From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-400-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

Reihe: The Human Economy

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 ‘human’ economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rakopoulos, Theodoros

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Problems with Cooperatives

Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens

Chapter 3. Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement

Chapter 4. Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies

Chapter 5. The Limits of ‘Bad Kinship’: Sicilian Anti-mafia Families

Chapter 6. The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries

Chapter 7. ‘Wage Is Male—But Land Is a Woman’

Chapter 8. Community Troubles: Cooperative Conundrum

Chapter 9. Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity

Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rakopoulos, Theodoros
Theodoros Rakopoulos is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen. He will be Associate Professor at the Social Anthropology Department, University of Oslo, from February 2017.

Theodoros Rakopoulos is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen. He will be Associate Professor at the Social Anthropology Department, University of Oslo, from February 2017.