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This book is a rare and successful blend of ethnographic thickness and conceptual depth. The fascinating case study of economy and governance in the city of Rome is elevated to a more general discussion of informality and liminality in the economic, political and cultural fields that will be of interest to scholars across a wide range of fields, including sociology, urban studies, economic and political anthropology and Italian studies.

Bjrn Thomassen, Roskilde University, Denmark

Inhabiting Liminal Spaces

This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how dynamics of rule-bending take shape in Rome today. Adopting a multiscalar and transdisciplinary approach, it unpacks how gaps and contradictions in institutional rulemaking and application force many residents into protracted liminal states marked by intense vulnerability. By merging a political economy lens with ethnographic research in informal housing, illegal moneylending, unauthorized street-vending and waste collection, the author shows that informalities are not marginal or anomalous conditions, but an integral element of the citys governance logics. Multiple actors together construct the local cultural norms, conventions and moral economies through which rule-negotiation occurs. However, these practices are ultimately unable to reconfigure historically rooted power dynamics and hierarchies. In fact, they often aggravate weak urbanites difficulties in accessing rights and services. A study that challenges assumptions that informalities are predominantly features of developing economies or limited to specific groups and sectors, this volumes critical approach and innovative methodology will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology interested in social theory, urban studies and liminality.

Isabella Clough Marinaro is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at John Cabot University, Italy, where she teaches courses in sociology, urban studies, criminology, and social science research methods. She worked for many years on the political and social conditions of Roma communities in Italy and the policy processes affecting them. Her current research focuses on urban development and governance in Rome, particularly in their interconnections with changing forms of illegal and informal practices. She is the co-editor of Italian Mafias Today: Territory, Business and Politics and Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City.

Contemporary Liminality

Series editor: Arpad Szakolczai, University College Cork, Ireland.

Series advisory board: Agnes Horvath, University College Cork, Ireland; Bjrn Thomassen, Roskilde University, Denmark; and Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK.

This series constitutes a forum for works that make use of concepts such as imitation, trickster or schismogenesis, but which chiefly deploy the notion of liminality, as the basis of a new, anthropologically-focused paradigm in social theory. With its versatility and range of possible uses rivalling mainstream concepts such as system, structure or institution, liminality by now is a new master concept that promises to spark a renewal in social thought.

While charges of Eurocentrism are widely discussed in sociology and anthropology, most theoretical tools in the social sciences continue to rely on approaches developed from within the modern Western intellectual tradition, whilst concepts developed on the basis of extensive anthropological evidence and which challenged commonplaces of modernist thinking, have been either marginalised and ignored, or trivialised. By challenging the taken-for-granted foundations of social theory through incorporating ideas from major thinkers, such as Nietzsche, Dilthey, Weber, Elias, Voegelin, Foucault and Koselleck, as well as perspectives gained through modern social and cultural anthropology and the central concerns of classical philosophical anthropology Contemporary Liminality offers a new direction in social thought.

Titles in this series

15. Post-Truth Society

A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

Arpad Szakolczai

16. The Technologisation of the Social

A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine

Edited by Paul O'Connor and Marius Ion Bena

17. Inhabiting Liminal Spaces

Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy

Isabella Clough Marinaro

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Liminality/book-series/ASHSER1435

First published 2022

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2022 Isabella Clough Marinaro

The right of Isabella Clough Marinaro to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Goglio, Valentina, author.

Title: The diffusion and social implications of MOOCs : a comparative study of the US and Europe / Valentina Goglio.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021046507 (print) | LCCN 2021046508 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367444440 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032185538 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003009757 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: MOOCs (Web-based instruction)--United States. | MOOCs (Web-based instruction)--Europe. | Educational innovations--Social aspects--United States. | Educational innovations--Social aspects--Europe.

Classification: LCC LB1044.87 .G64 2022 (print) | LCC LB1044.87 (ebook) | DDC 371.33/44678--dc23/eng/20211103

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021046507

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021046508

ISBN: 978-0-367-37363-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-18562-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-35332-1 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429353321

In unfading memory of James Walston, my friend and mentor, without whom all the rest would have been impossible.

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First, I must thank John Cabot University for giving me a one-semester sabbatical to focus exclusively on this project. My deep gratitude also goes to Bjrn Thomassen for his unwavering support and confidence in my work over so many years Im not sure he is aware how important his guidance has always been. I also owe a vast debt to the many colleagues, friends, and students who have given me invaluable encouragement and insights during this long journey. In particular, Giovanni Picker, who helped me unblock some important conceptual difficulties, and Ryan Powell and Cristiana Panella, who pointed out overarching patterns in the case-studies. Karen Bermann and Pamela Harris not only read and gave crucial feedback on various chapters but also sustained me through long conversations and endless walks. Paola Castelli was a wonderful research partner and co-author for . Her lucid analysis became a crucial compass in the later phases of the books development. I am also immensely grateful to Arpad Szakolczai for his generosity in accepting this work for the Contemporary Liminality Series, and to Neil Jordan and Alice Salt at Routledge for making the publishing process easy and painless.

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