Daniela Pianezzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Pianezzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela |
| FAMILY NAME | Pianezzi |
| SIGNATURE | PIANEZZI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Verona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4880-8351 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Against rectitude
Population expansion and longevity mean that as more people are living longer, the world is generating increasing numbers of dead bodies. This results in the practical challenge of how to ‘organize’ an increasingly large volume of human remains in ways that are ethically responsible. Enduring beliefs about how the dead should be cared for shape relevant practices which, in turn, reflect wider values orientated largely towards the primacy of the i…
The Tragedy of Cemeterial Work
Working in a cemetery carries ethical weight – getting it ‘right’ matters. How might tragedy help us to illuminate the meaning, nature, and ethical significance of this work? This paper draws from a feminist reading of the Greek tragedy Antigone, via the theoretical work of Adriana Cavarero, to show what we can learn about the ethico-political significance of cemeterial work as an enactment of grievability. It showcases the power of tragedy throu…
Art Exhibition Review Breast
Workers that matter and work that counts organizing and accounting for value(s)
Special Issues are spaces of political action with the potential to activate new beginnings. As a group of academics, daily confronted with the lives of individuals who struggle for recognition across the societies in which we live, we came together with the intention of posing both timeless and timely questions to our communities: questions about how the value of work is defined, who is counted, and what kinds of work and workers are allowed to …
An Arendtian dialogue on genomics
As a practice, dialogue reveals and constructs plural perspectives. It is the foundation of a shared reality, one that cannot be reduced to a monolithic viewpoint claiming to hold absolute truth. We academics, often enclosed within our disciplinary tribes, tend to repeat familiar formulas and languages that reassure, contain and ultimately build barriers, making it difficult to imagine new spaces for dialogue and learning. This work recounts the …
Lost in Translation
This study explores how discourses of gender equality workers in Japan contribute to the construction of gendered subjectivities and how these discourses intersect with the hegemonic neoliberal discourse of gender equality. By employing a thematic and critical discourse analysis, our study revealed the presence of three distinct discursive regimes: a locally adapted neoliberal regime that positions women as resources for development; a critical a…
Nomads, thresholds, and leaves
This paper presents the mise en espace of an anti‐drama‐liturgy written for the Conference “Salute e Benessere delle Persone Transgender e Gender Diverse: Buone Prassi e Nuove Prospettive [Wellbeing of Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Good Practices and New Perspectives]”. By providing an example of conferencing differently, the paper depicts an elliptical (round)table that questions normative assumptions on gender and sexuality and establi…
Gender, Money, and Sexuality
This study explores how khwajasiras, a community of gender-variant persons in Pakistan, engage in relational work to gain recognition in a heteronormative world. We highlight how these workers negotiate the meanings of their intimate relationships with different forms, frequencies, amounts, and payment media of financial exchanges. We have identified four such relations i.e. romantic relations, spousal relations, taboo relations, and professional…
Useless bodies? Exploring the ethical potential of art
This paper examines the ethical value of artistic artifacts in challenging the unequal valuation of working bodies with a focus on the contemporary art exhibition ‘Useless bodies?’ by Danish artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Drawing on Judith Butler's work and posthuman theory, particularly Braidotti's contributions, the paper argues that this exhibition exemplifies how art can foster an ethics of interdependency, one that both critique…
Constructing subjects that matter
This paper examines how media discourses on gender and work play a part in regulating the lives of a community of Pakistani gender diverse people, called Khawajasiras. Developing a critical discourse analysis of media news, we show how this regulatory process results in discursive mechanisms positioning Khawajasiras' work as “dirty” and in need of “respectable” and exclusively “feminine” alternatives. This regulatory process revolves around deleg…
Doing transgender ‘right’
The regulative and oppressive effects of gender norms on bodies of transgender workers have been mostly explored in standard binary gender work settings. We explore the regulative effects of specialized transgender work regimes by posing the following two questions: how do specialized transgendered work regimes regulate transgender work and bodies? and how do transgender workers cope with these regimes? Through a case study of khwajasiras , a com…
Public–private partnership in a smart city
Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of a smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from a historically and culturally embedded “partnership” between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, the adoption of a neoliberal logic of an all-embr…
Corruption in migration management
This article explores the relation between networks as an emerging mode of public governance and corruption. Adopting the theoretical lens of actor-network theory, the article investigates an Italian episode of corruption related to the awarding of government contracts for the management of Mineo’s CARA, Europe's largest reception centre for migrants. The analysis shows that a governance network may turn corruption itself into a network where abu…
Smart cities
Smart cities
Doing transgender ‘right’
The regulative and oppressive effects of gender norms on bodies of transgender workers have been mostly explored in standard binary gender work settings. We explore the regulative effects of specialized transgender work regimes by posing the following two questions: how do specialized transgendered work regimes regulate transgender work and bodies? and how do transgender workers cope with these regimes? Through a case study of khwajasiras , a com…
Public–private partnership in a smart city
Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of a smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from a historically and culturally embedded “partnership” between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, the adoption of a neoliberal logic of an all-embr…
Smart cities
Corruption in migration management
This article explores the relation between networks as an emerging mode of public governance and corruption. Adopting the theoretical lens of actor-network theory, the article investigates an Italian episode of corruption related to the awarding of government contracts for the management of Mineo’s CARA, Europe's largest reception centre for migrants. The analysis shows that a governance network may turn corruption itself into a network where abu…
Public–private partnership in a smart city
Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of a smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from a historically and culturally embedded “partnership” between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, the adoption of a neoliberal logic of an all-embr…
Useless bodies? Exploring the ethical potential of art
This paper examines the ethical value of artistic artifacts in challenging the unequal valuation of working bodies with a focus on the contemporary art exhibition ‘Useless bodies?’ by Danish artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Drawing on Judith Butler's work and posthuman theory, particularly Braidotti's contributions, the paper argues that this exhibition exemplifies how art can foster an ethics of interdependency, one that both critique…
Constructing subjects that matter
This paper examines how media discourses on gender and work play a part in regulating the lives of a community of Pakistani gender diverse people, called Khawajasiras. Developing a critical discourse analysis of media news, we show how this regulatory process results in discursive mechanisms positioning Khawajasiras' work as “dirty” and in need of “respectable” and exclusively “feminine” alternatives. This regulatory process revolves around deleg…
Doing transgender ‘right’
The regulative and oppressive effects of gender norms on bodies of transgender workers have been mostly explored in standard binary gender work settings. We explore the regulative effects of specialized transgender work regimes by posing the following two questions: how do specialized transgendered work regimes regulate transgender work and bodies? and how do transgender workers cope with these regimes? Through a case study of khwajasiras , a com…
Nomads, thresholds, and leaves
This paper presents the mise en espace of an anti‐drama‐liturgy written for the Conference “Salute e Benessere delle Persone Transgender e Gender Diverse: Buone Prassi e Nuove Prospettive [Wellbeing of Transgender and Gender Diverse People: Good Practices and New Perspectives]”. By providing an example of conferencing differently, the paper depicts an elliptical (round)table that questions normative assumptions on gender and sexuality and establi…
Gender, Money, and Sexuality
This study explores how khwajasiras, a community of gender-variant persons in Pakistan, engage in relational work to gain recognition in a heteronormative world. We highlight how these workers negotiate the meanings of their intimate relationships with different forms, frequencies, amounts, and payment media of financial exchanges. We have identified four such relations i.e. romantic relations, spousal relations, taboo relations, and professional…
Lost in Translation
This study explores how discourses of gender equality workers in Japan contribute to the construction of gendered subjectivities and how these discourses intersect with the hegemonic neoliberal discourse of gender equality. By employing a thematic and critical discourse analysis, our study revealed the presence of three distinct discursive regimes: a locally adapted neoliberal regime that positions women as resources for development; a critical a…
Against rectitude
Population expansion and longevity mean that as more people are living longer, the world is generating increasing numbers of dead bodies. This results in the practical challenge of how to ‘organize’ an increasingly large volume of human remains in ways that are ethically responsible. Enduring beliefs about how the dead should be cared for shape relevant practices which, in turn, reflect wider values orientated largely towards the primacy of the i…
The Tragedy of Cemeterial Work
Working in a cemetery carries ethical weight – getting it ‘right’ matters. How might tragedy help us to illuminate the meaning, nature, and ethical significance of this work? This paper draws from a feminist reading of the Greek tragedy Antigone, via the theoretical work of Adriana Cavarero, to show what we can learn about the ethico-political significance of cemeterial work as an enactment of grievability. It showcases the power of tragedy throu…
Art Exhibition Review Breast
Workers that matter and work that counts organizing and accounting for value(s)
Special Issues are spaces of political action with the potential to activate new beginnings. As a group of academics, daily confronted with the lives of individuals who struggle for recognition across the societies in which we live, we came together with the intention of posing both timeless and timely questions to our communities: questions about how the value of work is defined, who is counted, and what kinds of work and workers are allowed to …
An Arendtian dialogue on genomics
As a practice, dialogue reveals and constructs plural perspectives. It is the foundation of a shared reality, one that cannot be reduced to a monolithic viewpoint claiming to hold absolute truth. We academics, often enclosed within our disciplinary tribes, tend to repeat familiar formulas and languages that reassure, contain and ultimately build barriers, making it difficult to imagine new spaces for dialogue and learning. This work recounts the …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works)