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New Anthropologies of Italy : Politics, History and Culture /

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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 contribu...

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Other Authors: Ben-Yehoyada, Naor (Contributor), Blim, Michael (Contributor), Brightman, Marc (Contributor), Cammelli, Maddalena Gretel (Contributor), Cavanaugh, Jillian R. (Contributor), Course, Magnus (Contributor), Grotti, Vanessa (Contributor), Guano, Emanuela (Contributor), Herzfeld, Michael (Contributor), Heywood, Paolo (Contributor, Editor), Krause, Elizabeth L. (Contributor), Liston, Noelle Molé (Contributor), Mahmud, Lilith (Contributor), Palumbo, Berardino (Contributor), Peano, Irene (Contributor), Pizza, Giovanni (Contributor), Rakopoulos, Theodoros (Contributor), Schneider, Jane (Contributor), Schneider, Peter (Contributor), Sorge, Antonio (Contributor), Tuckett, Anna (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]
Series:New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations ; 7
Subjects:
Anthropology > Italy > History.
Ethnology > Italy > History.
Political culture > Italy > History.
Anthropologie > Italie > Histoire.
Ethnologie > Italie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Back to the Future
  • Part I. Migration
  • Chapter 1. Performing Incompetence: Race and Migration in Italy
  • Chapter 2. Not So 'Other': Challenging Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Italy
  • Chapter 3. A Return to Life: Narratives of Birth and Death in a Southern European Periphery
  • Chapter 4. 'An Unjustified Revolt': Italian Political Discourse and Chinese Migrant Resistance to Inspection Culture
  • Part II. Populism
  • Chapter 5. Making Fascism History in 'The Land of the Duce'
  • Chapter 6. Mediatic Squadrism: Myths, Symbols and Identity in Third Millennium Fascism
  • Chapter 7. Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: Spaces of Occlusion and Recursion in Contemporary Tavoliere
  • Chapter 8. Demonizing Fake News in a Post-Truth Political World
  • Part III. Mafia
  • Chapter 9. Omertà: Violence and Cultural Practices
  • Chapter 10. Anti-Mafia, Unscripted: On Discourse, Moral Borders and the Public Space
  • Chapter 11. Speech in Gommopoli
  • Part IV. Heritage
  • Chapter 12. Joyous Post-Politics: Street Art and the Pursuit of Consensus after the Morandi Bridge Collapse
  • Chapter 13. Migrant Saints: Art, Religion and Activism in Contemporary Naples
  • Chapter 14. Expatriate Relocation and Real Estate Investment in Sicily: Sentiment, Sociality and New Beginnings
  • Chapter 15. Margins of 'Neotarantism' in Contemporary Apulia
  • Chapter 16. Heritage Populism: How a Hyper-Place Turned into a Village
  • Part V. Regions and Language
  • Chapter 17. Contemporary Italian Regional Economies and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Development
  • Chapter 18. Dialect Chronotopes: Politics, Nation and Re-Imaginings
  • Afterword. Beyond Rhetorical Binaries: The Anthropology of Italy and the Politics of Critique
  • Index