La giusta parte. Testimoni e storie dellantimafia (Italian Edition)
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This is the promotion of the denomination used to refer to those who have been subjected to Mafia wrongdoings from "Mafia victims" to "partisans" 3. This new denomination, in fact, opens up a new semiotic perspective since this is a way, not only to commemorate those who have been subjected to violence or died, but also a way to celebrate and hence promote resistance to criminal powers. This is a way to remind us that although this fight has left martyrs and heroes on the battlefield, it has also produced, over time, significant changes with the power to eventually transform the whole community.
This transformation refers to the idea of a subject that is no longer seen as defeated and bent by the criminal power and oppression but as an active fighter as well as bearer and promoter of collective well-being. The social resignification, witnessed in the province of Caserta is in line with the process that the French scholar Serge Latouche called decolonization of the imaginary, which in turn fosters the well-known De-growth paradigm , This study focuses on a different and definitely more complex conception of workplace, which is not only understood as site of work.
The former is, in fact, the outcome of a widespread, yet organised, social network aimed at promoting coscientization, liberation, well-being, and transformation of the community framework. We might say that here network represents, at the same time, both a much broader place of work where people bring into play their workforce and a powerful instrument to change the workplace itself from the grassroots.
In the province of Caserta, although the diverse instances of social change, which have opposed mafia power, have different histories, origin, dynamics, and objectives Gelardi, , ; Sardo, ; Solino, ,. Their shared aims have been to improve quality of life and promote social justice and fairness.
These are becoming increasingly known and active, while gaining a social role and a definite identity affirming this new way of living in community. Some second level associations associations of associations , in particular "Don Peppe Diana committee" operating at a local level and "Libera Associations, names and numbers against Mafias" operating at a national level, encompass and coordinate the different forces which are represented by citizens, cooperatives, associations, and institutional authorities actively involved in contrasting camorra, while promoting cultural change and collective well-being.
The construction of partnerships and productive relationships is, in fact, essential to reach shared and superordinate goals. Human freedom is expressed not in the denial of oppression but in a real life-sustaining generative power, which takes place in as much as a creative capacity for producing solid community ties, developed both at a local and at a global level.
Only by means of identity processes and collective subjectivity it is, in fact, possible to overcome the individualistic and materialistic attachment to private property Natale, Similarly, the promotion of a network as a dialogical tool of coscientization aimed at community thriving is possible in as much as a Community psychologist actively takes part in the network itself, by sharing values, objectives, and intervention methodologies Arcidiacono, In doing so, the psychologist then becomes a "territorial socio-political catalyst" thanks to its immersion in the context.
In this way, the Community psychologist takes part in the dialogue between the social actors involved and contributes to scientific competence and knowledge of the development of the intersubjective dialogic process.
Local Context and Oppression First, we must outline the social, economic and political aspects of the area, where this project focuses on. Testimoni e storie dell'antimafia Italian Edition. Specifically the project aimed to activate cooperative production in places and buildings confiscated from organised crime under the Italian law n. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. Amazon Second Chance Pass it on, trade it in, give it a second life. Amazon Rapids Fun stories for kids on the go.
In the same vein, the Community psychologist is actively involved in promoting people's participation in decision-making. In an owner or management dominated workplace which can clearly be the case of the province of Caserta worker decision-making is normally highly restricted. If it is true, as held by Barker and Martin and in more general terms by Frey and Stutzer , that democracy and participation in decision-making processes are a by-product of happiness, any intervention aimed at removing the obstacles which stand in the way of active civil participation ought to be paramount.
As Mosca reminds us, the actions perpetuated by criminal organization transform rights into concessions, into favors, which must be reciprocated, which, in turns, generate enslaved and conditioned individuals. Therefore, in those social contexts, where the influence of criminality is strong, it is necessary to weaken the determinant of social consensus.
One of the possible ways out of oppression is represented through the promotion of organizations operating in the field of social and civil economy. These social outcome-oriented organisations are grounded on values such as solidarity, cohesion, social responsibility, democracy, participation, and autonomy. In the province of Caserta, for example, a social network of fair trade economy has been consolidating over time. In this network started an integrated project funded by "Fondazione con il Sud" bank, and the Department of Humanities University of Naples Federico II actively participated in it.
Of the thirty partners involved in the project there were many different types of organisations, including: All of them have joined up to contrast organized criminality and foster social development. The RES project was aimed at a reorganisation of community social capital through the development of local solidarity and the transformation of sociocultural-economic processes. Specifically the project aimed to activate cooperative production in places and buildings confiscated from organised crime under the Italian law n. The social net gained by this became an opportunity for experimenting new forms of conviviality as well as a place in which to develop negotiated community norms and critical consciousness.
The wider objective was, thus, to give value to the existing territorial resources, the social network that has grown in the recent years associations, cooperatives, etc. Occupational activities which build social cohesion, through immaterial other than material frameworks, were also used.
In this account, the RES project is consistent with the idea of sustainable community, that is a community "that uses its resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are available for future generations" World Commission on Environment and Development, , p. The RES project also hinged on the five distinctive features that support a sustainable community proposed by Bridger and Luloff Increasing local economic diversity, self-reliance, reduction in energy use, protection and enhancement of biological and environmental diversity, social justice , and on the six forms of "community capital" described by Mark Roseland Natural, Phsysical, Economic, Human, Social, and Cultural capital.
The future of the RES project lies within sectoral agri-food chains, sustainable tourism, and social building which are currently underway. Moreover, since this territory involves a high percentage of seasonal working migrants, with the majority being illegal, a territorial pact between institutional authorities and the civil society promoting interculturality and a better use of public services in favour of migrants is already in the making.
Finally, there is the intention of supporting public administration by setting up a social budget, which will make available, transparent, and valuable the social actions and traceability of public expenditure; all of this will be aimed at guaranteeing sustainable local development in contrast to the waste of public resources that have happened elsewhere. The RES project will undertake other actions in the lens of Community and Critical Psychology allowing further processes of coscientization and occupational inclusion to take place.
This project has the development of a sustainable tourist chain aimed at giving value to environmental and community resources as its vision. These paths of sustainable tourism are also aimed at fostering encounters and socialisation between people. The relational exchange helps the local community to recognize its subjectivity starting from its ethical values of welcoming, solidarity, and respect for cultural diversity.
Another purpose is to make people aware of the historical, social, cultural, and environmental beauties that have been hidden by past oppression. Another kind of psycho-social-oriented change is the creation and promotion of an Agency of social communication for the development of "communicative activity" to be at the service of the entire community network.
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This agency will produce and manage the whole web platform for the RES project upgrading information and integrated communication. The platform will also be used to share educational and multimedia files related to the project and the social action that the latter brings into bear. A database of memory and commitment to the project will also be created.
This will be an archive of stories of resistance to camorra and civic commitment. In an intercultural perspective, there is the intention to digitalise various materials such as video, photos, documents, among others, in order to preserve the memory of past generations and also the ones of the migrants with regard to those crucial themes related to the community. This work will eventually bring to life two multimedial museums, one called "Museum of Cultures" and the other one called "Museum of Resistance".
The aim is to enable people to remember, know, and value the stories that marked "Don Peppe Diana lands" within a process of collective memory. In oder to build such a project, the involvement of local people and many others is suggested. As we pointed out elsewhere, the outcome of the RES project is the development of new and more complex social identities characterised by mutual respect and dialogue with the Other and the environment.
This initiative has been developed through a contract network based on shared ethical values, which in turn supports local businesses production and consumption, as well as those political choices made by the organisations involved. As previously mentioned, this alternative community started from a process of collective reconceptualisation of collective imaginary by symbolically transforming Caserta territories' reference from "Gomorrah domain" to "Don Peppe Diana lands". This new way of looking at production and consumption fosters the overcoming of an egocentric and materialistic vision, which instead, promoted solely individual interests.
In this article we suggested that in order to promote work-based liberation it is necessary to share a circular relationship among all the actors involved in this process, which must be dialectic, reciprocally-oriented, and participatory focused. In this regard, a liberation-oriented Community psychology plays, among other things, a fundamental role in promoting inter-individual and group dialogue, which is aimed at developing relational networks and collective well-being.
In particular the attention paid to work is focused here on its capacity to generate satisfying social relationships, which are suitable not for the market's sake but for the growth of humans and their relation with the surrounding environment. The example of the province of Caserta tells us that shared objectives and visions led the development of partnership and the success of social actions.
A shared networking action, instead, acted as a keystone for the process of change and liberation from oppression. Networking and partnership also played an important role for the process of coscientization of the community itself. Networking has been, in fact, the underpinning of the relational framework upon which a process of change and re-elaboration of the context at large could be built. This implied redefining social categorisations and community identification. This has been, thus, the backbone of the entire process, which led to an increased awareness of the forces that were at stake.
Through shared and work-based networking activities it has been possible for the citizens of the province of Caserta to oppose not only the power of organised crime, but also to shield themselves from the unbridled forces of globalisation. By means of these social tools they managed to change their social fabric and ground community life upon co-operation and trust. Liberation, in this context, acted as a proxy for a better collective working experience, co-living, and social cohesion.
The network underway in the province of Caserta is, in that sense, an experiment of destructuring the asymmetries of local and global power. In this framework, the shift from working competition to co-operation, which intends to deeply modify the relationship between work, workers, work-place, and context, sets economics and society free from the rigid laws of the neo-liberal market thereby generating new social bonds and collective well-being. Often with the aid of an accomplice, the crook distracts the victim for a few seconds, which is enough time for the crook to pretend to pack the product while, in reality, it gets swapped with a fake one.
The "pack" is so well-known in Naples in which it has become part of the common parlance to indicate every kind of scam. They were part of The Italian Resistance, which had been fighting against the fascist government of Mussolini and the Nazi government of Hitler.
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