Global Rome

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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.

Introduction: The Changing Faces of Rome ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJØRN THOMASSEN

Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
1. Diversely Global Rome BJØRN 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 Rome PIERPAOLO MUDU

Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places
5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of Rome ALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI
6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman School PIERO VERENI
7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short Tales ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE
8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in Rome MARCO SOLIMENE
9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center CARLO CELLAMARE

Part III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities
10. Roma, Città Sportiva SIMON MARTIN
11. Football, Romanità and the Search for Stasis MARK DYAL
12. Rome's Contemporary Past VALERIE HIGGINS

Part IV. The Informal City
13. The Self-Made City CARLO CELLAMARE
14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's Periphery FERRUCCIO TRABALZI
15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village CRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP
16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space PIERPAOLO MUDU
17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture FERRUCCIO TRABALZI
Contributors
Index

Sujets

• urban planning
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Roma (serie de televisión)
• Sociology
• Italy
• History of Europe
• Anthropology
• My Last Duchess
• Rome
• Urban
• Europe

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 06 juin 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253013019
• Langue: English

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GLOBAL ROME
NEW ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EUROPE
Matti Bunzl and Michael Herzfeld, editors
Founding Editors
Daphne Berdahl
Matti Bunzl
Michael Herzfeld
GLOBAL ROME
Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bj rn Thomassen
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Global rome : changing faces of the eternal city / edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bj rn Thomassen.
pages cm. - (New anthropologies of Europe)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-01288-3 (cloth) - ISBN 978-0-253-01295-1 (paperback) - ISBN 978-0-253-01301-9 (ebook) 1. Rome (Italy)-Social conditions-21st century. 2. Urbanization-Italy-Rome. 3. Urban policy-Italy-Rome. 4. Community development-Italy-Rome. I. Marinaro, Isabella Clough. II. Thomassen, Bj rn.
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For Francesca, Paolo, Maria, Stella, and Chiara- our Roman families. And for Terry Kirk, who loved the city as passionately as we do.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome / Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bj rn Thomassen
P ART I. R OME: T HE L OCAL AND THE G LOBAL C ITY
1 Diversely Global Rome / Bj rn 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 Rome / Pierpaolo Mudu
P ART II. C HANGING F ACES , C HANGING P LACES
5 Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Reurbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in a Suburb of Rome / Alessandra Broccolini
6 Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens: The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman School / Piero Vereni
7 Evicting Rome s Undesirables: Two Short Tales / Isabella Clough Marinaro and Ulderico Daniele
8 The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxan Roma in Rome / Marco Solimene
9 Ways of Living in the Market City: Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center / Carlo Cellamare
P ART III. R OME AND I TS F RACTURED M ODERNITIES
10 Roma, Citt Sportiva / Simon Martin
11 Football, Romanit , and the Search for Stasis / Mark Dyal
12 Rome s Contemporary Past / Valerie Higgins
P ART IV. T HE I NFORMAL C ITY
13 The Self-Made City / Carlo Cellamare
14 Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome s Periphery / Ferruccio Trabalzi
15 Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village / Cristina Lombardi-Diop
16 Where Is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space / Pierpaolo Mudu
17 Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture / Ferruccio Trabalzi
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank John Cabot University and the American University of Rome for funding the translations in this book.
Introduction
Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome
Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bj rn Thomassen
Roma, Roma, at thy feet I lay this barren gift of song! For, ah! the way is steep and long That leads unto thy sacred street.
-Oscar Wilde (1881), Rome Unvisited
Chi non la conoscer , questa superstite terra, come ci potr capire? Dire chi siamo stati?
[How will they understand us, those who will not know this survived land? How will they say who we were?]
-Pasolini, A Bertolucci, Bestemmia , 544
People rarely think about what a miracle a city is. The city of Rome, the original urbs , is a living miracle, incorporating opposite extremes of almost everything human beings have ever produced. Its endless and timeless beauty persists side by side with urban degeneration, pollution, and crime proliferation in some of Europe s most desolate city areas, often built illegally. The warmth and openness of its inhabitants can turn into closure and xenophobia. With its chaotic traffic and the notorious loud talk of its inhabitants, with its manifold smells and noises, Rome can easily induce that sensory overload which Simmel described a century ago. Yet Rome is calm and relaxed in all its frenzy. The walking speed in its subway system is nowhere near that of Paris or London. Rome is a laboratory of intricate human relations and curious forms of sociability, of diffidence and civility, cynicism and humor, rudeness and kindness, a chaotic blend of distance and closeness, carelessness, apathy, and engagement which defines what every one knows as Roman-ness, an elusive term, but real enough in all its polysemy to be recognized by Romans and non-Romans alike: and if not for anything else, then for its language, romanesco , this swearing poetics growing out of the Darwinian forests of its slums, as Pasolini once said.
Rome is not one place; it is not one culture. It might better be captured as a way of life, to paraphrase Louis Wirth. Or perhaps, as ways of life. Rome is a vertical city, enshrined in its religious history, from the top of its hills decorated with crosses and churches, to the underground catacombs still being unearthed. Rome is a city cut in spatial and temporal layers of historical depth. The oldest monument of Roman engineering is the Great Sewer, the Cloaca Maxima, which dates from the sixth century bc and is still in use today. The main roads reaching out from the historic center, its water pipe lines, and aqueducts were all built more than two thousand years ago.
This Rome has been studied predominantly as a historical monument, focusing on the marvelous art and urban architecture that millions of tourists understandably come to visit every year. But what of contemporary Rome, its people, its politics and economy, its environment, the challenges of globalization? Both within and outside Rome s historic center, a variety of transformations are currently underway which make the city a privileged but as yet understudied site for reflecting upon the concomitant processes of globalization and urban change. Rome is both more and something other than what is conveyed by its global tourist image. Recent decades have seen the arrival of large numbers of immigrants, many of whom are becoming permanent residents and are changing the dynamics of the city. This new multicultural reality is affecting Rome s economy, its neighborhoods, its nightlife, and the arts. It has also become a highly contested issue in local politics. Mobility is not restricted to Rome s newcomers, and the city is undergoing gentrification, labor market transformations, geographic expansion. Conditions in its peripheries are now the subject of intense study, and urban planners are seeking new approaches to develop the city for a sustainable future. The issues of pollution, congestion, and calls for decentralization are more urgent than ever. Rome s identity as the national capital is also an issue for debate as moves for increased regional autonomy and questions concerning the role of the Italian nation-state itself develop. The fast-changing urban realities of Italy s biggest city and capital are the focus of this book, which is the first interdisciplinary social science approach to Rome in the English language.
The overall aim of the book is twofold. First, to fill the current gap in contemporary urban studies by examining a series of concrete urban realities beyond the historical city center. Second, to use the city of Rome as a springboard for reflecting on larger issues relating to theories of urban change within a context of globalization. The case studies presented in each of the chapters provide novel prisms to engage with central themes in contemporary urban studies: global city theory, urbanization as evidencing multiple modernities, the relationship between capital cities and the nation, the informal city and urban change from below, and various models of sustainable urban growth that Rome exemplifies in its own paradoxical ways.
Part 1 of the book provides a panoramic view of the city and directly addresses the notion of the global city running through the whole volume, reflecting on what globalization actually means for Rome, and vice versa, how this city can contribute to sharpening our understanding of how globalization processes play out in different urban contexts. Although Rome is not considered a significant global city by scholars who focus predominantly on economic transformations, we argue that this perspective is too limited. Rome is indeed a global city in many ways. It is a hub for global diplomacy (not least because of the presence of several United Nations agencies), immigration, religious pilgrimage and tourism, and it is one of the world s most known and imagined ci