Alessandro Pratesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Pratesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Pratesi |
| SIGNATURE | PRATESI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9553-9943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Six Memos for the Current Time. Rethinking six contemporary sociological matters in light of the emotional dynamics shaping them
This contribution is inspired by Italo Calvino’s Harvard Lectures which should had been hold at Harvard in 1986 and were never delivered because of Calvino’s sudden and premature death. Calvino began his American lectures with a series of reflections on six qualities that he considered essential for good literature and then broadened his reflections to other (no strictly literary) dimensions of our existence. This article is based on a series of …
The ‘Edge Effect’
On politics, emotional cultures and social change in times of crisis
This interview was conducted between the Spring and the Summer 2020 by means of an interactive email exchange. Our conversation with Randall Collins had been planned a few months before the global pandemic as part of ongoing conversations inspired by the creation of an interdisciplinary study group on emotions at the University of Florence, and was eventually boosted by some of the recent developments in global politics and in the pandemic itself…
Sociologia della vita famigliare. Soggetti, contesti e nuove prospettive, di Caterina Satta, Sveva Magaraggia, Ilenya Camozzi
Review of Sociologia della vita famigliare. Soggetti, contesti e nuove prospettive by Caterina Satta, Sveva Magaraggia, Ilenya Camozzi
Doing Care, Doing Citizenship
A Respectable Scandal
Most of the scholarship and current literature on parental care focuses on its gendered costs and unbalances. Less attention is paid to the consequences of being excluded from this specific type of care—what we could call the right to parent. Gay and lesbian parents claiming their right to parent represents a momentous historical change: the increasing visibility of these parents is one of the most important components of such change. Emotional d…
Exploring the Emotional Experience of Same-Sex Parents by Mixing Creatively Multiple Qualitative Methods
In this paper I address some of the main challenges and benefits of doing qualitative research with a specific type of 'informal caregivers', i.e. those who have been thus far excluded from the conceptual category of 'normal' caregivers and from normal research on informal care: same-sex parents. The research presented in this paper is an example of a qualitative, inclusive approach to studying the felt and lived experience of 33 same-sex parents…
The Productivity of Care
Care work may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward, and self-empowerment. Caregivers experience both positive and negative emotional states in caring situations, and further studies on the rewarding and energising aspects of care may help us to broaden our understanding of how we can reduce the degree of burden while increasing the sense of satisfaction. This article shows how the focus on emotio…
Exploring the Emotional Experience of Same-Sex Parents by Mixing Creatively Multiple Qualitative Methods
In this paper I address some of the main challenges and benefits of doing qualitative research with a specific type of 'informal caregivers', i.e. those who have been thus far excluded from the conceptual category of 'normal' caregivers and from normal research on informal care: same-sex parents. The research presented in this paper is an example of a qualitative, inclusive approach to studying the felt and lived experience of 33 same-sex parents…
The Productivity of Care
Care work may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward, and self-empowerment. Caregivers experience both positive and negative emotional states in caring situations, and further studies on the rewarding and energising aspects of care may help us to broaden our understanding of how we can reduce the degree of burden while increasing the sense of satisfaction. This article shows how the focus on emotio…
A Respectable Scandal
Most of the scholarship and current literature on parental care focuses on its gendered costs and unbalances. Less attention is paid to the consequences of being excluded from this specific type of care—what we could call the right to parent. Gay and lesbian parents claiming their right to parent represents a momentous historical change: the increasing visibility of these parents is one of the most important components of such change. Emotional d…
Exploring the Emotional Experience of Same-Sex Parents by Mixing Creatively Multiple Qualitative Methods
In this paper I address some of the main challenges and benefits of doing qualitative research with a specific type of 'informal caregivers', i.e. those who have been thus far excluded from the conceptual category of 'normal' caregivers and from normal research on informal care: same-sex parents. The research presented in this paper is an example of a qualitative, inclusive approach to studying the felt and lived experience of 33 same-sex parents…
Doing Care, Doing Citizenship
On politics, emotional cultures and social change in times of crisis
This interview was conducted between the Spring and the Summer 2020 by means of an interactive email exchange. Our conversation with Randall Collins had been planned a few months before the global pandemic as part of ongoing conversations inspired by the creation of an interdisciplinary study group on emotions at the University of Florence, and was eventually boosted by some of the recent developments in global politics and in the pandemic itself…
Sociologia della vita famigliare. Soggetti, contesti e nuove prospettive, di Caterina Satta, Sveva Magaraggia, Ilenya Camozzi
Review of Sociologia della vita famigliare. Soggetti, contesti e nuove prospettive by Caterina Satta, Sveva Magaraggia, Ilenya Camozzi
The ‘Edge Effect’
Six Memos for the Current Time. Rethinking six contemporary sociological matters in light of the emotional dynamics shaping them
This contribution is inspired by Italo Calvino’s Harvard Lectures which should had been hold at Harvard in 1986 and were never delivered because of Calvino’s sudden and premature death. Calvino began his American lectures with a series of reflections on six qualities that he considered essential for good literature and then broadened his reflections to other (no strictly literary) dimensions of our existence. This article is based on a series of …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Family Support in Illness (2 works)