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Enrico Gargiulo

Enrico Gargiulo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.

POSTS BY Enrico Gargiulo

24 January 2020

Mean cities: the dark side of urban citizenship

Stadtluft macht frei, or city air makes you free, was a proverb in the Middle Ages. It referred to a legal principle according to which runaway serfs were to become free after living one year in a city. Today, many scholars suggest that urban citizenship still has powerful emancipatory effects. Continue reading >>

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