Valeria PECORELLI, Iulm , Italy
Giulia DE SPUCHES, Iulm , Italy
Massimiliano FANTÒ, Iulm , Italy
Streets’ names, squares and statues build the memory of a country and celebrate the history of the nation while recalling places, facts and characters. Homage is paid to patriots, distinguished men of letters and science or to those certain historical moments needed to construct, impose or consolidate a narrative that one wants to be or become collective. Giving name to streets is an expression of power, it perpetuates the memory of characters, dates and events that the authorities have judged worthy of public honor. It expresses itself as an act of propaganda, which underlies the power to control symbolic infrastructure producing relevant discourses by a specific dominant group.
The study dwells upon the counter-narratives of Italian urban toponymies rethought from below on the occasion of the recurrences of 8 March, 25 April 2021 in Milan and the 20 October 2018 during Manifesta12 in Palermo aimed at deconstructing the presumed neutrality of space (Borghi, Dell'Agnese 2009) and offering perhaps new answers to the classic “What's in a name?” question in the contemporary urban streetscape. The aim of the contribution is to investigate, with a geographical perspective, the performance practices of re-territorialization in the urban fabric in which the right to the city is reclaimed in the gender dimension beyond a binary juxtaposition.
Mots clés : transfeminism|streetscape|gender |right to the city|geography
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