Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome - Brossura

Herzfeld, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0226329127 ISBN 13: 9780226329123

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Riassunto

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.

Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Herzfeld is professor of anthropology at Harvard University and the author of nine previous books, including, most recently, The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226329127
• ISBN 13: 9780226329123
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 387
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile