The endless reconstruction and modern disasters : the management of urban space through an earthquake - Messina, 1908-2018 /
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Messina: A Modern Catastrophe; 1.2 The Organization of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Researching Disasters: Theories for a Case Study; 2.1 The End of the World; 2.2 Civility in the Post-disaster City; 2.3 Blaming the Victims; 2.4 Public Memory and Latent Forces in Local Society; 2.5 Public Responses to Disaster; 2.6 The "Productive" Role of Disasters; 2.7 Bureaucratic Classifications and Social Responses; References
- Chapter 3: History Seen Through the Slums: The Southern Question and the Current Crisis3.1 Messina, No South and No North; 3.2 A Southern Question? Beyond the Myth of Development; 3.3 Is an Agricultural Question at the Root of the Southern Question?; 3.4 The Fund for the South; 3.5 Italian Neoliberalism; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Messina, From the Earthquake to the Present; 4.1 The Roots of a Speculative Economy: State, Market, and the Messina Community; 4.2 Proto-financialization and Decadence; 4.3 Reconstructing Inner Circles: Geographies of Separation and Exclusion
- 4.4 Fascism and the Consolidation of the Shacks4.5 A Speculative Capitalism Based on Construction (1950-1990); 4.6 Continuity, the Neoliberalization of Building; References; Chapter 5: Working and Dreaming at the Margins of the City; 5.1 A Study on the Present-Day City; 5.2 Getting by in an Informal World; 5.3 The Public Sector and the Circularity of Formal and Informal; 5.4 Cynicism and Nostalgia: Being Unemployed in a Time of Crisis; 5.5 Subaltern Politics; 5.6 Final Remarks; References; Chapter 6: Formal and Informal Housing in Today's City; 6.1 The Reproduction of the Shanties
- 6.2 The Shack and the Neighborhood: Talking on Spatial Segregation6.3 At the Border Between Formal and Informal: Strategies to Get a Home; 6.4 Living at the Margins: Between Public Constraints and Resistance; 6.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Messina Today: Representation, Identity, and Mobilization for Change; 7.1 The Shacks as a "Performative" Space: The Subalternization of the Slum-Dwellers from an Institutional Point of View; 7.2 The "Shanty Tour": Come in, Come and See the Conditions We're Living in!; 7.3 The Right to Be Here: Making the Invisible Visible
- 7.4 The Messina Residents Observe the Slum-Dwellers: Who Is Truly Deserving?7.5 From Salvini to De Luca: The Political Party of the Slums; References; Chapter 8: Conclusion; 8.1 Transcending Events; 8.2 Continuity; 8.3 Integrated Analytical Frameworks; 8.4 Events Rooted in an Epoch; References; Index