Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi)
The paper analyses territorialization practices in Mourouj 2 district (Tunis) by focusing on Mourouj 2 Neighborhood Association’ activities during last decades. The case raises relevant issues regarding theoretical reflection on centre-margin paradigm in urban spaces and particularly in the Great Tu...
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| description | The paper analyses territorialization practices in Mourouj 2 district (Tunis) by focusing on Mourouj 2 Neighborhood Association’ activities during last decades. The case raises relevant issues regarding theoretical reflection on centre-margin paradigm in urban spaces and particularly in the Great Tunis area such as: margin social construction; resistance practices to spatial exclusion processes; conflicts over re-production of economic, political and social disadvantage; environmental and life quality link with spatial justice. In Mourouj 2 district key actors’ practices emerges as a common ground for community dialogue and conflicts with institutions and other informal powers over the right to the city. A nucleus of active citizenship emerges as a national precedent for urban space re-appropriation, from closure and conversion of Great Tunis landfill into an urban park in the nineties to wetlands and urban parks protection, community services and local development activities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c137883aab4249fdbf93aba2f20377942025-08-20T02:51:12ZengFirenze University PressBollettino della Società Geografica Italiana1121-78202018-11-011110.13128/bsgi.v1i1.96Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi)Carlo Perelli0Giovanni Sistu1Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, ItaliaDipartimento di Scienze Sociali e delle Istituzioni, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, ItaliaThe paper analyses territorialization practices in Mourouj 2 district (Tunis) by focusing on Mourouj 2 Neighborhood Association’ activities during last decades. The case raises relevant issues regarding theoretical reflection on centre-margin paradigm in urban spaces and particularly in the Great Tunis area such as: margin social construction; resistance practices to spatial exclusion processes; conflicts over re-production of economic, political and social disadvantage; environmental and life quality link with spatial justice. In Mourouj 2 district key actors’ practices emerges as a common ground for community dialogue and conflicts with institutions and other informal powers over the right to the city. A nucleus of active citizenship emerges as a national precedent for urban space re-appropriation, from closure and conversion of Great Tunis landfill into an urban park in the nineties to wetlands and urban parks protection, community services and local development activities.https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/bsgi/article/view/96urban geographysocial movementsTunisiaurban margin |
| spellingShingle | Carlo Perelli Giovanni Sistu Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana urban geography social movements Tunisia urban margin |
| title | Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) |
| title_full | Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) |
| title_fullStr | Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) |
| title_short | Ripensare il margine urbano. L’azione collettiva di El Mourouj 2 (Tunisi) |
| title_sort | ripensare il margine urbano l azione collettiva di el mourouj 2 tunisi |
| topic | urban geography social movements Tunisia urban margin |
| url | https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/bsgi/article/view/96 |
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