Italy Report 1991
The 1991 Italy Report, now in its third edition, has been based on six dichotomies, illustrated by six essays accompanied by sixty phenomenological files. Through the “dialectic of opposites”, the volume analyses the evolution and changes in society and highlights the most representative themes of current events.
With over 600 pages, the Report is a useful tool for understanding a changing Italy.
The dichotomies identified and contained in the Report are:
MALAISE/WELLBEING • SERVICE/DISSERVICE • NORTH/SOUTH – IDENTITY/DIFFERENCE • SILENCE/CLAMOUR • PROJECT/RENUNCIATION
Index
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
The search for meaning and the potential society
by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes
CHAPTER 1 – MALAISE/WELL-BEING
1 As long as there is health there is life
2 Public dis/administration
3 The future is in the past: the question of the third age
4 Lifestyles
5 Income and wealth
6 Employment and technology
7 The “white evil”: accidents at work
8 Youth unease
9 Citizenship and participation
10 Culture of delegation
CHAPTER 2 – SERVICE/DISSERVICE
11 Disused knowledge: the scholastic institution in the Italy of decay
12 The labyrinth: flows and trends of the university population
13 Surviving welfare: social security
14 The costs of public administration
15 Binary, sad and lonely: land and sea transport
16 The ways of the sky are infinite: air transport
17 Stolen art: the artistic heritage
18 The burnt-out forest
19 The rights of citizens
20 Telecommunications
CHAPTER 3 – NORTH/SOUTH
21 Prices and consumption in the two Italies
22 Sporting only in words
23 The quality of life
24 The growth of the South
25 In search of lost grain
26 But is work really a right?
27 Demographic trends in opulent Italy
28 The city
29 Organised crime
30 An example of development in the South: Catania
CHAPTER 4 – IDENTITY/DIFFERENCE
31 Sicily, land of immigration
32 Italians and immigrants: possible racism
33 Italy as seen by others
34 The religion of others
35 Minorities at the ballot box
36 The phenomenon of the Lega
37 Aids, the plague of the third millennium
38 The body and absence: handicap as diversity
39 The social telephone
40 Behind bars: the foreign prison population
CHAPTER 5 – SILENCE/CLAMOUR
41 Black silence and white clamour: information on the Martelli Decree
42 War on TV
43 Power and editorial concentration
44 Advertising and the press
45 Dancing and more: young people’s musical enjoyment
46 Videogames
47 Do young people love Gutenberg? Young people’s approach to reading
48 Journalists and the handicap
49 In the faithful centuries: the Carabinieri through the press
50 Opinion surveys
CHAPTER 6 – PROJECT/RENUNCIATION
51 Citizen Joe’s private war: associations in Italy
52 The green archipelago
53 The void and the ballot box: the abstentionist phenomenon
54 Outside the classroom: school and university drop-outs
55 The new professions
56 Youth work
57 The family
58 Young people and commitment
59 The Church and the social sphere
60 Religiosity