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El transporte aéreo de pasajeros en clave internacional: reflexiones materiales y procesales en el arduo equilibrio contractual

El transporte aéreo es fuente habitual de reclamaciones por parte de sus usuarios. Cualquier retraso, por mínimo que sea, supone un cumplimiento parcial del contrato. La incertidumbre jurídica a la que se enfrentan los pasajeros generada, esencialmente, por la imposición de cláusulas no negociadas ha ...

Piccola archeologia del sorteggio

The best known instance of a political system widely grounded on election by lot was in ancient Greece, especially in the Athenian democracy, where the citizens were appointed to many public offices every year. Election by lot was the procedure by which they were assigned ...

Chi non è, e chi non vuole essere, rappresentato

To deal with the theme of the «unrepresented» it is necessary to clarify what we mean by representation. Depending on whether a formal, substantial, descriptive or symbolic concept of representation is adopted, in fact, the answer to the question: «Who are the unrepresented?» changes ...

Le ragioni della rappresentanza politica. Una prospettiva storica

The problems that come from the current crisis of representation go back to the process of creating the notions and institutions of representative democracy. Through historical analysis we can better comprehend this complexity. This article aims to analyze the link between representation, participation and decentralization ...

Come esautorare il parlamento. Un caso esemplare del declino di una democrazia rappresentativa

This essay deals with the long crisis of the Italian parliamentary system and posits that it may undermine representative democracy itself. The study presents an analysis of the events that marked the first two years of the XVIII Italian legislature in order to identify four ...

Tra rafforzamenti e indebolimenti. Il contraddittorio statuto dei confini in epoca post-globale

After a long age of empires, modern nation-states established a new culture of territorial borders, which became rigidly precise and widely reported in international treaties and documents. Globalization brought a revolution in its wake, leaving borders in many cases porous and virtually insignificant from a ...

Hic sunt leones. Confine/Frontiera: Genealogia politica di un dispositivo spaziale

“Border” and “Frontier” are configurations that name differently the spatial dispositif that regulates and organize the relationship between inside and outside, between citizens and foreigners. My essay aims to define each one of these spatial categories on the basis of their respective ontological, political, geographical ...

Logistica e Stato nel presente globale. Sovranità, corridoi, confini

Only recently logistics has become an object of research for social sciences and political theory. As something more than a technical element, or something limited to specific productive functions, logistics is indeed increasingly understood as one of the vectors in the field of forces against ...

La straniera. Mobilità, confini e riproduzione sociale oltre lo straniero di Simmel

By proposing a feminist reading of the simmelian stranger, the article calls into question the gender neutrality of migration studies and interrogates the sexual nature of human mobility and its regimes of containment and segregation. The thesis presented upholds that we need to rethink ‘the ...

Politiche migratorie, tra distruzione e eclissi della ragione

The essay reconstructs for essential ways origins and grounds of the right to migrate, analyzing above all Francisco de Vitoria’s reflexions on Spanish american colonization. This analysis underlines the right to migrate is not only an ancient right but also a right conceived and claimed ...

La «democrazia immediata»: prospettive a confronto

The expression «immediate democracy» is used according to multiple meanings, for example: to indicate a peculiar feature of populist policy; to describe Internet as a mean to increase citizen participation; to define a consequence of the crisis of intermediate bodies. Its origin is ancient and ...

La neo-intermediazione populista. Popolo, istituzioni, media

In this paper the authors draw some far-reaching consequences from their recent books on political disintermediation and media populism. Firstly, they criticize the myth of disintermediation: the alleged direct relationship between “the people” and its populist representatives. Then, they replace the myth of disintermediation with ...

I due volti della democrazia diretta

The article tries first of all to show how the ambition to achieve a “direct democracy” should be considered as a purely “modern” theoretical-political project: the idea of a ‘direct’ exercise of power by the people is placed in a specifically modern vision of power ...

Terrorismo, terrore, sovranità. Su un rapporto di reciproca embricazione

Terrorism in its current form (what has been seen at work on European soil, but not only there) is not a war of one state against another, but a phenomenon entirely internal to the state itself, which manages it with the means of management of ...

Lontane radici, lontane ferite. All’origine di Dominio e sottomissione

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