Why should I be a librarian? by Mauro Guerrini

“…Choosing to be a librarian and valorizing the profession within society is a civil commitment, as well as a cultural activity, which represents a strategic challenge for those who wish to work towards building a more equitable and inclusive future.  …”
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Lampedusa tra necropolitica e immaginario mitico di trasformazione by Lidia De Michelis

“…This essay explores a cluster of plays by Italian and British authors who, against the public spectacles of border enforcement, border deaths and humanitarian rescue, have recently placed Lampedusa and the figure of the migrant at the heart of their aesthetic and civil commitment. Lampedusa Beach by Lina Prosa is the main focus of this analysis, which relies, mainly, on a cultural studies and postcolonial approach. …”
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« Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo » : la revue Latitudine et l’engagement des intellectuels napolitains d’après-guerre by Virginie Vallet

“…After twenty years of cultural obscurantism and empty rhetoric, a new concept of a culture inspired by humanism, with un ritorno dell’uomo all’uomo as a primordial value, oriented towards Europe and the world, is proposed to readers of Latitudine, the pioneering cultural review of the immediate post-war period, directed by Massimo Caprara, the first and only issue of which was published in Naples on January 1944. The civil commitment of ragazzi di Monte Di Dio, young intellectuals who wanted to take concrete action on the history of Naples, a real political and cultural laboratory, is however difficult to dissociate from their complex cultural and ideological background. …”
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Do Digital Social Networks Foster Civilian Participation among Millennials? Kitchenware Revolution and 15M Democratic Regeneration Cases by Igor Calzada

“…At the same time, particularly among “millennials” or “digital natives”, lack of civil commitment and apathy toward politics as a whole contrasts with their intensive usage of digital social networks, or social media. …”
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