I am a social researcher, awaiting discussion of my doctoral thesis concerning the relationship between deindustrialisation policies in the western suburbs of Naples (SIN Bagnoli-Coroglio) and the action of local communities.
I’m also a journalist and I have been conducting independent research for about fifteen years, writing articles, not only scientific ones, on the “Bagnoli issue”.
Deindustrialisation and participation. The role of communities in the regeneration process of the Bagnoli-Coroglio former industrial site (Naples)
As is well known, deindustrialisation policies are closely linked to the privatization of productive resources, the tertiarization of the labor market, the disarticulation of the collective identities of entire geographical areas, and the implementation of aggressive urban development policies. At the same time, phenomena such as impoverishment, growing inequality, and the rupture of the social fabric – combined with widespread distrust in institutions and the inhabitants’ determination not to abandon the places where they had built their lives – fueled an increasing desire among local populations to participate in the decision-making processes shaping these transformations.
