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A copy of the volume Cultura e laicità published in 1914 by Gaetano Salvemini, with Antonio Gramsci’s signature, found years ago in a paper mill, adds a few elements to our knowledge of Gramsci’s training and early political activity in Turin. In 1917, he edited a publication published by the Turin editorial office of ‘Avanti!’, entitled La Cittàfutura, in which he included excerpts from writings by Benedetto Croce and Armando Carlini, and a long quotation from Salvemini’s opening essay, entitled Cosa è la coltura, in his words ‘a little book that all young people should read’. In October 1918, 17-year-old Piero Gobetti bought a copy of Gaetano Salvemini’s book, a fundamental cultural and political reference for young Gramsci. In early 1919 Gobetti was introduced to Gramsci by Andrea Viglongo, friend and collaborator of the same age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the representation of food bank users through the lens of Garfinkel's degradation ceremony (1956): that is, a communicative work aimed at transforming an individual's total identity into a lower social identity, by recalling moral indignation, in order to reassert social norms and reinforcing group solidarity. The aim of this paper is to investigate how representations on users might be put in place in a real life assistance context, as a food bank, and the ways in which this could be framed as a degradation ceremony (Garfinkel 1956), as a way to reassert the social norm by clearly separating the ingroup and the outgroup (Goffman 1963). For this purpose, the paper will discuss the results of a qualitative research held in two food banks in Turin, Italy, conducted using participant observation and qualitative interviews with users and volunteers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The strong processes of economic repositioning that the West experienced in the last decades of the 20th century with the transition from the industrial economy to the so-called "enrichment economy" led to the emergence of new project themes within the territorial disciplines. The decommissioning of large industrial areas is seen by the design culture as an opportunity to re-found cities through new policies and new design devices. The case of Turin is exemplary of this process in Italy. A city that symbolises Italian Fordism, from the 1980s onwards it was invested by an incremental process of large industrial areas abandonment due to the crisis of mass production. This paper aims to discuss how, after the end of the first post-Fordist cycle, decommissioned spaces accommodate not only residential or tertiary practices as in the thirty-year neoliberal era, but also new productive functions. It does so with a descriptive approach, recounting the change in Turin's production system and describing three exemplary cases of the new productive Turin: the new Pirelli in Settimo Torinese, Lavazza and the new Manufacturing Centre in Mirafiori. In this process we seem to be able to discern a paradigm shift in the design of the contemporary city, which does not deny but welcomes productive practices. However, this new model of the productive city in the West urgently needs to redefine visions, imaginaries and practices of the contemporary project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper illustrates the results of a survey conducted in the period January-February 2023 involving the users of the Turin Public Libraries, an urban system currently affected by a significant strategic rethinking process. Through the analysis of the answers to questionnaire provided by 3,926 people, it was possible to bring to light the complexity and the multidimensionality of the act of reading and to gather interesting information on three central issues: the process that leads readers to choose the book; the libraries' role in fostering and enriching the reading experience; the complementarity between book and other form of access to narrative world, both outside and within libraries. These cognitive elements can help both to improve the collection development policies and to favor the meeting between readers and collections, also through their integrated and transmedial organization within an enriched physical and virtual bibliographic space, which stimulates and enhances the reading experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two articles defaming the upper class in Pinerolo, a political pamphlet against king Carlo Alberto and a life full of expedients that were often unscrupulous, led to the opening of an investigation file on Lorenzo Giribaldi in 1844. Initially, he used his passion for art and literature – as well as his ability to create lifelike depictions – to target lawyers, ladies, mayors and many other high-ranking people. Later, he used his historical and political knowledge to defame king Carlo Alberto, pope Gregory XVI and all the other sovereigns in the Italian Peninsula. The paper, through the analysis of the documents under investigation and the files from the Turin Police Department, outlines a man who was as ambiguous in his behaviour as cunning in his deeds: a hero who followed Mazzini, a progressivist and an advocate of the Italian independence on the one side, he could also be an Austrian spy and an unscrupulous fighter on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent rearrangement of an important section of the Museum of Antiquities – one of the Royal Museums of Turin, devoted to the historical collections from the ancient Mediterranean – was an opportunity to review and delve into the history of the events of Turin’s archaeological museum since its founding. The essay presents a general analysis of the history behind the Turin’s museum institution, spanning over three centuries: the paper starts in 1724, the year acknowledged as the date of birth of the Museum of Antiquities within the Royal University of Turin, it then looks at the 18th century, with the growth of the museum’s collection and structure within the University, and the 19th century, with its “spoliation” during the Napoleonic era, the subsequent transfer to Palazzo del Collegio de’ Nobili and the unification with the newly founded Egyptian Museum. In the 20th century, the two museums were separated again, which led the Museum of Antiquities to focus on the heritage of the Piedmontese territory, thus becoming a showcase of the Superintendence’s protection activities. Finally, the museum attracted renewed attention and was eventually included in the Royal Museums in 2015. The analysis of these three centuries of history is conducted through the study of archival documents and of the acquisition of the main collections of antiquities. In the process, the stories of the people connected to the museum (directors, curators, collectors) have also been explored, as well as the arrangements from the 18th century to the recent rearrangement of the rooms of the Archaeological Gallery in February 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Olympic legacy, whether temporary or transitory, can manifest itself before, during or after the Games. It can quickly disappear after the event if efforts are not made to keep it alive through, for example, cultural programming, new environmental legislation, public awareness programming or new, more comprehensive applications. The study has the objective of recounting the Olympic legacy of the Torino 2006 Games through the results of the qualitative interviews held with the main actors of the event. In recent years, the Olympic legacy and the planning of the Olympic legacy have become increasingly important in the choice of host cities. The importance has allowed many cities, such as London, Sydney, and Tokyo, to develop an entity in charge of planning and managing the post-Olympic legacy. The intangible possibility of training and involving new profiles in the territory is fundamental to managing the Olympic structures in the post-Olympic period. The professionalism of resources, the definition of objectives, management tools and human resources are some of the critical elements for the organisation of a working team that can promote the post-Olympic transformation of host cities. The promotion of an Olympic city and an urban model to pursue can catalyse supra-local transformations that support the intangible knowledge of citizenship. The social transformations through the promotion of the city and its image can become a "Know-How" of the organising committee which, in the post-Olympic phase, will support the future strategies of the city regarding the organisation and planning of the mega-event. These elements allow us to advance a new hypothesis on the development of new modernity induced by sports and mega-events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The One Health approach emphasises the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach. Since the mid-2000s and even more since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, public health scholars and policy makers have been paying an increasing attention to the One Health approach. The authors retrace the different reconstructions on the origins and meanings of the One Health approach with the use of an interdisciplinary case study jointly conducted by sociologists and veterinary epidemiologists in the context of dairy cattle farms located in the provinces of Turin and Cuneo. In the context of the "risk society" theorised by Ulrich Beck, the division of labour between science, politics and economics breaks apart and has to be renegotiated. In such a perspective, One Health appears as a utopia of science structured as a field of research and interdisciplinary intervention held together by a common project of the future. Besides, One Health is a science of utopia aimed at avoiding the disaster with the same tools that scientists use to foresee the possibility of it happening in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]