Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa. She holds a PhD in Film Studies (King’s College London) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Genoa). Her research investigates screen and textual representations of London, the home and housing and gentrification. Her current research project focuses on post-2000 representations of high-rise and tower-block living within the London skyline as a space of social and economic negotiation. Recent publications include “Grenfell on Screen” in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto Press, 2019) and “Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary” in Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (EUP, July 2020).

Footnote, no. 3, vol. 2

An Update on Grenfell

In this conclusion to her two-part look at the Grenfell crisis, Anna Viola Sborgi examines the aftermath of a crisis and the ways in which activists have and have not been successful in ensuring continued focus on the underlying issues.