Gaia Peruzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaia Peruzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaia |
| FAMILY NAME | Peruzzi |
| SIGNATURE | PERUZZI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4750-2206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representing the unrepresentable. An interpretative study of Ukraine war photojournalism
This article investigates the representational strategies of professional photojournalists covering the war in Ukraine following Russia’s 2022 invasion. Through a qualitative thematic analysis of 88 photographs produced by 10 international photojournalists, complemented by an interpretative framework grounded in visual sociology and visual grammar, the study explores how contemporary war imagery constructs humanitarian visuality and mediates dist…
Gender-Sensitive Learning Communities
This article presents a case study of the course “The Third Sector Facing Gender Issues”, conducted between 2023 and 2025 as part of FQTS, a training project for leaders and volunteers in the Third Sector of Southern Italy. The course is analyzed as an experiment in a gender-sensitive learning community: an educational space involving both women and men, aimed at promoting a transformation of gender cultures within organizational cultures, power …
Covering disability in Italian journalism. Language, practices and perspectives in mainstream and alternative media
Journalism has a key role in the social construction of diversity in the public sphere. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between disability and journalism in Italy, a question largely unexplored hitherto. Following a review of the literature on disability-related journalism and ethics, we adopted the HOI (Hierarchy of Influences) model as a theoretical resource to enable a thorough investigation of the interplay between profes…
Dis/Ability Journalism in Italy
In the long-standing debate about the appropriateness and risks of subjectivity and its prominence in wide-ranging journalistic production, this paper focuses on dis/ability journalism. As an emerging but under-researched topic, dis/ability allows us to understand how social vulnerabilities are (re)constructed by journalists in the public sphere. The study aims to investigate: (a) to what extent the subjectivity of Italian journalists specialised…
Women's (and Men's) Voices Against VAW
This paper makes a contribution to the literature on corporate communication against VAW by analyzing an innovative case study. The case study is a two-season podcast produced by Sorgenia, an Italian electricity and gas company, for the 2021 and 2022 editions of its anti-VAW campaign "#sempre25novembre" ("Always 25 November"). The research is articulated into two stages: content analysis of the two podcast seasons, and semi-structured interviews …
Discourses on sustainability in a network of Argentine universities
Purpose The paper aims to reflect on the function(s) served by the network of Argentine universities for environmental management and social inclusion (UAGAIS), including sharing information, empowering its members and fostering political action. To these functions, the authors add that networks play a prominent role in promoting culturally and locally meaningful representations of sustainability, and as rhetorical devices for positioning univers…
Gender issues for Italian young people
The transformations of gender cultures are among the most powerful cultural and social processes of our age: at different speeds, these changes are affecting all societies in the world. Feminist thought and struggles, LGBTQ+ movements and new masculinities are eroding the pillars of patriarchy. Changes of this magnitude, destined to overturn centuries-old systems and power relations in public and private life, have been met with widespread resist…
Women’s statues in Italian cities. A study of public art and cultural policies
In recent decades, the styles and the role of monumentality have undergone significant transformations in the West, in line with wider trends of democratization and demystification of arts. Nevertheless, statues depicting human figures are still important landmarks in urban cultures. The statue wars that have erupted in several countries during recent years to challenge the racist, colonial and/or patriarchal vision embodied by many monuments, ar…
Storie di ordinaria radicalizzazione
The aim of this paper is to investigate the narratives of radicalization (sometimes unintended) throughout the verbalization of everyday experiences by young second generation Italians. The causes of radicalization are still under the scrutiny of contemporary literature: micro, meso, and macro factors combine themselves into a complex puzzle, driving to political and religious extremism. Interviews with 42 young generation Italians with Muslim ba…
Del viajero al turista hiperconectado
El artículo trata de aclarar la contraposición de la figura del turista contemporáneo frente a la del viajero romántico. A partir de un cuadro conceptual teórico, se trata de forjar un aparato crítico para problematizar la influencia de las tecnologías de la hiperconexión en el viaje actual como una de las industrias culturales. Será, pues, conforme a categorías tales como lo imprevisto, el viaje como transformación y la autenticidad como el text…
Cross-cultural couples in European cinema. A research on the visual representations of mixedness
La rappresentazione visuale dei processi di integrazione che coinvolgono migranti e popolazioni locali è una questione strategica oggi in Europa, perché le immagini rendono visibili i mescolamenti e le ibridazioni tra le culture, che sono le conseguenze delle migrazioni più temute dai nazionalismi e dai razzismi. Questo saggio illustra i risultati di una ricerca sociologica sulla rappresentazione delle coppie miste nel cinema europeo, nata con l’…
Per una sociologia delle rappresentazioni mediali delle migrazioni. Un'introduzione
Al pari degli altri processi sociali, anche i fenomeni migratori richiedono di essere studiati anche a partire dalle dinamiche di rappresentazione simbolica, di percezione e di costruzione del discorso pubblico, quest’ultimo profondamente interrelato con le scelte politiche. La dimensione comunicativa e mediale, in questo senso, non costituisce solo la versione divulgativa ed espressiva delle caratteristiche strutturali di un processo sociale, ma…
Il pretesto del velo. Pratiche identitarie di giovani donne musulmane in Italia
L’indagine narrata in questo lavoro aveva lo scopo di esplorare, attraverso le pratiche di giovani donne musulmane, e la narrazione delle stesse, l’attribuzione dei significati culturali attribuibili al velo, e la traduzione di tali pratiche in dispositivi di display relazionale. Lo svelamento delle identità culturali nelle prassi ordinarie – incluso l’abbigliamento – è infatti un potente punto di accesso nell’esplorazione di fenomeni di mutament…
Women’s statues in Italian cities. A study of public art and cultural policies
In recent decades, the styles and the role of monumentality have undergone significant transformations in the West, in line with wider trends of democratization and demystification of arts. Nevertheless, statues depicting human figures are still important landmarks in urban cultures. The statue wars that have erupted in several countries during recent years to challenge the racist, colonial and/or patriarchal vision embodied by many monuments, ar…
Dis/Ability Journalism in Italy
In the long-standing debate about the appropriateness and risks of subjectivity and its prominence in wide-ranging journalistic production, this paper focuses on dis/ability journalism. As an emerging but under-researched topic, dis/ability allows us to understand how social vulnerabilities are (re)constructed by journalists in the public sphere. The study aims to investigate: (a) to what extent the subjectivity of Italian journalists specialised…
Del viajero al turista hiperconectado
El artículo trata de aclarar la contraposición de la figura del turista contemporáneo frente a la del viajero romántico. A partir de un cuadro conceptual teórico, se trata de forjar un aparato crítico para problematizar la influencia de las tecnologías de la hiperconexión en el viaje actual como una de las industrias culturales. Será, pues, conforme a categorías tales como lo imprevisto, el viaje como transformación y la autenticidad como el text…
Cross-cultural couples in European cinema. A research on the visual representations of mixedness
La rappresentazione visuale dei processi di integrazione che coinvolgono migranti e popolazioni locali è una questione strategica oggi in Europa, perché le immagini rendono visibili i mescolamenti e le ibridazioni tra le culture, che sono le conseguenze delle migrazioni più temute dai nazionalismi e dai razzismi. Questo saggio illustra i risultati di una ricerca sociologica sulla rappresentazione delle coppie miste nel cinema europeo, nata con l’…
Per una sociologia delle rappresentazioni mediali delle migrazioni. Un'introduzione
Al pari degli altri processi sociali, anche i fenomeni migratori richiedono di essere studiati anche a partire dalle dinamiche di rappresentazione simbolica, di percezione e di costruzione del discorso pubblico, quest’ultimo profondamente interrelato con le scelte politiche. La dimensione comunicativa e mediale, in questo senso, non costituisce solo la versione divulgativa ed espressiva delle caratteristiche strutturali di un processo sociale, ma…
Il pretesto del velo. Pratiche identitarie di giovani donne musulmane in Italia
L’indagine narrata in questo lavoro aveva lo scopo di esplorare, attraverso le pratiche di giovani donne musulmane, e la narrazione delle stesse, l’attribuzione dei significati culturali attribuibili al velo, e la traduzione di tali pratiche in dispositivi di display relazionale. Lo svelamento delle identità culturali nelle prassi ordinarie – incluso l’abbigliamento – è infatti un potente punto di accesso nell’esplorazione di fenomeni di mutament…
Storie di ordinaria radicalizzazione
The aim of this paper is to investigate the narratives of radicalization (sometimes unintended) throughout the verbalization of everyday experiences by young second generation Italians. The causes of radicalization are still under the scrutiny of contemporary literature: micro, meso, and macro factors combine themselves into a complex puzzle, driving to political and religious extremism. Interviews with 42 young generation Italians with Muslim ba…
Discourses on sustainability in a network of Argentine universities
Purpose The paper aims to reflect on the function(s) served by the network of Argentine universities for environmental management and social inclusion (UAGAIS), including sharing information, empowering its members and fostering political action. To these functions, the authors add that networks play a prominent role in promoting culturally and locally meaningful representations of sustainability, and as rhetorical devices for positioning univers…
Gender issues for Italian young people
The transformations of gender cultures are among the most powerful cultural and social processes of our age: at different speeds, these changes are affecting all societies in the world. Feminist thought and struggles, LGBTQ+ movements and new masculinities are eroding the pillars of patriarchy. Changes of this magnitude, destined to overturn centuries-old systems and power relations in public and private life, have been met with widespread resist…
Women’s statues in Italian cities. A study of public art and cultural policies
In recent decades, the styles and the role of monumentality have undergone significant transformations in the West, in line with wider trends of democratization and demystification of arts. Nevertheless, statues depicting human figures are still important landmarks in urban cultures. The statue wars that have erupted in several countries during recent years to challenge the racist, colonial and/or patriarchal vision embodied by many monuments, ar…
Gender-Sensitive Learning Communities
This article presents a case study of the course “The Third Sector Facing Gender Issues”, conducted between 2023 and 2025 as part of FQTS, a training project for leaders and volunteers in the Third Sector of Southern Italy. The course is analyzed as an experiment in a gender-sensitive learning community: an educational space involving both women and men, aimed at promoting a transformation of gender cultures within organizational cultures, power …
Covering disability in Italian journalism. Language, practices and perspectives in mainstream and alternative media
Journalism has a key role in the social construction of diversity in the public sphere. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between disability and journalism in Italy, a question largely unexplored hitherto. Following a review of the literature on disability-related journalism and ethics, we adopted the HOI (Hierarchy of Influences) model as a theoretical resource to enable a thorough investigation of the interplay between profes…
Dis/Ability Journalism in Italy
In the long-standing debate about the appropriateness and risks of subjectivity and its prominence in wide-ranging journalistic production, this paper focuses on dis/ability journalism. As an emerging but under-researched topic, dis/ability allows us to understand how social vulnerabilities are (re)constructed by journalists in the public sphere. The study aims to investigate: (a) to what extent the subjectivity of Italian journalists specialised…
Women's (and Men's) Voices Against VAW
This paper makes a contribution to the literature on corporate communication against VAW by analyzing an innovative case study. The case study is a two-season podcast produced by Sorgenia, an Italian electricity and gas company, for the 2021 and 2022 editions of its anti-VAW campaign "#sempre25novembre" ("Always 25 November"). The research is articulated into two stages: content analysis of the two podcast seasons, and semi-structured interviews …
Representing the unrepresentable. An interpretative study of Ukraine war photojournalism
This article investigates the representational strategies of professional photojournalists covering the war in Ukraine following Russia’s 2022 invasion. Through a qualitative thematic analysis of 88 photographs produced by 10 international photojournalists, complemented by an interpretative framework grounded in visual sociology and visual grammar, the study explores how contemporary war imagery constructs humanitarian visuality and mediates dist…
Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (3 works) · Journalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)