Rome and Naples: differences and similarities between squatting experiences

Chiara Davoli; Ciro Clemente De Falco; Gabriella Punziano

doi:10.6092/2723-9608/6874

Chiara Davoli Institute of Political Studies “S. Pio V” in Rome, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-4701
Ciro Clemente De Falco University of Naples, Italy
Gabriella Punziano University of Naples, Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-2712

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/2723-9608/6874

Keywords: Squatting, Rome, Naples, housing struggles, housing movements, consolidation

Abstract

This article analyses continuities and discontinuities in the squatting experiences of two different Italian cases: Rome and Naples. The aim is to use these two main illustrative cases to discuss meanings, structures and principles that emerge from the two selected experiences. This because these are two different expressions of the squatting experience: on one side with a history of a long tradition, as it is in the case of Rome; on the other side with a history that only recently has known a process of consolidation, as it is in the case of Naples. The cases were approached from a comparative qualitative point of view since with this study we do not intend to frame the two experiences as final models. In fact, we want to explore the local aspects that enable us to understand the differences among housing struggles, coalitions, organisation of movements and, in general, social, urban and housing movements in Rome and Naples. For this reason the paper aims to contribute to the current debate by providing new insights and thought-provoking elements in the general study of the squatting phenomenon.

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Author Biographies

Chiara Davoli, Institute of Political Studies “S. Pio V” in Rome, Italy

PhD in Social and Economic Sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome. She collaborated with several research departments and she is author of several papers. She currently is researcher at the “Observatory on the global city” of the Institute of Political Studies “S. Pio V” in Rome.

Ciro Clemente De Falco, University of Naples, Italy

PhD in Social Sciences and Statistics, carries out his research activities at the Departement of Social Sciences of the University of Naples “Federico II” where he collaborates with the Chair of Methodology of Social Research. Among his articles in 2018: with Calenda M. et.al., School and territory: some feedback from the Self Evaluation Report, Form@are.

Gabriella Punziano, University of Naples, Italy

PhD in Sociology and Social Research is RTDA in Sociology and Methodology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. Among her articles in 2018: with Amaturo E., Survey in the Mixed Methods Research Strategies, Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale.