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Creative Urbanity - An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Ethnography
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In the 1970s, the city of Genoa in northern Italy was suffering the
economic decline and the despondency common to industrial centers
of the Western world at that time. Deindustrialization made Genoa a
bleak, dangerous, angry city, where the unemployment rate rose
alongside increasing political violence and crime and led to a
massive population loss as residents fled to find jobs and a safer
life elsewhere. But by the 1990s a revitalization was under way.
Many Genoese came to believe their city was poised for a
renaissance as a cultural tourism destination and again began to
appreciate the sensory, aesthetic, and cultural facets of Genoa,
refining practices of a cultured urbanity that had long been
missing. Some of those people—educated, middle class—seeking to
escape intellectual unemployment, transformed urbanity into a
source of income, becoming purveyors of symbolic goods and cultural
services, as walking tour guides, street antiques dealers,
artisans, festival organizers, small business owners, and more,
thereby burnishing Genoa's image as a city of culture and
contributing to its continued revival. Based on more than a decade
of ethnographic research, Creative Urbanity argues for an
understanding of contemporary cities through an analysis of urban
life that refuses the prevailing scholarly condemnation of urban
lifestyles and consumption, even as it casts a fresh light on a
social group often neglected by anthropologists. The creative
urbanites profiled by Emanuela Guano are members of a struggling
middle class who, unwilling or unable to leave Genoa, are
attempting to come to terms with the loss of stable white-collar
jobs that accompanied the economic and demographic crisis that
began in the 1970s by finding creative ways to make do with
whatever they have.
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Imprint: |
University of PennsylvaniaPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Contemporary Ethnography |
Release date: |
December 2016 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
Emanuela Guano
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8122-4878-4 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
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LSN: |
0-8122-4878-3 |
Barcode: |
9780812248784 |
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