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New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

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The Afterlife of Evictions

The Social Impact of Urban Displacement in Rome

Stefano Portelli

254 pages, 8 figs

ISBN  978-1-80758-116-9 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-117-6 eBook Not Yet Published


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It is rare to read such a beautifully written book. The author is someone whose writing talent is indisputable; they can synthesize and bring together disparate sources and thoughts in a convincing narrative. Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of Oslo

This is a wonderful, compelling, thought-provoking, and profound book. It intertwines – poetically and analytically – careful attention to people’s lives, perspectives, and voices with rigor and determined argumentation. Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Columbia University

Description

Across the world, states use demolitions and displacement to reorganize cities according to particular visions of society. Through the voices and experiences of former slum dwellers evicted in the 1970s from a self-grown settlement beneath a Roman aqueduct, this book examines the social consequences of forced relocation and the ways communities rebuild social life in its aftermath. It reveals the forms of sociality that emerge in the gaps of urban planning and highlights the damage caused when governments respond to grassroots urbanism with bulldozers and relocation schemes.

Stefano Portelli is a Senior Researcher at Madrid's UNED Department of Sociology and Political Science. He is a member of University of Barcelona's Observatory in Anthropology of Urban Conflict (OACU), and editor for the Italian independent media Napoli Monitor - Lo stato delle città. He is a Marie-Curie alumni and former postdoctoral fellow for Harvard and Leicester Universities.

Luisa Steur is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam, and Lead Editor of Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. She has published extensively on capitalist restructuring of everyday life and the changing relationship of Communist politics to the struggles of durably oppressed people in the South Indian state of Kerala such as Indigenist Mobilization: Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-reform Kerala (Berghahn 2017).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyUrban Studies
Area: Southern Europe


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