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Clough Marinaro, Isabella

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Isabella Clough Marinaro teaches courses in political and social science (eg. Introduction to Sociology, Social Science Research Methods, Migration and Contemporary Society) and with a special focus on crime studies (Introduction to Criminology, Globalization and Crime). Many of her sociology classes are anchored in contemporary Italy and use Rome as their classroom (Contemporary Italian Society, Sociology of Southern Italy, Rome Modern City, Researching Rome: Fieldwork in the City). She has a Ph.D. from the University of Bath (2006). For many years she worked on the political and social conditions of Roma communities in Italy and the policy processes affecting them. Her most recent research has focused on changing forms of crime and multidimensional informalities in contemporary in Italy. She has just published a new book: Inhabiting Liminal Spaces: Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy (2022). She previously co-edited two books: Italian Mafias Today: Territory, Business and Politics (2019) and Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (2014). She is now working on various projects exploring how social movements in Italy campaign on issues of crime, legislative reform and social justice.

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    Andare in Giro
    (2024) Clough Marinaro, Isabella
    Andare in giro literally means to ‘go around’ or ‘wander’ in Italian and is used in multiple contexts. It is, however, also a very specific term employed by some Roma communities in the country to refer to their practices of scouting for and collecting recyclable goods around urban streets and peripheral wasteland. It also includes sourcing items directly from an extensive array of personal contacts. The materials are then cleaned, mended, and sold through various informal commercial channels. The practice constitutes a central link in the economies of many camp-dwelling Roma families and is deeply intertwined with informal urban businesses in Italy more generally.
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    Introducing the In/Visible City
    (2026) Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Haynes, Will
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    Criminal Mosaics: The Varied Faces of Organized Crime in Rome.
    (2026) Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Nappa, Federica
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    The Rom Community in Italy: A Self-Marginalising Minority?
    (2008) Clough Marinaro, Isabella
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    A failed Roma revolution: Conflict, fragmentation and status quo maintenance in Rome
    (2014) Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Daniele, Ulderico
    This article examines novel spaces for Roma political participation that opened up under a right-wing municipal government in Rome between 2008 and 2013. Three channels were created through which Roma could engage with policy-makers and, in theory, make their voices heard: a ‘Mayor’s Delegate for Roma Issues’; a forum for debate among Roma groups and elected representatives in two official camps. Based on in-depth interviews with protagonists of this key period of mobilisation, we evaluate the successes achieved and obstacles faced. In particular, we highlight the differentiations which emerged among Roma actors, concluding that, following an initial period of enthusiasm and cohesion, most participants withdrew, achieving few of their initial goals. While the analysis demonstrates the heterogeneity of Roma groups and interests in this process, it also underlines the constraints created by the external political opportunity structure which ultimately worked to co-opt activists in order to maintain the status quo.
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    Evicting Rome's Undesiderables: Two Short Tales
    (2014) Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Daniele, Ulderico
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    The Rise of Italy’s Neo-Ghettos
    (2015) Clough Marinaro, Isabella
    Italy’s urban camps for segregating the Roma minority have received much critical attention recently, yet few attempts have been made to explore how they have evolved historically and function as systems of social control from a theoretical point of view. This article seeks to fill that gap, drawing on Wacquant’s framework for identifying constituent elements of ghettos past and present. It explores whether a genealogy can be traced between the early modern Jewish ghetto and today’s camps, focusing on the Italian capital, Rome. It suggests that many of the original ghetto’s functions operate in contemporary camps; however, it also argues that a crucial feature of the ghetto—its ability to strengthen solidarity within the segregated community—is being strategically undermined. The camps can thus be defined as neo-ghettos, rooted in the past but refined in the present and functional to their specific contemporary social and political context.
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    ‘We work it out’: Roma settlements in Rome and the limits of do-it-yourself
    (2014) Bermann, Karen; Clough Marinaro, Isabella
    This article examines forms of do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism practised by two Roma communities in Rome. The groups live in self-made camps that exist in a legal limbo determined by municipal policies that fluctuate between ‘tolerating’ and threatening to demolish them. We argue that it is the simultaneous solidity and temporaneity of residents’ DIY interventions that have delayed their eviction. We analyse how residents have sought to create dignified conditions through the informal architecture of their homes, to access water and electricity, and to create areas of beauty and safety around themselves. In doing so, they practice a form of tactical urbanism, generating environments for sociality and forging public spaces in apparent ‘non-places’: on a highway exchange and in a parking lot. Their DIY is accepted by the authorities as long as it is ‘light’, does not engage urban infrastructure and remains within abject locations.
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    Anti-gypsyism and the politics of exclusion : Roma and Sinti contemporary Italy
    (2011) Clough Marinaro, Isabella; Sigona, Nando