Evicted From Eternity
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Author |
: Michael Herzfeld |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226329079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226329070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Evicted from Eternity by : Michael Herzfeld
Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.
Author |
: Guy Lanoue |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351550598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351550594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rome Eternal by : Guy Lanoue
What does 'Roman' mean? How does the mythical city touch people's identities, values and attitudes? In the long-established and official imaginary of the West, Rome is the citta dell'arte, the city of faith, an heirloom city inspired by the traces of ancient Empire, by the brooding aura of the Church, by Hollywood fairy-tale romance, and by the spicy tang of veiled decadence. But what of its contemporary residents? Are they now merely guides and waiters servicing throngs of tourists indifferent to the city's contemporary charms? Guy Lanoue, a former resident of Rome, explores how Romans live the modern myth of Rome Eternal. Since the 19th century, it has defined an important community, the fatherland, a home-spun society where the rules of everyday life become 'tradition': ways of eating, dressing, making and keeping friends and acquaintances, 'proper' ways of speaking and a hard to define but nonetheless tangible air of composure. Guy Lanoue is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal.
Author |
: Deborah A. Boehm |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2024-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479823345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479823341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis States of Return by : Deborah A. Boehm
"State of Return theoretically explores the concept of "return" and ethnographically traces different experiences of return migration across the globe with emphases on temporality, kinship, and citizenship. Collectively, contributors show how return significantly reconfigures the lives of people as they move across borders"--
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 632 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106019978219 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Author |
: Kaspar Thormod |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004394216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004394214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome by : Kaspar Thormod
In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city’s diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the ‘Eternal City’ epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? – or perhaps better: what can Rome be?
Author |
: Clough Isabella Marinaro |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2014-06-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253013019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253013011 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Rome by : Clough Isabella Marinaro
Delving into topics from immigration to sustainability, this is “an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome” (H-Italy). Is twenty-first-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 studies—the 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.
Author |
: Stefania Lucamante |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2020-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487535094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487535090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives by : Stefania Lucamante
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion – particularly indignation – and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to shed light on issues surrounding inequity, inequality, and injustice, the book explores the ethical function of art as a tool in resistance and sociopolitical protest, thereby validating the axiom that ethics and aesthetics can still collaborate in the creation of meaning. Drawing on a range of Italian novels and films and examining the works of artists such as Tiziano Scarpa, Simona Vinci, Paolo Sorrentino, and Monica Stambrini, the author shows that anger can be used constructively as a weapon of resistance against negative and oppressive forces.
Author |
: James D. Faubion |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2011-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801463587 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801463580 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be by : James D. Faubion
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its point of departure in the experiences of ethnographers-in-the-making that encourage alternative models for professional training in fieldwork and its intellectual contexts. The work done by contributors to Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be articulates, at the strategic point of career-making research, features of this transformation in progress. Setting aside traditional anxieties about ethnographic authority, the authors revisit fieldwork with fresh initiative. In search of better understandings of the contemporary research process itself, they assess the current terms of the engagement of fieldworkers with their subjects, address the constructive, open-ended forms by which the conclusions of fieldwork might take shape, and offer an accurate and useful description of what it means to become—and to be—an anthropologist today.
Author |
: Katharine G. Young |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 711 |
Release |
: 2019-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108418133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108418139 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Future of Economic and Social Rights by : Katharine G. Young
Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.
Author |
: Dom Holdaway |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317320623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131732062X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape by : Dom Holdaway
Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.