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La cittadinanza Urbana in Contesti marginali. Analisi intersezionale e di genere di diversità e spazio urbano
Full text linkL’articolo fornisce un’analisi intersezionale delle pratiche di cittadinanza urbana in una zona marginale Milano. Attraverso la lente del genere e l’approccio dell’Intersectionality Theory, saranno indagate le dimensioni della diversità e dello spazio urbano, tramite interviste qualitative. L’analisi porta alla definizione di quattro modelli di cittadinanza urbana che si differenziano per grado di partecipazione e senso di appartenenza evidenziando potenzialità e vulnerabilità del contesto urbano analizzato
I Marciapiedi fra sfera pubblica e sfera privata: lo spazio ibrido delle relazioni urbane
No full textGender, Space, and Urban Citizenship: An Intersectional analysis. A comparative study between Milan and Rotterdam
Full text linkThis work aims at delineating a new perspective through which analyse the gendered and spatialized power relations underlying urban life in contemporary cities. In doing this, it presents the results of a comparative research between Milan and Rotterdam, intended to unveil the intersectional processes behind the construction of different models of urban citizenship. The main argument here is, indeed, that women and men construct in different ways their own paths of urban citizenship depending on peculiar intersections of personal characteristics and spatial features of their urban environment. This statement brings three main points which will be discussed and analysed through a new interdisciplinary, gendered, and intersectional perspective: 1) what is urban citizenship? 2) how different is urban citizenship for women and men? 3) how do intersections create these different paths?
From these broad questions, smaller issues will be derived and addressed along the work, through the analysis of the spatial practice, the representation of space, the spaces of representation (Lefebvre, 1974) of two groups of 30 interviewees, respectively identified in Milan and Rotterdam.
The main results of the work allow highlighting the gendered and spatialised power relations which are at the basis of the different patterns of urban citizenship in the two cities, spreading light on the condition of marginality and exclusion experienced by some people standing at the crossroads of different forms of vulnerability. In particular, in both the case studies women have proved to be socially and politically confined in a grey zone which has been defined as an emotional space, which ranges from a restriction of advocacy power and scope of action, to a complete urban invisibility. The work provides some practical examples and connects them with their local and national policy context
Intimacy in illegality: experiences, struggles and negotiations of migrant women: by Flaminia Bartolini, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2021, 230 pp.,€ 44 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-8376-5602-2
No full textFrom Theory to Practice. The Intersectionality Theory as a Research Strategy.
Full text linkWhat is the Intersectionality Theory? How can it be used for investigating social phenomena? This paper is aimed at scrutinizing the methodological challenges that the
wide application of the Intersectionality Theory in social sciences has brought to light,
presenting some practical examples of intersectional research. After showing strengths
and weaknesses of the intersectional paradigm, this work will try to rebut some of the
most relevant criticisms of the Intersectionality Theory which have emerged so far within the academic debate. Then, the paper will discuss how it is possible to minimize potential drawbacks and to foster positive aspects of this approach, delineating an intersectional method, which can be used as a guideline to direct eventual future intersectional research
Introduzione alla sezione (S)radicamenti urbani: mutamento, identità e partecipazione nella città glocale
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Spaces of Urban Citizenship: Two European Examples from Milan and Rotterdam
Full text linkThis article aims to highlight the emergence of urban citizenship spaces in two European cities—Milan, Italy, and Rotterdam, the Netherlands—where marginality and social exclusion are faced and coped with through social participation, appropriation of space, and the construction of a peculiar place-based sense of belonging. To do so, the article will present the results of comparative research conducted in Milan and Rotterdam by means of 60 semi-structured interviews (30 in each city) with inhabitants of peculiar neighbourhoods in the two cities. The analysis will adopt an intersectional perspective (Crenshaw, 1989), paying attention to the intersection between personal characteristics and spatial features to highlight the processes occurring at the crossroads between the social and spatial categories. In particular, this work will present two examples, one from each city involved in the research, in which urban citizenship practices are enacted and create a Lefebvrian space of representation where dominant discourses and narratives are overcome and overturned by people otherwise excluded from dominant spaces and mainstream forms of urban citizenship. A comparison of the fieldwork from the two cities shows how in both cases, subaltern and/or marginalised groups (women, the poor, and migrants in particular) manage to appropriate interstitial spaces within the city where they can find room for expression and well-being and for the performance of urban citizenship practices. At the same time, though, external (political and economic) factors can transform those spaces of representation into self-constraining places which can expose these marginal groups to further vulnerability
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