New anthropologies of Italy : politics, history and culture /
"Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their co...
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
2024.
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| Series: | New anthropologies of Europe: perspectives and provocations ;
volume 7 |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction. Back to the future / Paolo Heywood
- Performing incompetence: race and migration in Italy / Lilith Mahmud
- Not so 'other': challenging ideas of citizenship and belonging / Anna Tuckett
- A return to life: narratives of birth and death in a Southern European periphery / Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman
- An unjustified revolt: Italian political discourse and Chinese migrant resistance to inspection culture / Elizabeth L. Krause
- Making Fascism history in 'The land of the Duce' / Paolo Heywood
- Mediatic squadrism: myths, symbols, and identity in third millennium Fascism / Maddalena Gretel Cammelli
- Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: spaces of occlusion and recursion in contemporary Tavoliere / Irene Peano
- Demonizing fake news in a post-truth political world / Noelle Molé Liston
- Omertà: violence and cultural practices / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
- Antimafia, unscripted: On discourse, moral borders and the public space / Theodoros Rakopoulos
- Speech in Gommopoli / Naor Ben-Yehoyada
- Joyous post-politics: Street art and the pursuit of consensus after the Morandi Bridge collapse / Emanuela Guano
- Migrant saints: art, religion, and activism in contemporary Naples / Magnus Course
- Expatriate sentiment and real-estate investment in rural Sicily / Antonio Sorge
- Margins and 'neotarantism' in contemporary Apulia / Giovanni Pizza
- Heritage populism: how a hyperplace turned into a village / Berardino Palumbo
- Contemporary Italian regional economies and the contradictory rhetorics of development / Michael Blim
- Dialect chronotopes: politics nation and re-imaginings / Jillian Cavanaugh
- Afterword. Beyond rhetorical binaries: the anthropology of Italy and the politics of critique / Michael Herzfeld
- Index