All Outputs (30)

Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union (2024)
Journal Article

Over the past decades, a logic of border control and securitization, a combination of legal, political and social elements and factors, has developed in European States. The 2015 migration crisis has only exacerbated this negative approach towards mi... Read More about Using fraternity and human dignity to counter the criminalization of solidarity in the European Union.

Multilevel European solidarity: From people to institutions (and back) (2024)
Journal Article

In times of crisis, interpersonal and group solidarity often emerge as people face critical challenges that threaten their survival. However, it remains unclear whether spontaneous solidarity practices are enough to effectively face such crisis situa... Read More about Multilevel European solidarity: From people to institutions (and back).

The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Of all the concepts that are often evoked to tackle issues of political inclusion and exclusion, solidarity is perhaps the most frequently discussed. Although there is no unanimous agreement on a definition of this concept, which is variously referre... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today’s European Union - Reflections and solutions.

The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union (2023)
Book Chapter

European solidarity is a contested concept. Social groups and political parties with different ideological orientations across the European Union often try to impose their own conception of solidarity to the detriment of alternative interpretations.... Read More about The criminalization of solidarity in today's European Union.

European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023)
Book

What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can grow to inform legal regulations and political decisions? How is it that solidarity is so widesprea... Read More about European Solidarity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021) (2023)
Journal Article

This review article analyses the topic of phenomenological Marxism, examining its historical formulations, critical contributions, and contemporary re-enactments. It begins with an overview of the works of Enzo Paci and the Milan school of phenomenol... Read More about Facing a new crisis: Notes on Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism, by Ian H. Angus (2021).

Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity (2023)
Journal Article

This article analyses Sartre's conflicting interpretations of human relationality in Critique of Dialectical Reason and Hope Now in order to demostrate two things. First, that the social dynamics leading to the formation of what Sartre calls “fused g... Read More about Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity.

Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare (2023)
Journal Article

Digitalisation of health and the use of health data in artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML), including for applications that will then in turn be used in healthcare are major themes permeating current UK and other countries' healthcare... Read More about Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare.

Future humanities (2022)
Journal Article

Future Humanities highlights the rise and convergence of new and critical humanities by publishing trans‐ and interdisciplinary research focused on diverse subjects and methodologies. These include, but are not limited to, philosophy, cultural and hi... Read More about Future humanities.

Solidarity today: A problem-based approach (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims at establishing a problem-based approach to solidarity by describing its main characteristics and by testing its effectiveness in light of three pivotal issues today: immigration, the future of work, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The c... Read More about Solidarity today: A problem-based approach.

Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities (2021)
Journal Article

This paper provides an account of the challenges and potentialities of a solidarity-based approach to data access and governance. To do that, it offers an infraethical understanding of solidarity that describes it as a structural moral enabler that c... Read More about Solidarity and data access: Challenges and potentialities.

Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka (2021)
Journal Article

The aim of this article is to shed light on the reflections that Czech Marxist philosopher Karel Kosík dedicated to literature, and particularly to the writings of Franz Kafka, from the 1960s to the 1990s. More specifically, this article clarifies wh... Read More about Tragic realism: On Karel Kosík’s insight into Kafka.

Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought (2021)
Book Chapter

One of the pivotal issues in the thought of Karel Kosík is that of praxis. Although various interpreters have recognised the centrality of this notion and identified its affinity with other theories of praxis drawn from the traditions of Marxism and... Read More about Praxis in progress: On the transformations of Kosík’s thought.

The present and future of confidential microdata access: Post-workshop report (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the summer of 2021, the University of the West of England, in collaboration with UN Economic Commission for Europe, Eurostat, INXEDA and statistical organisations across the world, hosted a workshop to review lessons learnt in microdata access ove... Read More about The present and future of confidential microdata access: Post-workshop report.

The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question (2021)
Journal Article

This paper examines, both historically and conceptually the development and technological mediation of the concept of solidarity. We argue for both an emphasis on the workplace as the locus of solidarity relations and for a phenomenological approach... Read More about The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question.

Process and economic evaluation of the ODI R&D programme: Final report (2021)
Report

The Open Data Institute was funded by Innovate UK to undertake a major programme of Research and Development on "Data Innovation for the UK", which was re-scoped and funded on a yearly basis for a total of 4 years (called, for short, "The R&D program... Read More about Process and economic evaluation of the ODI R&D programme: Final report.

European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives (2021)
Book Chapter

Since the end of the Second World War, European construction has developed side by side with reiterated attempts to envision and implement European solidarity. This chapter addresses the complex scenario in which European political actors ostensibly... Read More about European solidarity: Definitions, challenges, and perspectives.

Justice, emotions, and solidarity (2021)
Journal Article

This paper discusses Habermas’s argument that justice requires solidarity as its ‘reverse side’, whereby the former provides the necessary global framework for establishing intersubjective solidarity whilst the latter constitutes an important precond... Read More about Justice, emotions, and solidarity.

Solidarietà e identità in Europa prima e dopo la Rivoluzione di Velluto (2020)
Book Chapter

Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology (2018)
Journal Article

The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka’s philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology.