Explorations in Space and Society No. 57 | November 2020 Fear the city ISSN 1973-9141 www.losquaderno.net 57Lo s Q uaderno

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Fear the City a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by Elisabetta Risi, Riccardo Pronzato & Cristina Mattiucci

Guest artist / artiste présentée / artista ospite Tommaso Vaccarezza Editorial Yana Bagina Being on the alert: how people experience everyday fear in the city Jelena Božilović Gender and the City: Safety in Urban Spaces Elisabetta Risi & Riccardo Pronzato Nuances, boundaries and subjects of the fear in the city. Women’s experiences in Anna Yates Female fear and residential segregation in Husby, Stockholm Chiara Belingardi, Giada Bonu, Federica Castelli & Serena Olcuire Trasformare la paura. Pratiche di resistenza femminista, emozioni e spazio urbano Massimiliano Raffa Haphephobia and Urban Creativity. The ‘Frightful’ Case of Western Popular Music Alessandra Micalizzi & Eugenia Siapera View from my window: social fear, Covid-19 and the power of a shared urban #POV Emiliana Armano, Tatiana Mazali & Maurizio Teli The “Pandemic City”. Ipotesi interpretative per un’inchiesta sulla dualità dello spazio urbano Asma Mehan The City as the (Anti)Structure Fearscapes, social movement, and protest square Caio Teixeira The Fearless Street Protests Leonie Tuitjer & Quentin Batréau Urban Fears, Urban Refuge. Exploring asylum seeker’s fear in Bangkok Ana Ivasiuc ‘This is Not the Bronx’: The Ambivalent Contestation of Urban Imaginaries of Fear

3 EDITORIAL

Fear is a complex emotional state and a multi- citizens and reshape their relationships. Current faceted and challenging issue whose exploration governmental approaches to urban security tend has driven the editing of this special issue. to divide cities in several comfort zones, based Traditionally, fear is surrounded by diferent on class, gender, ethnicity, thereby creating both narratives depending on the context. Politics, manifest and invisible limits and boundaries. academia, everyday life, all these realms are These divisions appear extremely relevant and surrounded by their own rhetorics regarding fear problematic, especially in these uncertain times and how fear ought to be taken into account. in which the scarcity of spaces and a limited In particular, urban life is a framework within mobility have become recurrent aspects of our which fear is continuously experienced, debated everyday life. and negotiated. Due to the topicality of the time when this This special issue brings together diferent issue has been released, it should be noted that perspectives and views to explore the manifold the Coronavirus outbreak has highlighted the links between fear and city in the contemporary role and relevance of fear, becoming the focus age. Putting itself along a research path that has of some refections. Cities today are discussed interdisciplinary roots in the scholars exploring as an assemblage of spaces which have been dangers and conficts of the urban condition reformulated and securitized and within which from its beginning and within its diferent social distancing rules manage everyday life; ac- shapes, several contributions have been gath- cording to this, every person that we meet, both ered to explore and critically discuss contem- friends and strangers, can be a potential disease porary features of fear as a tool to interpret and spreader, hence, all the realms connected to shape urban life. relationships and sociality are soaked with fear. The result is a kaleidoscopic papers’ collec- However, as highlighted by several papers in tion in which fear is de-structured within the this special issue, the pandemic has worked polyphony of human and urban experiences. as a catalyst of processes and phenomena already existing. Indeed, fear is a key element to Fear can be a signifcant tool to thoroughly understand how urban spaces are designed and investigate social phenomena and emotions. experienced, and it was already present in t