Phone centres and the struggle for public space in Italy: between revanchist policies and practices of resistance

Semprebon, Michela

doi:10.1080/17549175.2011.633409

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“…These measures included digital fingerprinting of residents of nomad camps, which are inhabited by people of Roma and Sinti origin alongside East European migrants, who are considered potential criminals (Tessadri, 2008). They also involved regular checks on what are referred to as 'ethnic stores', such as kebab eateries and international phone centres (Semprebon, 2011). In 2016 the city council came forward in a national debate with a motion to ban kebab eateries in the historical centre 16 to safeguard the cultural and regional homogeneity of white European space (Merrill, 2014;Mazzei, 2018;Lamour, 2022).…”

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IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona

Demirsu

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Verona is known as the touristic city of Romeo and Juliet, but its position as a strategic node in the rising identitarian movement goes unnoticed to the thousands of tourists visiting the city every day. This article articulates the historical centre of Verona as a public space in which far‐right and populist right groups seek to construct an exclusionary territorial identity that draws on white supremacy, northern pride and Catholic fundamentalism, which manifest themselves in practices of bordering and territorialization. I argue that the city's perfectly preserved heritage and its assumed authenticity are not only utilized to construct the ideal protagonists of city life, but also that such territorial themes of defending the ‘native homeland’ and its traditions are marketed to the outside world by constructing a ‘model’ city for a growing transnational movement. In this study, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and in‐depth interviews, I investigate the mechanisms through which certain historical centres are showcased to build an identitarian network through everyday practices of boundary‐drawing and the marketing of a territorial anti‐modernist nostalgia.

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IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona

Demirsu

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Italian scholars, on their side, have given only passing reference to them, thus often implying their passivity as political actors. In fact, with the exception of Allasino et al (2000), Italian scholars have rather focused on other actors such as neighbourhood committees (Della Porta 2004;Belluati 2004;Petrillo 1995), police forces (Quassoli 2004), native residents (Bifulco 2000;Dines 2002;Alietti and Agustoni 2009), and policy makers (Allasino et al 2000), while somehow eluding contentious dynamics (Vitale 2007), as their British and American colleagues seem to have done (Semprebon 2011).…”

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Urban Conflicts and Immigrants’ Engagement. A Comparative Pragmatic Analysis of Two Northern Italian Cities

Semprebon¹

2012

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…58 culturale e religioso (Bombardieri, 2010;Lorenzetti, 2010); quelli che pongono particolare enfasi su una pretestuosa tutela della sicurezza urbana e dell'ordine pubblico e che si traducono in una deriva securitaria volta a colpire soprattutto gli immigrati (Mantovan e Ostanel, 2015); quelli che limitano la libertà di iniziativa economica degli immigrati (Magrassi, 2010;Semprebon, 2011) 1 . Per fare fronte a tale deriva, le popolazioni immigrate sono state protagoniste di diverse esperienze di auto-organizzazione (Basso e Perocco, 2003;Mantovan, 2007;Vitale, 2012) e lotta contro la discriminazione (Ambrosini, 2013c).…”

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Politiche escludenti e associazionismo immigrato in una banglatown del Nordest: il caso di Alte Ceccato

Puppa¹

2017

Mondi Migranti

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IntroduzioneCon l'entrata in vigore delle L.125/08 e 94/09 viene introdotto in Italia il cosiddetto "Pacchetto sicurezza" che attribuisce ai sindaci, in qualità di "ufficiali di governo" nuovi poteri "volti a prevenire ed eliminare gravi pericoli che minacciano l'incolumità pubblica e la sicurezza urbana e che possono condurre all'adozione, con atto motivato, di ordinanze contingibili e urgenti nel rispetto dei principi generali dell'ordinamento".In una cornice di crescente razzismo (Basso, 2010) ciò si è tradotto in un numerosi provvedimenti comunali contro gli immigrati. Solo tra il luglio 2008 e l'agosto 2009 nel Nord Italia ne sono stati emessi 788 (Perocco, 2010). I Comuni coinvolti sembrano essere concentrati prevalentemente in Lombardia,

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Phone centres and the struggle for public space in Italy: between revanchist policies and practices of resistance

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona

IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona

Urban Conflicts and Immigrants’ Engagement. A Comparative Pragmatic Analysis of Two Northern Italian Cities

Politiche escludenti e associazionismo immigrato in una banglatown del Nordest: il caso di Alte Ceccato

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