Quaderni del Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca su Corpi, Diritti, Conflitti. Geometries of Control: Dynamics of Power, Oppression and Resistance

Abstract

This second issue of the editorial project Geometries of Control: Dynamics of Power, Oppression and Resistance, published in Quaderni del Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca su Corpi, Diritti, Conflitti - V, develops and extends the path opened by the first issue by bringing into focus a new set of questions, materials, and spaces of inquiry. If the previous volume foregrounded institutions, care, sexuality, migration, and the regulation of bodies through a strongly interdisciplinary lens, this second issue places greater emphasis on the symbolic, urban, digital, and normative dimensions through which power is organised, experienced, and contested in contemporary societies. What emerges from these pages is a wide-ranging and heterogeneous field of reflection, in which different disciplinary traditions and methodological approaches are not reduced to a single framework, but brought into productive conversation. The chapters collected here are written by PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and scholars working across sociology, gender studies, political theory, social psychology, criminology, law, and urban studies. Their contributions are grounded in diverse materials and methods – qualitative fieldwork, ethnography, digital ethnography, participant observation, interviews, qualitative content analysis, theoretical inquiry, and literature review – yet they share a common concern with the forms through which power is embodied, justified, normalised, and resisted.