Visibility as Justice: Immigrant Street Vendors and the Right to Difference in Rome

Piazzoni, Maria Francesca ORCID: 0000-0002-6674-8463 (2020) Visibility as Justice: Immigrant Street Vendors and the Right to Difference in Rome. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 44 (1). 0-0.

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Abstract

Dominant constructions of what looks “appropriate” enable the exclusion of poor immigrants from public spaces around the world. This paper analyzes how Bangladeshi vendors challenge exclusion by tactically appearing and disappearing in Rome’s iconic landscapes. While xenophobic, pro-decorum regulations seek to banish marginalized subjects from the tourist-friendly city center, immigrant vendors mobilize their own visibility by emplacing urbanisms of opportunity, refuge, and belonging. Learning from these urbanisms, planners can deploy a spatial lens of visibility to advance the right to difference. I propose In Plain Site, a policy and place-making approach that helps empower oppressed groups to see and be seen in the city.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Migrant urbanisms, Public space, Street vendors, Urban design, Visibility
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	07 Oct 2020 11:06
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2024 23:44
DOI:	10.1177/0739456X20956387
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X20956387
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3103835