- Dipartimento Culture, Politica, Società
Università di Torino
Lungo Dora Siena 100A
10153 - Torino (Italy)
ROOM 3D229
- Human Geography, Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Political Geography, Critical Geography, Urban Studies, and 21 moreCultural Geography, Creative City, Videogames, City Branding, Alternative Economies, Urban Policies, Geography, Urban Planning, Social Sciences, Urban Culture, Gender, Cultural Studies, Research Methodology, Urban Sociology, Geopolitics, Gender Studies, Place Branding, Media Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Theory, and Feminist Theoryedit
This paper mobilises the idea of impossible worlds to conceptualise and explore inconsistent and illogical visions and ways of living sustainably. Specifically, the paper focuses on an understanding of sustainability based on classic... more
This paper mobilises the idea of impossible worlds to conceptualise and explore inconsistent and illogical visions and ways of living sustainably. Specifically, the paper focuses on an understanding of sustainability based on classic Kantian universalistic ethics (suppose everyone did the same) and relative feelings of responsibility and guilt for the environment. By mobilising three vignettes, the paper argues that impossibility is present in current environmental thinking, and narratives of impossibility have an emotional and political role in shaping popular discourses concerning environmentalism and responsibility. It suggests that exploring glitches, impossibilities, contradictions and inconsistencies may contribute to understanding the role of personal guilt in sustainability narratives, and potentially trigger change.
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Bozza dell’autore; la versione finale è pubblicata come:
Vanolo A. (2023), “La geografia umana secondo un’intelligenza artificiale. Un piccolo
esperimento”, Rivista Geografica Italiana, CXXX, fasc. 2, pp. 83-100.
Vanolo A. (2023), “La geografia umana secondo un’intelligenza artificiale. Un piccolo
esperimento”, Rivista Geografica Italiana, CXXX, fasc. 2, pp. 83-100.
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Vanolo A. (2023) “Autistic cities: critical urbanism and the politics of neurodiversity”, City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, v. 27, n. 1-2, pp. 190-208. Autism and neurodiversity are key topics in current public debate and... more
Vanolo A. (2023) “Autistic cities: critical urbanism and the politics of neurodiversity”, City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, v. 27, n. 1-2, pp. 190-208.
Autism and neurodiversity are key topics in current public debate and in the social sciences. A vast multidisciplinary literature has explored spatial dimensions of neurodiversity, particularly by analyzing autistic experiences in private and public spaces and the design of autistic-friendly environments. Building on this literature and by presenting my personal experience as the father of an autistic child, this paper explores connections between critical urban studies and the social and political dimensions of neurodiversity. Focusing on different meanings, positions, and discourses shaping autistic experiences and neurodivergent identities in the capitalist city, the paper draws on the notions of 'queering' and 'cripping' autism. Lastly, the paper presents four tentative propositions about autistic cities, with two goals in mind: imagining more just, liveable and empowering cities, and suggesting that critical urban studies can themselves be stimulated by the encounter with neurodiversities.
Keywords: autism, neurodiversity, autistic city, queering autism, neurodiversicity
Autism and neurodiversity are key topics in current public debate and in the social sciences. A vast multidisciplinary literature has explored spatial dimensions of neurodiversity, particularly by analyzing autistic experiences in private and public spaces and the design of autistic-friendly environments. Building on this literature and by presenting my personal experience as the father of an autistic child, this paper explores connections between critical urban studies and the social and political dimensions of neurodiversity. Focusing on different meanings, positions, and discourses shaping autistic experiences and neurodivergent identities in the capitalist city, the paper draws on the notions of 'queering' and 'cripping' autism. Lastly, the paper presents four tentative propositions about autistic cities, with two goals in mind: imagining more just, liveable and empowering cities, and suggesting that critical urban studies can themselves be stimulated by the encounter with neurodiversities.
Keywords: autism, neurodiversity, autistic city, queering autism, neurodiversicity
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Engaging with a scene of the iconic movie Smoke (by Wayne Wang, 1995) in which a rephotographic project is sensitively elicited, this paper addresses the technique of repeat photography to contribute to methodological debates that have... more
Engaging with a scene of the iconic movie Smoke (by Wayne Wang, 1995) in which a rephotographic project is sensitively elicited, this paper addresses the technique of repeat photography to contribute to methodological debates that have arisen within the nascent 'Mobility and Humanities' subfield. Through a humanistic perspective, the paper reviews and expands the nexus between mobility, photography and the urban by comparing the technique with three methodological issues: the blurring of supposed binaries, such as traditional/innovative, static/moving and fast/slow; the possibility of grasping the mobilities of the world in a post-human vein; and the opportunity to also consider techniques as sites for reflection. To address these issues, the paper draws from philosophies of movement, post-phenomenological and object-oriented stances and visual and urban cultural geographies. With reference to the urban realm, this paper proposes three perspectives on rephotography, namely (1) rephotography as a practice of slow and rhythmic attunement with circumstantial spacetimes moving backwards and forwards; (2) rephotography as a visual ontography that displaces the human and opens up space for the apprehension of the agency and mobility of things; and (3) rephotography as a continual process of activation of moving gazes on cities and their imaginaries.
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The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies support new ways of imagining, organising and managing... more
The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies support new ways of imagining, organising and managing the city and its flows; on the other, they impress a new moral order on the city by introducing specific technical parameters in order to distinguish between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ city. The smart city discourse may therefore be a powerful tool for the production of docile subjects and mechanisms of political legitimisation. The paper is largely based on theoretical reflections and uses smart city politics in Italy as a case study. The paper analyses how the smart city discourse proposed by the European Union has been reclassified to produce new visions of the ‘good city’ and the role of private actors and citizens in the management of urban development.
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The paper focuses on the case of PalaFuksas, a signature building inaugurated in 2005 and located in the central (but marginalized) area of Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy. Originally designed to host clothing shops, the building had a... more
The paper focuses on the case of PalaFuksas, a signature building inaugurated in 2005 and located in the central (but marginalized) area of Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy. Originally designed to host clothing shops, the building had a history of failures and reconversions, and it is currently mainly used as a branded food hall. By mixing archive and qualitative research, the article focuses on the evolution amongst local stakeholders, of different ‘expectations’, intended as heterogeneous and not fully conscious and rational sets of ideas, imaginaries, forecasts. PalaFuksas was expected to be a successful and functional building to contain businesses, a flagship for the entire city, and to perform distinction and iconicity, acting as a regenerator for its neighbourhood. Failures in meeting these expectations implied a continuous renegotiation of the meanings, functions and identities of PalaFuksas, revealing the complexity of the processes at play in the attempt to sign, re-sign and ultimately ‘become’ a signature building.
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Intersecting culinary and retail geographies, this paper brings to centre stage food in retail gentrification. Theoretically, it suggests that food, together with its spatialities, can produce a “displacement atmosphere” throughout... more
Intersecting culinary and retail geographies, this paper brings to centre stage food in retail gentrification. Theoretically, it suggests that food, together with its spatialities, can produce a “displacement atmosphere” throughout retailscape by enabling privileged consumers to achieve distinction. Empirically, it draws from Porta Palazzo, Turin’s historical neighbourhood and marketplace, where the opening of a branded food hall reveals food’s role in the area’s early-stage retail gentrification. Attending to both the food hall and smaller emerging spatialities, the “work of foodification” is analyzed through three constitutive elements: discourse, materialities, practices. Within the city’s wider geographies and ongoing transformations, the synergy of these elements reveals that the work of foodification is the convert of Porta Palazzo into a device that, first, fixes a displacement atmosphere onto the local retailscape and, then, allows for the gentrification frontier to proceed. The paper responds to calls for re-conceptualizing displacement, contributing to emergent research on marketplaces as gentrification’s frontier spaces.
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Guilt and shame operate in connection with individual and collective forces. This paper explores how space is contingent in psychic processes, and how the generation and negotiation of feelings of guilt and shame develop in the interplay... more
Guilt and shame operate in connection with individual and collective forces. This paper explores how space is contingent in psychic processes, and how the generation and negotiation of feelings of guilt and shame develop in the interplay between internal processes of the mind and the worldly 'outside'. By presenting two examples, precisely commodity consumption and sex, and a set of fictional anecdotes, the article proposes a series of hypotheses concerning distance, proximity and visibility in relation to shame and guilt, and it analyses mechanisms of resistance to guilt and shame, which include spatial architectures of concealment, displacement and mimesis. It is argued that an explicit recognition of the role of guilt and shame in shaping urban spaces may lead to a better understanding of the mechanics of production of space, may contribute to further bridging geographical and psychoanalytical debates, and may have a political and transformative potential, with meaningful geographical implications.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132520942304
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132520942304
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Religions play a significant role in Italian cities and, more generally, in the social, cultural and political lives of Italians. Since 1948, the Italian state has formally been secular, and it guarantees religious freedoms beyond... more
Religions play a significant role in Italian cities and, more generally, in the social, cultural and political lives of Italians. Since 1948, the Italian state has formally been secular, and it guarantees religious freedoms beyond Christianity. However, the reality is much more complex, as the hegemonic position of Catholicism is still evident, and religious minorities often deal with various forms of marginalization, stigmatization and lack of resources. This phenomenon is visible in Italian cities, particularly by looking at the evolving role of Catholic spaces such as parishes, and the parallel struggles for legitimation, visibility and resources of religious minorities. In this scenario, Italy seems to be increasingly characterized by various and uneven forms of inter-faith competition, which also imply rivalry in the spheres of charity, voluntarism and the provision of social services. This paper analyses the relations between religious groups and the Italian state, proposing the idea of a 'politics of camouflage' shaping inter-faith competition for resources and legitimation.
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This paper reflects critically on city branding by building on Kavaratzis and Ashworth's 2005 article 'City branding: An effective assertion of identity or a transitory marketing trick?' It discusses the relationships between urban... more
This paper reflects critically on city branding by building on Kavaratzis and Ashworth's 2005 article 'City branding: An effective assertion of identity or a transitory marketing trick?' It discusses the relationships between urban geography and branding studies, and challenges the idea that cities may be considered as special kinds of products in need of specific branding techniques. This exercise entails reflection on the boundaries between the concept of branding and its potential relation with the commodification of cities.
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This contribution to the Scenes & Sounds section of CITY reflects on the experience of feeling 'outside' the urban by focusing on urban absences. The argument is developed first through theoretical speculations on planetary urbanism,... more
This contribution to the Scenes & Sounds section of CITY reflects on the experience of feeling 'outside' the urban by focusing on urban absences. The argument is developed first through theoretical speculations on planetary urbanism, emotions and absences/presences. The paper then mobilises autobiographical accounts concerning the emotions that I experienced during a summer spent in an alpine village. The paper suggests that, in my emotional sphere, the village was a 'constitutive outside' of the urban, particularly through the manipulation of feelings of distance from, and proximity to, the urban. In this sense, the paper proposes that the village was not simply a 'negative other' of the urban; rather, it may be regarded as an outside which was relationally constructed in a position of continuity with the inside: the extra-urban may include and exceed the urban, and it may emotionally perform the role of a constitutive outside.
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Critical remarks on Andrea Lucarelli’s ‘Place branding as urban policy’ Final version published as: Vanolo, A. (2018), “Politicising city branding: Some comments on Andrea Lucarelli’s ‘Place branding as urban policy’”, Cities, v. 80,... more
Critical remarks on Andrea Lucarelli’s ‘Place branding as urban policy’
Final version published as:
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Politicising city branding: Some comments on Andrea Lucarelli’s ‘Place branding as urban policy’”, Cities, v. 80, pp. 67-69.
Cities, special issue ‘City Marketing and Branding as Urban Policy’
Final version published as:
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Politicising city branding: Some comments on Andrea Lucarelli’s ‘Place branding as urban policy’”, Cities, v. 80, pp. 67-69.
Cities, special issue ‘City Marketing and Branding as Urban Policy’
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L’articolo propone una riflessione sulla figura del fantasma in relazione a spazi geografici ed emozioni. La tesi di fondo è che le presenze spettrali, in quanto caratterizzate da uno status intermedio fra visibile e invisibile, vita e... more
L’articolo propone una riflessione sulla figura del fantasma in relazione a spazi geografici ed emozioni. La tesi di fondo è che le presenze spettrali, in quanto caratterizzate da uno status intermedio fra visibile e invisibile, vita e morte, contemporaneità e passato, assenza e presenza, possono contribuire a sviluppare sguardi geografici complessi, tesi a superare visioni dicotomiche dello spazio e dei fenomeni sociali, e a cogliere l’importanza degli elementi ‘assenti’ nel dar forma a campi relazionali ed emozionali. In questo senso, si suggerisce l’importanza di sviluppare una sensibilità geografica spettrale e di riconoscere come gli spazi, le relazioni e i corpi che animano la geografia del quotidiano siano popolati da fantasmi.
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Fantasmi”, Rivista Geografica Italiana, 125, 3, pp. 369-381
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Fantasmi”, Rivista Geografica Italiana, 125, 3, pp. 369-381
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L'articolo propone una rilettura, a cinquant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione, del libro L'uomo nel 2000 di Ugo Apollonio. L'analisi del testo e del discorso pubblico che l'ha accompagnato consente di sviluppare una riflessione sui mutamenti... more
L'articolo propone una rilettura, a cinquant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione, del libro L'uomo nel 2000 di Ugo Apollonio. L'analisi del testo e del discorso pubblico che l'ha accompagnato consente di sviluppare una riflessione sui mutamenti dell'immaginario futurologico urbano. La tesi proposta riguarda la sua sostanziale staticità: nonostante la presenza di narrazioni differenti, il pensiero relativo alla città di domani pare convergere intorno a un numero piuttosto limitato di idee, questioni e orizzonti. L'articolo intende quindi stimolare una riflessione circa le possibili relazioni fra geografia e futurologia, contribuendo al dibattito circa la natura e la forma degli immaginari urbani.
Parole chiave: Futurologia, tecnologia, smart city, città del futuro, immaginario urbano
Pubblicato come: Vanolo A. (2019), “L’uomo nel 2000, cinquanta anni dopo: città e futurologia nell’Italia del boom economico”,
Rivista Geografica Italiana, v. 126, n. 2, pp. 77-100.
Parole chiave: Futurologia, tecnologia, smart city, città del futuro, immaginario urbano
Pubblicato come: Vanolo A. (2019), “L’uomo nel 2000, cinquanta anni dopo: città e futurologia nell’Italia del boom economico”,
Rivista Geografica Italiana, v. 126, n. 2, pp. 77-100.
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Gamification is widely intended as the mobilisation and implementation of game elements in extra-ludic situations, including the management of social problems and issues. By mobilising virtual rewards and playful elements, mobile apps,... more
Gamification is widely intended as the mobilisation and implementation of game elements in extra-ludic situations, including the management of social problems and issues. By mobilising virtual rewards and playful elements, mobile apps, websites, social initiatives and even urban policies are getting more and more gamified. The aim of this viewpoint paper is to stimulate a critical discussion on the potential relationships between gamification processes and cities, particularly by reflecting on the cultures of gamification and by discussing potential lines of research for urban studies.
Final version published as:
Vanolo A. (2017), “Cities and the politics of gamification”, Cities, v. 74, pp. 320-326; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.021
Final version published as:
Vanolo A. (2017), “Cities and the politics of gamification”, Cities, v. 74, pp. 320-326; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.021
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Leisure cruising combines movement and stativity in a particular tourist experience: users are supposed to enjoy very different activities, with the movement of the ship guiding them to their destinations. This article analyses visual... more
Leisure cruising combines movement and stativity in a particular tourist experience: users are supposed to enjoy very different activities, with the movement of the ship guiding them to their destinations. This article analyses visual representations of gender and mobility in over 600 images collected from leisure cruise promotional brochures by taking advantage of a qualitative methodology and by focusing on narratives related to themes of pleasure, work, age and contact with nature/culture. The results stress the presence of an implicitly masculine gaze, with complex and non-linear associations with the themes of mobility and immobility, which relates to visual narratives in a number of different ways, testifying to the multiple meanings that may be assumed by the idea, the practice and the experience of movement.
Final version published as:
A. Vanolo, N. Cattan (2017) ‘Selling cruises: Gender and mobility in promotional brochures’, Tourist Studies, v. 17, n. 4, pp. 406-425.
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A. Vanolo, N. Cattan (2017) ‘Selling cruises: Gender and mobility in promotional brochures’, Tourist Studies, v. 17, n. 4, pp. 406-425.
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Lingotto used to be an important industrial site and a highly symbolic space at the heart of the city of Turin, Italy. The aim of this article is to analyse the multiple trajectories, spatialities and layers of memories, meanings and... more
Lingotto used to be an important industrial site and a highly symbolic space at the heart of the city of Turin, Italy. The aim of this article is to analyse the multiple trajectories, spatialities and layers of memories, meanings and practices that overlapped within and across Lingotto in the last decades, following the changing economic conditions and connected discursive paradigms associated with the evolution of the local economy since the Fordist crisis of the 1970s. The analysis shows that Lingotto may be interpreted as a mirror of Turin's resilience strategies used to cope with the economic crises that have hit the city. Furthermore, it shows how Lingotto is a highly resilient urban fragment and building. Contrary to mainstream debates about the need to conserve and stage local urban heritages, this paper offers an account of Lingotto's resilience, which highlights how forgetting the past may be a strategy for tackling the present and being resilient. The analysis of the evolution of Lingotto thus contributes to understanding urban processes that entwine with the quest for resilience in the contemporary post-industrial city, stressing the ambiguous role of the often-implicit politics of forgetting and amnesia in a framework of urban resilience.
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A. Colombino, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Turin and Lingotto: resilience, forgetting and the reinvention of place’, European Planning Studies, v. 25, n. 1, pp. 10-28; DOI:10.1080/09654313.2016.1254598
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A. Colombino, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Turin and Lingotto: resilience, forgetting and the reinvention of place’, European Planning Studies, v. 25, n. 1, pp. 10-28; DOI:10.1080/09654313.2016.1254598
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Fictional vignettes are narrative texts that academic researchers may invent in order to illustrate arguments or to present their research outcomes; they are stories or situations that do not strictly report factual realities observed by... more
Fictional vignettes are narrative texts that academic researchers may invent in order to illustrate arguments or to present their research outcomes; they are stories or situations that do not strictly report factual realities observed by the author, but that, in any case, implement the heuristics for the arguments that the author wants to raise. Although there are several works in social sciences taking advantage of fictional narratives, geographers have started mobilising invented stories in their writings mostly recently, provided that a variety of creative methodologies had been introduced. The aim of this article is to present fictional vignettes as an integrative research method and writing technique, while discussing potential opportunities and limits relating to their use in geographical research, particularly within the recent rise of various ‘creative methodologies’ in cultural geographies.
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autobiography, autoethnography, creative methodologies, ethnofiction, fictional story, fictional vignettes, invented stories
Final version published as:
C. Rabbiosi, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies?’, cultural geographies, v. 24, n. 2, pp. 265-278.
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autobiography, autoethnography, creative methodologies, ethnofiction, fictional story, fictional vignettes, invented stories
Final version published as:
C. Rabbiosi, A. Vanolo (2017) ‘Are we allowed to use fictional vignettes in cultural geographies?’, cultural geographies, v. 24, n. 2, pp. 265-278.
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Imagining tomorrow's life implies, to a large degree, imagining the kind of cities we will inhabit in the future. In this framework, the smart city is actually a popular vision in discourses on urban development. This paper explores... more
Imagining tomorrow's life implies, to a large degree, imagining the kind of cities we will inhabit in the future. In this framework, the smart city is actually a popular vision in discourses on urban development. This paper explores alternative ways in which citizens are positioned within different imaginaries of the smart city. The premise is that most mainstream discourses implicitly assume that smart city projects will empower and improve the lives of citizens. However, their role is often ambiguous. While some visions of the smart city are characterised by the absence of citizen's voices, others are populated by active citizens operating as urban sensors. Furthermore there are fearful visions of a future in which citizens will be subjugated by technologies that will hamper their freedom. This paper analyses the role of citizens in four alternative smart city imaginaries. The thesis proposed is that all four imaginaries are characterised by citizens playing a subaltern role, and hence the smart city is a relatively poor concept if intended as a model of the urban life of the future.
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Cultural understandings of the Afterlife are often embedded in spatial thinking and spatial metaphors. This article, first develops an understanding of the Afterlife as a relational virtual space populated by absent presences. Second, the... more
Cultural understandings of the Afterlife are often embedded in spatial thinking and spatial metaphors. This article, first develops an understanding of the Afterlife as a relational virtual space populated by absent presences. Second, the article explores the possibility of investigating the Afterlife with ethnographical approaches. Exploring three fictional vignettes, the article discusses alternative spatialities of the Afterlife, in order to emphasize the pervasiveness of spatial thinking in conceptualizations of apparently nonspatial phenomena, and to challenge dichotomist spatial interpretations of presences/absences, the living and the postliving and life/Afterlife.
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Draft; final version published in Space and Culture (2016)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331215621020
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Draft; final version published in Space and Culture (2016)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331215621020
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The article looks at the evolution of urban branding in the city of Turin, Italy, over a period of about ten years. As reported in a previous article published in Cities, at the end of the nineties the city of Turin started investing... more
The article looks at the evolution of urban branding in the city of Turin, Italy, over a period of about ten years. As reported in a previous article published in Cities, at the end of the nineties the city of Turin started investing heavily in creative and cultural branding strategies, in order to modify its former image of an industrial one-company town. This article looks at the same city eight years later: both Turin and the general socio-economic situation have changed, primarily because of the ongoing economic crisis. As a result, other discourses are emerging in the field of urban branding, with a meaningful divide between the ‘internal’ dimension of branding (messages directed to inhabitants and city users) and its ‘external’ dimension. Specifically, the article considers the role and heritage of ‘old’ discourses on culture and creativity and the diffusion of new branding messages related to food and to the imagery of the ‘smart city’.
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Turin is an industrial city which has been a key site for Italian industrialisation in the past century, particularly because of the presence of FIAT car manufacturing. Turin is regarded as the archetypical Italian Fordist city, but as a... more
Turin is an industrial city which has been a key site for Italian industrialisation in the past century, particularly because of the presence of FIAT car manufacturing. Turin is regarded as the archetypical Italian Fordist city, but as a consequence of the gradual crisis of Fordism, local institutions started diversifying the city’s economic basis, particularly in the last decade, by embracing a culture-led approach to urban regeneration. The article analyses the evolution of Turin from Fordism, drawing on the concept of resilience. Specifically, the analysis will support two arguments. First, by focusing on the evolutionary patterns of alternative segments of the socio-economic base of the city, it is possible to detect synergies between the variety of local economic cultures and practices, on the one hand, and the capability of coping with shocks and transformations, which is basically resilience, on the other hand. Secondly, emphasising a multi-equilibrium perspective, it is possible to argue that apparently contrasting urban typologies, such as the ‘Fordist city’ and the ‘creative city’, have a hybridising potential, producing mixed forms of industrial-cultural cities as a result of the interaction between creativity and path-dependent growth.
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Christiania is an autonomous Free Town, born as a squat in 1971, located in the center of Copenhagen. After 40 years of struggles and negotiations with the Danish institutions in order to survive and to maintain its autonomy, Christiania... more
Christiania is an autonomous Free Town, born as a squat in 1971, located in the center of Copenhagen. After 40 years of struggles and negotiations with the Danish institutions in order to survive and to maintain its autonomy, Christiania reached an agreement with the state in 2011. If on the one hand the agreement apparently guarantees the survival of Christiania, on the other hand it regulates various domains that used to be self-regulated by the community, and therefore limits Christiania’s autonomy. The aim of the article is to discuss the potential effects of the agreement – and more specifically of the new government technology placed in operation through the agreement – on some of these domains. Assuming that autonomy is always fractured, partial and ongoing, the thesis proposed in the article is that, in this new context, Christiania has come to represent a peculiar case of hybridization of forces of autonomy and of forces of neoliberalization, and that the tensions between these two forces could potentially lead to different outcomes that challenge traditional understanding of both autonomy and neoliberalism in urban contexts.
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The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies support new ways of imagining, organising and managing... more
The paper analyses the concept of the smart city in critical perspective, focusing on the power/knowledge implications for the contemporary city. On the one hand, smart city policies support new ways of imagining, organising and managing the city and its flows; on the other, they impress a new moral order on the city by introducing specific technical parameters in order to distinguish between the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ city. The smart city discourse may therefore be a powerful tool for the production of docile subjects and mechanisms of political legitimisation. The paper is largely based on theoretical reflections and uses smart city politics in Italy as a case study. The paper analyses how the smart city discourse proposed by the European Union has been reclassified to produce new visions of the ‘good city’ and the role of private actors and citizens in the management of urban development.
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Urban nighttime entertainment spaces, including bars, pubs, and clubs, are a crucial space for the performance of gendered social relations and the experience of sexual identities. This article investigates the emotional spaces of... more
Urban nighttime entertainment spaces, including bars, pubs, and clubs, are a crucial space for the performance of gendered social relations and the experience of sexual identities. This article investigates the emotional spaces of commercial gay and lesbian recreation in two different settings: lesbian nights in Paris, France, and gay clubs in Turin, Italy. This research was carried out through direct observation and auto-ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on the literature from emotional geographies, the article proposes an alternative take on the geography of gay and lesbian clubbing by applying the metaphors of the island and the archipelago from cultural geography to the gay and lesbian scene. The island and archipelago are presented as metaphors that imply emotions, performance, materiality, spatiality, strategy, and imagination in the performance of the gay and lesbian playscape. The article argues that the club, intended as a type of gay and lesbian island, does not necessarily imply a condition of insulation. Rather, the island implies both metaphor and materiality, and movement may also be considered an emotional strategy for gays and lesbians in the heteronormative urban space.
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The Free Town of Christiania is an autonomous community of about 1,000 inhabitants in the centre of Copenhagen. Built as a squat for a hippy community in the 1970s, it is today a central node in the geography of activism, anarchism and... more
The Free Town of Christiania is an autonomous community of about 1,000 inhabitants in the centre of Copenhagen. Built as a squat for a hippy community in the 1970s, it is today a central node in the geography of activism, anarchism and alternative social life. This article analyses Christiania from the specific perspective of creativity and within the context of the ‘creative city’ debate. The Free Town is a lively innovative milieu, nurturing the arts, social experimentation, ideas and original architectural solutions. As such, it is becoming a more and more relevant space from the point of view of the market economy and in the promotion of the idea of a ‘creative Copenhagen’. But I argue that much of its creative potential is connected to place-specific socioeconomic factors. In this sense, the Christiania experience troubles mainstream conceptions of creativity by revealing that creativity is both fluid and situated.
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Liberty City is a virtual city, created for use with several versions of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), a best-selling series of video games concerning the world of crime. Millions of people all over the world have spent large amounts of time... more
Liberty City is a virtual city, created for use with several versions of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), a best-selling series of video games concerning the world of crime. Millions of people all over the world have spent large amounts of time exploring this virtual space, making the city an important cultural artefact and a meaningful landmark in the urban imaginary on a global scale. The aim of this paper is to analyse Liberty City in terms of the imagined urban political geographies nested in the aesthetics of this space in the video game GTA IV. In order to develop this analysis, a theorization of urban politics will be presented, where politics is identified as consisting of representation, government and contestation. The paper will introduce methodological notes concerning the analysis, carried out mainly on the basis of a personal exploration of Liberty City. The paper then outlines the neoliberal political unconscious embedded in the urban dimension of Liberty City and proposes final theoretical reflections on the possible relations between the urban, the political and the aesthetics of video game practices.
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"First 50 users may download the full paper for free here: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Ic3hwsYrnIVdVQIEKIy2/full Using an autobiographical methodology, the paper examines the different spatialities involved in psychoanalytic... more
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Using an autobiographical methodology, the paper examines the different spatialities involved in psychoanalytic therapy. The paper proposes an understanding of space that is simultaneously physical, relational, emotional, symbolic and transformative. Focusing on the practices and microgeographies involved in psychoanalytic therapy, the aim of the paper is to contribute to the body of literature dealing with psychoanalytic geography by discussing how spatial logics pervade the psychoanalytic treatment, and to test autobiography as an experience-near, subjectively immersed instrument for investigation."
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Using an autobiographical methodology, the paper examines the different spatialities involved in psychoanalytic therapy. The paper proposes an understanding of space that is simultaneously physical, relational, emotional, symbolic and transformative. Focusing on the practices and microgeographies involved in psychoanalytic therapy, the aim of the paper is to contribute to the body of literature dealing with psychoanalytic geography by discussing how spatial logics pervade the psychoanalytic treatment, and to test autobiography as an experience-near, subjectively immersed instrument for investigation."
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This paper investigates promotional images in the Metropolitan Area of Helsinki, focusing on the projection, outside national boundaries, of specific “ideas” concerning the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. After introducing the... more
This paper investigates promotional images in the Metropolitan Area of Helsinki, focusing on the projection, outside national boundaries, of specific “ideas” concerning the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. After introducing the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, presenting its geographical features, urban dynamics, actual problems and actors involved in image-building, the focus of this research will be a comparison between the images proposed in promotional materials and policy documents by the various territorial units, looking at their differences, overlaps, synergies and clashes. In fact, as will be discussed, even if the images proposed by the cities consist of the same thematic fields (technology, nature, culture, etc.), they contain slightly different implicit messages, targets, representations of the cities, values, strategic orientations and approaches.
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Geographical metaphors such as centre-periphery or First-Second-Third World are widely used to describe the world economic system. This paper discusses the role of metaphors in geographical representations and proposes some guidelines for... more
Geographical metaphors such as centre-periphery or First-Second-Third World are widely used to describe the world economic system. This paper discusses the role of metaphors in geographical representations and proposes some guidelines for the analysis and classification. This methodology is then applied to a sample of well known textual metaphors used to describe the world economic scenario, including ideas of a First-Second-Third World, North-South, core-periphery, Global Triad, global network, flat and fluid world. The classification is linked to the debates originating such metaphors, and it will be used in order to propose some concluding remarks on the possibility of development of new geographical metaphors.
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City-marketing and place-branding strategies today often stress ideas and stereotypes of culture and creativity to promote attractive urban images. The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze how the creative city is celebrated and... more
City-marketing and place-branding strategies today often stress ideas and stereotypes of culture and creativity to promote attractive urban images. The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze how the creative city is celebrated and displayed in the case of Turin (Torino), Italy. This case study represents a typical example of an industrial town, trying to promote new urban representations at an international level, and celebrating ideas of a cultural, post-industrial economy through campaigns of urban branding. This paper presents some reflections on the branding policies of the Italian city and, through the review of a sample of promotional materials and policy documents, it tries to determine to what degree Turin’s branding represents ideas of creativity.
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This paper analyses the use of the concept of territorial cohesion in policy documents produced by the European Union. It is an idea celebrated in community documents, such as cohesion reports, the Territorial Agenda of the European Union... more
This paper analyses the use of the concept of territorial cohesion in policy documents produced by the European Union. It is an idea celebrated in community documents, such as cohesion reports, the Territorial Agenda of the European Union and the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion; after more than a decade of political debate, the concept is about to gain a legitimate institutional role, after being included in the Lisbon Treaty, and is among the competences that the EU shares with other member states. At first, territorial cohesion seems to oppose the logics of neo-liberalism by reinscribing welfare problems and policies in spatial terms. However, using the analytical framework of cultural critics, and intending cohesion to be a discourse carried on by a community of European scholars and policymakers, the research will discuss the conceptual relationship between competitiveness and territorial cohesion in European policies and narratives.
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Che cos'è una città «autistica»? È uno spazio per immaginare e sperimentare modi diversi di intendere le diversità, incluse quelle neurologiche, anche al di là del linguaggio delle categorie, delle diagnosi e delle disabilità. Il mondo ha... more
Che cos'è una città «autistica»? È uno spazio per immaginare e sperimentare modi diversi di intendere le diversità, incluse quelle neurologiche, anche al di là del linguaggio delle categorie, delle diagnosi e delle disabilità. Il mondo ha bisogno di città del genere: «autistico» non va inteso in senso peggiorativo e la condizione di neurodiversità può offrire molto per progettare città più vivibili e aperte. Costruire realtà urbane migliori significa anche sovvertire le categorie morali e i linguaggi comunemente associati all'autismo. Alberto Vanolo offre una serie di proposte provocatorie per la città autistica, una sorta di manifesto con principî generali per immaginare realtà urbane più semplici e sostenibili, non solo per chi vive una condizione di neurodivergenza.
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Alberto Vanolo, City Branding. The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities, Routledge, New York and London, 2017 The file includes cover, table of contents and chapter 1 (manuscript) Book abstract Since the 1990s, city... more
Alberto Vanolo, City Branding. The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities, Routledge, New York and London, 2017
The file includes cover, table of contents and chapter 1 (manuscript)
Book abstract
Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers.
City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities explores different sides of place branding policies. The construction and the manipulation of urban images triggers a complex politics of representation, modifying the visibility and the invisibility of spaces, subjects, problems and discourses. In this sense, urban branding is not an innocent tool; this book aims to investigate and reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding.
The file includes cover, table of contents and chapter 1 (manuscript)
Book abstract
Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers.
City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities explores different sides of place branding policies. The construction and the manipulation of urban images triggers a complex politics of representation, modifying the visibility and the invisibility of spaces, subjects, problems and discourses. In this sense, urban branding is not an innocent tool; this book aims to investigate and reflect on the ideas of urban life, the political unconscious, the affective geographies and the imaginaries of power constructed and reproduced through urban branding.
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Vanolo A. (2023) “Pornhub helps. Digital corporations in Italian pandemic cities”, in D. Mackinnon, V. Fast and R. Burns (eds), Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City, Toronto University Press, pp. 195-208. The Covid-19 pandemic is having... more
Vanolo A. (2023) “Pornhub helps. Digital corporations in Italian pandemic cities”, in D. Mackinnon, V. Fast and R. Burns (eds), Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City, Toronto University Press, pp. 195-208.
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on societies. This chapter develops a reflection on the legitimation of digital corporations and smart interventions in the scenario of Italian pandemics. Facts and anecdotes are mobilized in the paper in order to describe how, during the crisis, various corporations assumed novel moral positions. Then, the paper considers the case of Immuni, the Italian digital app for tracking potential infections. Ultimately, the chapter speculates on ongoing transformations in the diffusion of smart city rationales during the crisis.
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Smart city, digital infrastructures, justice, solutionism, Immuni, Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on societies. This chapter develops a reflection on the legitimation of digital corporations and smart interventions in the scenario of Italian pandemics. Facts and anecdotes are mobilized in the paper in order to describe how, during the crisis, various corporations assumed novel moral positions. Then, the paper considers the case of Immuni, the Italian digital app for tracking potential infections. Ultimately, the chapter speculates on ongoing transformations in the diffusion of smart city rationales during the crisis.
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Smart city, digital infrastructures, justice, solutionism, Immuni, Covid-19
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Clouds are common elements in everyday life. Cloud physics and the science of clouds provide answers to questions about their formation, their characteristics, and their movement in the atmosphere. Yet clouds are also multifaceted... more
Clouds are common elements in everyday life. Cloud physics and the science of clouds provide answers to questions about their formation, their characteristics, and their movement in the atmosphere. Yet clouds are also multifaceted elements in popular cultures as well as atmospheric geographies, which evoke various ideas of materiality and movement. And a cloud today is also a key technological concept, related to ubiquitous access to shared pools of data, resources, and services. The aim of this chapter is to develop a tentative geography of clouds and their variegated movements by engaging with different conceptual approaches. Merging perspectives from cultural geography (particularly post-human and atmospheric geographies) with ideas on physics and computing technologies, the chapter aims to transgress conventional epistemological and discursive boundaries, in order to stress the need for geographical understandings of movement that embrace the multitude of spatialities, ontologies, and epistemologies associated with the movement of non-human objects.
Final version published as:
Bourlessas P., Vanolo A. (2022) “Clouds and movements”, in N. Cattan and L. Faret (eds), Hybrid Mobilities. Transgressive Spatialities, Routledge, New York, pp. 76-93.
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Bourlessas P., Vanolo A. (2022) “Clouds and movements”, in N. Cattan and L. Faret (eds), Hybrid Mobilities. Transgressive Spatialities, Routledge, New York, pp. 76-93.
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Key issues and themes - - The production of urban representations and narratives is intimately linked to capital accumulation and economic development strategies being pursued by the politico-economic elites in a post-modernized urban... more
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- The production of urban representations and narratives is intimately linked to capital accumulation and economic development strategies being pursued by the politico-economic elites in a post-modernized urban environment.
-The politics of representation, however, is a contested field, one in which conventional representations are challenged and contested ‘from below’.
- The crisis of Fordism as a mode of production has opened the way for the rise of a variety of representations and public discourses heralding the advent of the post-Fordist city in multiple forms.
- The invention of the global city is at the heart of the globalization discourse. Over the years, this notion has travelled across the globe, being particularly successful in the East-Asian context.
- In recent years, the environmentalist discourse has been incorporated into the neoliberal policy agenda, which emphasizes the link between sustainability and economic development. Urban resilience is the emerging policy catchword in this context.
- A critical understanding of the politics of representation has to take into account the fact that conventional representations and narratives arise from a Eurocentric view of human civilization and socio-economic processes.
- The production of urban representations and narratives is intimately linked to capital accumulation and economic development strategies being pursued by the politico-economic elites in a post-modernized urban environment.
-The politics of representation, however, is a contested field, one in which conventional representations are challenged and contested ‘from below’.
- The crisis of Fordism as a mode of production has opened the way for the rise of a variety of representations and public discourses heralding the advent of the post-Fordist city in multiple forms.
- The invention of the global city is at the heart of the globalization discourse. Over the years, this notion has travelled across the globe, being particularly successful in the East-Asian context.
- In recent years, the environmentalist discourse has been incorporated into the neoliberal policy agenda, which emphasizes the link between sustainability and economic development. Urban resilience is the emerging policy catchword in this context.
- A critical understanding of the politics of representation has to take into account the fact that conventional representations and narratives arise from a Eurocentric view of human civilization and socio-economic processes.
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The rise of neoliberalism as the hegemonic art of governing contemporary capitalist cities traces its origins back to the 1980s, being associated with the ascent of conservative governments in the Unites States and the United Kingdom... more
The rise of neoliberalism as the hegemonic art of governing contemporary capitalist cities traces its origins back to the 1980s, being associated with the ascent of conservative governments in the Unites States and the United Kingdom pursuing economic development strategies based on the conventional free market ideas. Since then, urban neoliberalism has spread across the globalizing world through an increasing emphasis being laid on the entrepreneurialization of local government, the privatization of public services, and the commodification of urban space. In this context, urban neoliberalism has taken the form of a highly mobile government technology, giving rise to a tremendous variety of politico-economic regimes across the globe through processes of hybridization and variegation. This article describes the variegated geographies of neoliberalism, ending with an analysis of the recent global recession which is understood as a crisis of (urban) neoliberalism.
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Since the late 1970s urban regeneration has become a powerful catchword associated with processes of neo-liberalization, post-modernization and globalization in a context of increasingly immaterialized capitalism. In Europe and most... more
Since the late 1970s urban regeneration has become a powerful catchword associated with processes of neo-liberalization, post-modernization and globalization in a context of increasingly immaterialized capitalism. In Europe and most notably in continental Europe, the advent of the European Union has intersected with the aforementioned structural processes at the global scale. The resulting experiences of urban regeneration in Europe reflect the intermingling of European models of urban governance with broader processes of globalization and neo-liberalization. As a result, the term urban regeneration in continental Europe appears to be rather indeterminate in its outcomes compared with the Anglo-American context in which this and related terms were originally coined. The Chapter develops this argument by using the illustrative cases of the regeneration processes in central areas of Turin and Naples, two large cities in Italy located in the prosperous North and the less advantaged South, respectively.
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The chapter offers an analysis of the organization, the performance and the perceptions involved in the surveillance and security management activities carried on during the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic Games. The research, conducted mainly... more
The chapter offers an analysis of the organization, the performance and the perceptions involved in the surveillance and security management activities carried on during the 2006 Torino Winter Olympic Games. The research, conducted mainly through analysis of policy and security documents, newspaper articles and by interviews with local scholars, workers and spectators, will focus on the organization of spaces, on the practices of surveillance, and on the technologies involved in the management of the bodies of the spectators and the staff in order to guarantee security in the performance of the public ritual of the Games.
First, the event is be framed in the specific geographical and social context of Torino and the Piedmont region. Next, security threats are discussed with reference to the local context, particularly by analysing technical and planning documents and newspapers discussing the various presumed menaces to security. Then, the governance system and the organization of security spaces are presented. Finally, the last part of the paper discusses the different views and perceptions of politicians, spectators and urban social movement opposing the Games.
Manuscript; final version published as:
Vanolo A. (2016), “Spatialities of Control (Turin 2006)”, in V. Bajc (ed.), Surveilling and Securing the Olympics. From Toyko 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 297-318.
First, the event is be framed in the specific geographical and social context of Torino and the Piedmont region. Next, security threats are discussed with reference to the local context, particularly by analysing technical and planning documents and newspapers discussing the various presumed menaces to security. Then, the governance system and the organization of security spaces are presented. Finally, the last part of the paper discusses the different views and perceptions of politicians, spectators and urban social movement opposing the Games.
Manuscript; final version published as:
Vanolo A. (2016), “Spatialities of Control (Turin 2006)”, in V. Bajc (ed.), Surveilling and Securing the Olympics. From Toyko 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 297-318.
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This book chapter develops an understanding of branding by working on the metaphor of the ghost. The main thesis proposed here is that many urban imaginaries have an ambiguous status, between the visible and the invisible; they are... more
This book chapter develops an understanding of branding by working on the metaphor of the ghost. The main thesis proposed here is that many urban imaginaries have an ambiguous status, between the visible and the invisible; they are palpable and powerful presences, despite being by and large immaterial and shadowy. City branding may be hence conceptualised as ghostly play, involving managing the visibility and invisibility of urban elements, also by the exercise of summoning, concealing, exorcising and domesticating urban spectres.
Manuscript; final version published as:
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Ghostly cities. Some notes on urban branding and the imagining of places”, in U. Ermann and K.-J. Hermanik (eds.), Branding the Nation, the Place, the Product, Routledge, London, pp. 53-66
Manuscript; final version published as:
Vanolo, A. (2018), “Ghostly cities. Some notes on urban branding and the imagining of places”, in U. Ermann and K.-J. Hermanik (eds.), Branding the Nation, the Place, the Product, Routledge, London, pp. 53-66
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Book chapter in M. Graham, R. Kitchin, S. Mattern and J. Shaw (eds),
How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace, Oxford
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How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Meatspace, Oxford
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Anarchism and urban planning. Encyclopedia entry, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
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Manuscript; final version published as: Palmisano S., Vanolo A. (2019), “‘City of Light’: The production of urban space by the esoteric spiritual community of Damanhur, Italy”, in K. J. Fisker, L. Chiappini, L. Pugalis, A. Bruzzese... more
Manuscript; final version published as:
Palmisano S., Vanolo A. (2019), “‘City of Light’: The production of urban space by the esoteric spiritual community of Damanhur, Italy”, in K. J. Fisker, L. Chiappini, L. Pugalis, A. Bruzzese (eds.), Enabling Urban Alternatives: Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation, Palgrave MacMillan, Singapore, pp. 247-270.
Palmisano S., Vanolo A. (2019), “‘City of Light’: The production of urban space by the esoteric spiritual community of Damanhur, Italy”, in K. J. Fisker, L. Chiappini, L. Pugalis, A. Bruzzese (eds.), Enabling Urban Alternatives: Crises, Contestation, and Cooperation, Palgrave MacMillan, Singapore, pp. 247-270.
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Over the last few years, technological developments have allowed new possibilities for fostering civic participation and engagement, as testified by various smart city experiments. In this framework, game elements are diffusely mobilized... more
Over the last few years, technological developments have allowed new possibilities for fostering civic participation and engagement, as testified by various smart city experiments. In this framework, game elements are diffusely mobilized in order to develop responsible and active citizens with the aim of tackling urban problems. Gamification may be effective in nudging citizens and promoting various forms of participation, but fundamental ethical and political questions have to be addressed. This chapter develops the argument by interpreting gamification in light of the classic conceptualization of social justice proposed by David Harvey, arguing that participation through gamification potentially implies critical elements of injustice.
Published as: Vanolo A. (2019), “Playable urban citizenship: Social justice and the gamification of civic life”, in P. Cardullo, C. Di Feliciantonio, R. Kitchin (eds.), The Right to The Smart City, Emerald, Bingley, pp. 57-69.
Published as: Vanolo A. (2019), “Playable urban citizenship: Social justice and the gamification of civic life”, in P. Cardullo, C. Di Feliciantonio, R. Kitchin (eds.), The Right to The Smart City, Emerald, Bingley, pp. 57-69.
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The spaces of 'national citizenship', understood as a simultaneously legal, cultural and societal sense of belonging, have been eroded by the forces of globalization and neoliberalism. While the advent of globalization has undermined the... more
The spaces of 'national citizenship', understood as a simultaneously legal, cultural and societal sense of belonging, have been eroded by the forces of globalization and neoliberalism. While the advent of globalization has undermined the primacy of state-centred citizenship, the resurgence of the local scale of governance and economic development has led to the re-emergence of cities and metropolitan areas as crucial spaces of contention over the recognition of minority identities and a variety of shifting positionalities. The city is the space in which a denationalized dimension of collective and individual belonging appears to be founded on truly cross-national relationships and socio-spatial practices. Urban citizenship, therefore, intersects with post-national senses of belonging and the everyday cosmopolitanism of international migrants. Along with the recognition of ethnicity and cultural difference, sexuality represents a contentious terrain for minority politics in contemporary cities. The negotiation of sexual citizenship typically reproduces the contradictions of the politics of recognition in a context of neoliberal urban governance.
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This glossary is part of Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective, a book by Ugo Rossi e Alberto Vanolo. It provides a concise definition of key terms in critical urban studies and particularly in geographical scholarship dealing... more
This glossary is part of Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective, a book by Ugo Rossi e Alberto Vanolo. It provides a concise definition of key terms in critical urban studies and particularly in geographical scholarship dealing with urban politics at a time of globalisation and neoliberalism.
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Negli ultimi cinquant’anni, per la prima volta nella storia, nelle aree urbane è giunta a concentrarsi la maggioranza dell’umanità. La rapida avanzata dell’urbanizzazione planetaria sta comportando trasformazioni radicali nelle condizioni... more
Negli ultimi cinquant’anni, per la prima volta nella storia, nelle aree urbane è giunta a concentrarsi la maggioranza dell’umanità. La rapida avanzata dell’urbanizzazione planetaria sta comportando trasformazioni radicali nelle condizioni di vita del nostro pianeta. Le strategie di rappresentazione dell’immagine urbana, le diverse espressioni della città creativa, le forme e le pratiche del governo locale, la geopolitica urbana, i movimenti per la giustizia sociale e la cittadinanza sono i principali temi affrontati dagli autori. Questo libro – che riprende, espande e aggiorna la precedente edizione del 2010 – offre una comprensione critica del multiforme e conflittuale universo della politica urbana, stabilendo un confronto serrato tra geografia, sociologia, pianificazione urbana, antropologia culturale, scienza politica.
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- Ola Söderström: The Athenian Symptom
- Jamie Peck: The Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
- Abdoumaliq Simone: Politics between the Lines
- Jamie Peck: The Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
- Abdoumaliq Simone: Politics between the Lines