Ferzan Ozpetek’s Mine vaganti (2010): Wandering Between “the Comic”
and “Humor”

Contributor(s): Margherita Heyer-Caput

A powerful expression of Ferzan Ozpetek’s narratives of displacement, Mine vaganti (2010) represents an open-ended journey of multiple characters and their tentative pursuit of happiness through the transformative power of “humor.” More specifically, the inherent potential for change that defines...

FFS - Finance and the global land rush: Understanding the growing role of investment funds in land deals and large-scale farming

2025-03-19 22:03:54 | Contributor(s): Oane Visser | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.122

In the wake of the 2007–08 food crisis, we have seen the combined development of a rapid financialization of agriculture with the expansion of large-scale corporate farming through large-scale land deals, in particular in developing countries and emerging economies. The rapidly growing...

FFS - Financialization in the food system

2025-03-19 22:03:53 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.90

There is growing concern about financialization in the food sector, which refers to the increasingly important role played by financial actors, markets, and motives in decisions along agrifood supply chains. Financial actors have long been intertwined in the agriculture and food sector, but...

FFS - How financialization influences the dynamics of the food supply chain

2025-03-19 22:03:54 | Contributor(s): Myriam Vander Stichele | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.135

The growing interlinkages between the financial and agrifood sectors have to a large extent shaped the dynamics in the latter, from land ownership to food retail. This article describes the different ways and means, and ever deeper levels of financialization that continue to develop. The...

FFS - Small farmer vulnerability and climate risk: Index insurance as a financial fix

2025-03-19 22:03:54 | Contributor(s): S. Ryan Isakson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.109

By its very nature, agriculture is a risky endeavor. Farmers not only face natural threats from pests, plant disease, and inclement weather, but many must also worry about fluctuating input costs, uncertain prices for their output, and, ultimately, their ability to repay debts and support...

FFS - SYNTHESIS - The state of time in this financial moment: Financialization in the food system

2025-03-19 22:03:54 | Contributor(s): Sarah J Martin | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.93

The three papers and workshop discussion draw attention to the various ways that finance and food come together through new financial actors and tools, and in new political contexts, or financialization in the food system. The term financialization began to emerge in the late 1990s and it is...

Fiction with Fiction: Confessing to Dante in Decameron I.1

Contributor(s): Simone Marchesi

This essay addresses one specific element of Decameron I.1, the curious order in which the holy friar questions Ciappelletto in his confession, and relates it to the larger dialogue Boccaccio establishes with Dante’s Commedia. By avoiding the canonical models of confessing penitents, which...

Fighting Eve: Women on the Stage in Early Modern Italy

Contributor(s): Nicla Riverso

The Catholic revival in the sixteenth century coincides with the opening of the commedia dell’arte stage to women, leading to progress for female performers. However, the presence of women in the commedia dell’arte immediately shows contradictions and disagreements with the teaching of the...

Figure, usi, e paradossi della nostalgia

Contributor(s): Vito Teti

Figuring Justice: Imperial Ideology and the Discourse of Colonialism in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland

Contributor(s): Walter S. H. Lim

Edmund Spenser is a vocal spokesman for the colonization of Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, he provides one of the most sustained imperialist articulations in Elizabethan England. And in Book V of The Faerie Queene, he promulgates a vision of justice that is necessary for...

Filippino Lippi and Music

Contributor(s): Timothy J. McGee

Un examen attentif des illustrations musicales dans deux tableaux de Filippino Lippi nous fait mieux comprendre les intentions du peintre. Dans le « Portrait d'un musicien », l'instrument tenu entre les mains du personnage, tout comme ceux représentés dans l'arrière-plan, renseigne au sujet du...

Film didattico e pedagogia del cinema in Italia nel secondo dopoguerra

Contributor(s): Federico Pierotti

Il saggio presenta i principali temi che caratterizzano il dibattito sulla pedagogia del cinema in Italia tra la fine degli anni quaranta e l’inizio degli anni cinquanta. La prima parte ripercorre le diverse posizioni in relazione alla dimensione emotiva delle immagini cinematografiche,...

Fils de la louve: Blaise de Monluc et les femmes de Sienne

Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

In July 1552 the city of Siena rebelled against its Spanish overlords that had either influenced or directed the Republic’s government for several years, threw out the Spanish garrison that controlled the city, and open its doors to a French army sent by King Henri II to protect the city and...

Finding formula: Community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity

2025-03-19 22:03:41 | Contributor(s): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.230

This paper reports on qualitative research concerning community-based organizational responses to infant formula needs due to household food insecurity. It explores this topic against the backdrop of neo-liberal social welfare approaches that shape gendered food work within food insecurity...

Fiorillo's La ghirlanda and Old Neapolitan: A preliminary Assessment

Contributor(s): Anna L. Moro

Firing on all cylinders: Progress and Transition in INKE’s Year 2

2022-06-13 19:13:48 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens, INKE Research Group | https://doi.org/10.25547/X8PS-RH52

Digital humanities

First foods as Indigenous food sovereignty: Country foods and breastfeeding practices in a Manitoban First Nations community

2025-03-19 22:03:38 | Contributor(s): Jaime Cidro, Tabitha Robin Martens, Lynelle Zahayko, Herenia P. Lawrence | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.249

As a concept and in practice, Indigenous food sovereignty (IFS) offers insights into the social, cultural, and environmental challenges of a deficient food system. The associated poor health outcomes of this system include infant and child health issues such as early childhood caries and...

Fischlin, Daniel, project dir. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP). Archive.

Contributor(s): Kathryn Prince

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online

Contributor(s): Erin A. McCarthy