Veronica Pecile
Biographic Data
| ID | 6690622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Pecile |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Pecile |
| SIGNATURE | PECILE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegium Helveticum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1727-7757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between the “southern question” and the “urban question”
This paper explores the intertwinement of touristification and the commons in contemporary Southern Italian cities. In particular, it sheds light on the articulation of two processes: a “Southern Question”, namely the framing of Southern populations as a “problem” to be overcome through capitalist modernization; and an “Urban Question” as the reshaping of the urban structure under the pressure of the broader economic context and the ruling classe…
Rethinking legal time
This article introduces a temporal approach to law as potentially innovative for socio-legal studies. It argues that bringing a focus on time into legal thought and practice is an important move for decentering the individual subject as conventionally conceived and for developing legal tools capable of recognising networks, ties and assemblages, and challenging the anthropocentric character of modern law. It frames climate change and the ecologic…
Between urban commons and touristification
The movement for the urban commons in Southern Italian cities has been facing the increasing touristification of the historic centres, a process of value extraction built on the character of ‘authenticity’ and ‘marginality’ of the urban poor’s living to the external gaze. In this resistance, activists encountered the law both as a counter-hegemonic tool exploited to assert their claims over the urban space and as a governmental technique deployed…
The legal field as battleground for social struggle
Scepticism towards law’s potential of fostering social change has been widespread in critical theory and contributed to strengthen social movements’ mistrust vis-à-vis the use of legal tools to advance their claims. Such “anti-law” posture is based on the assumption that law would formalise existing relations of domination and posits the need for a political praxis liberated from “legalistic drifts”. This article discusses how legal tactics in fa…
Beni comuni e discorso della legalità
Between urban commons and touristification
The movement for the urban commons in Southern Italian cities has been facing the increasing touristification of the historic centres, a process of value extraction built on the character of ‘authenticity’ and ‘marginality’ of the urban poor’s living to the external gaze. In this resistance, activists encountered the law both as a counter-hegemonic tool exploited to assert their claims over the urban space and as a governmental technique deployed…
Beni comuni e discorso della legalità
The legal field as battleground for social struggle
Scepticism towards law’s potential of fostering social change has been widespread in critical theory and contributed to strengthen social movements’ mistrust vis-à-vis the use of legal tools to advance their claims. Such “anti-law” posture is based on the assumption that law would formalise existing relations of domination and posits the need for a political praxis liberated from “legalistic drifts”. This article discusses how legal tactics in fa…
Between urban commons and touristification
The movement for the urban commons in Southern Italian cities has been facing the increasing touristification of the historic centres, a process of value extraction built on the character of ‘authenticity’ and ‘marginality’ of the urban poor’s living to the external gaze. In this resistance, activists encountered the law both as a counter-hegemonic tool exploited to assert their claims over the urban space and as a governmental technique deployed…
Rethinking legal time
This article introduces a temporal approach to law as potentially innovative for socio-legal studies. It argues that bringing a focus on time into legal thought and practice is an important move for decentering the individual subject as conventionally conceived and for developing legal tools capable of recognising networks, ties and assemblages, and challenging the anthropocentric character of modern law. It frames climate change and the ecologic…
Between the “southern question” and the “urban question”
This paper explores the intertwinement of touristification and the commons in contemporary Southern Italian cities. In particular, it sheds light on the articulation of two processes: a “Southern Question”, namely the framing of Southern populations as a “problem” to be overcome through capitalist modernization; and an “Urban Question” as the reshaping of the urban structure under the pressure of the broader economic context and the ruling classe…
Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Commons (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Praxis (2 works) · Social movement (2 works)