The Hostile City of Love and Antibodies of Hate / / Ipek Demirsu.

• Superior document: Global Populisms ; 5
• VerfasserIn: Demirsu, Ipek,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Populisms ; 5.; Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)

Demirsu offers an engaging comparative analysis of antagonistic social actors co-existing in Verona, a mid-sized city in northeast Italy renowned as the fortress of the far-right. This rich multidimensional analysis explores the intersection of space, identity, and social movements, by delving into the evolution of competing actors and their contending positions on identity and belonging as manifested through urban spaces. While the city and its touristic heritage are promoted for a transnational identitarian network, the protracted struggles of grassroots actors demonstrate democratic potentials for the bottom-up realization of inclusive and pluralist possibilities in hostile settings. The book traces the ways in which collective identity and collective action of social actors are shaped by their relationship to the space in which they operate, with ramifications for places beyond.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: : Cartographies of Belonging in a Mid-sized Italian City -- Chapter 1 Social Space, Belonging, and Mobilization: : The Role of Spatial Identities in Social Movements -- 1 Space, Territory, and Place-Based Identities -- 2 The Configuration of the City and Belonging in Cityspace -- 2.1 Public Space, Contending Identities, and Everyday Struggles of City-zenship -- 3 Social Movements in Social Space: Identity of Place and Place-Based Identities in Collective Action -- 3.1 Collective Identity and Identity Politics -- 3.2 Social Movements, Spatialized Belongings, and Urban Mobilization -- 3.3 Progressive Movements and Transformative Placemaking: Expansive Place-Based Identities -- 3.4 Sovereignist Identitarianism and Far-Right Movements: The Defense of Territory, Tradition, and the 'Native' Identity -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 One City, Two Movements, and Contending Constructions of City-zenship: : A Multimethod Qualitative Research -- 1 Extended Case Method and the City of Verona -- 1.1 The Extended Case Method -- 1.2 The Case of Verona and the Comparative Analysis of Competing Movements -- 2 Doing Ethnographic Research, Offline -- 3 Doing Ethnographic Research, Online -- 4 Qualitative Interviews -- 5 Documents and Archival Data -- 6 Visual Methods -- 7 Data Analysis -- 8 A Final Note on Reflexivity and Limitations of the Research Design -- Chapter 3 'Veronesi Tuti Mati': : A Historical Analysis of Social Processes Shaping Identity of Place and Place-Based Identities -- 1 A Brief Historical Account of Verona and the Making of Veronesità -- 2 A Different Neighborhood, a Different Spatial Identity: The Evolution of Veronetta -- 3 The Legacy of Fascism and Antifascist Resistance in Verona.

3.1 The Imprints of Nazi-Fascism on Urban Space -- 3.2 Local Resistance and the Legacy of Anti-fascism -- Chapter 4 'We Hate Everyone': : Exclusionary Territorial Identity in the Making of a Laboratory of Intolerance -- 1 The Vestiges of Fascism and the Birth of Far-Right Movements in Verona -- 1.1 Post-war Fascism in Italy and the Years of Lead in Verona -- 1.2 Proliferation of Far-Right Groups in the Veronese Urban Space -- 1.3 Competition to Territorialize the City: Extreme Right Groups Today -- 2 Territorial Belongings and Right-Wing Populism of Lega Nord -- 3 City Administration and the Institutionalization of Far-Right Movements since the 1990s -- 4 A 'Holy Alliance': Catholic Fundamentalism (Integralismo) and the Far-Right -- 5 Hellas Fandom and the Stadium as a School of Hate -- 6 Identitarianism Is the New Black: The Identitarian Label and Territorial Belongings -- Chapter 5 The Antibodies of Hate in Verona: : Spreading Expansive Place-Based Identity in an Outward-Looking Space -- 1 The Roots: A Historical Background of Secular Dissidence -- 2 The Constitutive Elements of the Antibodies of Hate -- 2.1 La Sobilla and the Heritage of Collective Memory -- 2.2 The Evolution of a Social Center 'Alla Veronese': La Chimica Before and After -- 2.3 Circolo Pink and the Protracted Struggle for City-zenship of Sexual Minorities -- 2.4 Paratodos: Workshop of the Multitude in the Movement Scene of Verona -- 2.5 Non Una di Meno Verona: Introducing Transfeminism in the City -- 2.6 Veronetta 129: Making Cultures Cross Paths in Verona -- 2.7 AfroVeronesi: Challenging Latent Claims of Whiteness in Belonging -- 3 Collective Identity and Collective Action in Urban Space: Core Values, Issue-Based Formations, and Tactical Alliances of the Antibodies -- 4 The Neighborhood as Movement Space and Everyday Hubs of Counterculture.

4.1 Giardino Ex-Nani: From 'Casa del Fascio' to Social Street -- 4.2 The Red Triangle: Osteria ai Preti, Circolo Arci Cañara, and Malacarne Barassociazione -- 4.3 Archival Space of the Collective Struggle: Info-Spazio 161 and the Legacy of Giorgio Bertani -- 4.4 Antifascist Bookstore: Libre! -- Chapter 6 Movement-Countermovement Dynamics in and through the City: : Practices of Territorialization and Competing Inscriptions of Belonging -- 1 One City, Two Territories, and Two Identities of Place: Veronetta and the Historical Center -- 2 Acts of Territorialization between Adjacent Social Spaces of Verona -- 2.1 Guarding the Borders of the Historical Center -- 2.2 Deterritorializing Practices in the Historical Center -- 2.3 Revanchist Reterritorialization and 'Ethnic Resistance' in Veronetta -- 2.4 Everyday Rituals of Placemaking as Resistance to Reterritorialization -- 2.5 Naming as Territorialization -- 2.6 Urbs Picta: Rewriting Belonging on Urban Space through Street Art -- 2.6.1 Political Graffiti -- 2.6.2 Political Stickers -- 3 Gentrification, the Far-Right, and Future Projections -- 4 Struggle over the Representation of the City: Verona, the City of … -- 4.1 Verona Vandea of Europe -- 4.2 Verona, the Transfeminist Open City -- Conclusion: : (Re)spatializing Collective Action between Identity of Place and Place-Based Identities -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.