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Evicted from eternity : the restructuring of modern Rome / Michael Herzfeld.
LIBRA HT178.I82 R664 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzfeld, M. (Michael)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gentrification--Italy--Rome.
- Gentrification.
- Urban renewal--Italy--Rome.
- Urban renewal.
- Italy--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 373 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Sin and the City 7
- Genealogies of Imperfection 8
- Monti: Paradoxes of Poverty 9
- Sociable Spaces 14
- Meeting the People 15
- The Village in the City 17
- Agonies and Agonistics 22
- The Cadences of a Cultural Preserve 27
- 2 Popolo and Population 39
- The Artisans 39
- The Shopkeepers 47
- Intellectuals and Politicians 49
- 3 The Wages of Original Sin 53
- Accountability and Accommodation: The Pragmatics of Original Sin 53
- Original Sinners or Elder Brothers? 57
- The Dialectics of Casuistry and Tolerance 61
- A Passion for the Past 67
- 4 Refractions of Social Life 75
- Segmentation and Subsidiarity 76
- The Civic and the Civil 79
- Association Life 85
- The Premises of Conflict 89
- Theaters of Piety and Peculation 101
- A Clergy Scorned 110
- 5 Life and Law in a Flawed State 115
- Laws and Regulations 115
- The Limits of Law 118
- The (Disreputable) Origins of Legal Loopholes 122
- Indulgent Complicities 128
- Forgiveness and Calculation 133
- Sacred Images and Sinful Spaces 140
- 6 Scandals of Sociability 143
- Friends Who Strangle 143
- The Cultivation of Fear 147
- Restitution and Redemption 151
- Friends Best Avoided 159
- A Family Friend? 162
- Local Narratives: Swaggering Victims 165
- Credit and Default 167
- Banking on Fear 172
- Tactful Silences 175
- 7 Extortionate Civilities 181
- Accommodations Civil and Civic 182
- Discommoding Complicities 183
- Uncivil Pleasantries, Unpleasant Civilities 187
- Culture and Custom 190
- Peaceful Politics 195
- Condominial Civilities 198
- Lessons in Civic Civility 212
- Spatial and Stylistic Violence 214
- 8 The Fine Art of Denunciation 219
- The Logic of Denunciation 220
- Performances of Policing 227
- Fractured Authority: The Multiplicity of Policing 234
- Extorting Coffee and Campari 238
- 9 Tearing the Social Fabric 253
- Renters and Owners 253
- Lawyers and Illegalities 257
- Eviction and Evasion: The High Stakes of Time and Place 263
- Gentrification and the Last Frontier 266
- Endgame 296
- Coda: The Future of Eternity 301.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226329116
- 9780226329123
- 0226329119
- 0226329127
- OCLC:
- 231032052
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