Geometries of Control: Dynamics of Power, Oppression and Resistance. Issue 1

This first Issue of the Quaderni del Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca su Corpi, Diritti, Conflitti – V stems from a desire that often accompanies collective projects seeking to detach themselves from the neoliberal and bureaucratic mechanisms that risk transforming academia into a space of sterile enumeration of titles. This volume, instead, emerges from – and aims to generate – shared space of reflection, critique, and conscious subversion. Quaderni V is the result of a collective path built over time, shaped by discussions, revisions, rewritings, and above all by an ongoing dialogue among disciplinary perspectives, methodological approaches, and diverse research experiences.What makes this volume particularly significant is, first and foremost, the richness and variety of the contributions it brings together. The fourteen chapters that compose the volume are authored by PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and scholars at an early yet already mature stage of their academic trajectories. These contributions often originate from in-depth empirical research, doctoral dissertations, or collective projects, and they demonstrate a remarkable ability to combine theoretical rigor, critical sensitivity, and close attention to the social and political contexts under investigation. This volume thus takes shape as a space dedicated to the valorization of emerging research, in continuity with the spirit that has always animated the Quaderni del Laboratorio.