Self-organization in Rome: a map

Durante gli ultimi anni, diverse ricerche sono state realizzate a Roma sul tema dello spazio e dell’autorganizzazione e molte di queste contengono importanti mappature. Tuttavia, questi processi sono molto dinamici e la situazione a Roma cambia ogni anno. Per questa ragione a novembre 2017 abbiamo deciso di realizzare, per della conferenza “City and Self-organization”, tenutasi a Roma a dicembre 2017, un aggiornamento della situazione dell’autorganizzazione romana, legata all’utilizzo dello spazio, attraverso una mappa, al fine di comprendere meglio la portata e i significati del fenomeno. Le principali domande alla base del contributo sono: perché, anche se questi spazi sono così numerosi, non riescono ad influenzare le politiche urbane? Perché sono concentrate prevalentemente in alcuni quartieri della città e cosa rappresenta questa concentrazione? Quali sono le loro caratteristiche rispetto ad altri contesi europei? In che misura riescono a cambiare le istituzioni pubbliche?During the last years many different researches regarding social spaces have been realized in Rome, sometimes containing different maps representing these experiences. Nevertheless, these processes are very dynamic and the situation of Rome changes every year. For this reason in November, 2017 we decided to realize, during the International Conference “Cities and Selforganization” held in Rome on December 2017, an updated map of all the selforganization experiences within the city of Rome in order to better understand the reach and the meanings of this phenomenon. The main questions at the base of the present research are: why, even though these spaces are so copious, are not they able in influencing urban policies? Why are they concentrated mainly in some specific quarters of the city? What are their features compared to others European cities? To what extent are they able to change the public institutions

Serena Olcuire, Indecorose: Sex work e resistenza al governo dello spazio pubblico nella città di Roma, Verona, Ombre corte, 2023, pp. 236

Recensione di Serena Olcuire, Indecorose: Sex work e resistenza al governo dello spazio pubblico nella città di Roma, Verona, Ombre corte, 2023, pp. 236

Evaluation of the management of Hr-HPV+/PapTest- women. Results at 1-year recall

With cervical cancer screening the choice of 1-year as a period of follow-up in positive high-risk HPV women without cytological lesions is still under discussion. We evaluated the management of these women and the role of HPV genotyping test. We did a cervical cancer screening study of women aged 35-64 with primary high-risk HPV test. Women positive for high-risk HPV with negative cytology were followed-up after 1 year. In this study we selected women with high-risk HPV+/PapTest- resulted high-risk HPV+ at recall and performed the PapTest and HPV genotyping test. The detection rate of squamous high grade (CIN2+) relative to the total screened cohort was 2.1‰, and it was 0.2‰ at the 1-year recall. The colposcopy performed in women referred at the 1-year recall accounted for 48.8% of the total (baseline + 1-year recall), and 84.3% of these women had no cytological lesions. The most frequent hr-HPV genotype detected was HPV16 and 66.7% of co-infections were due to HPV16 and HPV18. 54.5% of women presented a persistent infection at 1-year recall with the same HPV subtype, 50% of persistent infections was due to HPV16 and 16.7% of these were determined to be CIN2+ histological lesions. Our data show that it may be useful to extend the period of follow-up for women hr-HPV+/PapTest- so as to reduce the number of unnecessary colposcopies due to the transitory infections and that the genotyping test could help to identify the persistent infections in which HPV16 is involved

Management of women aged 25-34 with diagnosis of ASCUS in the screening center of Latina.

In cervical cancer screening program of Latina (Italy) the hr-HPV as primary test is performed only on women aged 35-64 while women aged 25-34 are invited to perform PapTest. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the application of the PapTest in women aged 25-34 and to evaluate the management of ASCUS. Women aged 25-34 were invited to perform PapTest according to the Italian guidelines; women with diagnosis of LSIL+ were referred to colposcopy while women with diagnosis of ASCUS were referred to hr-HPV test and only women resulted positive were referred to colposcopy. The 4.0% of women resulted positive to PapTest and the referral rate to colposcopy was 3.5%. The PPV value for CIN2+ at colposcopy was 7.2% and the Detection Rate (DR) for CIN2+ was 2.40‰. The ASCUS category was diagnosed in 41.8% of women resulted positive to PapTest and between them the 70.6% resulted positive to the hr-HPV test. The referral rate to colposcopy of women resulted positive to hr-HPV test was 1.1%. The PPV for CIN2+ at colposcopy and the DR of CIN2+ was 8.4% and 0.96‰ respectively. Between women with diagnosis of ASCUS, only 6 women showed a CIN2+ lesion (4 CIN2 and 2 CIN3). The present study showed that this algorithm, applied to women aged 25-34, obtained a good performance in term of test specificity (98%) and confirm that the application of hr-HPV test in the management of ASCUS leads to a decreased of inappropriate colposcopy due to transitory infection in young women

Statin therapy and outcome in Takotsubo syndrome patients: Results from the multicenter international GEIST registry

Background and aims: Several studies have shown that endothelial dysfunction plays a role in the pathogenesis of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Given the potential benefit of statin therapy on endothelial dysfunction, we hypothesized that such treatment could improve outcome. Aim of our study was to evaluate clinical characteristics and outcome of TTS patients treated with statin therapy. Methods: Patients were enrolled in the international multicenter GEIST (GErman Italian Spanish Takotsubo) registry. Demographic data, clinical features and drug therapy at discharge were recorded. Primary study outcome was the occurrence of all-cause death at follow-up. Results: Study population included 2429 consecutive TTS patients: 1293 (53.2%) discharged on statin and 1136 (46.8%) without statin. Patients with statin were older (age 72 ± 11 vs 69 ± 13 years, p < 0.001), with higher prevalence of hypertension (74.3% vs 60.3%, p < 0.001), diabetes (21.1% vs 14.7%, p < 0.001), dyslipidemia (56.1% vs 23.3%, p < 0.001), history of coronary artery disease (13.3% vs 6.3%, p < 0.001) and lower rates of in-hospital complications (14.7% vs 19.3%, p = 0.003). Survival analysis showed similar mortality rates between groups (log rank p = 0.803). At univariable analysis, statin therapy at discharge was not associated with lower mortality (HR: 0.97, 95% CI 0.74-1.26, p = 0.803). At multivariable analysis age (HR: 1.06 95% CI 1.04-1.08, p < 0.001), male sex (HR: 1.83, 95% CI 1.20-2.80, p = 0.005), diabetes (HR: 2.55, 95% CI 1.83-3.54 p < 0.001), malignancies (HR: 2.41, 95% CI 1.68-3.44, p < 0.001) and physical trigger (HR: 2.24, 95% CI 1.62-3.10, p < 0.001) were associated with increased mortality. Conclusions: Statin therapy after a TTS event was not associated with better prognosis at follow-up

Racializing the concept of ‘housing otherness’: The effects of temporary housing policies on squatters in Rome

This paper explores the long-standing relationship in Rome between socio-cultural diversity and the temporary nature of low-income housing solutions. I argue that that this phenomenon began long before recent neoliberal trends and the global post-2008 crisis, and instead emerged from the gradual development of a moral and racialized understanding of housing as a ‘social award’. This has created a specific social category known as ‘housing otherness’, which includes migrants and Italian squatters who are experiencing severe housing distress. This exclusionary approach towards the most ‘diverse’ sections of the population in Rome can be traced back to the inception of public housing in Italy during the 1920s. The paper aims to provide a historical account of this process and demonstrate how it is based on the limited availability of residency and settling as a commodity. I also introduce the grassroots Roman housing rights movements and highlights their efforts to challenge the notion that residency and settling should be seen as something that is earned or deserved rather than as basic human rights

Autorganizzazione e occupazioni abitative romane: una mappa (e un fenomeno) in movimento

Durante gli ultimi anni, diverse ricerche sono state realizzate a Roma sul tema dello spazio e dell’autorganizzazione e molte di queste contengono importanti mappature. Tuttavia, questi processi sono molto dinamici e la situazione a Roma cambia ogni anno. Per questa ragione a novembre 2017 abbiamo deciso di realizzare, per della conferenza “City and Self-organization”, tenutasi a Roma a dicembre 2017, un aggiornamento della situazione dell’autorganizzazione romana, legata all’utilizzo dello spazio, attraverso una mappa. Dopo aver ricostruito sinteticamente la storia di un lungo e radicato processo di lotta per la casa a Roma, ci siamo interrogati sull'efficacia delle occupazioni sul loro rapporto con le politiche urbane

Il potere dei re. Tra cosmologia e politica.

Due tra i più importanti antropologi affrontano un tema centrale: da dove viene il potere? Perché anche nelle società più semplici alcuni uomini prendono il sopravvento e agiscono come se il potere spettasse loro per qualche ragione sovrannaturale? La filosofia politica ha cercato nelle infrastrutture (il modo di produzione, tipicamente) le ragioni della stratificazione del sociale, proiettando sul piano religioso la messa in scena “simbolica” di quel potere “reale”. Gli dei sarebbero cioè la trasfigurazione del potere dei re. In questo libro rivoluzionario Graeber e Sahlins rovesciano la catena causale e fanno dei re gli imitatori di un potere sovraumano che stabilisce una gerarchia cosmologica universale: i re cercano di riprodurre con i loro mezzi il potere ultra-mondano posseduto dagli dei