From Clans to Co-ops

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).

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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