Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-27
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEuropean Anthropology in Translation
Antal sidor278
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781789201970

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Dorothy Louise Zinn is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her recent works include Migrants as Metaphor (2018) and The Public Value of Anthropology (edited with E. Tauber, 2015). She has also published annotated translations of two monographs by Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino, The Land of Remorse (2005) and Magic: A Theory from the South (2015).

Preface to the English EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Art of RaccomandazioneChapter 1. The Ethnographic SettingChapter 2. Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical ConsiderationsChapter 3. Toward a Poetics of PatronageChapter 4. Raccomandazione, Tangente and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of GenresChapter 5. Raccomandazione, Class Relations and the Southern QuestionChapter 6. Employing the ‘Little Shove’: Raccomandazione and WorkChapter 7. “We’re not Uganda, but Almost”: Raccomandazione and Southern Italian IdentityConclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World OrderEpilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption RevisitedGlossaryBibliographyIndex