Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-197-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: European Anthropology in Translation

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zinn, Dorothy Louise

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione

Chapter 1. The Ethnographic Setting

Chapter 2. Patronage/Clientelism:  Some Theoretical Considerations

Chapter 3. Toward a Poetics of Patronage

Chapter 4. Raccomandazione, Tangente and Mafia:  An “Amoral” Family of Genres

Chapter 5. Raccomandazione, Class Relations and the Southern Question

Chapter 6. Employing the ‘Little Shove’: Raccomandazione and Work

Chapter 7. “We’re not Uganda, but Almost”:  Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity

Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order

Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zinn, Dorothy Louise
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).