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Etnografie Del Contemporaneo 3 ETNOGRAFIE DEL CONTEMPORANEO Anno 3, Vol. 3, 2020 – ISSN 2611 - 4577 Gentrificazione e margini Editoriale di Testi di Stefano Portelli Rosario Perricone Clelia Bartoli Federico Prestileo Alessandra Broccolini Alberto M. Sobrero Fotografie di Maurizio Carta Simone Tulumello Jerome Krase Alice Giannitrapani Teresa Graziano Jerome Krase Miscellanea Francesco Mangiapane María Pilar Panero García Francesco Montagnani Giovanni Pizza edizioni Museo Pasqualino edizioni Museo Pasqualino direttore Rosario Perricone ETNOGRAFIE DEL CONTEMPORANEO n.3/2020 Rivista annuale ISSN 2611–4577 Registrazione presso il Tribunale di Palermo n.2/2018 del 10 gennaio 2018 Direttore responsabile Rosario Perricone Redazione Antonino Frenda, Giuseppe Giordano, Eugenio Giorgianni, Francesco Mangiapane, Pier Luigi José Mannella Sebastiano Mannia, Gabriella Palermo, Igor Spanò Comitato scientifico Mara Benadusi Gianfranco Marrone Università degli studi di Catania Università degli studi di Palermo Sergio Bonanzinga Vito Matranga Università degli studi di Palermo Università degli studi di Palermo Ignazio E. Buttitta Vincenzo Padiglione Università degli studi di Palermo Università degli studi di Roma - La Sapienza Marina Castiglione Berardino Palumbo Università degli studi di Palermo Università degli studi di Messina Michele Cometa Caterina Pasqualino Università degli studi di Palermo EHESS-LAS/CNRS - Parigi Gabriella D’Agostino Giovanni Ruffino Università degli studi di Palermo Università degli studi di Palermo Salvatore D’Onofrio Carlo Severi Università degli studi di Palermo EHESS-LAS/CNRS - Parigi José Antonio González Alcantud Roberto Sottile Università di Granada Università degli studi di Palermo 3 ETNOGRAFIE DEL CONTEMPORANEO Anno 3, Vol. 3, 2020 – ISSN 2611 - 4577 Gentrificazione e margini Editoriale di Testi di Stefano Portelli Rosario Perricone Clelia Bartoli Federico Prestileo Alessandra Broccolini Alberto M. Sobrero Fotografie di Maurizio Carta Simone Tulumello Jerome Krase Alice Giannitrapani Teresa Graziano Jerome Krase Miscellanea Francesco Mangiapane María Pilar Panero García Francesco Montagnani Giovanni Pizza edizioni Museo Pasqualino © 2020 Associazione per la conservazione delle tradizioni popolari Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino Piazza Antonio Pasqualino, 5 – 90133 Palermo PA www.edizionimuseopasqualino.it – [email protected] Regione siciliana Assessorato dei beni culturali e dell’identità siciliana Dipartimento dei beni culturali e dell’identità siciliana Progetto grafico e impaginazione Francesco Mangiapane In copertina Stencil art, Palermo, 2020, fotografia di Rosario Perricone ISBN 978-88-97035-89-3 L’editore è a disposizione per eventuali aventi diritto che non è stato possibile contattare. Il presente volume è coperto da diritto d’autore e nessuna parte di esso può essere riprodotta o trasmessa in qualsiasi forma o con qualsiasi mezzo elettronico, meccanico o altro senza l’autorizzazione scritta dei proprietari dei diritti d’autore. La carta utilizzata per la stampa è realizzata con un impasto fibroso composto al 100% da fibre di riciclo ed è garantita da certificazione Blauer Engel. Le sue fibre sono bianchite con processi Chlorine Free. È, quindi, al 100% ecologica. Indice Editoriale ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 ROSARIO PERRICONE Gentrificazione e margini ...............................................................13 Il compito degli antropologi............................................................................................ 15 ALBERTO M. SOBRERO L’urbano in trasformazione. Alcune cautele concettuali per l’uso della gentrificazione nel Sud Europa .................25 SIMONE TULUMELLO Il diritto di restare ............................................................................................................35 STEFANO PORTELLI Geografie del turismo a Palermo. Un monopolio territoriale .....................................49 FEDERICO PRESTILEO «Un po’ di gentrificazione però ci voleva...». Dubbi e certezze sul rinnovamento urbano ................................................................. 63 FRANCESCO MONTAGNANI Etnografia giuridica a Ballarò. Per dirottare il verso del sapere ...................................75 CLELIA BARTOLI Nuovi foodscapes e turistificazione. I mercati storici come “frontiere di “gentrification”? .................................................... 85 TERESA GRAZIANO Cibo, turismo, città .........................................................................................................99 ALICE GIANNITRAPANI Intermezzo: Gentrification of the Little Italies........................107 Testo e fotografie di Jerome Krase L’anima di New York. Gentrificazione, Artificazione, Turistificazione a partire da Pretend It’s a City di Scorsese ..167 FRANCESCO MANGIAPANE Abitare il Neoantropocene ............................................................................................177 MAURIZIO CARTA Abitare i margini. Perché è utile tornare a parlare di aree interne ............................187 ALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI Miscellanea .....................................................................................203 «Così nel mio parlar vogli’esser aspro». Per una riflessione antropologica su Gramsci lettore di Dante................................. 205 GIOVANNI PIZZA El patrimonio de la Semana Santa. Las exposiciones Plenilunio de primavera ..........221 MARÍA PILAR PANERO GARCÍA Recensioni ........................................................................................ 231 Autori �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������285 Editoriale Rosario Perricone ’Associazione tri mutamenti socio-urbani quali l’urban per la conserva- displacement e la turistificazione. zione delle tradi- In riferimento a quest’ultimo pro- zioni popolari ha cesso, che riguarda particolarmente da organizzato nel vicino l’Italia, è interessante un recente 2020 il quarto studio dell’Organizzazione Mondiale del ciclo del Semina- Turismo sul rapporto tra turismo e patri- rioL permanente “Etnografie del Contem- monio immateriale. Lo studio offre rac- poraneo”. Il seminario ha previsto dieci comandazioni sulla promozione di uno incontri incentrati sul tema Gentrificazio- sviluppo turistico responsabile e soste- ne e margini che, a causa della pandemia, nibile attraverso la salvaguardia dei beni si sono tenuti on line ogni venerdì alle ore culturali immateriali, nella constatazione 17.00, dal 17 aprile al 19 giugno 2020. che la ricchezza delle pratiche tradiziona- Il seminario ha affrontato, sotto li al livello globale è diventata una delle molteplici prospettive disciplinari (an- principali motivazioni del viaggio, con tu- tropologiche, sociologiche, semiotiche, risti che cercano di interagire con nuove urbanistiche ecc.), il concetto di gentri- culture e sperimentare la varietà globale ficazione, calco italiano dall’inglese gen- delle arti dello spettacolo, dell’artigianato trification, coniato dalla sociologa britan- e delle tradizioni del territorio. Una nota nica Ruth Glass nel suo London: Aspects dell’Organizzazione del 14 settembre 2020 ha sottolineato come, nella mag- of Change (MacGibbon & Kee, London gior parte delle destinazioni, il turismo 1964). In Italia il termine gentrificazio- interno genera entrate maggiori rispetto ne si impone nel lessico antropologico a al turismo internazionale, mettendo in partire dagli anni ‘90 come strumento evidenza come uno sviluppo sostenibile, indispensabile per la lettura delle trasfor- responsabile e valoriale ben si coniughi mazioni in corso nei grandi centri urba- con la dimensione di prossimità emersa ni. Il processo di gentrificazione riguar- nel periodo post Covid. Lo studio sotto- da attualmente porzioni significative dei linea inoltre come sia fondamentale, nel centri storici ed è alla base di un acceso legame tra turismo e patrimonio cultura- dibattito sia istituzionale che culturale le immateriale, riflettere sui valori: valori sullo sviluppo del turismo incontrollato. territoriali ma anche valori che caratte- Tale fenomeno infatti, tipico dell’econo- rizzano un modus operandi consapevole mia delle città globali postindustriali, e sostenibile fondato sulla cura del patri- comporta la radicale trasformazione del monio, delle comunità e delle relazioni e tessuto sociale e del paesaggio urbano, e sulla salvaguardia del territorio e dei suoi si sviluppa in stretta correlazione con al- abitanti, per la creazione di ecosistemi di ETNOGRAFIE DEL CONTEMPORANEO ANNO 3, N.3, 2020 – ISSN 2611 - 4577 7 esperienze rivolti a visitatori esterni, ma ciproco fra comunità̀, gruppi e individui che guardino anche al benessere di coloro nonché́ di sviluppo sostenibile». Un inte- che li abitano. Da qui l’invito rivolto agli ro capitolo delle Direttive Operative per operatori turistici ad acquisire coscienza l’attuazione della Convenzione, il quarto, rispetto alle pratiche di gestione del mon- è dedicato al rapporto tra patrimonio cul- do culturale, e alle istituzioni culturali a turale immateriale e sviluppo sostenibi- confrontarsi con il mondo del turismo le a livello nazionale mentre il paragrafo per comprenderne i processi e le relazio- VI.2.3, dedicato all’impatto del turismo ni. Tra gli obiettivi dello studio ci sono sulla salvaguardia del patrimonio cultu- due elementi fondamentali: analizzare rale immateriale e viceversa, sottolinea la e proporre possibili processualità per la necessità
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