Ricerc@Sapienza

"In our study, we focused on the way in which a mega-event like Expo, historically built as a ‘social peacemaker’, becomes an opportunity,
for social movements, to express new forms of political protest. Far from considering the Expo as a ‘boost’ for the economy of the city,
the activists interpret it as an attempt to ‘overpower’ citizens, an expropriation of their ‘urban sovereignty’; an attack by the global economy
on the droit à la ville"