La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse

The paper considers the concepts of uncertainty and risk and their new configuration in the globalized society. Drawing on an analysis of ethnographic situations rooted in the history of anthropology as well as on the interpretation of a criminal event committed in Italy, the work aims at working th...

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Main Author: Stefano De Matteis
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo 2019-06-01
Series:Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/aam/1303
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spelling doaj-ca5b2972781146aa89dd279aafc613ab2020-11-25T03:06:13ZitaDipartimento Culture e Società - Università di PalermoArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo2038-32152019-06-01222110.4000/aam.1303La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverseStefano De MatteisThe paper considers the concepts of uncertainty and risk and their new configuration in the globalized society. Drawing on an analysis of ethnographic situations rooted in the history of anthropology as well as on the interpretation of a criminal event committed in Italy, the work aims at working the concepts of risk and vulnerability as social categories, which is possible to face through a set of cultural practices. In this perspective, the paper emphasizes the figure of the mediator as a cultural “performer”: a social actor who organizes cultural complexity and builds patterns of inclusion through social participation. The capacity to mediate cultural diversity may turn risk and vulnerability themselves into driving forces for social change in the contemporary society.http://journals.openedition.org/aam/1303riskfearvulnerabilityperformerperformance
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La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
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title La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
title_short La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
title_full La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
title_fullStr La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
title_full_unstemmed La forza della vulnerabilità. Il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
title_sort la forza della vulnerabilità. il mediatore come performer al confine tra culture diverse
publisher Dipartimento Culture e Società - Università di Palermo
series Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
issn 2038-3215
publishDate 2019-06-01
description The paper considers the concepts of uncertainty and risk and their new configuration in the globalized society. Drawing on an analysis of ethnographic situations rooted in the history of anthropology as well as on the interpretation of a criminal event committed in Italy, the work aims at working the concepts of risk and vulnerability as social categories, which is possible to face through a set of cultural practices. In this perspective, the paper emphasizes the figure of the mediator as a cultural “performer”: a social actor who organizes cultural complexity and builds patterns of inclusion through social participation. The capacity to mediate cultural diversity may turn risk and vulnerability themselves into driving forces for social change in the contemporary society.
topic risk
fear
vulnerability
performer
performance
url http://journals.openedition.org/aam/1303
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