Delegitimization and US presidential electoral campaigns, 1896-1980

The essay focuses on delegitimization of one’s political opponent as a discursive strategy in US political elections from 1896 to 1980. Starting with a definition of delegitimization as a means of contesting the legitimacy of the opponent’s aspiration to power by turning him/her into an enemy outside the constitutional perimeter, the author highlights the circumstances that conduced to political delegitimization tactics in US presidential campaigns, as well as the stock themes in use over the various periods

Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations: “Diplomacy from Below” and the Search for a New Transatlantic Dialogue

In 1945, Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a member of the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations in an effort to send a signal to the many associations who wanted to have a role in the redefinition of the post-war democratic order. ER’ s commitment to peace and social justice was an expression of internationalism ‘from below’, which was convinced that the challenge to enlarge and make democracy more inclusive, more respectful of gender, racial, and ethnic differences had to be won not only in the domestic political sphere but also in the international one. The paper will explore the intrinsic contradiction which was at the root of ER’ s engagement in the UN. On the one hand, she was conscious of her official status as American officer and the symbol of the American democratic model; on the other, her will to give expression and voice to the questions posed by American and European civic associations and their commitment to democracy, social justice and human rights in the growing Cold War climate provoked tensions and ambiguities that proved difficult to solve

«Accounting for the Incandescence». A Transatlantic Gaze on the Feminisms of the Long 1968

Putting into question the usefulness and the adequacy of the Wave metaphor as a key to understand the complexity of the feminist movement and its history, the author critically recounts the salient nodes around which the feminist movement has discussed on the transnational level the issue of wage for housework and the nexus production/reproduction in the long 1968, critically rethinking the differences between women and the different experiences of oppression in capitalist society. In particular, the essay analyzes the way in which the dichotomy redistribution/recognition has constituted an inseparable nexus in feminist reflections and has redefined the relationship between gender, class and ethnicity/race, showing the centrality of the intersections between them for the movement and feminist theory

Democrazia, populismo e autoritarismo: Trasformazioni politiche in Asia, Africa, Europa centro-orientale e Americhe

La democrazia alla prova di auoaritarismi e populismi, fra Covid-19 e guerra russo-ucraina

RNAi Methodologies for the Functional Study of Signaling Molecules

RNA interference (RNAi) was investigated with the aim of achieving gene silencing with diverse RNAi platforms that include small interfering RNA (siRNA), short hairpin RNA (shRNA) and antisense oligonucleotides (ASO). Different versions of each system were used to silence the expression of specific subunits of the heterotrimeric signal transducing G-proteins, G alpha i2 and G beta 2, in the RAW 264.7 murine macrophage cell line. The specificity of the different RNA interference (RNAi) platforms was assessed by DNA microarray analysis. Reliable RNAi methodologies against the genes of interest were then developed and applied to functional studies of signaling networks. This study demonstrates a successful knockdown of target genes and shows the potential of RNAi for use in functional studies of signaling molecules

Intervista a Michael Freeden

Intervista a Michael Freeden su crisi delle ideologie, democrazia e populism

G\ue2ndirea politică a femeilor

Traduzione in rumeno del saggio 'Il pensiero politico delle donne', in R. Gherardi, La politica e gli Stati. Problemi e figure del pensiero occidentale, Roma, Carocci, 200

\u201cDouble Jeopardy\u201d: Angela Davis tra Black Power, femminismo africano-americano e femminismo postcoloniale

In questo saggio vorrei leggere le connessioni fra femminismo afro-americano e femminismo postcoloniale attraverso l\u2019analisi della biografia politica e intellettuale di Angela Davis, esponente di punta del movimento del Black Power. Divenuta \u201cicona globale\u201d di un movimento rivoluzionario che metteva in luce le contraddizioni della democrazia americana e soprattutto \u201csimbolo da distruggere\u201d, negli anni \u201970 del \u2018900, per la FBI di Edgar J. Hoover, Angela Davis rappresenta bene la complessit\ue0 e le tensioni che hanno attraversato le pratiche politiche e le riflessioni di un femminismo nero che ha vissuto sulla propria pelle la simultanea presenza degli assi di poteri basati su razza, classe e genere, denunciando la peculiare situazione vissuta dagli afroamericani, il loro essere soggetti subordinati in uno spazio politico dove hanno storicamente convissuto logiche coloniali e anticoloniali

Eleanor Roosevelt, il mondo visto da una first lady

Breve profilo dell'attivit\ue0 politica di Eleanor Roosevelt come public diploma