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Gianfranco Pancino: Ricordi a piede libero. Book presentation

Today, May 19, 2021, I begin to write. Once again, during the sleepless hours of last night, I felt the urge to start writing about my life. The fear that my memory, already diminished, might no longer support me in remembering; the fear of having lost my command of Italian, which flowed so easily forty years ago, before colliding with the obstacles of new languages. What also held me back was the sheer quantity of experiences, sensations, adventures to recount… (in Italian)

Gianfranco Pancino recounts “Ricordi a piede libero. L’Autonomia operaia, exile, HIV research”: militancy, fractures and returns, between movement organization, social conflict, and non‑neutral science

Gianfranco Pancino moves through three lives which, in his account, become a single trajectory: political militancy during the years of workers’ struggles and Autonomia, exile — experienced as a painful fracture but also as an opening toward other cultures and perspectives — and finally scientific research, leading to his involvement in HIV/AIDS studies and global health issues. A path marked by a constant demand for justice and a stubborn love for knowledge, which also returns in his reflections on the non-neutrality of science, on the limits of “democratic medicine” revealed during the pandemic, and on the need to root new practices of conflict and care in the territory, such as popular clinics