Overview

Living Rome: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging looks beyond the romanticized image of Rome, towards a kaleidoscopic view of the city shaped by inequalities, socio-political challenges, and acts of resistance and solidarity. In the wake of urban developments related to migration, housing shortages, COVID-19, crime, and other social changes, this volume offers a grounded approach, mapping the contemporary realities of Italy’s capital from a variety of methodological standpoints. Contributors argue that the unseen fringes, both geographically peripheral and those embedded within the very heart of Rome, are crucial for understanding its social dynamics. These ‘hidden’ geographies foster vibrant communities, challenge ideas of home and belonging, and act as key sites of creativity, resistance and everyday life. Bringing together urban sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, demographers, criminologists, decolonizing and feminist scholars, this study contributes to a growing body of research on the city and its social movements, aiming to inform policy and contribute to a more just and sustainable Rome. Using a variety of methods, from quantitative cartography and policy analysis to (auto)ethnography and creative methodologies, this volume speaks well beyond Rome, to conversations about cities worldwide.

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Author:   Isabella Clough Marinaro ,  Will Haynes
Publisher:   Michigan Publishing Services
Imprint:   Lever Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781643150932

ISBN 10:   1643150936
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   10 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Isabella Clough Marinaro and Will Haynes: Introducing the In/visible City Part 1: Dwellings and Discontent: Chronicles of Inequality, Habitation and Resistance Ch. 1 Keti Lelo, Salvatore Monni and Federico Tomassi: Changes in the Roman districts: Insights from the censuses 1981-2021 Ch. 2 Barbara Pizzo: The City of Rent. Rome as the capital of rentier capitalism Ch. 3 Margherita Grazioli: Beyond the housing emergency. Conceptualizing the habitability crisis in Rome’s housing squats. Ch. 4 Chiara Cacciotti: The afterlife of sgomberi in Rome. Political and affective frameworks of evictability in the lives of former and current squatters Part 2: Navigating Crossroads: Control, Mobility, and Marginalization in Contemporary Rome Ch. 5 Silvia Antinori: Migration processes and the margins of the urban: The aesthetic-moral governance of bodies and territory at Roma Termini station Ch. 6 Will Haynes: Closures and control in a Roman train station: Urban change in pandemic times Ch. 7 Lorenzo Mauloni: ‘Tiburtina is like a compass!’. Migrants’ spatialities between movement, solidarity and marginalization Ch. 8 Francesca Conti: Facing the hills, struggling to walk: An auto-ethnographic account of living in Rome with reduced mobility Part 3. Urban Alchemies: Social Responses and Remaking Rome Ch. 9 Isabella Clough Marinaro and Federica Nappa: Criminal mosaics: The varied faces of organized crime in Rome Ch. 10 Edoardo Guerzoni: Inspiring others to inspire themselves: DIY intervention and youth empowerment at the Ponte della Musica Skate Spot Ch. 11 Raffaella Coletti and Andrea Simone: The geography of mutual aid in contemporary Rome. The experience of Nonna Roma Ch. 12 Fabiola Fiocco and Anna Gorchakovskaya: How to Inhabit a Space with a Complex Present? Visual Activism and Contemporary Rome Ch. 13 Helton Levy and Eleonora Diamanti: Spraying inclusion: Graffiti and street art as urban and digital social justice practice in contemporary Rome Cristiana Panella: Epilogue. Existing against the wind

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Author Information

Isabella Clough Marinaro is Professor of Sociology and Italian Studies at John Cabot University, Rome. Will Haynes is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Lancaster University, UK.

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