Overview
- Bridges social movement studies, ethnic relations, and migration studies
- Presents field research precisely timed to the protests, actions, and movements examined in each chapter
- Explores various urban “restlessnesses” to analyze the rise of right-wing populism and new xenophobia
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Extreme Rome
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Out from the Centre, Towards the Centre
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From the City to the World
Keywords
About this book
This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews—often occurring during times of protest or even violent action—this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of the protagonists involved, proposing interpretations to each reality described, but also making cross-connections with politics and migration when pertinent. It offers a new understanding of urban collective actions cognizant of the 'common goods', but also of the emergence of new right-wing populism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Antimo Luigi Farro is a Full Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His published books include Reimagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals (Ed. with Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Routledge 2016).
Simone Maddanu received his PhD in Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris, France. He currently teaches sociology and contemporary social problems at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He has published books and articles related to social movements, immigration, Islam in Europe, common goods, and modernity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restless Cities on the Edge
Book Subtitle: Collective Actions, Immigration and Populism
Authors: Antimo Luigi Farro, Simone Maddanu
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91323-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91322-9Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91325-0Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91323-6Published: 03 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 252
Topics: Migration, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Sociology