Del 9 - Transnational Italian Cultures

Illegality and the Making of Italy

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Crime Italian Style

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Stephanie Malia Hom, Dana Renga

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Italy has long been thought of as a terra di mezzo, a land in between, a crossroads where life “above” exists together with life “below.” Italy’s underworld is taken as a given fact, and enjoys a global, if not romanticized, reputation. This volume is a first-of-its-kind study that explores how crime and illegality have served to make modern Italy and Italians. Its chapters set into relief “crime Italian style”: a distinct formation comprised of the porousness between licit and illicit and the malleability of illegality that has distinguished Italy as a nation-state since Unification. From courtrooms to television screens, and mafia dons to political activists, this volume delves into Italy’s criminal patrimony as well as the entanglements between Italian politics and organized crime, how ideas about crime and criminality cross borders and become attached to people, and how the representational force of the media continues to transform who or what is marked as criminal. This volume reconnects Italy to its heritage of crime and punishment to offer a new take on modern Italian identity that recognizes its relationship to illegality as a central, rather than peripheral, attribute.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-28
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransnational Italian Cultures
Antal sidor320
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805966395

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INTRODUCTIONIntroduction: Crime Italian StyleStephanie Malia HomI: STATE, SOCIETY, & ILLEGALITYThe Trattativa Stato-mafia: Transforming the State of Mafia AffairsRobin Pickering-IazziTangentopoli: Justice, Spectacle, and the Making of a New Political EraPaolo CampolonghiMaking Italians Aware of Italy: National Public Television and Organized Crime (1962–85)Alessandra MontalbanoFrom "Cosa Nostra" to "Cosa Grigia": How Criminal Systems in Italy are Changing after the Arrest of Fugitive Boss Matteo Messina DenaroGiacomo Di GirolamoII: CRIMINAL BORDERS“To Weigh the Hand”: Cheaters, Scammers, and Italianness in São PauloGiulia RiccòTransatlantic Punishment: The Extradition of Silvia BaraldiniEllen NerenbergTerra dannata / dannati della terra: The Convergence of Farmworker, Food Justice, and Anti-Caporalato MovementsEleanor PaynterIII: DELINQUENT SUBJECTSGraphologics: Handwriting, Character, and Social DangerDavid HornA Laboratory of Male Citizenship: The Juvenile Reformatory of Tivoli, 1879–1914Mary GibsonFascist Woman, Delinquent Woman: The Case of Leonarda CianciulliStephanie Malia HomIV: PICTURING CRIME(Transnational) Crime in Italian Silent CinemaRobert RushingNot The Godfather: Two Investigative Films and Organized CrimeDavid Forgacs“This Place Hasn’t Changed in 2000 Years”: Transnational Italian Crime TelevisionDana RengaEPILOGUEGeorge Floyd, Soumaila Sacko, and Alika Ogorchukwu. Performative Anti-Racism and Black Lives in ItalyAngelica PesariniNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

'This book provides a stimulating and original addition to our knowledge of contemporary Italy and its representation in different media. Crime in relation to Italy's history is an association which resonates amongst readers, but which is also in need for a proper contextualisation beyond cliches and prejudices. This book does so and, as a collection of fourteen separate essays, allows the term to be interpreted and studied in a range of different cases.’ Guido Bonsaver, University of Oxford