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Lo Squaderno 55 Fear the City Edited by // Elisabetta Risi, Riccardo Pronzato & Cristina Mattiucci Explorations in Space and Society No. 57 | November 2020 Fear the city ISSN 1973-9141 www.losquaderno.net 57Lo s Q uaderno TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 Milan 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 the Indeed, fear takes on a crucial role in the analysis social fabric as an everyday device used to orient and interpretation of social practices in the and regulate relationships long before Covid-19. urban space and it has serious repercussions on how public and private spaces are conceived, Within this framework, the collected papers structured and designed, as well as on individual aimed to explore the material and immaterial and collective behaviours. Therefore, our refec- tools managing urban fear (from surveillance tion sought to focus on how fear regulates devices, to regulations) and the role of politics and orients everyday experiences in urban in the design of these mechanisms. Then, environments. discourses of and about fear as an instru- ment of power were put under scrutiny, while Today the role of fear can be seen, for instance, further refections are elicited by examining in urban security policies. Urban security, with how specifc imaginaries around this pervasive all its two-faced features (from controlling pub- emotional state are constructed - and can be lic events, to preventing epidemics, to managing deconstructed. public spaces and so forth), has become a target of urban and social policies which categorize Several contributions consider the dual and frag- mented city. Here fear appears as widespread boundaries, which are connected to long-lasting and shattered within relations and situations. gender, racial and social inequalities. This polyhedral confguration supports a refec- Gender inequalities are also the main focus of tion about fears instead of fear. Thus, in this the contribution written by Chiara Belingardi, issue we have considered accordingly diferent Giada Bonu, Federica Castelli and Serena Olcuire. potential layers of personal, emotional and However, here the authors transform fear in an collective experiences, which are connected with active and generative pulse. Indeed, their paper the systemic and institutional contradictions that considers some feminist resistance practices and are especially evident in the contemporary urban shows some ways in which the public space can landscape. Anti-fear and counter-control actions be occupied and re-earned, thereby contesting elaborated to respond to these contradictions its patriarchal dimension. were analysed as well. The relationship between gender inequalities, Although these premises may indicate a dark residential segregation and urban architectures and gloomy issue, this is not the case. Trough the is highlighted by Anna Yates. The author inves- lens of the diferent papers, it allows us to objec- tigates the social and spatial nature of women’s tify fears and to shed light on the mechanisms fear of crime in Husby, a peripheral suburb in through which they are reifed, in order to make Stockholm, with the lowest income per capita of the fear more manageable and elicit refections any other neighbourhood in the city. about empowering (anti-fear) practices, also in the path of the critique (and claim) of everyday Then, also Massimiliano Rafa starts his essay life. from areas connoted by social marginality and cultural intermingling, that he considers a The opening paper is Yana Bagina’s analysis of privileged context for the emergence of popular everyday life in the city through a specifc meta- urban cultures. However, his refection focuses phor which perfectly adapt to the contemporary on how fear of physical contacts (haphephobia) urban landscape: “being on alert”. can undermine urban proxemics and, hence, Then, the following contributions focus on one creative processes. The author introduces some of the main themes that emerge from the issue: considerations about the alarming idea that gender relations. In her piece, Jelena Bozilovic such creative spaces may one day disappear takes into account the city by identifying the permanently, especially following the dramatic patriarchal dimensions of the public space social distancing restrictions imposed since the and analysing how the common notion of the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. city as a place of freedom should be accepted The Covid-19 crisis is also the framework of two conditionally, since it continuously refects the other works, written by Alessandra Micalizzi efects of dominant social values, and as such and Eugenia Siapera, and Emiliano Armano, can be the place of non-freedom. According to Tatiana Mazali and Maurizio Teli, respectively. her, the city is of masculine gender. In the former contribution the authors illustrate By investigating perceptions and lived experi- the results of an empirical research regarding ences of women living in Milan, Elisabetta Risi pictures taken in diferent cities of the world and and Riccardo Pronzato carried out an emo- shared online during the lockdown, and show tionography of that city. Their paper highlights that the city represented a means by which a fragmented city, which is flled with diferent people escaped social distancing, generating a nuances of fear, as well as physical and symbolic sense of closeness and a reaction to the restric- 5 means by which people escaped social distanc- ‘otherness’ renders fear as an arena of confict ing, generating a sense of closeness and a and highlights the political utility of fear by reaction to the restrictive measures. In this paper, particular groups and individuals. Then, the fear emerges as a dual emotional state: confned essay written by Caio Teixeira still examines at home, people felt safe but constrained, and street protests, which are fearless, through a they found
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