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Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan’s largest public housing neighborhoods. It is a study that moves from a relational conception of urban space to analyze the structural violence that affects the margins of the Lombard capital, among the folds of the rhetoric of its development, its “rebirth”, and its regeneration. Alongside “second-generation” youngsters, “abandoned” elderly people, struggling committees, associations, politicians, and officials, “Barrio San Siro” develops a multi-level interpretation that moves from everyday practices to local, regional and national policies. Like other Milanese peripheral neighborhoods, San Siro emerges – page after page – as a multicultural socio-spatial configuration, at once the epitome of global conditions, the intersection of diverging interests of social and institutional actors, the result of a local history that has led to a post-Fordist and neoliberal present. A critical and reflexive narrative, a monograph that from an urban margin elaborates its idea of the anthropology of the city.

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It is not easy to try to interpret violence in the city and violence of the city from the ethnographic gaze and listening. It requires, I would say, an epistemological humility, the recognition of the different scales at play and of the distinct knowledge operations commensurate with them, the awareness of the incompleteness and partiality of the anthropological research gesture. This is Paolo Grassi's modus operandi. This book illustrates in an exemplary manner and for the first time, how the spatiality of the Milanese barrio San Siro in all its forms is by no means an innocent spatiality, and how visible degradation and selective abandonment attest, against the appearance of physical boundaries and stigmatizing media, that the city of the rich and the city of the poor are not independent variables. --Ferdinando Fava, Universit� degli Studi di Padova

It is not easy to try to interpret violence in the city and violence of the city from the ethnographic gaze. It requires, I would say, an epistemological humility, the recognition of the different scales at play and of the distinct knowledge operations commensurate with them, the awareness of the incompleteness and partiality of the anthropological research gesture. This is Paolo Grassi's modus operandi. This book illustrates in an exemplary manner and for the first time, how the spatiality of the Milanese barrio San Siro in all its forms is by no means an innocent spatiality, and how visible degradation and selective abandonment attest, against the appearance of physical boundaries and stigmatizing media, that the city of the rich and the city of the poor are not independent variables. --Ferdinando Fava, Universit� degli Studi di Padova

It is not easy to try to interpret the violence in the city and the violence of the city from the ethnographic gaze and listening. It requires a humility that I would say is epistemological, the recognition of the different scales that are at play and the distinct knowledge operations proportionate to them, an awareness of the incompleteness and partiality of anthropological research gesture. This is the Paolo Grassi modus operandi. This book illustrates exemplary and for the first time, how that the spatiality of the Milano barrio's San Siro in all its all its forms is by no means an innocent spatiality, and that degradation visible and selective abandonment attest against the appearance physical boundaries and stigmatizing media, that the city of the rich and the city of the poor not are independent variables. --Ferdinando Fava, Universit� degli Studi di Padova

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Paolo Grassi is assistant professor in the Department of Human Sciences for Education at the University of Milano Bicocca.

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