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Urban InequalitiesMaking Second-Class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality

Urban Inequalities: Making Second-Class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of... [The stereotype of Southerners claims that they are politically and socially backward individualists who lack social sense and cannot be trusted. With specific reference to Naples, I focus on the attendant displacement of citizenship in the conviction that a balanced relationship between citizenship and governance, critical to democratic society, is directly dependent upon the recognised legitimacy of obligations and responsibility on both sides of the spectrum. Ethnographic evidence suggests that policies continue to be implemented that foster ordinary people’s disadvantage and exclusion, giving my informants at the grassroots reason to feel that they continue to be mistreated as second-class citizens. Change, they feel, is overdue. I discuss the nature and ramifications of the kind of change promised by a ‘revolutionary’ rhetoric promoted by élite groups historically adept at riding roughshod over ordinary people’s instances and bent on teaching the ‘populace’ what to think, do, even feel.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban InequalitiesMaking Second-Class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Pardo, Italo; Prato, Giuliana B.
Pardo, Italo
Urban Inequalities — Jan 6, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-51723-6
Pages
25 –48
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-51724-3_2
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Abstract

[The stereotype of Southerners claims that they are politically and socially backward individualists who lack social sense and cannot be trusted. With specific reference to Naples, I focus on the attendant displacement of citizenship in the conviction that a balanced relationship between citizenship and governance, critical to democratic society, is directly dependent upon the recognised legitimacy of obligations and responsibility on both sides of the spectrum. Ethnographic evidence suggests that policies continue to be implemented that foster ordinary people’s disadvantage and exclusion, giving my informants at the grassroots reason to feel that they continue to be mistreated as second-class citizens. Change, they feel, is overdue. I discuss the nature and ramifications of the kind of change promised by a ‘revolutionary’ rhetoric promoted by élite groups historically adept at riding roughshod over ordinary people’s instances and bent on teaching the ‘populace’ what to think, do, even feel.]

Published: Jan 6, 2021

Keywords: Second-class citizens; Tyranny; Legitimacy; Responsibility; Misgovernance; Italy

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