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Nearly seven million Turkish citizens are fully or partly descendants of refugees coming from Northern and South-Western Caucasus and more than two million of them keep and vigorously affirm a strong commitment to their roots. The public expression of their identity was totally forbidden from 1923 to 1946, but has been more or less tolerated since then. After a discussion of some meaningful events of the republican age, a survey of the current situation of this community is provided. Traditionally present in the Ottoman and later republican state apparatus much more than the Kurds, perceived as a privileged rather than a victimized minority, the Caucasian diaspora looks increasingly less inclined to blend in.

Senza alcuna pretesa di verità l'autrice mette a fuoco riflessioni, contraddizioni, paradossi e inaspettate esperienze umane che hanno attraversato il nostro pianeta e la nostra epoca durante la sconvolgente pandemia di Covid-19. Cercando nella storia e nella psicoanalisi freudiana argomenti che consentano di credere nella possibilità di una solidarietà umana che sola, peraltro, potrà risultare vincitrice, l'autrice auspica che la sfida imposta dalla pandemia alla scienza medica richiami l'attenzione sulla centralità del rapporto umano tra medico e paziente nonché su una concezione realistica e non fideistica del potere della scienza e dei suoi avanzamenti.

Il contributo si propone di analizzare alcune delle prime implicazioni che ci si attende dall’accelerazione dell’applicazione dello smart working (lavoro agile) nelle Pubbliche Amministrazioni italiane, come conseguenza dell’emergenza epidemiologica Coronavirus (Covid-19), con particolare riferimento all’ambito manageriale ed alla salute mentale. Nella piena consapevolezza di descrivere una situazione in continua evoluzione, si integreranno, con un approccio deduttivo, alcune tra le principali indicazioni che emergono dalla letteratura e da alcune ricerche. Dopo aver descritto l’evoluzione delle modalità di attivazione dello smart working nella Pubblica Amministrazione, in modalità ordinaria e nei vari momenti di emergenza, si descriveranno le principali implicazioni dal punto di vista manageriale ed in materia di salute mentale, concludendo con alcune riflessioni in merito a possibili spunti di ricerca e di policy.

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and amplified many problems in political and healthcare systems around the world, and the United States has been no exception. One such issue is racial injustice, including its impact as a social determinant of health and its manifestation in disparities in healthcare access - including behavioral healthcare. This paper examines this problem in detail and highlights the work of the Center for Practice Innovations. This intermediary organization provides training and implementation support to behavioral healthcare organizations across New York State. This work includes changes and awareness building related to racial injustice within its organization that will drive changes in training and supports provided to behavioral healthcare organizations across New York State.

The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has caused, in addition to the serious effects on the health systems, a sharp slowdown in the Italian and European economy, mainly weighing on the weakest sections of the population with a worrying increase in economic and social inequalities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study focuses on the link between socio-economic fragility and epidemic exposure to Covid-19 in Italy and Europe, with a triple objective: to monitor the main dimensions of increased inequalities within the economy and society through an academic literature review; to empirically understand the reasons for national differences in the spread and lethality of the Covid-19 virus at European level; to provide, on the basis of the results obtained in pursuing the previous two objectives, a key to understanding the main public policies for a healthier, more inclusive and sustainable Italy and Europe.

The aim of this review is to examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on health inequalities and discuss effective public policies in containing them. The Covid-19 pandemic has generated not only an unprecedented health crisis, but also a severe economic recession and rapid increase in unemployment and economic difficulties. The poorer socioeconomic classes have been most affected by SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths due to inequalities in working, housing and area of residence conditions, psychosocial factors, as well as unequal access to health care. However, the effects of the pandemic on health inequalities can be tackled by effective policies of Covid-19 containment based on testing, tracing and isolate timely and stronger social protection measures on behalf of the most disadvantaged populations.

Abstract: It is largely recognized that the Covid-19 pandemic has a global impact on public mental health and on the psychosocial balance. The authors analyze critically a number of psychosocial factors (behaviors, beliefs, theories, social adjustment, etc.) related to pandemics, throughout history. They describe how social reactions to pandemics can be similar, over time and across cultures, and how strategies of social adjustment are based on the socio-cultural contexts. The authors argue that a historical analysis of pandemics and of their psychosocial factors could indicate political strategies and social interventions, and help promote social adjustment to the present-day global health and economic emergencies.

Nella prima metà dell’Ottocento i ‘London Improvements’ realizzano trasformazioni urbanistiche che testimoniano un nuovo atteggiamento rispetto alla città in Europa, all’indomani del trauma delle guerre napoleoniche, nel confronto col nuovo assestamento post-bellico. Questi progetti sono da attribuire alle abilità creative di John Nash, cui dobbiamo i pioneristici lavori di Regent’s Park e Regent Street, che lo consacrano come ‘architect of the Picturesque’. Qui, il Pittoresco travalica la definizione di categoria estetica, si concretizza nell’espressione architettonica e trova scenografica applicazione nella progettazione urbanistica. In quale modo e in quale fase John Nash adotta il Pittoresco e, soprattutto, quali sono le ragioni di tale scelta?

The ‘mall maker’ Victor Gruen is well known as the architect who played a dominant role in the design and global proliferation of the shopping mall. While many recent publications already highlighted and re-evaluated the architectural importance of Gruen’s shopping center, the urban ideal/utopian projects proposed by Gruen have not been considered in depth thus far. Gruen mixed his design principles for shopping centers with ecological interpretations, proposing the Cellular Metropolis as a new urban utopia. This paper aims to shed light on Gruen’s urban ideas, from his critical idea of the ecological-commercial realm to the study of radical commercial hybridizations, which are still relevant lessons for the design of our socio-spatial contemporary condition. In particular, the article focuses on the case study of Louvain-la-Neuve to ground such ideas into a real site.