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Oft forgotten but simmering "frozen conflicts" continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic lines, separating communities. The analytical chapters and comments in this volume present different viewpoints on the cases of Northern Cyprus, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorny Karabakh, Kosovo, and Crimea.

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Le interpretazioni e i racconti della partecipazione che costituiscono questo volume sono il risultato di una ricerca condotta durante la redazione della nuova legge sulla partecipazione poi approvata dalla Regione Toscana (L.R. 69/07). Due saggi introduttivi ne presentato il contesto e discutono alcuni dei dilemmi più rilevanti della partecipazione. Alcune delle esperienze partecipative toscane sono poi presentate criticamente in trentotto schede, riunite in cinque "scatole" interpretative: governance, democrazia deliberativa, progettazione partecipata, auto-organizzazione sociale e conflitto. Dai casi analizzati emerge un paesaggio articolato e plurale di esperienze di progettazione interattiva, con luci ed ombre, risultati significativi e difficoltà, soprattutto relative alla fase di realizzazione dei progetti. Gli autori cercano di raccontare e valorizzare alcune esperienze di frontiera, più originali e innovative, e di offrire materiale di riflessione per una ulteriore diffusione e per una maggiore efficacia delle pratiche di partecipazione, di progettazione interattiva e di auto-organizzazione sociale. GIANCARLO PABA, professore ordinario di pianificazione territoriale dell'Università di Firenze e presidente del corso di laurea magistrale in Pianificazione e progettazione della città e del territorio, si occupa di pianificazione urbana e territoriale, progettazione partecipata, città sostenibile per bambine e bambini. ANNA LISA PECORIELLO, urbanista e membro del Lapei (Laboratorio di progettazione ecologica degli insediamenti dell'Università di Firenze) è assegnista di ricerca nel Dipartimento di Urbanistica e Pianificazione del territorio dell'Università di Firenze. Si occupa di progettazione partecipata e di autocostruzione assistita. CAMILLA PERRONE, ricercatrice presso il Dipartimento di Urbanistica e Pianificazione del territorio dell'Università di Firenze, si occupa di progettazione partecipata, ha collaborato con numerosi istituti di ricerca italiani e internazionali e ha contribuito alla redazione della Legge Regionale 69/07. FRANCESCA RISPOLI, ricercatrice Lapei, esperta in processi partecipativi ed economie solidali, è assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Pianificazione dell'università IUAV di Venezia, dove si occupa di tematiche inerenti alla progettazione del territorio.

Case studies. --- Civil society. --- Citizenship.

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If we want to understand contemporary China, the key is through understanding the older generation. This is the generation in China whose life courses almost perfectly synchronised with the emergence and growth of the 'New China' under the rule of the Communist Party (1949). People in their 70s and 80s have double the life expectancy of their parents' generation. The current oldest generation in Shanghai was born in a time when the average household could not afford electric lights, but today they can turn their lights off via their smartphone apps. Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the 'two revolutions' experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We find that we can only explain the smartphone revolution if we first appreciate the long-term consequences of these people's experiences during the communist revolutions. The context of this book is a wide range of dramatic social transformations in China, from the Cultural Revolution to the individualism and Confucianism in Digital China. Supported by detailed ethnographic material, the observations and analyses provide a panoramic view of the social landscape of contemporary China, including topics such as the digital and everyday life, ageing and healthcare, intergenerational relations and family development, community building and grassroots organizations, collective memories and political attitudes among ordinary Chinese people.

Older people --- Social conditions --- Case studies.

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Medical ethics --- Medical ethics --- Case studies

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When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent, perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit of reconciliation and for the need of global conversations around this topic. The contributing scholars and scholar-practitioners?who hail from the United States, South Africa, Ireland, Israel, Zimbabwe, Germany, Palestine, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands?describe and analyze examples of reconciliatory practices in different national and political environments. Drawing on direct experiences with reconciliation efforts, from facilitating psychosocial intergroup workshops to critically evaluating official policies, they also reflect on the personal motivations that guide them in this field of engagement. Arranged along an arc that spans from cases describing and interpreting actual processes with groups in conflict to cases in which the conceptual merits and constraints of reconciliation are brought to the fore, the chapters ask hard questions, but also argue for a relational approach to reconciliatory practices. For, in the end, what is important is to embrace a spirit of reconciliation that avoids self-interested action and, instead, advances other-directed care.

Conflict management --- Peace-building --- Reconciliation --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Peace-building - Case studies --- Conflict management - Case studies --- Reconciliation - Case studies