Francesco Della Puppa
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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Changing a town by the dint of your running. This is what happened to Leadville, Colorado, after a 100-mile running competition was organised there in 1983. So how does sport transform cities? Ultramarathon runner and writer Filippo Caon recounts his first-hand experience of sport-focused places, from the Rocky Mountains of… Read more »

‘Philosophical History of the Centuries to Come’ is an 1860 political, proto-sci-fi work by Italian writer Ippolito Nievo. The novel satirically describes aspects of the history of humanity until the year 2222, notably anticipating actual world events, including the construction of the Isthmus of Suez, the uprisings leading to the… Read more »

Spaces can work like archives, where access to information is granted or protected depending on the institutional frameworks at play. Resulting from the author’s runs in lockdown Atlanta with only a phone at hand, this photo essay by Ryland Johnson gives us glimpses of shut-down corporate areas and warehouses which… Read more »