Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome - Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini's vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal communities.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The Changing Faces of the Periphery 3. Pasolini’s Rome 4. Pasolini, the Roman Periphery, and the Sacred 5. Citizen Narrative: Spatial Self-Representation in the Roman Periphery 6. Urban Arts and the Sacred 7. Contemporary Relevance

About the author

Gregory Smith is affiliated with various academic institutions in Italy. He is trained as a social anthropologist from Oxford University. His interests include Italian rural communities and marginal peripheral urban environments. He has published on farming communities in central Italy and on public space in Rome.

Summary

This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini’s vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal communities.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Smith, Smith Gregory
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780367893194
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89319-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography