
Global Rome
Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Indiana University Press
Published on 6. June 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-253-01295-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, and grassroots social movements. The contributors engage with themes of contemporary urban studies-the global city, the self-made city, alternative modernities, capital cities and nations, urban change from below, and sustainability. Global Rome serves as a provocative introduction to the Eternal City and makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship.
Reviews / Votes
"[Global Rome] is to be praised as an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome. February 2015"-H-Italy"[T]his is a decidedly welcome addition to the growing body of Anglophone work on Rome."-Urban History
"[I]nnovative . . . . [T]here is no equivalent book currently available in any language. . . . [W]ill lend itself to semester-length courses on Rome as an 'urban laboratory.'"-John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-01295-1 (9780253012951)
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06/2014
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Persons
Isabella Clough Marinaro is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at John Cabot University, Rome.
Bjorn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Bjorn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Content
Introduction: The Changing Faces of RomeISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJORN THOMASSEN
Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
1. Diversely Global RomeBJORN THOMASSEN AND PIERO VERENI
2. The Liberal, the Neoliberal and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome MICHAEL HERZFELD
3: Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries
PIERLUIGI CERVELLI
4. Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary RomePIERPAOLO MUDU
Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places
5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of RomeALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI
6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman SchoolPIERO VERENI
7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short TalesISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE
8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxane Roma in RomeMARCO SOLIMENE
9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping CenterCARLO CELLAMARE
Part III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities
10. Roma, Citta SportivaSIMON MARTIN
11. Football, Romanita and the Search for StasisMARK DYAL
12. Rome's Contemporary PastVALERIE HIGGINS
Part IV. The Informal City
13. The Self-Made CityCARLO CELLAMARE
14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's PeripheryFERRUCCIO TRABALZI
15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical VillageCRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP
16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban SpacePIERPAOLO MUDU
17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban AgricultureFERRUCCIO TRABALZI
Contributors
Index
Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
1. Diversely Global RomeBJORN THOMASSEN AND PIERO VERENI
2. The Liberal, the Neoliberal and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome MICHAEL HERZFELD
3: Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries
PIERLUIGI CERVELLI
4. Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary RomePIERPAOLO MUDU
Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places
5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of RomeALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI
6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman SchoolPIERO VERENI
7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short TalesISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE
8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxane Roma in RomeMARCO SOLIMENE
9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping CenterCARLO CELLAMARE
Part III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities
10. Roma, Citta SportivaSIMON MARTIN
11. Football, Romanita and the Search for StasisMARK DYAL
12. Rome's Contemporary PastVALERIE HIGGINS
Part IV. The Informal City
13. The Self-Made CityCARLO CELLAMARE
14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's PeripheryFERRUCCIO TRABALZI
15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical VillageCRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP
16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban SpacePIERPAOLO MUDU
17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban AgricultureFERRUCCIO TRABALZI
Contributors
Index