category: Invited Perspectives

10.An Intersectional Approach to Education

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by Valentina Migliarini and Rahma Nur 

The video contribution brings together a leading scholar and a teacher/activist from Europe who adopt an intersectional approach to educational research and practice. Intersectionality illustrated how some people are subject to multiple inequalities how their experience is not just the sum of its parts (Steinmetz, 2020). The conversation recorded in the video attempts to answer the following questions: what does it mean to utilize an intersectional stance to research in the European context?

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gender/sexuality/italy 7 (2020) – Table of Contents

Gender/sexuality/Italy, 7 (2020) 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Arianna Avalle, Beatrice Basile, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Natura Sant Foster, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Table of Contents

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section: “Beside, Besides, and B-sides: Collaborations as Feminist and Decolonizing Practices.” Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives. details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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7. Side by Side: Female Collaboration in Ferrante’s Fiction and Ferrante Studies

by Stiliana Milkova

This essay proposes that Elena Ferrante’s novels depict female friendship and collaboration as a literal and metaphorical positioning side by side that dislodges the androcentric, vertical hierarchies of intellectual labor, authorship, and (re)production. Further, it argues that the collaborative female practices in Ferrante’s fiction have engendered––or brought to light––collaborative female and feminist projects in Ferrante Studies and outside academia establishing a legacy of creative and authorial women. Thus a double creation of female genealogies is at work within Ferrante’s novels and in the critical field that studies them.

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8.Where Myself Ends and Yourself Begins

by Veronica Mognato and Ana Treviño

This article is about the shared experience of two visual artists that chose to collaborate on multiple projects. Their individual stories crossed in Austin, Texas, a city that has been hosting them for a few years, and were connected thanks to their similar way of seeing and living certain social mechanisms. Their first project embraces the concept of proxemics and how different cultures manage interpersonal spaces. The two artists come from different geographic zones and together,

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9.Collective Writing Projects as Sustainable Ecologies of Collaboration

by Paolo Saporito

What does it mean to engage in collaborative practices? How do these practices ensure the sustainable management of diversity we need in order to counter contemporary forms of discrimination? This paper reflects on these issues and proposes answers to these questions by analysing two case studies: the Italian writing collectives Wu Ming and Joana Karda. The two groups enact collaborative practices that deconstruct conceptual dualisms (i.e. subject/object; self/other) and question hyper-individualised conceptions of subjectivity characterising contemporary neoliberal society.

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10.Individual and Collaborative Film Studies in Italy: Legal Constraints and the Gender Balance

by Damiano Garofalo and Dom Holdaway

In this article, we offer a handful of reflections about collaborative scholarship in Italy, referring in particular to the principal public funding scheme for research—the so-called “Progetti di rilevante interesse nazionale” (PRIN), organized and financed by the Ministry for Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). We draw, moreover, on our experience working on “The International Circulation of Italian Cinema,” a project on which we both collaborated as postdoctoral researchers at different times between 2017 and 2020.

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11.My Way to Philosophy

by Francesca Rigotti

Here, an account is provided, in autobiographical form, of the path of the author toward philosophy, as a calling, from the choice of university faculty to the first experiences as researcher, until her encounter with the theme of metaphor, true love at first sight, and beyond. You can read about the birth of her form of thought: “impertinent thought,” including the contamination of genders and the philosophy of daily life,

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Gender/sexuality/Italy 6 (2019) – Table of Contents

Table of Contents – Gender/sexuality/Italy, 6 (2019)

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe, Themed Section Guest Editors

Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor

Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor

Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors

Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, Managing EditorGuido Capaccioli, Lisa Dolasinski, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College
PAOLA BONIFAZIO,

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Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section; Paola Bonifazio presents the Invited Perspectives; and Ellen Nerenberg details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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