Resolving the metastable Si-XIII structure through convergent theory and experiment

Silicon allotropes have emerged as a pivotal frontier for engineering materials with tailored optical, electronic, and thermal functionalities, opening routes toward integrated photonics, energy harvesting, and quantum technologies, while avoiding rare or toxic elements. High-pressure experiments have revealed several metastable silicon allotropes, among which Si-XIII stands out. First observed more than 20 years ago, this phase has remained structurally unidentified, representing a significa...

Universalism and Innocence as Technologies of Childhood: A Queer and Decolonial Reading of Children's Rights

Childhood can be understood as a permanent social structure (Qvortrup, 2004), historically and culturally situated, whose meanings are produced and transformed through discourses, practices, and institutional dispositives (Foucault, 1976; Robinson, 2013). From this perspective, childhood is not a natural state, but a discursive construction through which children’s access to knowledge is regulated and their bodies and subjectivities are governed. Within this framework, the United Nations Conv...

Insegnare le isole on their own terms. Appunti per una didattica degli studi insulari

Manuale di geografia del turismo. Dal Grand Tour al post-Covid (VI edizione)

Il "Manuale di geografia del turismo" aiuta a costruire conoscenze sistematiche della disciplina presentando una rassegna di orientamenti – dall’economico al politico, dall’umano all’ambientale, al percettivo – e la letteratura che se ne è occupata, fino ai più recenti aggiornamenti. Questa sesta edizione, pubblicata dopo il periodo pandemico, si differenzia infatti dalle precedenti in ragione del ripensamento che le scienze turistiche hanno dovuto operare su loro stesse a causa del drammatic...