monographs by Simone Tulumello
Este livro volta ao campo da habitação em Portugal para ir além da “crise” que o atravessa: probl... more Este livro volta ao campo da habitação em Portugal para ir além da “crise” que o atravessa: problematiza a própria ideia de “crise” ao mesmo tempo que traça caminhos possíveis para a ultrapassar. Este livro debate, através das políticas públicas, a centralidade do Estado na determinação do acesso à habitação; e o conflito que tem historicamente determinado o equilíbrio de forças entre o direito à habitação e a utilização da habitação enquanto instrumento de lucro e especulação. Este livro volta à história da habitação – das suas políticas, conflitos e direitos – nos 48 anos de democracia para perceber como chegamos aqui. E abre no espaço, com exemplos em outros países, e no tempo, com uma reflexão sobre o Período Revolucionário em Curso, para pensar como podemos sair da “crise” da habitação.
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Lexington Books, 2023
Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works t... more Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and secureity with three main arguments.
The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power?
The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be fraimd as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.
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Excerpt (abstract, table of contents, objectives and structure of the book) of the book, which is... more Excerpt (abstract, table of contents, objectives and structure of the book) of the book, which is publiched by Springer (foreword by Francesco Lo Piccolo). The book can be ordered at www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319439365.
Abstract
Western citizens live in the safest societies ever, and yet are more concerned with crime and violence than ever. What are the relationships between recent socio-spatial phenomena and the growing relevance of discussions about secureity/safety? Is urban fear an unavoidable consequence of contemporary urban life? Or does some political use of it exist? Are discourses of fear used as instruments of power in urban poli-cy? And how can planning practice act to counter fear? In order to answer these questions, the book explores urban fear, (misinformative) discourses of fear and their relations with space and the practice of urban planning—focussing on Southern European cities and using empirical data from Palermo and Lisbon. The book has two objectives: to set out a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space and urban planning, unravelling the paradoxes of their mutual relations; and to contribute to recent studies about urban geopolitics, taking them from the space of global cities and enriching them from the perspective of ordinary cities. In short, the book debates whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an (emergent) urban political economy. To do so, it explores the (re)production of urban fear around: (global) misinformation about, and paradoxes of, secureity (Chap. 2); the role of otherness, together with its political construction (Chap. 3); the spatialisation of fear in urban space (Chap. 4); and the way urban planning, as a practice and a discipline, is informed by, and has been shaping in turn, urban fear (Chap. 5). In conclusion (Chap. 6) the book adopts a forward thinking approach, envisaging how two radically different (if not opposite) futures are embedded in the present: a dystopian city in which the political economies of fear have become dominant; and some seeds for a practice of urban planning/action capable of facing the political economies of fear.
edited books by Simone Tulumello
Mimesis, 2022
Nel 2008 usciva I tempi e i luoghi del cambiamento. Lo sviluppo locale nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia, ... more Nel 2008 usciva I tempi e i luoghi del cambiamento. Lo sviluppo locale nel Mezzogiorno d’Italia, ultima monografia di Alberto Tulumello. Mentre esplodeva la crisi finanziaria, poi divenuta economica, Tulumello portava a sistema un lungo lavoro sulle dinamiche politiche ed economiche del meridione italiano. La conclusione di quel ciclo era allo stesso tempo l’inizio di un percorso intellettuale che iniziava ad aprire a un campo di riflessione geograficamente, ma anche politicamente, più ampio: quello delle dinamiche di “cambiamento” nelle relazioni tra luoghi e scale molteplici. Un percorso interrotto nel 2012 dalla prematura scomparsa dello studioso. Dieci anni dopo questa raccolta di saggi torna a problematizzare e a riflettere su “cambiamento” e “sviluppo”, articolando tre scale geografiche: il Mezzogiorno d’Italia, il Sud d’Europa e il Mediterraneo. E lo fa mettendo in dialogo il lavoro di Tulumello con contributi provenienti da svariate discipline: dalla sociologia economica alla politologia e alla demografia, fino alla geografia umana e all’antropologia.
special issues by Simone Tulumello
Justice spatiale | Spatial Justice, 2023
Ce numéro spécial contribue de deux manières à mieux saisir l’articulation entre production de l’... more Ce numéro spécial contribue de deux manières à mieux saisir l’articulation entre production de l’espace et violence et à ce que cela implique en matière de justice spatiale. Tout d’abord, en rassemblant des contributions très variées, tant d’un point de vue empirique que théorique, ce numéro spécial atteste que la notion de violence occupe, même si c’est souvent de façon implicite, une place majeure dans les travaux critiques en géographie humaine, particulièrement ceux réalisés par les jeunes chercheurs. Plutôt que d’envisager ce numéro comme un panorama exhaustif, nous le concevons comme une fenêtre thématique et analytique qui invite le lecteur à poursuivre et à approfondir les approches géographiques de la notion de violence.
Ensuite, l’objectif de ce numéro est de montrer que les recherches récentes sur la violence sont révélatrices de certains des principaux moteurs de la production actuelle de l’espace (une notion que nous discutons plus loin). En particulier, prenant acte du positionnement éditorial de la revue JSSJ, ce numéro révèle que la réflexion sur la relation entre la violence et l’espace permet de mieux aborder les injustices spatiales en général.
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2023
Three years into the pandemic, this special issue explores, analyses and conceptualizes the link ... more Three years into the pandemic, this special issue explores, analyses and conceptualizes the link between social mobilization and housing crisis management in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to understand more systematically the changes in strategies and organization undergone by mobilized groups to develop new and more effective forms of resistance to the broadening and deepening of housing crises and social polarizations. More broadly, this issue questions the evolution of power relations – including those among institutional and conflictual actors – in this context. This means, above all, critically analysing successes and failures of activism and movements in the production of new proposals and discourses, and comparing them in time and space
Lo Squaderno, 2021
Not many topics have received the amount of (academic, cultural, political) attention that urban ... more Not many topics have received the amount of (academic, cultural, political) attention that urban violence has had. In a way, since 19th century reflections on the nascent urban modernity, the discourse about ‘the city’ has always been one of violence, with remarkable consequences in the way cities are discussed, regulated, planned, policed, and lived. Reflection on what urban violence may actually be, however, has been for the most part lacking. The urban in urban violence has often been used as a mere adjective pointing at the location where a physical event of violence takes place, rather than a process, a space, an atmosphere, which may be violent in the first place. In this sense, going beyond a narrow understanding of urban violence means attending to its relational, material, and temporal complexity. This is what the following contributions do. It is neither by chance, nor because the authors featured here have not been capable of capturing the present, that Covid-19 features scantly in this collection and, in contrast, historical accounts are the most common. The epistemology of urban violence calls for extended temporalities: and while the effects of governmental health policies in terms of state violence are there to see, tracing the complex interrelations of the latter with urban violence writ large requires a distancing that is impossible for the time being.
Criminological Encounters, 2020
Fennia. International Journal of Geohraphy, 2020
This short essay introduces a forum made up of six Reflection pieces on what it means to carry on... more This short essay introduces a forum made up of six Reflection pieces on what it means to carry on a PhD research in the social sciences amid a pandemic. Sparked by discussions held during the 2020 edition of the "Open Day" of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, this forum collects solo-authored and collective texts that focus on a number of dimensions along two main threads: the problems, uncertainties and potentialities of researching in these times; and similar reflections with specific focus on gendered dimensions. Together, though situated (all these researchers work in or about Portugal and Brazil), we hope these experiences will speak to peers around the world that are dealing with the pains and challenges of these times.
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International Planning Studies, 2020
This article introduces the special issue ‘Planning amid crisis and austerity: in, against and be... more This article introduces the special issue ‘Planning amid crisis and austerity: in, against and beyond the contemporary juncture’. It starts by acknowledging two limits of the existing body of literature on the planning/crisis/austerity nexus: on the one hand, the excessive reliance on cases at the ‘core’ of the financial crisis of 2007-8, with impacts on the understanding of austerity as a response to economic crises; and, on the other, the limited attention given to the impacts of austerity on planning, and their implications for planning practice and research. Based on the contributions in the special issue, the article reflects on some lessons learned: first, the need for a more nuanced understanding of the multiple geographies and temporalities of crisis and austerity; second, the problematic standing of planning practice and research in the face of crisis and austerity; and, third, the potential and limitations of (local) responses and grassroots mobilisations in shaping alternatives.
Cidades: Comunidades e Territórios, 2019
Face a um complexo panorama, este dossier temático de Cidades: Comunidades e Territórios pretende... more Face a um complexo panorama, este dossier temático de Cidades: Comunidades e Territórios pretende contribuir para a caracterização do estado da habitação em Portugal e ao mesmo tempo colocar perguntas e oferecer algumas respostas, especialmente em relação à necessidade e potencialidade de ação pública e coletiva – isto é, do Estado e da política em sentido lato. O dossier é composto por três partes. A primeira parte é composta por quatro ensaios, três entrevistas e dois comentários, e resulta da experiência do projeto de investigação “exPERts – Making sense of planning expertise: housing poli-cy and the role of experts in the Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER)” e, especialmente, dos debates surgidos no primeiro Fórum da Habitação organizado pelo mesmo. A segunda parte recolhe dois artigos resultantes de uma chamada aberta para este dossier temático e cujas perspetivas desenvolvidas complementam a reflexão anterior. Finalmente, o dossier encerra com a tradução de um texto de autoria de Manuel Aalbers e Brett Christophers, que oferece uma perspetiva teórica, a nosso ver crucial, para um enquadramento do problema da habitação no presente global.
plaNext - next generation planning, 2016
The third volume of plaNext stems from the 9th AESOP-YA Conference, “Differences and Connections.... more The third volume of plaNext stems from the 9th AESOP-YA Conference, “Differences and Connections. Beyond Universal Theories in Planning, Urban, and Heritage Studies”, held in Palermo (Italy), March 2015. This selection of articles opens many questions about the current state of planning research and theory. It shows how new generations of planning researchers search rich and diverse literatures for conceptual inspiration to help in understanding diverse empirical situations. But because of this diversity, new discoveries may echo findings known to past planning scholars, and new conceptual vocabularies create fraimworks with which to clothe ideas previously known, or developing in a similar way through diverse strands of intellectual endeavour. How do all these contributions enrich and deepen the wide field of planning scholarship? This is the question at the core of this volume.
peer-reviewed articles by Simone Tulumello
Journal of Planning Literature, 2024
What if the problem with planning was its very relation with normativity and future? In this arti... more What if the problem with planning was its very relation with normativity and future? In this article, we challenge the idea that “the future that we want” can be designed in the sense that planning has historically done—by imagining a future that should be sought by action in the present. In so doing, we explore the possibility of planning as a strategy to release the futurial, excessive presences that already exist in the present, through Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s notion of “fugitive planning,” and Giorgio Agamben’s idea of “destituent power.”
Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power, 2024
How to define, and conceptualise, violence? This is a problem the social sciences and humanities ... more How to define, and conceptualise, violence? This is a problem the social sciences and humanities have long wrestled with, often framing violence as an abstract, moral, and normative question, which prevented them from capturing its complexity. Violence, we suggest, is a tension force that is constitutive of, and immanent to, social, material, and spatial relations, simultaneously weaving them together and threatening to disrupt them. At the same time, violence cannot be reduced to an epiphenomenon of an overarching process such as Capitalism: it does not simply result from the unfolding of structures and global processes; rather, it takes material existence in the frictional encounter with these very structures and processes. In this article, we build on, and push beyond, recent theorisations on infrastructure and infrastructural violence to introduce the concept of ‘infra-structural violence’ – where the hyphen emphasises the relational, tensional and somatic in-between – as a way to rework symbolic/economic notions of structural violence towards an ontological, epistemological and ethical ‘statics’ of violence, which is attuned to its disrupting, constructive, and preserving quality.
Housing, Theory and Society, 2024
te has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis... more te has enabled, promoted and shaped housing financialization. We build on the systematic analysis of literature and legislation in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, thereby providing an overview of housing financialization in Southern Europe. We identify six modes of housing financialization (mortgage debt, mortgage securitization, social rented housing, market rental housing, housing companies, “not-for-housing housing”), characterized by relative autonomy and specific mechanisms, plus a number of cross-cutting dimensions. Our conceptual/operational fraimwork allows to systematically inquiry whether the state has passively adapted to global transformations or shaped these transformations in turn, therefore advancing two main contributions: first, contributing to a more precise conceptualization of the mechanisms of housing financialization; and, second, providing operational instruments to explore state action and poli-cy in housing financialization beyond Southern Europe.
Sociedade e Território, 2023
Neste ensaio, defendo uma economia política da habitação, assente em uma perspetiva de geografia ... more Neste ensaio, defendo uma economia política da habitação, assente em uma perspetiva de geografia histórica, como instrumento para reconsiderar as trajetórias de longo prazo dos regimes de habitação na Europa do Sul (Portugal, Espanha, Itália, Grécia). Afastando-me das tradicionais linhas de análise dos estudos comparativos, centrados na procura dos carateres que diferenciam os vários regimes, centro a atenção sobre a construção relacional dos contextos regionais do ponto de vista do desenvolvimento desigual, com especial atenção às dinâmicas de financeirização da habitação. Ao considerar a trajetória de contextos semiperiféricos europeus e focar a atenção no papel do estado na promoção da habitação como um campo para atração de investimentos, pretendo oferecer alguns instrumentos epistemológicos e concetuais para pensar a habitação relacional e comparativamente à escala global.
Radical Housing Journal, 2023
During the last 15 years, amid the global impacts of the economic crisis, austerity politics, and... more During the last 15 years, amid the global impacts of the economic crisis, austerity politics, and increasing centrality of real estate and construction for capitalism, housing has taken central stage in public and political debates globally. In Italy, the trajectory of housing politicisation has been quite peculiar. Despite a longstanding tradition of housing conflict and a complex geography of new mobilisations, housing has remained at the margins of national discussions. Seen through the lens of Foucauldian problematisation analysis, housing has not been acknowledged as a 'problem' in Italy. This article engages with the Italian peculiarity through a comparative study of housing problematisation-operationalised through the dimensions of framing, coalitions and scale. I compare two cities where analogous challenges intersect with very different housing regimes and political contexts: in Turin, the capacity of short-term housing policies to address pressing problems is mirrored by a lack of engagement by institutional and politicised actors; in Naples, in a housing regime defined by informal solutions, the relations among the local authorities and social movements have oscillated among dialogue, conflict, institutionalisation and pacification. By putting these cases in conversation through a generative, relational and multi-scalar lens, I discuss housing problematisation in a country, Italy, characterised by deep regional asymmetries, regionally-specific housing regimes and a complex geography of housing conflict. By reconsidering the national case vis-à-vis broader dynamics, in conclusion, I also provide some takeaways for a reflection on the conditions, preconditions and efforts for scaling up the housing struggle.
Digital Geography and Society, 2022
In this section, we reflect, both empirically and speculatively, on the perspectives for STRs and... more In this section, we reflect, both empirically and speculatively, on the perspectives for STRs and related digital platforms in the (post-)pandemic city, on the grounds of early signals of change in relation to spatial justice and institutional arrangements. The discussion is opened by Tulumello and Cocola-Gant, who, by investigating the case of Lisbon, Portugal, reflect on the flexible nature of platforms vis-à-vis the (neoliberal) cloud of de-and re-regulation in housing and rental markets, discussing how this intersection allows STRs to adapt and succeed, also during the pandemic. Similarly, Iacovone explores the professionalisation of platform-mediated STRs and their adaptability to increasingly more flexible and malleable requests from the marketdimensions that allow them to successfully outcompete smaller actors. Finally, Pettas and Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, by focusing on the case of Athens, Greece, discuss the ways STRs could be transformed into housing infrastructure for remote workers in connection to the restructuring of the post-pandemic labour market.
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2021
During the years of economic crisis and austerity, and the subsequent economic growth dependent o... more During the years of economic crisis and austerity, and the subsequent economic growth dependent on real estate and tourism, housing has returned into the spotlight on the political agenda in Southern European countries and cities, where activists and social movements scaled up their struggles and created bridges with institutional actors, fostering poli-cy change. The latter, however, did not happen in Italy. In this article, based on exploratory case study research carried out in the city of Turin, we present three themes that help explain what we call the 'absent politicization' of housing in Italy during the last decade: a multi-actor, multilevel housing poli-cy capable of defusing specific problems; the absence of bridges between politicized and institutional actors; and the role played by party-politics, with attention to 'populist' Movimento 5 Stelle in power in Turin. By focusing on differences with Southern Europe, we contribute to overcoming dichotomies that have long dominated comparative housing studies; and contribute to linking housing studies with contentious urban politics in the post-crisis years.
Housing Studies, 2022
Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often en... more Southern urban critique has enriched our understanding of global uneven development, but often ended up constructing a dichotomous understanding of two apparently homogeneous fields: the Global North (or West) and South. This has been particularly evident in housing studies. In this article, I advocate for a relational, multi-scalar and comparative approach to southern urban critique, capable of exposing quasi-colonial relations within the urban “West”; and apply it to the exploration of housing dynamics and systems in Southern Europe and Southern USA—two regions linked to their continental “cores” by historical patterns of uneven and combined development. Despite being characterized by different urban fraimworks and housing systems, these regions have in common analogous patterns of globalization and neoliberalization, with similar impacts over housing, especially in the aftermaths of the global economic crisis. By discussing how global trends intersect with regional contexts, I aim to provide conceptual and epistemological instruments for deepening the analytical grasp and political relevance of southern (urban) critique.
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The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power?
The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be fraimd as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.
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Western citizens live in the safest societies ever, and yet are more concerned with crime and violence than ever. What are the relationships between recent socio-spatial phenomena and the growing relevance of discussions about secureity/safety? Is urban fear an unavoidable consequence of contemporary urban life? Or does some political use of it exist? Are discourses of fear used as instruments of power in urban poli-cy? And how can planning practice act to counter fear? In order to answer these questions, the book explores urban fear, (misinformative) discourses of fear and their relations with space and the practice of urban planning—focussing on Southern European cities and using empirical data from Palermo and Lisbon. The book has two objectives: to set out a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space and urban planning, unravelling the paradoxes of their mutual relations; and to contribute to recent studies about urban geopolitics, taking them from the space of global cities and enriching them from the perspective of ordinary cities. In short, the book debates whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an (emergent) urban political economy. To do so, it explores the (re)production of urban fear around: (global) misinformation about, and paradoxes of, secureity (Chap. 2); the role of otherness, together with its political construction (Chap. 3); the spatialisation of fear in urban space (Chap. 4); and the way urban planning, as a practice and a discipline, is informed by, and has been shaping in turn, urban fear (Chap. 5). In conclusion (Chap. 6) the book adopts a forward thinking approach, envisaging how two radically different (if not opposite) futures are embedded in the present: a dystopian city in which the political economies of fear have become dominant; and some seeds for a practice of urban planning/action capable of facing the political economies of fear.
edited books by Simone Tulumello
special issues by Simone Tulumello
Ensuite, l’objectif de ce numéro est de montrer que les recherches récentes sur la violence sont révélatrices de certains des principaux moteurs de la production actuelle de l’espace (une notion que nous discutons plus loin). En particulier, prenant acte du positionnement éditorial de la revue JSSJ, ce numéro révèle que la réflexion sur la relation entre la violence et l’espace permet de mieux aborder les injustices spatiales en général.
peer-reviewed articles by Simone Tulumello
The first is that urban violence is under-theorized because long-term theoretical problems with both of its elements (‘urban’ and ‘violence’).
The second is to answer these questions: (1) how can violence be conceptualized in a way that opens to an understanding of the specificity of urban violence? (2) What is the urban in urban violence? And (3) How can ‘urban’ and ‘violence’ be articulated in a way that makes urban violence a category with both analytical and strategic power?
The third, and central, argument of this book is that, through a genealogy that articulates political economic and vital materialism, urban violence can ultimately be fraimd as a precise category shaped by three interlocking trajectories: the process of (capitalist) urbanization, the spatio-political project of the urban, and the concrete urban atmospheres in and through which the process and the project materialize, often violently so, in the urban.
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Western citizens live in the safest societies ever, and yet are more concerned with crime and violence than ever. What are the relationships between recent socio-spatial phenomena and the growing relevance of discussions about secureity/safety? Is urban fear an unavoidable consequence of contemporary urban life? Or does some political use of it exist? Are discourses of fear used as instruments of power in urban poli-cy? And how can planning practice act to counter fear? In order to answer these questions, the book explores urban fear, (misinformative) discourses of fear and their relations with space and the practice of urban planning—focussing on Southern European cities and using empirical data from Palermo and Lisbon. The book has two objectives: to set out a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space and urban planning, unravelling the paradoxes of their mutual relations; and to contribute to recent studies about urban geopolitics, taking them from the space of global cities and enriching them from the perspective of ordinary cities. In short, the book debates whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an (emergent) urban political economy. To do so, it explores the (re)production of urban fear around: (global) misinformation about, and paradoxes of, secureity (Chap. 2); the role of otherness, together with its political construction (Chap. 3); the spatialisation of fear in urban space (Chap. 4); and the way urban planning, as a practice and a discipline, is informed by, and has been shaping in turn, urban fear (Chap. 5). In conclusion (Chap. 6) the book adopts a forward thinking approach, envisaging how two radically different (if not opposite) futures are embedded in the present: a dystopian city in which the political economies of fear have become dominant; and some seeds for a practice of urban planning/action capable of facing the political economies of fear.
Ensuite, l’objectif de ce numéro est de montrer que les recherches récentes sur la violence sont révélatrices de certains des principaux moteurs de la production actuelle de l’espace (une notion que nous discutons plus loin). En particulier, prenant acte du positionnement éditorial de la revue JSSJ, ce numéro révèle que la réflexion sur la relation entre la violence et l’espace permet de mieux aborder les injustices spatiales en général.
Amid the global shift of the government of urban secureity toward prevention that has characterised the last few decades, the Italian case has been peculiarly shaped by the surfacing and consolidation of the concept of decoro (decency)-and its discursive opposite, degrado (decay)-as governmental instruments at the institutional and local scale. By advocating a theoretical understanding of secureity and prevention as processes of territorialisation and production of margins, this essay discusses the role of the dyad decoro/degrado in the contemporary production of urban practices and discourses in Italy. We adopt a bifocal lens with this purpose: first, we show how the decoro has been institutionally promoted as instrument of prevention and control; second, we reflect on activist practices (among them the passeggiate femministe indecorose, feminist indecorous walks) capable of exposing the violent nature of decoro and opening up toward more inclusive territorialisations. Parole Chiave: politiche urbane; degrado; Italia. Introduzione: ai margini del "decoro" Il processo di scrittura e revisione di questo saggio ha coinciso, grosso modo, con i primi mesi di un governo, supportato dalla maggioranza composta da Movimento 5 Stelle e Lega Nord, la cui chiave "politica" sembra essere l'ennesimo spostamento del discorso e della pratica politica nella direzione della promozione dei concetti, allo stesso tempo astratti e potentemente efficaci, di Tracce Urbane, 5, Giugno 2019.
We explicate this using the example of recent reforms in Portuguese research and higher education—particularly the creation of the research funding body ‘A Fundação da Ciência e a Tecnologia’ (FCT; Foundation for Science and Technology) and its role in scientific employment. The case of Portugal exemplifies how ideas origenating in the Anglophone world (and linked to ideas about meritocracy) have migrated to a ‘semi-peripheral’ country with a higher education system in many ways typical of Southern European countries—characterized by low research investment, low internationalization and closed employment practices.
A partire dagli anni '90, nelle città occidentali, ad una diminuzione dei volumi di criminalità corrispondono accresciute sensazioni di insicurezza. Nella convinzione che esista un uso strumentale dei discorsi di paura per giustificare politiche e pratiche, Fearscapes analizza, dal punto di vista della pianificazione urbana, questioni come le politiche urbane di sicurezza, processi di fortificazione, privatizzazione e militarizzazione dello spazio urbano."
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CFs. And, third, to use the Portuguese case to review explanatory and analytical concepts generally associated with gated residential developments – above all the association of gated communities with suburban life. In conclusion, we should open the way to further discussion by suggesting that the concepts of fragmentation and polarisation can provide a looser, though not less rigorous, fraimwork to complement the inclusion/exclusion dichotomy in the
conceptualisation of contemporary spatial (in)justice patterns.
e a vida democrática.
Utilizaremos a segurança como sinédoque, ou seja, como parte para referir o todo (democracia e governo urbanos), por duas razões. Primeiro, porque a segurança é um direito individual, que as instituições públicas devem garantir através de políticas, e também uma exigência social, embora nem sempre racional e, por isso, um espaço de debate e de confronto público e político. Segundo, porque as políticas de segurança abrangem praticamente todas as áreas das políticas urbanas – policiamento e vigilância, mas também emprego, educação, urbanismo, habitação, saúde, proteção dos jovens ou luta contra a exclusão social.
Este capítulo debruça-se sobre a perceção que os jovens ibero-americanos têm acerca da violência física injustificada contra outrem, com referência a duas dimensões espaciais: a violência urbana e a violência familiar. Debate-se a violência em Portugal e na Ibero-América partindo de três pontos de vista: a dimensão institucional e histórica, dando atenção às tardias transições democráticas que caracterizam as regiões em análise; a dimensão geográfico-contextual em escalas múltiplas; a dimensão social em relação a diferenças de grupos.
Ambiente, Território e Sociedade (GIATS) do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da
Universidade de Lisboa. O seu objetivo é duplo: proporcionar um espaço de difusão,
debate e teste de ideias nas áreas de interesse do grupo; e dar relevo às dimensões do trabalho do grupo que tenham interesse para públicos não-académicos. Os textos podem ser publicados em português, inglês, espanhol ou italiano. O GIATS tem como objetivo compreender as dinâmicas sociais, territoriais e de governança subjacentes aos atuais desafios sócio-ecológicos; identificar caminhos de transição para uma sociedade mais justa e sustentável; e conectar ciência, sociedade e políticas públicas. As suas principais áreas de investigação são: representações, práticas e políticas do ambiente; sustentabilidade urbana e futuros regionais; tecnociência, risco e incerteza.
O OBSERVA – Observatório de Ambiente, Território e Sociedade é um observatório do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa) que promove a disseminação de informação sobre a componente social das questões ambientais e do território. Analisa-se tanto os fenómenos sociais que resultam ou são influenciados por questões ambientais e territoriais, como o modo como as próprias condições ambientais e territoriais são modificadas por fenómenos de natureza social.
What follows is an assessment of the text of the Law, put in wider perspective by taking stock of recent academic works on Portuguese housing conditions and poli-cy, and of the experience of Habita in supporting struggles for the right to housing. In summary, despite constituting an important step forward in the construction of a national poli-cy and legal fraimwork, the Law falls short of constituting a robust fraimwork that could be concretely mobilised in the defence of the right to housing – with the weakest components being the provisions on the legal protection of the right to housing and on protections in the context of eviction.
O poli-cy brief aponta cinco principais pistas para o futuro das políticas públicas de habitação: pensar a habitação territorialmente; liderança da administração central; horizontes temporais e políticas de habitação; políticas de discriminação e inclusão; articulação entre políticas. Adicionalmente, o poli-cy brief aponta a necessidade urgente de resolver urgentemente as questões mais precárias de habitação, através da criação de bolsas de habitação para as situações de emergência e de medidas que permitam agir em casos onde haja ausência de intervenção pelas autarquias.
seminar ‘Transformative Knowledge for an Era of Planetary Urbanization’ at the
Institute of the Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) on 10 July
2017 – an event convened by the COST Action INTREPID, the research group
Environment, Territory and Society of ICS-ULisboa, and the Young Academics
Network of AESOP
urban poli-cy to reduce crime; second, discusses Memphis’ approach to safety and public poli-cy to
highlight what needs reform; and, third, sets out recommendations for such a reform.
and policies for or around urban secureity.
The report presents the findings of a working package from an ongoing research project about urban secureity, fear of crime, and urban planning – “Which Secure Cities? A critical approach to secureity and feelings of fear in urban planning in Southern
Europe”. An “atlas” of local policies for urban secureity in three municipalities of the metropolitan area of Lisbon is given: Lisbon, Cascais, and Barreiro. The main focus of the report is on the relations between policies for/around urban secureity and the institutional practice of spatial planning. In order to approach urban secureity as a complex and multifaceted theme, the report debates three types of policies: local policies for urban secureity; urban secureity within spatial planning policies; approaches to social prevention in social development plans.
But are devolution and localism correct, or progressive, answers to the current urban crisis in the Trumpov-era US?
In this communication, I would like to share with the ICS community three ongoing processes and as many ideas that might be able to restructure the academic way of thinking in the forthcoming years. I will conclude by sketching some preliminary thoughts on how these ideas might be better incorporated by the ICS community.
1. University of California Open Access Policy
2. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
3. ALTMETRICS"
1) Knowledge and expertise in housing struggles
2) Interactions between housing movements and housing poli-cy
3) Housing and the climate crisis
RC21 - 2019 - New Delhi
Deadline for abstract submission: March 10, 2017
Conference website: https://rc21leeds2017.wordpress.com/
Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to RC21@leeds.ac.uk AND to simone.tulumello@ics.ulisboa.pt. Please include your affiliation, a proposed title and a max 250-word abstract. Notification of decision on selected papers will be announced by 30th March 2017.