Event overview
The Communists and their successors in Naples. The contours of their successes in a so-called 'lumpen' city.
Dr Nick Dines will examine the complex, fraught but understudied relationship between the mainstream Italian left (specifically the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the post-communist Democratic Party of the Left (PDS)) and the so-called 'popular classes' in the city of Naples between 1968 and 1998. Despite the relative electoral success of the PCI and the PDS in Naples - after 1968 it consistently fared better here than in Milan or Rome-the 'popular classes' represented a perpetual dilemma for the Neapolitan institutional Left and its vision for the city.
Dr Nick Dines is an urban historian and ethnographer currently based in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Middlesex University in London. Since the late 1990s his research has explored contemporary urban change in Italy and the United Kingdom, focusing on diverse themes that range from public space and regeneration to migration and cultural heritage. He is the author of 'Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples' (Berghahn, 2012) which draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork on regeneration politics and everyday conflicts in the historic centre of Naples.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Mar 2015 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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