The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters by Domenica Farinella & Pietro Saitta

Author:Domenica Farinella & Pietro Saitta
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030193614
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

After all, families who need public housing because their homes were destroyed by an earthquake, but who do not possess the economic means or a job to buy a house independently—the “needy”, “poor” families—have to make do with temporary housing (“casette ultrapopolari”), which, in any case, corresponds to their social class, and might even represent an “improvement” to their social condition. In this sense, the urban sub-proletariat should think themselves lucky to receive accommodation, whatever it may be, especially because it is not always possible to verify their real, presumed, or artificially constructed condition of “need”. Once again, we find an expression of the punitive logic that seems to lie at the basis of the distinction between the deserving and underserving poor (Polanyi 1944) which, as is seen in Chap. 7, distinguishes a lot of common discourse regarding the “right” to live in a shack.

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