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Teorie multiculturali : approcci normativi, studi idiografici e l'ingombrante presenza del quotidiano
No full textBetween a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations
No full textFocusing on a selected case study in a central area of the city of Turin in north-western Italy, the main aim of this article is to discuss fifth-wave gentrification processes within the framework of austerity urbanism in Southern European cities. Based on semi-structured interviews, participant observation and digital re-photography, the paper discusses how short-term populations are used as shock troops to sanitise and cleanse rebellious and poor neighbourhoods. More specifically, the contribution explores the material and symbolic dynamics, or what we might call the hard and soft interventions of gentrification, through which public-private partnerships attempt to produce cities for increasingly affluent (short-term) users and to erase conflicts and undesirable urban populations, also claiming an aesthetic dimension. The first part of the article situates the analysis within the literature on fifth-wave gentrification and the debate on Southern European cities, while the second part draws on semi-structured interviews and visual digital methods to examine hard and soft interventions of gentrification, namely evictions and real estate redevelopment on the one hand, and graffiti and mural art on the other, in a central, multi-ethnic area of Turin, where local authorities and private investors have teamed up to design an upscale restructuring for short-term populations
"Chez Said" à Turin, un exotisme de proximité
No full textSince the nineties the quarter of Porta Palazzo in Turin undergoes a process of gentrification. Starting from two observations the author connects this urban process with some trade exchanges between a Berber shopkeeper of Moroccan nationality and his young Italian customers. He studies trade relations built up on misunderstandings. Some Italian customers « buy » products that, beyond their materiality, represent in their eyes the Maroccan culture or they refuse the transaction proposed to them on account of their own cultural and political values, namely their ecological principles against ivory trade. An ethnographic study of these « failures » helps better understand the trade space as a place where social relations are built up by actors with different trajectories who are brought together as a result of urban mutations
Se tutto è gentrification, comprendiamo poco", Commento al libro di Giovanni Semi Gentrificazione Tutte le città come Disneyland?
No full textRecensione critica del libro di Giovanni Semi Gentrificazione Tutte le città come Disneyland? - edito da Il Mulin
Adaptive urbanism in ordinary cities: Gentrification and temporalities in Turin (1993–2021)
No full textThe aim of this paper is to ground gentrification processes within a broader urban transformation pattern and within a deeper historical account, taking an ordinary city into consideration: Turin, in the North West of Italy. The paper elaborates on qualitative data collected along a twenty year span, allowing reflection on different phases and dynamics of capital extraction across time. We will show that, problematically, gentrification was considered as a positive model by local authorities and that it was adopted as a reference by both private and public actors to generate local growth and to react to economic crises
What We see (and What we don't): Resignifying Urban Traces of Colonialism
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is twofold: in the first part, we will provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art of urban and visual studies across the domains of visibility, urban aesthetics and the legitimate use of the urban. We will show that what we see is foremost what is accessible and legitimate as a vision, while the urban provides multiple realms of invisibility that are often neglected or rendered invisible. Art, architecture, urbanism and place-making will be used as examples of these dynamics.
In the second part of the chapter, we will present a research study on the decolonial practices of re-signification of colonial urban traces. Despite the dominant representation of Italians as ‘good people’ (a local version of ‘white innocence’), in recent years, Italy has witnessed a new interest stemming from bottom-up local movements dealing with colonial legacy in the urban space. We will show a research example (‘Decolonising the City. Visual Dialogues in Padova’) based on participatory video, arts-based methods and walking methods
'The Flow of Words and the Flow of Value' : Illegal Behavior, Social Identity and Marketplace Experiences in Turin, Italy
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