Global Rome : changing faces of the eternal city

Global Rome : changing faces of the eternal city /

"Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning,...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Marinaro, Isabella Clough (Editor), Thomassen, Bjørn (Associate professor) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
Subjects:
Urbanization > Italy > Rome.
Urban policy > Italy > Rome.
Community development > Italy > Rome.
Rome (Italy) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome; PART I. ROME: THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL CITY; 1 Diversely Global Rome; 2 The liberal, the Neoliberal, and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome; 3 Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries; 4 Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary Rome; PART II. CHANGING FACES, CHANGING PLACES; 5 Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Reurbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in a Suburb of Rome.
  • 6 Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens: The public Construction of Difference in a Roman school7 Evicting Rome''s Undesirables: Two Short Tales; 8 The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in Rome; 9 Ways of Living in the Market City: bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center; PART III. ROME AND ITS FRACTURED MODERNITIES; 10 Roma, Città Sportiva; 11 Football, Romanità, and the Search for Stasis; 12 Rome''s Contemporary Past; PART IV. THE INFORMAL CITY; 13 The Self-Made City; 14 Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome''s Periphery; 15 Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village.
  • 16 where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space17 Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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