Main entry:

Herzfeld, M. (Michael)

Title & Author:

Evicted from eternity : the restructuring of modern Rome / Michael Herzfeld.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

xiii, 373 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.
Overture: encountering the Eternal City -- 1. Sin and the City -- Genealogies of imperfection -- Monti: paradoxes of poverty -- Sociable spaces -- Meeting the people -- The village in the city -- Agonies and agonistics -- The cadences of a cultural preserve -- 2. Popolo and Population -- The artisans The shopkeepers -- Intellectuals and politicians -- 3. The Wages of Original Sin -- Accountability and accommodation: the pragmatics of original sin -- Original sinners or elder brothers? -- The dialectics of casuistry and tolerance -- A passion for the past -- 4. Refractions of Social Life -- Segmentation and subsidiarity -- The civic and the civil -- Association life -- The premises of conflict -- Theaters of piety and peculation -- A clergy scorned -- 5. Life and Law in a Flawed State -- Laws and regulations -- The limits of law -- The (disreputable) origins of legal loopholes -- Indulgent complicities -- Forgiveness and calculation -- Sacred images and sinful spaces -- 6. Scandals of Sociability -- Friends who strangle -- The cultivation of fear -- Restitution and redemption -- Friends best avoided -- A family friend? -- Local narratives: swaggering victims -- Credit and default -- Banking on fear -- Tactful silences -- 7. Extortionate Civilities -- Accommodations civil and civic -- Discommoding complicities -- Uncivil pleasantries, unpleasant civilities -- Culture and custom -- Peaceful politics -- Condominial civilities -- Lessons in civic civility -- Spatial and stylistic violence -- 8. The Fine Art of Denunciation -- The logic of denunciation -- Performances of policing -- Fractured authority: the multiplicity of policing -- Extorting coffee and Campari -- 9. Tearing the Social Fabric Renters and owners -- Lawyers and illegalities -- Eviction and evasion: the high stakes of time and place -- Gentrification and the last frontier -- Endgame -- Coda: The Future of Eternity.

Summary:

This title 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.

ISBN:

9780226329116 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226329123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226329119 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226329127 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject:

Gentrification Italy Rome.
Urban renewal Italy Rome.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) Italie Rome.
Rénovation urbaine Italie Rome.
Gentrification.
Urban renewal.
Italy Rome.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261925
Call No.: BIB 192971
Status: Available