From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Theodoros Rakopoulos
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Description for From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Hardback. 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. Series: The Human Economy. Num Pages: 244 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; JHMC; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Human Economy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785334009
SKU
V9781785334009
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99-15
About Theodoros Rakopoulos
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).
Reviews for From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
“Rakopoulos admirably delineates the entwined positionalities of mafia, anti-mafia, workers, administrators, and the state.” • American Anthropologist “Overall, the book should have wide appeal, and will be of interest to scholars of cooperatives, organised crime and counter-organised crime. While the books primarily subject is cooperatives, it would sit comfortable with other ethnographies of organised crime. Moreover, it ... Read more