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Inhabiting Liminal Spaces - Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy (Hardcover)
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Inhabiting Liminal Spaces - Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields,
liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of
rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and
transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions
in institutional rulemaking and application force many residents
into protracted liminal states marked by intense vulnerability. By
merging a political economy lens with ethnographic research in
informal housing, illegal moneylending, unauthorized street-vending
and waste collection, the author shows that informalities are not
marginal or anomalous conditions, but an integral element of the
city's governance logics. Multiple actors together construct the
local cultural norms, conventions and moral economies through which
rule-negotiation occurs. However, these practices are ultimately
unable to reconfigure historically rooted power dynamics and
hierarchies. In fact, they often aggravate weak urbanites'
difficulties in accessing rights and services. A study that
challenges assumptions that informalities are predominantly
features of developing economies or limited to specific groups and
sectors, this volume's critical approach and innovative methodology
will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology interested in
social theory, urban studies and liminality.
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