CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Bangau, Cristina Simona |
|---|---|
| Title | WE ARE ALL BLACK BLOCK! The NOTAV protest movement and geographies of intervention |
| Summary | In this thesis, I explore the conflictual political nature of spatial rescaling through the NOTAV movement protest that originated in the Susa Valley, in the early 1990s. This started as an opposition to the proposal for a Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, included in one of the priority infrastructure projects of the trans-European network policy. I argue that the protest can be read through the framework of a disagreement on what (the spatiality of) the valley should be and on its integration into a specific European nodality, or multi-scalar spaces, played on the arena of national territorial organization, vision that hints to a project of European Union place-making. The overlapping of the two types of spatial imagination, embedded into practice, led to violent confrontations between the protesters and the authorities. On this basis, the project was declared of strategic national interest by the Italian government, which allowed for the militarization of the valley, initiative highly criticized by the protesters. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/bangau_cristina.pdf |
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