Reversible Destiny

Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-520-23609-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Peter T.

Schneider, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments
Maps

1. The Palermo Crucible

2. The Genesis of the Mafia

3. The Mafia and the Cold War

4. The Cultural Production of Violence

5. Seeking Causes, Casting Blame

6. Mysteries and Poisons

7. The Antimafia Movement

8. Backlash and Renewal

9. Civil Society Groundwork

10. Recuperating the Built Environment

11. “Cultural Re-education”

12. Reversible Destiny

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane C. Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Peter T. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. They are the authors of Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860-1980 (1996) and Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily (1976).