Francesco Della Puppa
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Francesco Della Puppa is Professor in Sociology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Padua and worked in Italy, Bangladesh, Slovenia, UK, Cuba. His core research interests concern the social transformations prompted by migration phenomena, international migration, transformation of labour, family dynamics, racism. He is author of several monographs and articles for international scientific journals. He is a long distance runner and has played in some post punk bands.
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Despite being one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the few with no Amtrak train transit. While you cannot get in or out of the city by train, it does have a humble light rail system, built in the face of public… Read more »
Until not so long ago, by sailing the northern seas, one could glimpse entire islands appearing and then suddenly vanishing among the tides. But these floating territories, at times even added to maps, may in fact have been the gargantuan body of the Kraken, a legendary monster with multiple arms,… Read more »
On the island of Malakula, part of the nation of Vanuatu, when the time is deemed right by their elders, the youth of the community partake in a coming-of-age ceremony to become manples: literally “men-place.” Anthropologist Jacopo Baron reflects on his personal involvement in these rituals and on the profound… Read more »