Theodoros Rakopoulos

From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the 3-4 monographs in anthropology specifically on cooperatives and cooperative labour. The first ethnography of the agrarian antimafia movement. The first study to offer an account of antimafia cooperatives. An economic anthropology that explores cooperation in labour and cooperativism. One of the few recent ethnographies on Sicily and the only one on the mafia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781785334009
• ISBN-10: 178533400X
• Artikelnr.: 45697672

Autorenporträt

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is author of From clans to co-ops: Confiscated mafia land in Sicily and editor of The global life of austerity: Comparing beyond Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

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