Carlo Genova
Biographic Data
| ID | 612926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlo Genova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Genova |
| SIGNATURE | GENOVA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2682-2419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Assessment and characterization of Origanum vulgare essential oil in highly viscous polymeric dispersions for cleaning cultural heritage stone materials
HVPDs with Origanum vulgare EO provide a biocidal alternative for stone conservation. • PVA-borax dispersions enhance EO and carvacrol stability. • 1 H NMR and rheology reveal EO effects on HVPD microstructure and viscoelasticity. • Biofilm removal efficacy confirmed by ATP bioluminescence. Stone biodeterioration caused by microbial colonisation poses significant challenges to the conservation of cultural heritage. Here, we investigate highly vis…
Atmospheric youth practices. Attunement, thickness, and urban affective geographies
This article explores the affective and relational ways in which young people engage with urban space through bodily practices such as skateboarding, parkour and street dance. Drawing on the conceptual lenses of atmospheric practices, attunement, and thickness, the study investigates how these activities modulate or challenge the affective texture of public space. Based on a secondary analysis of thirty interviews collected in Turin, Italy, the p…
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics
In Italy, radical extra-parliamentary left-wing groups with a strong youth presence display an almost complete absence of collaboration with political parties, including those on the left. This article investigates why this separation exists and how it is justified by young activists. Drawing on 44 qualitative interviews with activists from 38 groups in 14 cities, the analysis shows that weak collaboration cannot be explained solely by distrust o…
Modelled effect on mesothelioma mortality of the asbestos ban in Italy and the subsequent phases of exposure
BACKGROUND: In Italy, the 1992 asbestos ban prohibited all forms of asbestos production, use and importation. The epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma mortality and incidence enabled the assessment of the ban's impact and subsequent phases in asbestos exposure patterns. METHODS: To estimate the effects of the ban, a quasi-Poisson generalised linear model was used to fit past asbestos consumption with mesothelioma mortality by gender, usin…
Graffiti gaze. The writers looking at urban territory and its places
Tavole a rotelle e corpi in movimento. Geografie dello skateboard
Per molte subculture, usi e rappresentazioni dello spazio sono elementi costitutivi, ma negli studi subculturali l'attenzione per lo spazio è stata nel tempo oscillante. Il presente contributo si focalizza sui processi distintivi di uso, produzione e rappresentazione dello spazio nella subcultura skateboard, indagando come chi pratica skateboard scopra, scelga e interpreti i luoghi, e come ai suoi occhi le caratteristiche di tali luoghi definisca…
Raman spectroscopy and Sers: Recent advances in cultural heritage diagnostics and the potential use of anisotropic metal nanostructures
Leisure in Space: Adaptation and Challenge Among Youth and Youth Cultures
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes
In the past decades, urban scholars have discussed at length how the production of aesthetically pleasing and consumption-enticing cityscapes has become the core of postindustrial urban economies. Critical analyses have underlined how the “dictatorship of the visual” characterizing these urban processes implies the expulsion from public life of “unacceptable” differences and conflicts within. While fundamental, these perspectives have not fully e…
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing ‘Transgressive’ Identities in Digital Social Spaces
This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how young peoples’ subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online …
Visual Feedback and Virtual Reality in Gait Rehabilitation of Hemiparetic Children and Teenagers after Acquired Brain Injury: A Pilot Study
Hemiparesis as a term refers to a neurological disorder that can be extremely variable, especially with regard to walking abilities. Few works have assessed the use of virtual reality and biofeedback in children and adolescents with hemiparesis. The aim of this study is to provide insights about the rehabilitation of hemiparetic children and teenagers with visual biofeedback in a virtual reality environment. Six hemiparetic subjects (mean age 13.…
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing Transgressive Identities in Digital Social Spaces
Young activists in political squats. Mixing engagement and leisure
The aim of the article is to show that youth involvement in political groups is often driven by such multifaceted motivations that it is relegated to the border between engagement and leisure. Focussing on the European context, research about youth and politics often highlights that few young people are personally involved in political forms of action. In most studies, this involvement is interpreted as the actualisation of a set of values, throu…
Participation with Style. Clothing among Young Activists in Political Groups
Research shows that forms of participation among youth are strongly differentiated and connected with complex meanings and motivations. A growing sector of youth develops political intervention through the adoption of distinctive everyday practices and lifestyles. The article aims to reflect upon dress among young activists involved in political groups. Very little research focuses on this topic, but following studies on everyday politics, the yo…
Youth cultures and style. Analytical approaches and a methodological proposal
Youth cultures are nowadays one of the main social forms among young people, and at the core of youth cultures is style. Variously defined, style is made up of all those elements through which each youth culture, and every individual involved in it, expresses itself and positions itself with regard to other cultural models, by processes of identification, distinction and recognition. Over time, different approaches to the analysis of youth cultur…
Youth Activism in Political Squats between Centri Sociali and Case Occupate
Nowadays a lot of research describes most young people as barely interested in politics, expressing little trust in political institutions and far from any forms of institutional political participation. Moreover, most of the engaged youth are involved in forms of participation described as more civic and social than political, weakly ideological, more and more often digital and developed in virtual space, and usually experienced as one among sev…
Social practices and lifestyles in Italian youth cultures
In recent decades, social research on youth in Italy has explored a wide range of issues through different interpretative and methodological approaches. However, there are very few studies that seek to identify the keynote features of the juvenile condition. This article argues that collective identities and forms of identification among youth are shaped more and more frequently through the sharing of social practices, of the meanings connected t…
Lifestyles and Subcultures: History and a New Perspective
"This volume, taking an international perspective, reconstructs the main interpretative models developed for the analysis of subcultures and lifestyles, and then proposes a new analytical model based on an intersection between these two research traditions"
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
Lifestyles and Subcultures: History and a New Perspective
Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say – to themselves and to others – who they think they are, who they think they are similar to, and who they think they are different from. Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles, different practices and different realms which they are involved in. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we…
Social practices and lifestyles in Italian youth cultures
In recent decades, social research on youth in Italy has explored a wide range of issues through different interpretative and methodological approaches. However, there are very few studies that seek to identify the keynote features of the juvenile condition. This article argues that collective identities and forms of identification among youth are shaped more and more frequently through the sharing of social practices, of the meanings connected t…
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes
In the past decades, urban scholars have discussed at length how the production of aesthetically pleasing and consumption-enticing cityscapes has become the core of postindustrial urban economies. Critical analyses have underlined how the “dictatorship of the visual” characterizing these urban processes implies the expulsion from public life of “unacceptable” differences and conflicts within. While fundamental, these perspectives have not fully e…
Youth Activism in Political Squats between Centri Sociali and Case Occupate
Nowadays a lot of research describes most young people as barely interested in politics, expressing little trust in political institutions and far from any forms of institutional political participation. Moreover, most of the engaged youth are involved in forms of participation described as more civic and social than political, weakly ideological, more and more often digital and developed in virtual space, and usually experienced as one among sev…
Leisure in Space: Adaptation and Challenge Among Youth and Youth Cultures
Young activists in political squats. Mixing engagement and leisure
The aim of the article is to show that youth involvement in political groups is often driven by such multifaceted motivations that it is relegated to the border between engagement and leisure. Focussing on the European context, research about youth and politics often highlights that few young people are personally involved in political forms of action. In most studies, this involvement is interpreted as the actualisation of a set of values, throu…
Lifestyles and Subcultures: History and a New Perspective
"This volume, taking an international perspective, reconstructs the main interpretative models developed for the analysis of subcultures and lifestyles, and then proposes a new analytical model based on an intersection between these two research traditions"
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
Lifestyles and Subcultures: History and a New Perspective
Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say – to themselves and to others – who they think they are, who they think they are similar to, and who they think they are different from. Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles, different practices and different realms which they are involved in. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we…
Youth Activism in Political Squats between Centri Sociali and Case Occupate
Nowadays a lot of research describes most young people as barely interested in politics, expressing little trust in political institutions and far from any forms of institutional political participation. Moreover, most of the engaged youth are involved in forms of participation described as more civic and social than political, weakly ideological, more and more often digital and developed in virtual space, and usually experienced as one among sev…
Social practices and lifestyles in Italian youth cultures
In recent decades, social research on youth in Italy has explored a wide range of issues through different interpretative and methodological approaches. However, there are very few studies that seek to identify the keynote features of the juvenile condition. This article argues that collective identities and forms of identification among youth are shaped more and more frequently through the sharing of social practices, of the meanings connected t…
Youth cultures and style. Analytical approaches and a methodological proposal
Youth cultures are nowadays one of the main social forms among young people, and at the core of youth cultures is style. Variously defined, style is made up of all those elements through which each youth culture, and every individual involved in it, expresses itself and positions itself with regard to other cultural models, by processes of identification, distinction and recognition. Over time, different approaches to the analysis of youth cultur…
Participation with Style. Clothing among Young Activists in Political Groups
Research shows that forms of participation among youth are strongly differentiated and connected with complex meanings and motivations. A growing sector of youth develops political intervention through the adoption of distinctive everyday practices and lifestyles. The article aims to reflect upon dress among young activists involved in political groups. Very little research focuses on this topic, but following studies on everyday politics, the yo…
Young activists in political squats. Mixing engagement and leisure
The aim of the article is to show that youth involvement in political groups is often driven by such multifaceted motivations that it is relegated to the border between engagement and leisure. Focussing on the European context, research about youth and politics often highlights that few young people are personally involved in political forms of action. In most studies, this involvement is interpreted as the actualisation of a set of values, throu…
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing ‘Transgressive’ Identities in Digital Social Spaces
This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical research and existing literature to examine transgressive subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces (DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how young peoples’ subcultures arise online and they are constructed and experienced in DSS 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to young people 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these online …
Visual Feedback and Virtual Reality in Gait Rehabilitation of Hemiparetic Children and Teenagers after Acquired Brain Injury: A Pilot Study
Hemiparesis as a term refers to a neurological disorder that can be extremely variable, especially with regard to walking abilities. Few works have assessed the use of virtual reality and biofeedback in children and adolescents with hemiparesis. The aim of this study is to provide insights about the rehabilitation of hemiparetic children and teenagers with visual biofeedback in a virtual reality environment. Six hemiparetic subjects (mean age 13.…
Digital Youth Subcultures: Performing Transgressive Identities in Digital Social Spaces
Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes
In the past decades, urban scholars have discussed at length how the production of aesthetically pleasing and consumption-enticing cityscapes has become the core of postindustrial urban economies. Critical analyses have underlined how the “dictatorship of the visual” characterizing these urban processes implies the expulsion from public life of “unacceptable” differences and conflicts within. While fundamental, these perspectives have not fully e…
Tavole a rotelle e corpi in movimento. Geografie dello skateboard
Per molte subculture, usi e rappresentazioni dello spazio sono elementi costitutivi, ma negli studi subculturali l'attenzione per lo spazio è stata nel tempo oscillante. Il presente contributo si focalizza sui processi distintivi di uso, produzione e rappresentazione dello spazio nella subcultura skateboard, indagando come chi pratica skateboard scopra, scelga e interpreti i luoghi, e come ai suoi occhi le caratteristiche di tali luoghi definisca…
Raman spectroscopy and Sers: Recent advances in cultural heritage diagnostics and the potential use of anisotropic metal nanostructures
Leisure in Space: Adaptation and Challenge Among Youth and Youth Cultures
Graffiti gaze. The writers looking at urban territory and its places
Assessment and characterization of Origanum vulgare essential oil in highly viscous polymeric dispersions for cleaning cultural heritage stone materials
HVPDs with Origanum vulgare EO provide a biocidal alternative for stone conservation. • PVA-borax dispersions enhance EO and carvacrol stability. • 1 H NMR and rheology reveal EO effects on HVPD microstructure and viscoelasticity. • Biofilm removal efficacy confirmed by ATP bioluminescence. Stone biodeterioration caused by microbial colonisation poses significant challenges to the conservation of cultural heritage. Here, we investigate highly vis…
Atmospheric youth practices. Attunement, thickness, and urban affective geographies
This article explores the affective and relational ways in which young people engage with urban space through bodily practices such as skateboarding, parkour and street dance. Drawing on the conceptual lenses of atmospheric practices, attunement, and thickness, the study investigates how these activities modulate or challenge the affective texture of public space. Based on a secondary analysis of thirty interviews collected in Turin, Italy, the p…
The party is over. Young activists in radical-left groups and institutional politics
In Italy, radical extra-parliamentary left-wing groups with a strong youth presence display an almost complete absence of collaboration with political parties, including those on the left. This article investigates why this separation exists and how it is justified by young activists. Drawing on 44 qualitative interviews with activists from 38 groups in 14 cities, the analysis shows that weak collaboration cannot be explained solely by distrust o…
Modelled effect on mesothelioma mortality of the asbestos ban in Italy and the subsequent phases of exposure
BACKGROUND: In Italy, the 1992 asbestos ban prohibited all forms of asbestos production, use and importation. The epidemiological surveillance of mesothelioma mortality and incidence enabled the assessment of the ban's impact and subsequent phases in asbestos exposure patterns. METHODS: To estimate the effects of the ban, a quasi-Poisson generalised linear model was used to fit past asbestos consumption with mesothelioma mortality by gender, usin…
Sociology (12 works) · Politics (7 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works)