This opening chapter begins with an ethnographic encounter: the embodied experience of a woman who works as a check-in assistant in B&Bs and is also an activist within Naples’ Liberated Spaces. Her story takes us straight into an exploration of the body of a city torn between diverging urban trajectories and futures. Over the 2010s and into the 2020s, Naples has been reshaped by opposing urban processes. On one side, touristification has driven the financialisation of housing, the displacement of inhabitants and everyday commerce, and the enclosure of public space. On the other, the emergence of the Liberated Spaces—and an experiment in new municipalism—has reclaimed space for collective use and its social function. The chapter introduces the case of Naples as a contested urban landscape and traces the socio-political conditions behind these entangled transformations. It then outlines the book’s decolonial feminist lens for investigating the tourist city, and its embedded ethnographic approach, grounded in the everyday social reproduction within the commons. The chapter concludes by presenting the structure of the book.