This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy. Through participant observation, ethnographic study, and in-depth qualitative interviews-often occurring during times of protest or even violent action-this book studies a variety of urban realities: grassroots movements, anti-migrant district riots, and the daily lives of the fluid and fluctuating multi-ethnic groups in the city. Ultimately, this book gives voice to some of the protagonists involved, proposing interpretations to each reality described, but also making cross-connections with politics and migration when pertinent. It offers a new understanding of urban collective actions cognizant of the 'common goods', but also of the emergence of new right-wing populism. Antimo Luigi Farro is a Full Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His published books include Reimagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals (Ed. with Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Routledge 2016). Simone Maddanu received his PhD in Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris, France. He currently teaches sociology and contemporary social problems at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He has published books and articles related to social movements, immigration, Islam in Europe, common goods, and modernity.

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Antimo Luigi Farro is a Full Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His published books include Reimagining Social Movements*:* From Collectives to Individuals (Ed. with Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Routledge 2016).

Simone Maddanu received his PhD in Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris, France. He currently teaches sociology and contemporary social problems at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He has published books and articles related to social movements, immigration, Islam in Europe, common goods, and modernity.

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CONTENTS

1.      Introduction 1.1.  Migrating: culture, economy, and politics

1.2.  A Restless City 1.3.  Losing Trust

Part I: Extreme Rome

  2.      On the Coast of the Capital

2.1. Community closures

2.1.1. Negative subjectivation and acts of violence Using Parenthetical Citations in APA

2.2. Young people and migrants Using Parenthetical Citations in Chicago

2.3. Territory and population

2.4. Territorial and demographic changes

2.5. New Ostia

2.6. Migrants in Ostia

2.6.1 In the spaces of Vittorio Emanuele III 2.6.2. The Mosque as a meeting point

2.7. Conclusion

3.      Tor Sapienza

3.1. The revolt at Viale Morandi

3.2. Housing project and outcome

3.3. Crisis, criticism and the will to act

3.4. The fading of Industrialism

3.5. The institutional crisis

3.6. Occupation, squat, and experimental shared living spaces 3.7. Conclusions

  Part II: Out from the Centre, Towards the Centre  

4.      Torpignattara 4.1. The Boys at Maranella

4.2. Torpignattara

4.3. Banglatown

4.4. Torpignattara takes action

4.4.1. The discontent of via Filarete

4.5. Working with the differences 4.6. The example of the Pisacane school

4.7. Conclusion

5.      A Lesson at Esquilino

5.1. Esquilino flares up

5.2. Migrants in the Centre of Rome

5.3. Trade and Commerce

5.4. Dreaming of a Chinatown

5.5. Esquilino speaks Bangla

5.6. Esquilino's new market

5.7. Ethnography of a piazza

5.8. Association adherence

            5.8.1. Nostalgia

            5.8.2. Participation, culture, and shared living

            5.8.3. Solidarity

5.9. Dealing with degradation

5.10. Rubber wall

5.11. The school once more to the fore

5.12. Conclusions

  Part III: From the City to the World  

6.      The Rise of Populism and the School of Sardines

6.1. Migrating

6.2. From fear to hatred

6.2.1. The renewal of xenophobia

6.3. Local and National Northern League

6.4. A School of Sardines

6.4.1. The Black Sardines

6.5. Conclusions

7.      Popular Populism and New Collective Actions

7.1. Popular populism

7.1.1. Understanding populism today

7.2. Populism and the city

7.3. Citizenship and action

7.3.1 A protocol to Participate

7.4. School as part of the common good

7.5. Common Goods

7.5.1. Starting from the Commons

7.6. Conclusions 

7.6.1. A Restless City on the Edge

INDEX

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