Lo Spazio dei problemi: processi di spazializzazione dei problemi sociali: il caso di Scampia

The issue of Italian popular suburbs has been the subject of specific investigations and urban policies. Policies aim to eliminate those problems that are considered more dramatic for these areas (crime, poverty, unemployment, school dropouts, etc.). At the same time, these policies seem to give rise to “priority geographies” in urban landscape.While both studies and the institutional framework are clearly addressed in some European contexts, such as France or England, in Italy there is a need to identify a proper approach.The goal of this research project is to understand if the Italian context of public policy is experiencing a creation process of priority geographies, through a spatialization of social problems. This subject will be investigated starting from an ethnographic field work within a “problematic” neighborhood in the north of Naples, called Scampia.