Social reuse of Camorra confiscated properties: civic activation and collective goods

The aim of this paper is to discuss the social activation strategies within the context of urban regeneration processes. In so doing, the research focuses on territories managed by criminal organizations such as "mafia" and "camorra", where the planning process needs to deal with a complex system of interests, constraints and risks that compromises transparency and effective procedures of social self-promotion. In these areas, guarantying basic social services and accessible public spaces. In order to deal with this issue, the research focuses on civic practices activated in properties - such as buildings, farms and companies - confiscated to camorra. The Italian law system on organised crime states that the residential and productive buildings seized from organized crime should be reused for beneficial purposes and for social services managed by NGOs with social scope. The aim of this approach is twofold: on the one hand, it should respond to the demand of services and public spaces for segregated communities, on the other hand it could support an emancipatory process from territorial control of organised crime clans. This issue, even if specific, could contribute to the discussion on commons by giving a new perspective and moving forward traditional dichotomies as top down/bottom up, community led/market led and private/public. An excursus of the scenario in the Region of Campania and a focus on Naples have been developed in order to start the narratives.