Global Rome : Changing Faces of the Eternal City.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Into the City: The Changing Faces of Rome -- PART I. ROME: THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL CITY -- 1 Diversely Global Rome -- 2 The liberal, the Neoliberal, and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome -- 3 Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries -- 4 Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary Rome -- PART II. CHANGING FACES, CHANGING PLACES -- 5 Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Reurbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in a Suburb of Rome -- 6 Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens: The public Construction of Difference in a Roman school -- 7 Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short Tales -- 8 The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in Rome -- 9 Ways of Living in the Market City: bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping Center -- PART III. ROME AND ITS FRACTURED MODERNITIES -- 10 Roma, Città Sportiva -- 11 Football, Romanità, and the Search for Stasis -- 12 Rome's Contemporary Past -- PART IV. THE INFORMAL CITY -- 13 The Self-Made City -- 14 Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's Periphery -- 15 Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical Village -- 16 where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban Space -- 17 Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban Agriculture -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Global Rome serves as a provocative introduction to the Eternal City and makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship.

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