Alessandro Gerosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 668685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Gerosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerosa |
| SIGNATURE | GEROSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1291-2923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Playful Work as a Pathway to Meaningfulness
This research examines how the co-existence of work and play can lead to meaningfulness and what this might mean sociologically. Drawing upon 40 qualitative interviews with autonomous neo-craft workers in Italy, we contribute the concept of playful work as a voluntary and subjective framing of autonomous work entailing the simultaneous interplay between the extrinsic material goals, utilitarian planning and outcomes that characterise work, and th…
The role of proximity coworking spaces in the post-pandemic platform urbanism
Déjà brew
Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries
The notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been affirmed as an important heuristic to understand the functioning of social media algorithms through the account of users’ individual and collective experiences. Yet, the relationship between algorithmic imaginaries and users’ subjective engagement with social media, considering the personalised circulation of content on these platforms, demands further expansion. To fill this gap, the article introdu…
Cosmopolitans of regionalism
Cultural omnivorousness has gained relevance as a suitable theory to explain contemporary patterns of consumption, but the actual dealing of omnivorous taste by economic actors and businesses has been mostly overlooked. Through ethnographic research, this article explores how Italian gourmet food truck operators concretely produce claims of authenticity for omnivorous seekers. First, the adoption of the perspective of food truck operators highlig…
The Bottom-up Place Branding of a Neighborhood
This article analyzes the entanglement of social impacts of bottom-up urban branding processes on local hyperdiverse communities, through an ethnography of a neighborhood of Milan recently named by a group of residents as “NoLo.” Indeed, existing literature has broadly investigated urban rebranding as a tool used by policy makers to foster social change and economic capital, imposing top-down transformations. Nevertheless, a gap in the bottom-up …
The hidden roots of the creative economy
This article delineates a critical history of the economic imaginary of the creative economy. Applying the Cultural Political Economy analytical framework, the article looks at the turning points during the twentieth and twenty-first century in which different but connected discourses over creativity in the economic sphere emerged. Multiple contributions derive from the results. First, the research adds analytical depth to the existing literature…
The Importance of Being Taste Dealers in the Contemporary Food Economy
The hidden roots of the creative economy
This article delineates a critical history of the economic imaginary of the creative economy. Applying the Cultural Political Economy analytical framework, the article looks at the turning points during the twentieth and twenty-first century in which different but connected discourses over creativity in the economic sphere emerged. Multiple contributions derive from the results. First, the research adds analytical depth to the existing literature…
The Importance of Being Taste Dealers in the Contemporary Food Economy
Cosmopolitans of regionalism
Cultural omnivorousness has gained relevance as a suitable theory to explain contemporary patterns of consumption, but the actual dealing of omnivorous taste by economic actors and businesses has been mostly overlooked. Through ethnographic research, this article explores how Italian gourmet food truck operators concretely produce claims of authenticity for omnivorous seekers. First, the adoption of the perspective of food truck operators highlig…
The Bottom-up Place Branding of a Neighborhood
This article analyzes the entanglement of social impacts of bottom-up urban branding processes on local hyperdiverse communities, through an ethnography of a neighborhood of Milan recently named by a group of residents as “NoLo.” Indeed, existing literature has broadly investigated urban rebranding as a tool used by policy makers to foster social change and economic capital, imposing top-down transformations. Nevertheless, a gap in the bottom-up …
The hidden roots of the creative economy
This article delineates a critical history of the economic imaginary of the creative economy. Applying the Cultural Political Economy analytical framework, the article looks at the turning points during the twentieth and twenty-first century in which different but connected discourses over creativity in the economic sphere emerged. Multiple contributions derive from the results. First, the research adds analytical depth to the existing literature…
Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries
The notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been affirmed as an important heuristic to understand the functioning of social media algorithms through the account of users’ individual and collective experiences. Yet, the relationship between algorithmic imaginaries and users’ subjective engagement with social media, considering the personalised circulation of content on these platforms, demands further expansion. To fill this gap, the article introdu…
Déjà brew
The role of proximity coworking spaces in the post-pandemic platform urbanism
Playful Work as a Pathway to Meaningfulness
This research examines how the co-existence of work and play can lead to meaningfulness and what this might mean sociologically. Drawing upon 40 qualitative interviews with autonomous neo-craft workers in Italy, we contribute the concept of playful work as a voluntary and subjective framing of autonomous work entailing the simultaneous interplay between the extrinsic material goals, utilitarian planning and outcomes that characterise work, and th…
Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Economy (2 works)