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Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing neighborhoods. It is a study that moves from a relational conception of urban space to analyze the structural violence that affects the margins of the Lombard capital, among the folds of the rhetoric of its development, its "rebirth", and its regeneration. Alongside "second-generation" youngsters, "abandoned" elderly people, struggling committees, associations, politicians, and officials, "Barrio San Siro" develops a multi-level interpretation that moves from everyday practices to local, regional and national policies. Like other Milanese peripheral neighborhoods, San Siro emerges - page after page - as a multicultural socio-spatial configuration, at once the epitome of global conditions, the intersection of diverging interests of social and institutional actors, the result of a local history that has led to a post-Fordist and neoliberal present. A critical and reflexive narrative, a monograph that from an urban margin elaborates its idea of the anthropology of the city.
Contents
Contents
Foreword: The Reality of the Urban by Dennis Rodgers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Violence of Space
Part I: Abandonment
Chapter 1: Where are the Institutions
Chapter 2: When Interlocutors Die
Part II: Stigma
Chapter 3: On Terrorism and Other Ghosts
Chapter 4: Scraps, Rubble, Waste
Chapter 5: Daniel and Others in the "Zone"
Part III: Social Suffering and Vulnerability
Chapter 6: Anna, Donata and Sandra
Chapter 7: Life of Samith
Part IV: Other Policies
Chapter 8: Schools between Social Reproduction and Inclusion
Chapter 9: One Street, Two Regeneration Projects
Conclusion: Violent Milan
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