Raccomandazione - Dorothy Louise Zinn

Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Buch | Hardcover
278 Seiten
2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-197-0 (ISBN)
169,95 inkl. MwSt
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society.
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.

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 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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie European Anthropology in Translation
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-197-7 / 1789201977
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-197-0 / 9781789201970
Zustand Neuware
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