Unibo Team Leader: Prof. Edoardo Vincenzo Eugenio Mollona, Dip. di Scienze dell’Informazione
Taking a comparative and inter-generational perspective, the project addresses the impact of development paths on livelihoods, transmissions of knowledge and innovative responses to changing local and global circumstances. Focusing on four detailed case studies, the project traces patterns of connections between different forms of employment and unemployment, relations of solidarity and cooperation, and the elaboration of alternative or complementary entrepreneurial projects across the social spectrum. Starting from the premise that the analysis of any (dominant or alternative) development path must be situated within the complexities of historically unfolding links and relationships, we aim to explore how these emerge in specific socio-economic environments. The interdisciplinary approach combines qualitative research and comparative methodologies with modelling to explore the dynamic effects of development models and their context-bound implementations, and to trace and outline the interconnections of micro and macro level phenomena. By focusing on heavy industry, the research will identify critical points in the transmission of knowledge and skills across generations, regions and economic spheres. An ethnographic approach enables the detailed recording of social networks (including those of solidarity and support), both within work places and formal economic activities and beyond them, in informal economies and strategic friendship, kinship and neighbourhood relations. These are envisaged as potential vehicles for the reconfiguration of work practices and new forms of economic activity. The project will thus contribute to the comparative analysis of models for both policy and entrepreneurial action and will elucidate the complexity of development paths as they unfold within and across social terrains.
Coordinator
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE (UK)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
-Prof. Edoardo Vincenzo Eugenio Mollona
-Dip. di Scienze dell’Informazione
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (Spain)
INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO ECONOMICO Y SOCIAL –IDES (Argentina)
UNIVERZITA KOMENSKEHO V BRATISLAVE (Slovakia)
FUNDAÇAO UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASILIA (Brazil)
Start date 01/07/2009
End date 30/06/2012
Duration 36 months
Project cost 1.426.692 Euro
Project Funding 1.100.322 Euro
Subprogramme Area Development paths in an historical and comparative perspective and their impacts on Europe.
Contract type Small or medium-scale focused research project