This chapter explores how Liberated Spaces are continuously produced and reproduced through the everyday practices of the abitanti attive within the tourist city of Naples. Through narrative accounts, it follows the daily routines of three abitanti attive involved in Santa Fede Liberata, l’Asilo, and Scugnizzo Liberato. These narratives are composites, drawn from multiple individual stories collected through ethnographic research and interviews, and have been crafted into three fictitious characters to protect identities and reflect broader experiences. Giulia contributes to the solidarity project of the communitarian canteen at Santa Fede while working as a waitress in the tourist food sector. Lucia takes part in artistic collaborations at l’Asilo while also guiding “free tours” of the historic centre. Federica is involved in the project La Bottega di අම්මා Ammā while juggling precarious work as a check-in assistant in B&Bs. All three are either displaced or actively searching for housing. Through their practices in the communitarian canteen, in shared artistic projects at l’Asilo, and in La Bottega di Ammā, they contribute to producing liberated spaces by returning space to those marginalised by tourist zoning, rebuilding forms of encounter, and creating infrastructures of social reproduction. Yet their time is divided between tireless efforts to develop mutual aid projects within the Liberated Spaces and exploitative labour in the tourism industry. As they move in and out of the Liberated Spaces and into the tourist city—responding to the tourist’s call and then returning to build liberated space—they emerge as new, contested urban subjectivities in a city undergoing profound transformation.

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Ethnography of the Liberated Spaces in the Tourist City

  • Martina Locorotondo

摘要

This chapter explores how Liberated Spaces are continuously produced and reproduced through the everyday practices of the abitanti attive within the tourist city of Naples. Through narrative accounts, it follows the daily routines of three abitanti attive involved in Santa Fede Liberata, l’Asilo, and Scugnizzo Liberato. These narratives are composites, drawn from multiple individual stories collected through ethnographic research and interviews, and have been crafted into three fictitious characters to protect identities and reflect broader experiences. Giulia contributes to the solidarity project of the communitarian canteen at Santa Fede while working as a waitress in the tourist food sector. Lucia takes part in artistic collaborations at l’Asilo while also guiding “free tours” of the historic centre. Federica is involved in the project La Bottega di අම්මා Ammā while juggling precarious work as a check-in assistant in B&Bs. All three are either displaced or actively searching for housing. Through their practices in the communitarian canteen, in shared artistic projects at l’Asilo, and in La Bottega di Ammā, they contribute to producing liberated spaces by returning space to those marginalised by tourist zoning, rebuilding forms of encounter, and creating infrastructures of social reproduction. Yet their time is divided between tireless efforts to develop mutual aid projects within the Liberated Spaces and exploitative labour in the tourism industry. As they move in and out of the Liberated Spaces and into the tourist city—responding to the tourist’s call and then returning to build liberated space—they emerge as new, contested urban subjectivities in a city undergoing profound transformation.