Global Rome
Changing Faces of the Eternal City

Isabella Clough Marinaro (Edited by), Bjørn Thomassen (Edited by), Pierpaolo Mudu (Contributions by), Alessandra Broccolini (Contributions by), Ferruccio Trabalzi (Contributions by), Valerie Higgins (Contributions by), Michael Herzfeld (Contributions by), Pietro Vereni (Contributions by), Carlo Cellamare (Contributions by), Pierluigi Cervelli (Contributions by), Mark W. Dyal (Contributions by), Ulderico Daniele (Contributions by), Simon Martin (Contributions by), Cristina Lombardi-Diop (Contributions by)

9780253012883

Hardback, published 6 June 2014

302 pages, 20 b&w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.59 kg

"[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

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 RomeISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJØRN THOMASSEN
Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
1. Diversely Global RomeBJØRN 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 Xoraxané 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, Città SportivaSIMON MARTIN
11. Football, Romanità 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