From Clans to Co-ops - Theodoros Rakopoulos

From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-400-9 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
The volume is the first monograph on Sicily's rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos’s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people’s lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the ‘human’ economy.

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has most recently published on citizenship, property, statehood and conspiracy theory. His book Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus tackles citizenship by investment programmes and elite Russian migration to ‘Europe’ (Manchester University Press, 2023).

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chapter 1. Problems with Cooperatives

Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens

Chapter 3. Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement

Chapter 4. Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies

Chapter 5. The Limits of ‘Bad Kinship’: Sicilian Anti-mafia Families

Chapter 6. The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries

Chapter 7. ‘Wage Is Male—But Land Is a Woman’

Chapter 8. Community Troubles: Cooperative Conundrum

Chapter 9. Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity



Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism



Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Human Economy
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-78533-400-X / 178533400X
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-400-9 / 9781785334009
Zustand Neuware
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