Papers by Margherita Moro
As technological progress, automation, and digital platforms have entered the labour market and a... more As technological progress, automation, and digital platforms have entered the labour market and are expected to progressively change its dynamics, material and discursive neoliberal practices are directing technology towards the maintenance of the socio-economic status quo. This thesis aims at demonstrating that, albeit technology has the potential to contribute to the building of a post-neoliberal society, the neoliberal narrative has managed to appropriate critical arguments to legitimize exploitative practices aimed at avoiding the shift to an alternative order.
The first chapter introduces the issue of automation and the main studies that have been led about the topic, together with an analysis concerning how the conception of a future without work has changed after the neoliberal turn in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The second chapter addresses the notion of platform capitalism, notably the practices through which digital platforms are utilized to foster underpaid and unpaid labour as well as surplus value extraction and the narrative utilized to justify those practices. After the analysis of the digital and gig economies, the chapter concludes with a brief outlook of a set of proposals for the future of the digital economy.
The third and concluding chapter addresses future perspectives concerning welfare and economic policies, highlighting the risk of neoliberal appropriation of counter arguments and proposals, providing the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an example.
This dissertation analyses tourism in Caribbean countries at the end of the 20th century. It focu... more This dissertation analyses tourism in Caribbean countries at the end of the 20th century. It focuses on the essay "A Small Place" (1988), in which the author described her native island, Antigua.
È necessario specificare, innanzitutto, che la biblioteca situata in Borgo Cavour corrisponde all... more È necessario specificare, innanzitutto, che la biblioteca situata in Borgo Cavour corrisponde alla Biblioteca Comunale di Treviso: nonostante i diversi trasferimenti e cambiamenti di sede, è nata come Biblioteca Comunale, ovvero come biblioteca pubblica a servizio della comunità trevigiana e di proprietà del Comunedi Treviso, e così è rimasta fino ad oggi.
This paper represents an attempt to briefly describe what is neoliberalism, how it works and what... more This paper represents an attempt to briefly describe what is neoliberalism, how it works and what consequences it provokes. In doing so, it uses few but important sources, in particular three specific works: David Harvey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism", Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" and Mark Fisher's "Capitalist Realism"
The paper analyses local actions and local movements importance in the context of global environm... more The paper analyses local actions and local movements importance in the context of global environmental crisis. In particular, it deals with the action of indigenous rights movements in the fight against climate change, using the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline as a case study.
Even though the study of social movements has for long been neglected, from the second half of th... more Even though the study of social movements has for long been neglected, from the second half of the 20 th century on, research on the field has increased considerably to the extent that nowadays it represents an important and wide area of sociological studies. Because of the heterogeneity and the multidimensional nature of social movements, different approaches have been adopted in order to answer a variety of questions concerning this form of collective behaviour and to analyse their structure, their development, their components and their symbolic processes.
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When it comes to the current collective imaginary about space, I guess maps are the most common i... more When it comes to the current collective imaginary about space, I guess maps are the most common instrument that comes to mind. I also guess that, although we are taught to use them since a young age (for example, studying geography at school, learning by heart the name of states, regions, cities, and so on) and keep using them on a daily basis (checking Google maps to get to a meeting), we hardly ask ourselves questions related to their development, the point of view they replicate, the people who developed them, for which scopes we use them. Simply analyzing mainstream mapping from an outsider's point of view, it's easy to detect the presence of a mapping canon that privileges a quite specific point of view and prioritizes some elements while ignoring others. As we have already suggested in one of our previous articles on feminist geography, such canon is present in world maps as well as in more specific representations: when it comes to represent the earth, for example, mainstream mapping reflects a colonial point of view, giving more space and visibility to the "North" of the world. If we focus on local maps (e.g. a city on Gmaps), what emerges mostly is a bureaucratic and market-based representation that highlights, along public offices, centres of consumption: bars and restaurants, shops, banks, and sites of interest for tourists. To highlight this fact doesn't mean to reject the utility of such information: the objective of this brief article is, in fact, not to state that normative maps are useless (it would be hypocritical, since most of us use them on a daily basis), rather to suggest a reflection on what ethics and principles are implicitly present in common mapping (yes, maps carry principles!) and whether or not these maps give space to the information that we, as individuals, collectives, and society, find the most important to deliver. Leading this operation of rethinking what we would like to see in a map can develop into an exercise of creative reflection, which can also be developed collectively: actually, it works better when collective, for the simple fact that maps are more accurate when more people create them, sharing their knowledge and points of view while leading, at the same time, a community-building activity.
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Papers by Margherita Moro
The first chapter introduces the issue of automation and the main studies that have been led about the topic, together with an analysis concerning how the conception of a future without work has changed after the neoliberal turn in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The second chapter addresses the notion of platform capitalism, notably the practices through which digital platforms are utilized to foster underpaid and unpaid labour as well as surplus value extraction and the narrative utilized to justify those practices. After the analysis of the digital and gig economies, the chapter concludes with a brief outlook of a set of proposals for the future of the digital economy.
The third and concluding chapter addresses future perspectives concerning welfare and economic policies, highlighting the risk of neoliberal appropriation of counter arguments and proposals, providing the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an example.
Book Reviews by Margherita Moro
Drafts by Margherita Moro
The first chapter introduces the issue of automation and the main studies that have been led about the topic, together with an analysis concerning how the conception of a future without work has changed after the neoliberal turn in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The second chapter addresses the notion of platform capitalism, notably the practices through which digital platforms are utilized to foster underpaid and unpaid labour as well as surplus value extraction and the narrative utilized to justify those practices. After the analysis of the digital and gig economies, the chapter concludes with a brief outlook of a set of proposals for the future of the digital economy.
The third and concluding chapter addresses future perspectives concerning welfare and economic policies, highlighting the risk of neoliberal appropriation of counter arguments and proposals, providing the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an example.