Book review essay

Race Matters: The Materiality of Domopolitics in the Peripheries of Rome

“…First, it calls for a greater analytical focus on issues of materiality in the recently emerging debates on 'domopolitics' (Walters, 2004) or 'the politics of home' (Duyvendak, 2011)--a politics which constructs various scales of territory as a 'home' to be protected against invading outsiders cast as enemies. Second, it contributes to the recent debate on the fear of racialized others outside the home as constitutive of the development of what Atkinson and Blandy (2016) call the 'domestic fortress' (Noterman and Rosenfeld, 2018), or what has been termed 'the fortressification' of the home (Davis, 1992;Low, 2003). In this regard, the essay takes up the argument made by Moffette and Vadasaria (2016) on the centrality of race in securitization moves, providing empirical support for the increased analytical emphasis on the workings of race alongside those of class, and on the embeddedness of racializing practices in corporeality and urban material culture (see also Racleș and Ivasiuc, 2019).…”