City Air Makes You Free. Urban Resistances and Counter Power in Bologna

none1noIn Medieval Age, the famous popular motto "Stadtluft macht frei" addressed urban spaces as sites of liberation from feudal duties. Nowadays cities seem to be an effective ground to experiment emancipatory practices within and against the neutralization of political dimension and the neo-liberal market economy. There is a strong connection between the valorisation of urban dimension as space for re-production and the development of experiences that pose themselves as alternative to social exclusion, poverty, exploitation. Such contradictions are flourishing everywhere in Europe and Bologna is among them.noneMaurilio PironeMaurilio Piron