The Centro Pecci presents, on Wednesday, March 25, the first event of the series PERIFERIE. Questions from the Margins. Curated by Martina Maccianti, the series takes the periphery as a key lens through which to read the present. Across five Wednesday evening events, the program looks at peripheral spaces as sites where imaginaries and desires are produced, and where languages emerge that are capable of challenging the center and its dominant narratives.
Who has the right to be represented as complex, and who is instead reduced to a caricature?
The first event takes its starting point from the book La periferia vi guarda con odio. Come nasce la fobia dei maranza by Gabriel Seroussi, an investigation into the media and political construction of the “social monster” and the mechanisms through which peripheral neighborhoods are portrayed as spaces of danger, deviance, and threat. Through the theme of security—an increasingly central issue in public discourse—the book examines the processes of criminalization, racialization, and simplification that turn bodies, languages, and territories into stereotypes.
7:00 pm – Talk
A conversation starting from the book La periferia vi guarda con odio. Come nasce la fobia dei maranza (Agenzia X, 2025) by Gabriel Seroussi.
The dialogue between Gabriel Seroussi and Fatima El Mouh opens a reflection on the imaginaries that generate fear and consensus, and above all on the forms of resistance that emerge from the peripheries themselves—particularly rap as a language capable of overturning stigma and restoring complexity to subjectivities reduced to caricature.
9:00 pm – Screening
Les Misérables by Ladj Ly (France, 2019 – 100’ – original version with subtitles).
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2019 – 4 César Awards 2020, including Best French Film.
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Gabriel Seroussi / Journalist focusing on rap music, youth subcultures, and marginalized communities. He has collaborated with Rivista Studio, Rolling Stone, Outpump, Lucy sulla Cultura, and other publications. He is the editor of the independent magazine Oltreoceano, dedicated to African American culture.
Fatima El Mouh / Communication professional working in the film sector. She has worked for Sky Cinema and currently oversees communication and programming for three community cinemas in Milan. She is co-founder of Darna, a project promoting cinema and art from the SWANA region in Italy and Europe, and writes about political and social issues such as racism, Islamophobia, and feminism.
