New Contested Urban Subjectivities in a Tourist Monoculture
摘要
This chapter seeks to draw the book to a close by returning to the embodied experiences of the abitanti attive, proposing an analysis of their daily routines as a critical lens through which to understand the tensions and contradictions of touristification and commoning in Naples. Having examined the contested production of space throughout the book, this chapter highlights how inhabitants’ time—as well as space—becomes a terrain of struggle. The routines of Giulia, Lucia, and Federica reveal the fragmented temporalities of those caught between precarious labour in the tourist economy and their active involvement in the reproduction of the commons. These “split routines” expose how the expansion of the tourist monoculture shapes not only urban space but also the rhythms of everyday life, leaving little room for alternative forms of inhabiting the city. Yet, within these fractures, the abitanti attive mobilise spare moments to build solidarities, reweave social ties, and construct alternative futures. Their embodied practices emerge as expressions of what I define as “new contested urban subjectivities”, which in turn reflect the body of a city torn between the commons and touristification in the early 2020s. By analysing these routines, the chapter lays the groundwork for a situated understanding of touristification “from below”.