Philosophy and Sociology of Law, University of Perugia, Italy
Octobre à Décembre 2013
Tamar Pitch is Professor of Legal Philosophy and Sociology of Law at the University of Perugia, School of Law. She has had teaching appointments at the University of Florence and the University of Camerino, and has also taught at various universities in the USA, Canada, Morocco, Argentina, Mexico and Spain.
She has degrees from the University of Florence, Italy, and the University of Connecticut, USA and she has been a Fulbright Fellow and Wolfson Scholar.
In 2007, she was awarded the ‘Premio Capalbio’ for her book La Societa della prevenzione. She was nominated Best Foreign Scholar of 1999 from the American Criminological Society.
In her books, articles and research she has worked on crime and social justice, deviance and social control, law and gender, human rights, issues of equality and discrimination.
Citizenship and safety and security policies
The erosion of the European social model is not only the result of economic policies: it is also and at the same time the result of policies and discourses which in the name of safety and security significantly change the meanings of citizenship. This research will focus on the transformations of the meanings of citizen and citizenship resulting from safety, security policies and discourses, and the conflicts over them, at national (Italy) and local levels, within the context defined by the Schengen agreements and the resulting definition of European citizenship. These meanings will be confronted with the legal category of citizenship and with the different meanings which are given to citizenship in sociological, legal philosophical and governmental literature. Safety and security policies will be studied in order to see how they impact on the use of urban space and access to work, leisure, and the freedom of movement of differently marginalized people. Local policy justifications and rhetorics will also be studied in order to see how and by which criteria, they distinguish the ‘good’ citizens from the ‘bad’ or non- citizens. The claims and discourses of citizens’ different autonomous organizations will be analyzed in the same vein.
PITCH, Tamar. Pervasive Prevention: A Feminist Reading of the Rise of the Security Society. London : Ashgate, 2010, 158 p. (also translated into Spanish).
PITCH, Tamar. Diritti fondamentali: Disuguaglianze sociali, differenze culturali, differenza sessuale. Torino : Giappichelli, 2004, 248 p.
PITCH, Tamar. Un diritto per due. Milano : Il Saggiatore, 1998, 281 p. (also translated into spanish).
PITCH, Tamar. Limited Responsibilities: Actors, Conflicts, Criminal Justice. London : Routledge, 1995, 233 p. (also translated into spanish).
PITCH, Tamar. La devianza. Firenze : La Nuova Italia, 1975, 180 p. (also translated into spanish).