New Anthropologies of Italy

Paolo Heywood is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory (Berghahn, 2018), Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism (Cornell University Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor of Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (Cornell University Press, 2023).

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List of Illustrations



Introduction: Back to the Future

Paolo Heywood



Part I: Migration



Chapter 1. Performing Incompetence: Race and Migration in Italy

Lilith Mahmud



Chapter 2. Not So ‘Other’: Challenging Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging

Anna Tuckett



Chapter 3. A Return to Life: Narratives of Birth and Death in a Southern European Periphery

Vanessa Grotti & Marc Brightman



Chapter 4. An Unjustified Revolt: Italian Political Discourse and Chinese Migrant Resistance to Inspection Culture

Elizabeth L. Krause



Part II: Populism



Chapter 5. Making Fascism History in the Land of the Duce

Paolo Heywood



Chapter 6. Mediatic Squadrism: Myths, Symbols, and Identity in Third Millennium Fascism

Maddalena Gretel Cammelli



Chapter 7. Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: Spaces of Occlusion and Recursion in Contemporary Tavoliere

Irene Peano



Chapter 8. Demonizing Fake News in a Post-Truth Political World

Noelle Molé Liston



Part III: Mafia



Chapter 9. Omertà: Violence and Cultural Practices

Jane & Peter Schneider



Chapter 10. Antimafia, Unscripted: on Discourse, Moral Borders, and the Public Space

Theodoros Rakopoulos



Chapter 11. Speech in Gommopoli

Naor Ben-Yehoyada



Part IV: Heritage



Chapter 12. Joyous Post-Politics: Street Art and the Pursuit of Consensus after the Morandi Bridge Collapse

Emanuela Guano



Chapter 13. Migrant Saints: Art, Religion, and Activism in Contemporary Naples

Magnus Course



Chapter 14. Expatriate Sentiment and Real-Estate Investment in Rural Sicily

Antonio Sorge



Chapter 15. Margins and ‘Neotarantism’ in Contemporary Apulia

Giovanni Pizza



Chapter 16. Heritage Populism: How a Hyperplace Turned into a Village

Berardino Palumbo



Part V: Regions & Language



Chapter 17. Contemporary Italian Regional Economies and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Development

Michael Blim



Chapter 18. Dialect Chronotopes: Politics, Nation, and Re-Imaginings

Jillian Cavanaugh



Afterword: Beyond Rhetorical Binaries: The Anthropology of Italy and the Politics of Critique

Michael Herzfeld