Sociology for sustainability and analysis of global processes

The teaching "Institutions and public action for sustainable development" will provide theoretical and conceptual tools to answer the following questions: What are the public institutions involved in policies for sustainable development (SvS) in Italy? How can the institutional grammar of this policy area be reconstructed? What is the regulatory framework in which the SvS strategies of territories and non-public actors are defined? In particular, public actions for sustainable development will be read starting from three key words: regulate, communicate, act sustainability. The final part of the module will explore the relationship between sustainable development and the One Health approach.

Knowledge of the theories and analytical approaches of political sociology, sociology of administration, and the sociology of public action is a useful pre-requisite

1. Philippe Zittoun & Benoît Demongeot, (2010), Debates in French policy studies: from cognitive to discursive approaches, Critical Policy Studies, 3:3-4, 391-406, (online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19460171003619816 ) 2. Giovannini E. e Ciferri D., (2021), Le politiche nazionali ed europee per l’Agenda Onu 2023, in Urban@it - Centro Nazionali di Studi per le politiche urbane Sesto Rapporto sulle città. Le città protagoniste dello sviluppo sostenibile, Il Mulino Bologna, pp. 35-50 3. Franceschetti L. e Moini G. (2023), Politicizzazione e depoliticizzazione, in E. d'Albergo e G. Moini, Sociologia della politica contemporanea, Carocci, Rome

Attendance is strongly recommended but not mandatory

The "Institutions and public action for sustainable development" module includes: - a written test (with open-ended, individual questions, at the end of Part 1, with a mark out of thirty. - a short essay (3000 characters, individual), at the end of the Module, to argue the interpretative hypothesis with a mark out of thirty. The scores of the two tests will be averaged for the evaluation of the learning of the Module At the end of the Atelier, students will have to produce a research project and a Power Point presentation of the project itself. The work will be carried out in groups and the evaluation of the work will be provided in groups. The grade obtained will be averaged with the final grade obtained in the course Institutions and public action for sustainable development

Lectures, classroom exercise, personal e group review