Searching for Affective Spaces: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Wounded Cities Through the Case of Caivano’s Rione Parco Verde (Naples, Italy)

Authors

  • Fabio Maria Esposito CNR - IRPPS
  • Stefania Ragozino IRISS - CNR
  • Gabriella Esposito
  • Paolo Landri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/19038

Keywords:

urban trauma, everyday peace, affective spaces

Abstract

Discussing urban peacebuilding processes today also means reasoning about the everyday life of cities that are the site of conflicts and power asymmetries
that generate injustices at different scales. Urban studies, in which theories, approaches, and tools of urban planning and social sciences intersect, can contribute interpretatively and transformatively to processes of everyday peacebuilding. Often confronted with traumatized places, researchers propose situated approaches and practices that foster the coexistence and protect the most vulnerable groups. Drawing on the project “Futuri (Im)Possibili” (Caivano, Naples, Italy), this paper discusses an interdisciplinary research that aims at urban peace through mutual learning with communities and territorial actors: a process that is not driven by hierarchical decision-making and territorial
control but by affective praxis based on active listening, participation and the development of interaction spaces oriented at mending local civil society.

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2025-06-30

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Esposito, F. M., Ragozino, S., Esposito, G., & Landri, P. (2025). Searching for Affective Spaces: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Wounded Cities Through the Case of Caivano’s Rione Parco Verde (Naples, Italy). Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, 13(17), 40–63. https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/19038