Global Rome Changing Faces of the Eternal City [Paperback]

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 studiesthe 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.

[Global Rome] is to be praised as an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome. February 2015[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.'[T]his is a decidedly welcome addition to the growing body of Anglophone work on Rome.

Introduction: The Changing Faces of Rome ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJ?RN THOMASSEN

Part I. Rome: The Local and the Global City
1. Diversely Global Rome BJ?RN 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 Rome PIERPAOLO MUDU

Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places
5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of Rome ALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI
6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman School PIERO VERENI
7. Evicting Romes Undesirables: Two Short Tales ISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE
8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxan? Roma in Rome MARCO SOLIMENE
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