Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. In the first section, I outline some contextual elements to frame the housing issue in Italy, while in the second I bring certain conceptual and methodological tools from both anthropology and other disciplines to bear on interpreting the phenomenon of residential eviction. In the third section, I present several case studies investigated during my fieldwork to illustrate four «logics of expulsion» that pave the way for understanding the richness of each «local place» as part of a globally encompassing phenomenon which, borrowing from Appadurai, I have defined as expulsionscape.

Pozzi, G. (2019). Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Evictions in Milan (Italy). ARCHIVIO ANTROPOLOGICO MEDITERRANEO, XXII(21, 2), 1-19.

Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Evictions in Milan (Italy)

Pozzi, G.
Primo
2019

Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic research carried out between October 2015 and December 2016, in this article I employ an anthropological gaze to show the socially and analytically central role evictions play in the contemporary world as a mechanism for producing social exclusion, inequality and difference. In the first section, I outline some contextual elements to frame the housing issue in Italy, while in the second I bring certain conceptual and methodological tools from both anthropology and other disciplines to bear on interpreting the phenomenon of residential eviction. In the third section, I present several case studies investigated during my fieldwork to illustrate four «logics of expulsion» that pave the way for understanding the richness of each «local place» as part of a globally encompassing phenomenon which, borrowing from Appadurai, I have defined as expulsionscape.
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
evictions, logics of expulsion, expulsionscape, ethnography, Milan
English
2019
XXII
21, 2
1
19
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Pozzi, G. (2019). Expulsionscapes. Logics of Expulsion and Economies of Evictions in Milan (Italy). ARCHIVIO ANTROPOLOGICO MEDITERRANEO, XXII(21, 2), 1-19.
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