Those who are different (that's to say, queer) from the heterosexual nature are as much a threat to peace, provoking wars, or pandemics, as they are to the social order, arousing divine wrath and demanding undue privileges. The author aims to demonstrate, thanks by Roberto Esposito's political theory, that the threat represented by queer community is expressed, according to heteronormative society, in terms of contagion and, consequently, resolved through immunisation mechanisms: a certain idea of what is natural, normal, and healthy (heterosexuality) that must be protected from what is not natural and healthy-a disease, therefore.
The article examines the transition from Law 71/2017 to Law 70/2024, showing how the Italian legislator has shifted from a reactive model focused on the removal of harmful digital content to a preventive-relational paradigm that interprets bullying and cyberbullying as ecological and interdependent phenomena. Integrating perspectives from the sociology of law and deviance, the paper highlights how the reform redefines the roles and responsibilities of school actors, strengthens educational governance, and reshapes hierarchies of visibility, ultimately proposing a reading of the school as a Bourdieusian field.
This article aims to demonstrate that there is no right to exclude: states do not have the moral prerogative to decide unilaterally and arbitrarily whether and who enters their territory in search of a better life. Or rather, the article shows that the arguments used so far in moral and political philosophy are not effective in attributing such a right to states. This implies a substantial, albeit not unconditional, right to immigrate. This right is not unconditional because states have a partial and limited right to manage migration flows. To demonstrate this, the article analyses the main arguments presented in contemporary migration philosophy, distinguishing between those of a purely ethical nature, which focus on moral obligation, and those of a political nature, which discuss deliberative procedures and their inclusiveness. Finally, the article presents a concluding argument on the & laquo;right to exclude & raquo; and the complementary right to migrate.
This paper critically examines the relationship between negative and positive rights, focusing on the conceptual and practical challenges posed by the traditional distinction between them. The proposed hypothesis asserts that traditional distinctions fail to capture the evolving nature of rights in practice, particularly in constitutional democracies. The paper advocates for a more nuanced framework that accommodates the complexity of rights, emphasizing their functional hybridity and the necessity for judicial flexibility in interpreting them. Methodologically, the paper combines historical analysis, theoretical perspectives, and jurisprudential case studies to argue for a more dynamic understanding of rights, one that reflects both structural and contingent factors in their application. It posits that rights cannot be fully understood without acknowledging their interdependence across the socio-economic, political, and legal spheres. The central aim is to explore how social rights serve as a space where positive and negative obligations intertwine, ultimately challenging the rigid dichotomy between these categories. It proposes that rights should be understood along a relational spectrum, reflecting their interdependence rather than a fixed distinction.
A recent Italian Statute on Oncological Oblivion aims to reduce the social stigma of cancer patients who have recovered from cancer or are long-term survivors. This legislation omits previous cancer history from the workplace, insurance, mortgage access, and child adoption. The following paper reviews the notion of stigma in sociology and compares the use of regulatory tools in criminal and psychiatric settings.
