ABSTRACT

The paper focuses on a specific form of activism – urban knitting – and analyses “Mettiamoci una pezza” (“Let’s patch it”), an initiative organized by a group of women activists from L’Aquila, Italy, for the 10th anniversary of the earthquake, not only to draw public attention to the state of the city but also to other social and political issues. To analyze the organizational infrastructure of this movement, a qualitative content analysis of the videos produced by the craftivists was conducted, to which was added an analysis of the initiative’s website. The findings show the main characteristics of this collective action, as well as the creation of a particular organizational infrastructure consisting of a network of networks, made possible thanks to digital media. This infrastructure enabled the achievements of outcomes that the organizations could not achieve independently, recomposing a widespread but fragmented activism, based not on a geographical proximity, but on common goals.

摘要

本文着眼于一种特定形式的激进主义-城市编织-并分析了“ Mettiamoci una pezza”（“让我们修补一下”）这一举措，该倡议是由一群来自意大利拉奎拉的女性激进主义者组织的，旨在庆祝该组织成立十周年。地震不仅引起了公众对城市状况的关注，而且也引起了其他社会和政治问题的关注。为了分析该运动的组织基础结构，对技师制作的视频进行了定性的内容分析，并在此基础上对该计划的网站进行了分析。调查结果显示了这种集体行动的主要特征，以及建立了由网络网络组成的特定组织基础设施，这要归功于数字媒体。