awaren…
Gli anziani e la domanda di città
The process of the increasing number of elderly people is linked with the important change of social representations of third age. Elderly people forcefully claim a new urban protagonism. They look at the city to satisfy not only their needs but also the conditions for their existential planning
Centri storici tra specificità e processi di mutamento
Il dibattitto italiano sui centri storici, caratterizzato per lungo tempo da un andamento carsico, è stato spesso carente sia sul piano del riconoscimento della loro specificità, sia su quello di un'analisi processuale delle loro caratteristiche. Il punto di partenza è riconoscerli come parte integrante della città ma, allo stesso tempo, come parti caratterizzate da tratti specifici. Alcune volte i centri storici sono considerati come una risorsa…
Co-Housing as a Strategy to Combat Relational Poverty of Older People
The pandemic experience from Covid-19 has heightened the awareness of the impact that relational poverty has on the quality of life, especially of older people’s lives. The obligation to stay inside their homes to protect them from the risk of infection has had the indirect effect of precipitating many elderly people into a state of solitude from which, at least in part, the city had been protecting them until then. The pandemic has shown how old…
"Tornare a casa". I viaggi delle radici degli albanesi residenti in Puglia
Le radici rappresentano la metafora di un senso di appartenenza che va oltre la presenza fisica nel paese di origine. La crescente attenzione al turismo delle radici testimonia lo spazio riconosciuto a un bisogno di identità e di radicamento avverti-to in misura crescente in un mondo altamente mobile e interconnesso. La ricerca dal titolo "Tornare a casa. I viaggi di ritorno degli albanesi residenti in Puglia", è un'indagine esplorativa centrata …
Migrations and culture. Essential reflections on wandering human beings
It is possible that our century and the one just past will be remembered in the future as the centuries of migration. Faced with the extent of migration today, social scientists have posed several questions, and in particular they have examined the causes of migration, the integration of immigrants into host countries, and the development of their cultural identity. The newcomers are almost always poorer than those who settled before them, and ha…
Pedonalità e attrattività degli spazi turistici urbani nelle città mediterranee
At the present, marked by the frequent and widespread use of private motorised means of transport, pedestrian mobility is increasingly considered an element of quality and a proper access and use of urban public spaces. For these reasons, the ability to access and walk in the city, as well as to have areas suitable for walkability has become an objective of urban policies of redevelopment and revitalization of neighborhoods, also in order to incr…
Women and cities. The conquest of urban space
In the city of the Nineteenth-century, transformed by the values of the French revolution and by the modernity, women did not have yet full citizenship. The public space was still strongly a male space and women, still with a weak public subjectivity, remained the object of the male gaze. Women have begun a process of conquering urban space by claiming their right to the city, through their physical presence in the city itself. Through physical s…
Active aging and urban policies
Aging is one of the most important challenges of our times. As stated by United Nations' report on 1983, "Policies to meet the challenge of a growing, healthier and more active seniors population -based on the view of the ageing of society as an opportunity to be utilized -automatically benefit the individual ageing person, materially and otherwise. Similarly, any effort to ameliorate the quality of life for the seniors, and to meet their diverse…
The elderly and the right to an active aging
The older citizens represent a portion of the population that is not only already high but is also expected to increase according to trend analyses from major national and international research reports. The pandemic experience has shown how they feel the scarcity of relationships and the loneliness of their homes as factors that significantly impact the quality of their daily lives. This challenging historical moment has provided an opportunity …
Rethinking ressentiment
The article explores the complex interplay between resentment and democratic society, and the material and visible forms that this emotion takes within the city. Ressentiment emerge as key explanatory categories, influencing individuals' perceptions and actions within social processes. Resentment is portrayed as a deeply democratic sentiment, arising from the perceived betrayal of the promise of equality inherent in democratic ideals. The article…
Age tourism
For many decades, the large part of developed countries has been experiencing the progressive ageing of their populations. This quantitative change is also accompanied by a qualitative shift in social representations of the third age . Within these changes, a fundamental role is played by the desire to experience opportunities for socializing, leisure, and culture that can shape a new and more complex concept of well-being. Within this context, t…
Women’s Wise Walkshops
This paper presents the Women’s Wise Walkshops (WWW) project, a participatory feminist methodology for urban co-design implemented in Ferrara, Italy. The research explores how women’s situated knowledge and lived experiences can inform inclusive urban planning through collaborative urban traversals and participatory design processes. Drawing on feminist epistemologies and combining elements of flâneuserie and Situationist dérive, the WWW methodol…
Urban Space as a Laboratory of Democratic Change
This article investigates the intricate interplay between ressentiment—as social emotion—social love, and solidarity in democratic societies, focusing on the urban environment as the primary stage where these processes materialize. Far from being a marginal emotion, ressentiment is deeply intertwined with democratic life, arising from the gap between proclaimed values and lived conditions. It represents an affective reaction to the perceived betr…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Diverse academic and cultural studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Italian Social Issues and Migration (4 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (4 works)