Barrio San Siro - Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan

This book collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing neighborhoods and analyzes the structural violence that affects the margins of the richest Italian city.

List of contents

Contents
Foreword: The Reality of the Urban by Dennis Rodgers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Violence of Space
Part I: Abandonment
Chapter 1: Where are the Institutions
Chapter 2: When Interlocutors Die
Part II: Stigma
Chapter 3: On Terrorism and Other Ghosts
Chapter 4: Scraps, Rubble, Waste
Chapter 5: Daniel and Others in the "Zone"
Part III: Social Suffering and Vulnerability
Chapter 6: Anna, Donata and Sandra
Chapter 7: Life of Samith
Part IV: Other Policies
Chapter 8: Schools between Social Reproduction and Inclusion
Chapter 9: One Street, Two Regeneration Projects
Conclusion: Violent Milan
Bibliography
About the Contributors

About the author

By Paolo Grassi - Foreword by Dennis Rodgers

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Grassi
• Assisted by: Rodgers Dennis (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2024
• EAN: 9781666950816
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-081-6
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Italy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Milan, Poverty & unemployment, Social and cultural anthropology, Violence in society, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Urban communities, Violence and abuse in society, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness