Emanuela Guano
Biographic Data
| ID | 80440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emanuela Guano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emanuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Guano |
| SIGNATURE | GUANO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0916-391X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Joy: Murals and the Failure of Post-politics After the Morandi Bridge Collapse
In 2018, the Morandi bridge collapsed, killing 43 people and displacing 600 from their homes in Genoa's postindustrial outskirts. Almost entirely isolated after the collapse, Certosa bore much of the brunt of the disaster. This is when Genoa's conservative administration launched On the Wall, a street art project meant to assuage residents' anger; the theme chosen for the murals was "joy." Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2019 a…
A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities
The Mirror of the Dead: Thanatoptic Storytelling in an Italian Cemetery
As the contemplation of death, thanatopsis attempts to come to terms with mortality; dark heritage and tourism have become the main conduits for this practice in the contemporary world. This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa's Staglieno monumental cemetery between 2016 and 2019 to examine the events-poetic readings, guided walking tours, and outdoor theater performances-that have become popular against the backdrop of the lo…
Neoliberal Aesthetics and the Struggle against Redevelopment in an Italian Postindustrial Periphery
Much has been written about the neoliberal aestheticization of cities and its role in fostering consumption not just in, but also of, urban space. However, at a time when the pursuit of aesthetic experiences has become increasingly common, its exclusive association with privileged urban groups needs to be revisited. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Bisagno Valley, a postindustrial periphery of Genoa, Italy, this paper explores ho…
Emotions, Archistars, and Genoa's New Bridge
Alternative tourism in Budapest: Class, culture and identity in a postsocialist city
Alternative tourism in Budapest: class, culture and identity in a postsocialist city." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 16(4), pp. 458–459
Touring the Hidden City: Walking Tour Guides in DeindustrializingGenoa
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted inGenoa, a northernItalian city whose deindustrialization process began in the early 1970s, this paper explores how the city's high levels of intellectual unemployment have given rise to the profession of walking tour guides. These are highly educated women, and more rarely men, who, working independently of the financial and political powers that usually drive urban revitalization processes, utilize the…
Taxpayers, Thieves, and the State: Fiscal Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
As, burdened by its massive public debt, the Italian state nears the verge of default, the debate on taxation and distribution raging in this country's public sphere provides citizens with a means to conceptualize their responsibilities and rights vis-à-vis the state as well as each other. Italian fiscal citizenship thus emerges as an unstable relational category that is negotiated along and across the split between the rhetoric of fiscal and dis…
Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City
According to the Webster's dictionary, being respectable means being "decent or correct in character or behavior" or being "fit to be seen." In this article, I approach "decent behavior" and "fitness to be seen" as the staple factor in the negotiation and the struggle over the place of women in the streets of an Italian city. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa between 2002 and 2005, this article explores how middle-class women pe…
Fair Ladies: The place of women antique dealers in a post-industrial Italian city
After the collapse of its state-subsidized industries, Genoa is taking up a new role as a ‘city of culture’ capable of attracting tourists and high-tech companies alike. Part of the process of urban renovation entails the transformation of Genoa's streets and piazzas into sites for the consumption of culture. This happens, among other ways, through a proliferation of antique fairs that give chronically under- and unemployed middle-class women an …
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town. Giovanna P. Del Negro. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2004. ISBN 0773527222 (cloth)
She looks at him with the eyes of a camera: Female visual pleasures and the polemic with fetishism in Sally Potter's Tango Lesson
Released in 1997, Sally Potter's Tango Lesson is a film about how the British director learns how to dance tango. In it, Potter meets and falls in love with the Argentine tanguero Pablo Veron, and
The Denial of Citizenship: "Barbaric" Buenos Aires and the middle-class imaginary
This essay explores how, in the Buenos Aires of neoliberalism, middle-class residents strove to make sense of their own impoverishment and their disenfranchisement by generating a consensus on how this city's modernity was being eroded by the presence of a mestizo lower class. Through an analysis of the discourse that constructed the urban poor as barbaric (i.e., dangerous, polluting, and foreign), I suggest that this representation not only soug…
A Color for the Modern Nation: The Discourse on Class, Race, and Education in the Porteño Middle Class
En los años 1997 y 1998, varios movimientos sociales porteños de dase media se oponian a la reforma de la educación impulsada por el FMI y el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Menem. En este artículo se analiza como el discurso politíco y social generado pos esos movimientos y parte de la clase media porteńa segufa proponiendo la dicotomia sarmientina de una "civilizatión" blanca y europea como único antidoto a la "barbarie" latinoamericana propulsad…
A Color for the Modern Nation: The Discourse on Class, Race, and Education in the Porteno Middle Class
En los años 1997 y 1998, varios movimientos sociales porteños de dase media se oponian a la reforma de la educación impulsada por el FMI y el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Menem. En este artículo se analiza como el discurso politíco y social generado pos esos movimientos y parte de la clase media portena segufa proponiendo la dicotomia sarmientina de una "civilizatión" blanca y europea como único antidoto a la "barbarie" latinoamericana propulsad…
A Stroll Through la Boca: The Politics and Poetics of Spatial Experience in a Buenos Aires Neighborhood
Celebrated in local folklore as Buenos Aires' Italian barrio , la Boca is in fact a contested neighborhood where a number of middle-class residents of European origin denounce the presence of a large mestizo underclass as a threat to la Boca's Italianness—especially the passion for the arts, the work ethics, and the family values that allegedly characterized the old, southern European immigrant community. Drawing on de Certeau's theorization of t…
Ruining the President’s spectacle: Theatricality and telepolitics in the Buenos Aires public sphere
By examining two political protests that took place in the Buenos Aires of the late 1990s, this article explores the theatrical strategies through which the social movements that opposed President Menem’s neoliberal government succeeded in weakening the ruling bloc’s hold on the public sphere. The author argues that much of this struggle was fought around modalities of seeing, displaying, watching, and being seen. While the state utilized spectac…
Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires
Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires
The Denial of Citizenship: "Barbaric" Buenos Aires and the middle-class imaginary
This essay explores how, in the Buenos Aires of neoliberalism, middle-class residents strove to make sense of their own impoverishment and their disenfranchisement by generating a consensus on how this city's modernity was being eroded by the presence of a mestizo lower class. Through an analysis of the discourse that constructed the urban poor as barbaric (i.e., dangerous, polluting, and foreign), I suggest that this representation not only soug…
Taxpayers, Thieves, and the State: Fiscal Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
As, burdened by its massive public debt, the Italian state nears the verge of default, the debate on taxation and distribution raging in this country's public sphere provides citizens with a means to conceptualize their responsibilities and rights vis-à-vis the state as well as each other. Italian fiscal citizenship thus emerges as an unstable relational category that is negotiated along and across the split between the rhetoric of fiscal and dis…
A Stroll Through la Boca: The Politics and Poetics of Spatial Experience in a Buenos Aires Neighborhood
Celebrated in local folklore as Buenos Aires' Italian barrio , la Boca is in fact a contested neighborhood where a number of middle-class residents of European origin denounce the presence of a large mestizo underclass as a threat to la Boca's Italianness—especially the passion for the arts, the work ethics, and the family values that allegedly characterized the old, southern European immigrant community. Drawing on de Certeau's theorization of t…
Touring the Hidden City: Walking Tour Guides in DeindustrializingGenoa
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted inGenoa, a northernItalian city whose deindustrialization process began in the early 1970s, this paper explores how the city's high levels of intellectual unemployment have given rise to the profession of walking tour guides. These are highly educated women, and more rarely men, who, working independently of the financial and political powers that usually drive urban revitalization processes, utilize the…
Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City
According to the Webster's dictionary, being respectable means being "decent or correct in character or behavior" or being "fit to be seen." In this article, I approach "decent behavior" and "fitness to be seen" as the staple factor in the negotiation and the struggle over the place of women in the streets of an Italian city. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa between 2002 and 2005, this article explores how middle-class women pe…
Fair Ladies: The place of women antique dealers in a post-industrial Italian city
After the collapse of its state-subsidized industries, Genoa is taking up a new role as a ‘city of culture’ capable of attracting tourists and high-tech companies alike. Part of the process of urban renovation entails the transformation of Genoa's streets and piazzas into sites for the consumption of culture. This happens, among other ways, through a proliferation of antique fairs that give chronically under- and unemployed middle-class women an …
Neoliberal Aesthetics and the Struggle against Redevelopment in an Italian Postindustrial Periphery
Much has been written about the neoliberal aestheticization of cities and its role in fostering consumption not just in, but also of, urban space. However, at a time when the pursuit of aesthetic experiences has become increasingly common, its exclusive association with privileged urban groups needs to be revisited. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Bisagno Valley, a postindustrial periphery of Genoa, Italy, this paper explores ho…
Joy: Murals and the Failure of Post-politics After the Morandi Bridge Collapse
In 2018, the Morandi bridge collapsed, killing 43 people and displacing 600 from their homes in Genoa's postindustrial outskirts. Almost entirely isolated after the collapse, Certosa bore much of the brunt of the disaster. This is when Genoa's conservative administration launched On the Wall, a street art project meant to assuage residents' anger; the theme chosen for the murals was "joy." Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2019 a…
The Mirror of the Dead: Thanatoptic Storytelling in an Italian Cemetery
As the contemplation of death, thanatopsis attempts to come to terms with mortality; dark heritage and tourism have become the main conduits for this practice in the contemporary world. This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa's Staglieno monumental cemetery between 2016 and 2019 to examine the events-poetic readings, guided walking tours, and outdoor theater performances-that have become popular against the backdrop of the lo…
Emotions, Archistars, and Genoa's New Bridge
Ruining the President’s spectacle: Theatricality and telepolitics in the Buenos Aires public sphere
By examining two political protests that took place in the Buenos Aires of the late 1990s, this article explores the theatrical strategies through which the social movements that opposed President Menem’s neoliberal government succeeded in weakening the ruling bloc’s hold on the public sphere. The author argues that much of this struggle was fought around modalities of seeing, displaying, watching, and being seen. While the state utilized spectac…
Spectacles of Modernity: Transnational Imagination and Local Hegemonies in Neoliberal Buenos Aires
A Color for the Modern Nation: The Discourse on Class, Race, and Education in the Porteño Middle Class
En los años 1997 y 1998, varios movimientos sociales porteños de dase media se oponian a la reforma de la educación impulsada por el FMI y el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Menem. En este artículo se analiza como el discurso politíco y social generado pos esos movimientos y parte de la clase media porteńa segufa proponiendo la dicotomia sarmientina de una "civilizatión" blanca y europea como único antidoto a la "barbarie" latinoamericana propulsad…
A Color for the Modern Nation: The Discourse on Class, Race, and Education in the Porteno Middle Class
En los años 1997 y 1998, varios movimientos sociales porteños de dase media se oponian a la reforma de la educación impulsada por el FMI y el gobierno neoliberal de Carlos Menem. En este artículo se analiza como el discurso politíco y social generado pos esos movimientos y parte de la clase media portena segufa proponiendo la dicotomia sarmientina de una "civilizatión" blanca y europea como único antidoto a la "barbarie" latinoamericana propulsad…
A Stroll Through la Boca: The Politics and Poetics of Spatial Experience in a Buenos Aires Neighborhood
Celebrated in local folklore as Buenos Aires' Italian barrio , la Boca is in fact a contested neighborhood where a number of middle-class residents of European origin denounce the presence of a large mestizo underclass as a threat to la Boca's Italianness—especially the passion for the arts, the work ethics, and the family values that allegedly characterized the old, southern European immigrant community. Drawing on de Certeau's theorization of t…
She looks at him with the eyes of a camera: Female visual pleasures and the polemic with fetishism in Sally Potter's Tango Lesson
Released in 1997, Sally Potter's Tango Lesson is a film about how the British director learns how to dance tango. In it, Potter meets and falls in love with the Argentine tanguero Pablo Veron, and
The Denial of Citizenship: "Barbaric" Buenos Aires and the middle-class imaginary
This essay explores how, in the Buenos Aires of neoliberalism, middle-class residents strove to make sense of their own impoverishment and their disenfranchisement by generating a consensus on how this city's modernity was being eroded by the presence of a mestizo lower class. Through an analysis of the discourse that constructed the urban poor as barbaric (i.e., dangerous, polluting, and foreign), I suggest that this representation not only soug…
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town. Giovanna P. Del Negro. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2004. ISBN 0773527222 (cloth)
Fair Ladies: The place of women antique dealers in a post-industrial Italian city
After the collapse of its state-subsidized industries, Genoa is taking up a new role as a ‘city of culture’ capable of attracting tourists and high-tech companies alike. Part of the process of urban renovation entails the transformation of Genoa's streets and piazzas into sites for the consumption of culture. This happens, among other ways, through a proliferation of antique fairs that give chronically under- and unemployed middle-class women an …
Respectable Ladies and Uncouth Men: The Performative Politics of Class and Gender in the Public Realm of an Italian City
According to the Webster's dictionary, being respectable means being "decent or correct in character or behavior" or being "fit to be seen." In this article, I approach "decent behavior" and "fitness to be seen" as the staple factor in the negotiation and the struggle over the place of women in the streets of an Italian city. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa between 2002 and 2005, this article explores how middle-class women pe…
Taxpayers, Thieves, and the State: Fiscal Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
As, burdened by its massive public debt, the Italian state nears the verge of default, the debate on taxation and distribution raging in this country's public sphere provides citizens with a means to conceptualize their responsibilities and rights vis-à-vis the state as well as each other. Italian fiscal citizenship thus emerges as an unstable relational category that is negotiated along and across the split between the rhetoric of fiscal and dis…
Touring the Hidden City: Walking Tour Guides in DeindustrializingGenoa
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted inGenoa, a northernItalian city whose deindustrialization process began in the early 1970s, this paper explores how the city's high levels of intellectual unemployment have given rise to the profession of walking tour guides. These are highly educated women, and more rarely men, who, working independently of the financial and political powers that usually drive urban revitalization processes, utilize the…
Alternative tourism in Budapest: Class, culture and identity in a postsocialist city
Alternative tourism in Budapest: class, culture and identity in a postsocialist city." Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 16(4), pp. 458–459
Emotions, Archistars, and Genoa's New Bridge
Neoliberal Aesthetics and the Struggle against Redevelopment in an Italian Postindustrial Periphery
Much has been written about the neoliberal aestheticization of cities and its role in fostering consumption not just in, but also of, urban space. However, at a time when the pursuit of aesthetic experiences has become increasingly common, its exclusive association with privileged urban groups needs to be revisited. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Bisagno Valley, a postindustrial periphery of Genoa, Italy, this paper explores ho…
A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities
The Mirror of the Dead: Thanatoptic Storytelling in an Italian Cemetery
As the contemplation of death, thanatopsis attempts to come to terms with mortality; dark heritage and tourism have become the main conduits for this practice in the contemporary world. This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted in Genoa's Staglieno monumental cemetery between 2016 and 2019 to examine the events-poetic readings, guided walking tours, and outdoor theater performances-that have become popular against the backdrop of the lo…
Joy: Murals and the Failure of Post-politics After the Morandi Bridge Collapse
In 2018, the Morandi bridge collapsed, killing 43 people and displacing 600 from their homes in Genoa's postindustrial outskirts. Almost entirely isolated after the collapse, Certosa bore much of the brunt of the disaster. This is when Genoa's conservative administration launched On the Wall, a street art project meant to assuage residents' anger; the theme chosen for the murals was "joy." Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2019 a…
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