- A full-scale study of a neighborhood many years after forced displacement
has never been undertaken.
- This book studies the effects of displacement through ethnographic data, by comparing the consequences of evictions carried out in the 1970s, evaluated in hindsight, with the contemporary risk of eviction faced by people of similar
background in the same area.
- This book builds on Herzfeld's work on evictions in Rome, currently the only publication on the topic, but extends the analysis of gentrification's effects geographically and temporarily: from the city center in the 2000s studied by Herzfeld, to an analysis of the city's outmost periphery since the 1970s to present.
Autorentext
Stefano Portelli is a Senior Researcher at Madrid's UNED Department of Sociology and Political Science. He is a member of University of Barcelona's Observatory in Anthropology of Urban Conflict (OACU), and editor for the Italian independent media Napoli Monitor - Lo stato delle città. He is a Marie-Curie alumni and former postdoctoral fellow for Harvard and Leicester Universities.