Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume One

Italo Pardo is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. He established and co-edits the journal Urbanities and co-founded and presides over the not-for-profit association, International Urban Symposium-IUS.Giuliana B. Prato is Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, UK. Having chaired the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES) for many years, she co-founded the International Urban Symposium-IUS, of which she is Secretary-Treasurer, and co-founded and serves on the Board of Urbanities.

• Chapter 1. Forms of Inequality: Legitimacy, Governance, Work and Risk.- Chapter 2. Unequal Italians: The Case of Naples.- Chapter 3. Trust, Democratic Participation and Communal Governance in Western Mali.- Chapter 4. Inequality and the Era of e-Governance: The Pandemic Emergency as a Watershed.- Chapter 5. The Aesthetics of Chaos.- Chapter 6. Soft Skills in a Hard Labour Market: The Case of Greece.- Chapter 7. The Persistence of Informality: An Ethnographic Account of Tirana’s Outdoor Book Markets.- Chapter 8. Canning in the City: Informal Recycling and the Question of Legitimacy in Urban Public Space.- Chapter 9. Ethnography as a Lens into Labour Agency in Changing Times: Dongdaemun Women Workers’ Embodied Memories as Another History.- Chapter 10. Object, Legitimacy and Inability: Reflections on 100 Years of Footballing Nothingness.- Chapter 11. Governing Through Risk in the Field of Urban Violence: Legitimacy, Inequality, Actuarialism and Public Health.