PRIN PNRR 2022 - DISTUM - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

PRISMA - Participation and Integration of migrants in Small and Medium Towns: analysing access and accessibility of social and health services through structures, networks and narratives.

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: Il progetto PRISMA mira a potenziare il benessere umano e a promuovere la costruzione di una società inclusiva attraverso l'analisi della partecipazione dei migranti nelle Piccole e Medie Città (Small and Medium Towns - SMTs), concentrandosi sull'accesso e l'accessibilità ai servizi sociali e sanitari. L'obiettivo è sviluppare strumenti di policy basati sulla ricerca scientifica per affrontare le disuguaglianze e la frammentazione territoriale nel contesto del welfare locale. Nello specifico, il progetto analizzerà questi processi in sei casi-studio situati in tre regioni italiane (due focus per regione), selezionati attraverso un'analisi esplorativa preliminare volta a includere nella ricerca contesti diversi in termini di popolazione e storia migratoria, organizzazione istituzionale e strutturale dei servizi sociali e sanitari, tessuto socio-economico, posizione geografica e morfologia territoriale. L'accesso e l'accessibilità dei servizi sociali e sanitari saranno analizzati integrando le diverse dimensioni delle politiche e del livello istituzionale, delle strutture e delle reti formali e informali, delle rappresentazioni e delle narrazioni sull'integrazione e delle pratiche locali. Le SMTs assumono oggi una particolare rilevanza in relazione alle dinamiche di partecipazione e inclusione dei migranti, in quanto questi luoghi stanno vivendo da una parte processi di progressiva marginalizzazione e spopolamento, e dall’altra un aumento della popolazione immigrata e delle problematiche connesse alla migrazione. Questo, unito alla mancanza di una forte e consolidata tradizione di politiche migratorie e alla generale scarsità di risorse, pone le SMTs in una posizione particolarmente vulnerabile. In linea con la definizione di "integrazione socio-strutturale", PRISMA assume l'accesso e l'accessibilità ai servizi sociali e sanitari per la popolazione migrante come “proxy” di integrazione, e include nell'analisi diverse categorie di migranti, compresi i rifugiati e i richiedenti asilo, attraverso una prospettiva intersezionale. Questi processi saranno analizzati a livello locale, sottolineando la loro stretta interrelazione con gli elementi contestuali che caratterizzano i tre casi di studio. Verrà inoltre mantenuta l'attenzione sui processi partecipativi, considerando l'accesso e l'accessibilità non solo in termini di fruizione dei servizi, ma anche in termini di partecipazione al loro processo di pianificazione a livello locale. Utilizzando uno specifico approccio partecipativo alla ricerca, questo progetto porterà alla co-costruzione di strumenti politici e linee guida, raccolti in un libro bianco, che fornirà uno strumento innovativo per la pianificazione, la comprensione e il miglioramento dei servizi socio-sanitari locali per i migranti nelle piccole e medie città.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 265.848

Importo totale UniUrb: € 105.758,75

Periodo: 30/11/2023 – 29/11/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento Studi Umanistici (DISTUM)

Referente UniUrb: Prof.ssa Rosanna Castorina

Codice progetto: P2022SSMR8

CUP: H53D23009540001 

Space and Time in Oral Archives (STOA)

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: Should we protect oral archives of the recent past from dispersion and oblivion, and re-circulate the complex and still sensitive legacy of linguistic and cultural diversity that they are passing down? A positive answer to this question bumps into empirical, legal, and ethical problems that can only be faced by making appeals to international practices and standards, which are unfortunately not yet widespread in Italy. At the same time, legacy data provide unique opportunities to understand language change as embedded in societal changes, and to communicate cultural diversity in innovative and accessible ways. This project contributes to the field by implementing a set of actions focused on two oral archives of linguistic and ethno-anthropological interest, originally collected in two contiguous inland areas of central Italy. These analogical collections, at risk of dispersion and obsolescence, contain the memories of small communities featuring relative  eographic marginality, economic insecurity, and depopulation dynamics - communities for which, according to UNESCO, the preservation of historical intangible heritage is a powerful means of social cohesion and cultural empowerment. The project thus proposes an intervention of safeguard covering the digitization, metadata development, and data exposure through European-scale repositories, in compliance with the international procedures for ethical, legal, and FAIR treatment of oral resources. Moreover, innovative actions are planned to return the voices of local linguistic and cultural legacy to the specific communities where they were originally collected, including the creation of soundwalks (simple app-based digital tools for the geolocation of audios) that can later be exploited for cultural-educational and/or touristic-economic purposes. Inhabitants and local stakeholders are also involved in the realization of socio-ethno-linguistic resurveys to document ongoing evolutions of “langscapes” in selected inland areas of Tuscany and Marche. Language diversity is the product of language change; understanding language diversity means understanding the dynamics of language change as well as the perception and beliefs that the speakers themselves have of change. A new protocol for the real-time study of language change, which tackles both objectives and subjective measures of change, is therefore developed. This protocol links historical language data provided by oral archives to new data samples collected in the same places. This unprecedented paradigm is highly sustainable because it promotes informed and scientifically grounded re-use of research data. Moreover, it fosters scientific innovation in the domains of linguistic geography and data visualization: by mapping language data onto the representation of the relevant territories where they come from, langscapes are explored as they are now and as they were in the recent past.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 278.448

Importo totale UniUrb: € 147.927

Periodo: 30/11/2023 – 29/11/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento Studi Umanistici (DISTUM)

Referente UniUrb: Prof.ssa Chiara Celata

Codice progetto: P20229S48H

CUP: H53D23009880001

Powerful women and outstanding children in Pre-Roman Umbria: Understanding inclusive societies with foreign peoples through an integrative approach of molecular anthropology, archaeology and virtual design.

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: Bioarchaeological studies of the last decade have demonstrated the value of digging into our past through multidisciplinary approaches, revealing biologic and cultural trajectories in human evolution previously completely unexplored. A crucial time in the history of the Italian peninsula is represented by the pre-Roman era, when the Italian territory was inhabited by populations with distinctive languages and traditions, the Italics. Yet very little is known one of the oldest Italic populations, the Umbrians. By conducting multidisciplinary bioarcheological methods, this project aims at shedding light on the genetic ancestry, lifestyle, diet, and health of the inhabitants of a pre-Roman town in Central Italy, Spoleto (Umbria). The treasure trove of funerary evidence gathered by archaeological investigations at the Necropolis of Piazza d’Armi at Spoleto (2008-2011), opened new scenarios on the role of women and children in this society between the end of the 8th and the middle of the 6th century BCE. Furthermore, evidence of allogenic nuclei within the community seem to witness the role of Spoleto as bridge with other Italic populations from Central Italy. The unique features of the necropolis of Piazza d'Armi are testimony to the inclusive nature of this pre-Roman center, open to accept foreign people in the upper classes of the society and to confer symbolic power to children. Three Research Units (RUs) will be involved in this project. At the RU of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the anthropologists will analyse skeletal remains from 52 individuals from Piazza d’Armi, informing on paleodemographic, morphometric, occupational, and pathological stress markers. From the same individuals, biomolecular analyses (from paleogenomics to metagenomics and stable isotope measurements) will unlock information on genetic ancestry, mobility patterns, health and dietary patterns. This will allow important archaeological questions around the origins of the people from Spoleto and their complex societal structure to be pursued, some of which are already apparent from the grave goods, but which remains hypothetical without compelling multidisciplinary bioarcheological evidence. The two RUs of Urbino and Viterbo Universities will further enhance the multidisciplinary effort of this project by tackling from an archaeological perspective question around kinship and social relations, family relationships, social upper class and human mobility (in particular of women and their children) in Spoleto. Particular attention will be given to the dissemination of the results, which will be used for the new set-up of the Archaeological Museum of Spoleto that is currently being planned. Various multimedia products including virtual and 3D facial reconstructions will be set up to tell the story of the archaeological site, explain the various findings, the multidisciplinary approach and the topics tackled (mobility, inclusivity diet, health).

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 239.437

Importo totale UniUrb: € 59.777

Periodo: 30/11/2023 – 29/11/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento Studi Umanistici (DISTUM)

Referente UniUrb: Prof.ssa Alessandra Coen

Codice progetto: P2022LATB9

CUP: H53D23010240001

Mapping and Annotating Plots (MAP): the Multimodality of Cadastral Plans in Antiquity (Babylonia and Rome)

Breve descrizione, finalità e risultati attesi: The project addresses the study of multimodality in cadastral maps in Mesopotamia between the 3rd and 1st mill. BC and in the Roman world between the 1st c. BC and the imperial age. Annotated field maps represent a paradigmatic example of the co-occurence on the same support of texts, in the form of annotations (epigraphs), and images, i.e drawings (schematic maps), in the ancient world. The combination of more than one semiotic mode in meaning-making, communication, and representation is pervasive in our times and according to multimodal theories allow for the "multiplication" of their respective meanings. Despite its prominent role in the contemporary world, the study of multimodality in the documentary corpora from the ancient world is still in its infancy. The aim of MAP is to investigate annotated cadastral plans in the Mesopotamian and Roman world, benefiting from a comparative approach. We will explore annotated maps through the lens of multimodality, whose potential for a better understanding of the mechanisms and procedures underpinning the production of this documentary class and the administrative context whence they stem will be tested here for the first time.

Importo totale del finanziamento: € 230.417

Importo totale UniUrb: € 100.217

Periodo: 30/11/2023 – 29/11/2025

Struttura UniUrb di riferimento: Dipartimento Studi Umanistici (DISTUM)

Referente UniUrb: Prof. Franco Luciani

Codice progetto: P2022SH5BM

CUP: H53D23010280001