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Introduzione alla geografia politica. Spazi, luoghi, politiche
No full textLa geografia politica è un campo di studi variegato, critico e dinamico che prende forma al crocevia del discorso politico sulle forme e pratiche del potere, e di quello geografico, inteso come lo studio dello spazio e dei processi che lo trasformano incessantemente. Dall’analisi della territorialità statale alle geografie dell’impero, dallo studio dei fenomeni elettorali alle politiche per la difesa dell’ambiente, dalle microgeografie dell’identità locale ai complessi meccanismi della governance globale, Introduzione alla geografia politica offre strumenti per comprendere e interpretare i rapporti di potere, i conflitti e i divari che caratterizzano il mondo contemporaneo
Turin and Lingotto: resilience, forgetting and the reinvention of place
Full text linkLingotto used to be an important industrial site and a highly symbolic space at the heart of the city of Turin, Italy. The aim of this article is to analyse the multiple trajectories, spatialities and layers of memories, meanings and practices that overlapped within and across Lingotto in the last decades, following the changing economic conditions and connected discursive paradigms associated with the evolution of the local economy since the Fordist crisis of the 1970s. The analysis shows that Lingotto may be interpreted as a mirror of Turin’s resilience strategies used to cope with the economic crises that have hit the city. Furthermore, it shows how Lingotto is a highly resilient urban fragment and building. Contrary to mainstream debates about the need to conserve and stage local urban heritages, this paper offers an account of Lingotto’s resilience, which highlights how forgetting the past may be a strategy for tackling the present and being resilient. The analysis of the evolution of Lingotto thus contributes to understanding urban processes that entwine with the quest for resilience in the contemporary post-industrial city, stressing the ambiguous role of the often-implicit politics of forgetting and amnesia in a framework of urban resilience
La risposta degli autori - Un simposio: commenti e riflessioni sul libro di U. Rossi e A. Vanolo, Geografia politica urbana
No full textUrban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective
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Foreword: The Athenian Symptom by Ola Söderström
Foreword: The Nine Lives of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck
Foreword: Politics Between the Lines by AbdouMaliq Simone
Introduction
Globalization and the Urban Experience
The Triad of Urban Politics
Overview of the Book's Structure
PART ONE: POLITICS AS REPRESENTATION
Urban Development and the Politics of Representation
Introduction: towards a political economy of representation
Governing the image of the city
From Fordism to post-Fordism: reinventing cities in a context of economic transition
Postmodernizing the capitalist city
Celebrating the global city
The environmentalization of the urban experience
Concluding reflections: the Eurocentrism of urban scholarship
Making Culture Work: The Rise of the Creative City
Introduction: urban development in a knowledge-based capitalism
Creative cities: economies of diversity and discursive strategies in North America
Governmentalizing the cultural city in Europe and Asia
Conclusion: culture beyond representation
PART TWO: POLITICS AS GOVERNMENT
Urban Neoliberalism: Ascent and Crisis
Introduction: the irresistible rise of neoliberalism
At the origins of neoliberalism: the urban question in the 1970s
The 'new urban politics'
The practice of urban neoliberalism
Neoliberalizing urban economic spaces
The expected unforeseen: the housing bubble and the global recession
Urban Geopolitics: Legitimate Violence, Terrorism and Militarization
Introduction: the governmentalization of the urban experience
The politics of fear
From fear to communitarian self-defence
The use of force as a threat: terrorism, urban marginality and the politics of pre-emption
Cities at war/the war against cities
Conclusions: the visible and the invisible in urban geopolitics
PART THREE: POLITICS AS CONTESTATION
Urban Justice: Struggles and Movements
Introduction: the ethical turn in democratic politics
Social justice in question: equality, recognition, domination
Rights to the city
Justice movements: limits and potentialities
Justice, globalization and the environment
Conclusion: the encounter between institutionalist and Marxist perspectives
Urban Citizenship: Insurgencies and the Politics of Presence
Introduction: the crisis of national citizenship
The promises of urban citizenship
The globalization of migration and the multiple geographies of belonging
Dissidence or normalization: the quandaries of sexual citizenship
Conclusion: the 'common place' of citizenship
Conclusion: Beyond Post-Neoliberal Melancholia
Glossary
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Competitività e benchmarking territoriale. Obiettivi e metodologie per un confronto geografico
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Normalising autonomous spaces: Ongoing transformations in Christiania, Copenhagen
Full text linkChristiania is an autonomous Free Town, born as a squat in 1971, located in the centre of Copenhagen. After 40 years of struggles and negotiations with the Danish institutions in order to survive and to maintain its autonomy, Christiania reached an agreement with the state in 2011. If on the one hand the agreement apparently guarantees the survival of Christiania, on the other hand it regulates various domains that used to be self-regulated by the community, and therefore limits Christiania’s autonomy. The aim of the article is to discuss the potential effects of the agreement – and more specifically of the new government technology placed in operation through the agreement – on some of these domains. Assuming that autonomy is always fractured, partial and ongoing, the thesis proposed in the article is that, in this new context, Christiania has come to represent a peculiar case of hybridisation of forces of autonomy and of forces of neoliberalisation, and that the tensions between these two forces could potentially lead to different outcomes that challenge traditional understanding of both autonomy and neoliberalism in urban contexts
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