Dorothy Louise Zinn

Raccomandazione (eBook, ePUB)

Clientelism and Connections in Italy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789201987
• Artikelnr.: 55352990

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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