LEADER 04814nam 22006735 450 001 9911054602503321 005 20260113120352.0 010 $a981-9527-05-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-95-2705-2 035 $a(CKB)44967121100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32486717 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32486717 035 $a(OCoLC)1569122552 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-95-2705-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9944967121100041 100 $a20260113d2026 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContested Urban Bodies $eThe Production of Liberated Spaces in the Tourist City of Naples /$fby Martina Locorotondo 205 $a1st ed. 2026. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (0 pages) 225 1 $aAlternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias,$x2523-7071 311 08$a981-9527-04-X 327 $aPART I: CONCEPTS, METHODOLOGIES AND CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1: In the tight space of a single body -- CHAPTER 2: The Urban Body: Tourism as the Ultimate Redemption of Naples? Underbelly? -- CHAPTER 3: New Municipalism, Commons, and Tourism: Contested Urban Politics in 2010s Naples and at the Turn of the 2020s -- PART II: THE PRODUCTION OF LIBERATED SPACES IN THE HEART OF THE TOURIST CITY -- CHAPTER 4: Memories and Genesis of the Liberated Spaces -- CHAPTER 5: We reconstruct the places of construction of communities -- CHAPTER 6: Ethnography of the Liberated Spaces in the Tourist City -- CHAPTER 7: New contested urban subjectivities in a tourist monoculture. 330 $a?Through a decolonial feminist lens and activist ethnography, Locorotondo offers a powerful intervention into urban geography. By centering the everyday labor of Naples? abitanti attive, this book challenges dominant narratives of tourist urbanism, revealing the city as a contested, lived space shaped from below. A vital contribution to critical urban studies and the geographies of resistance.? ? Luís Mendes, Invited Assistant Professor and expert on touristification, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Portugal. The historic centre of the southern European city of Naples has been shaped by opposing urban processes throughout the 2010s and into the 2020s. On the one hand, touristification has led to the financialisation of housing, the displacement of inhabitants and everyday commerce, and the enclosure of public space. On the other, the proliferation of commoning practices by the Liberated Spaces or Beni Comuni?and the parallel experimentation with a distinctive form of new municipalism?has reclaimed urban space for collective use and social functions. The Liberated Spaces are a network of communities that have emerged since 2012 through the occupation and reappropriation of abandoned public buildings. Today, they are self-governed by inhabitants through assemblies. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these communities, this book explores the everyday production of liberated spaces in the heart of the tourist zone. Moving from the bodies of activists to the body of the city and back, and with an eye to its past histories as recalled through the memories of its inhabitants, it traces the emergence of urban bodies contested between diverging trajectories and possible futures for Naples. Martina Locorotondo has completed her PhD in Urban Studies at the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA), De Montfort University of Leicester (UK), and is in a Postdoc position at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy). Her research focuses on current processes of urban transformation, resistance and alternative space-making. 410 0$aAlternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias,$x2523-7071 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aCultural geography 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aUrban policy 606 $aTourism 606 $aSocial and Cultural Geography 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aUrban Policy 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aTourism Economics 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aCultural geography. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aUrban policy. 615 0$aTourism. 615 14$aSocial and Cultural Geography. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aUrban Policy. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aTourism Economics. 676 $a307.760945731 700 $aLocorotondo$b Martina$01889189 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911054602503321 996 $aContested Urban Bodies$94529261 997 $aUNINA