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Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Peter T. Schneider
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Description for Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Paperback. Tracing the history of the Sicilian mafia to its 19th-century roots, this text examines its late-20th-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, the book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 b/w illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSTC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBT; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to ... Read more
Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
504g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520236097
SKU
V9780520236097
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About Peter T. Schneider
Jane C. Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Peter T. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. They are the authors of Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860-1980 (1996) and Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily (1976).
Reviews for Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
The Schneiders have performed a near miracle: an accurate, objective, and very readable account of the Palermo anti-mafia movement, its roots, its accomplishments, its shortcomings, and its prospects. This should be obligatory reading for anyone concerned with the consequences of organized crime and corruption for civic life. Jane and Peter Schneider have done it again! Far from utopian, ... Read more