Editor(s): Luca Rossomando
The unregulated expansion of mass tourism in Naples has brought about changes that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, altering the landscape of the historic centre and the very socio-economic structure of the city. It is in this context that the subjects examined in this volume move: the large Third Sector organisations active in three neighbourhoods in the centre – Sanità, Quartieri Spagnoli and Forcella – which today provide a range of services that goes far beyond the classic social welfare intervention, operating on the ridge between the public sphere and the market. These entities exert a growing influence on the choices of the governors, indicating operational priorities and elaborating the hegemonic narratives around which consensus is built and the city is reshaped. Their action responds to strictly entrepreneurial logics, based on economic expediency, competitiveness, media reputation; their priority is the development of new market segments in which to deploy their activities unhindered. Such dynamics, against the backdrop of the ‘city of tourism’, are producing consequences opposite to those proclaimed by the major entities in their programmatic declarations: not the liveability of neighbourhoods, participation, and the well-being of communities, but the housing, employment and existential precariousness of the most fragile inhabitants.
Publisher: Carocci
Year: 2025
