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Afterlife of Evictions

The Social Impact of Urban Displacement in Rome

Av Stefano Portelli

1649 kr

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Across the world, states use demolitions and displacement to reorganize cities according to particular visions of society. Through the voices and experiences of former slum dwellers evicted in the 1970s from a self-grown settlement beneath a Roman aqueduct, this book examines the social consequences of forced relocation and the ways communities rebuild social life in its aftermath. It reveals the forms of sociality that emerge in the gaps of urban planning and highlights the damage caused when governments respond to grassroots urbanism with bulldozers and relocation schemes.
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Stefano Portelli is a Senior Researcher at Madrid's UNED Department of Sociology and Political Science. He is a member of University of Barcelona's Observatory in Anthropology of Urban Conflict (OACU), and editor for the Italian independent media Napoli Monitor - Lo stato delle città. He is a Marie-Curie alumni and former postdoctoral fellow for Harvard and Leicester Universities.

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It is rare to read such a beautifully written book. The author is someone whose writing talent is indisputable; they can synthesize and bring together disparate sources and thoughts in a convincing narrative. Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of OsloThis is a wonderful, compelling, thought-provoking, and profound book. It intertwines – poetically and analytically – careful attention to people’s lives, perspectives, and voices with rigor and determined argumentation. Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Columbia UniversityA brilliant case study of forcible displacement in Rome and what it means to the people displaced. When urban planners and ruthless property developers, backed by politicians of both left and right and by journalists, succeeded in “clearing” out Rome’s informal settlements of self-built homes, the inhabitants of those settlements experienced a traumatic loss of community, self-determination and freedom. Combining the oral testimonies of displaced inhabitants with a meticulous historical reconstruction, Stefano Portelli weaves together an eloquent account of displacement from the inside and its often disastrous human and social consequences. David Forgacs, New York UniversityAs the opening of this book states (citing Simone Weil) uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed. This book is an urgent call for us to rethink actions and narratives around evictions, recognising their toxic, disruptive impact and their political consequences…the research site is Rome, but the book's findings are universal! Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo

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