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This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatial and strategic approaches. In striking detail, Carlotta Caciagli shows how space is a crucial variable in shaping the strategies that allow for the politicisation of a movement's social base. She illustrates how new spatial configurations of urban space result from unique struggles of the recomposed collective subject. Most notably, three main conceptual tools are introduced to disentangle the relationship between the recomposed precarious class and space: "the spatial opportunity structure", "configurations of strategies" and "educational sites of resistance".
List of contents
Chapter 1. Housing in Movements, Cities in Change.- Chapter 2. A Spatial and Strategic Approach for Analysing Housing Movements.- Chapter 3. The Struggle for Housing in the Eternal City.- Chapter 4. Housing Mobilisations in Urban Space: The Political Struggle of Coordinamento.- Chapter 5. Housing Movements in the Neighbourhoods: The Social Function of the Coordinamento Squats.- Chapter 6. Housing Movements from the Inside: Squats as "Educational Sites for Resistance".- Chapter 7. The City and Housing: Are We at a Standstill?
About the author
Carlotta Caciagli is a Research Fellow in sociology at the department of Urban Studies, Polytechnic of Milan (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence. Her research interests include social movements, urban transformations, and socio-spatial inequalities. Her research has been published in international journals, such as
Antipode,
Critical Sociology and others.
