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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793599103321

Autore

Zinn Dorothy Louise

Titolo

Raccomandazione : clientelism and connections in Italy / / Dorothy Louise Zinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019

ISBN

1-78920-198-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 pages)

Collana

European anthropology in translation ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

306.20945/7

Soggetti

Patron and client - Italy, Southern

Patronage, Political - Italy, Southern

Italy, Southern Politics and government

Italy, Southern Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: La raccomandazione : clientelismo vecchio e nuovo. Roma : Donzelli, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the art of raccomandazione -- The ethnographic setting -- Patronage/clientelism : some theoretical considerations -- Towards a poetics of patronage -- Raccomandazione, tangente and mafia : an "amoral" family of genres -- Raccomandazione, class relations and the southern question -- Employing the 'little shove' : raccomandazione and work -- "We're not Uganda, but almost" : raccomandazione and southern identity -- Conclusion : raccomandazione and the bourgeois-liberal world order -- Epilogue : what happened when they read what I wrote : Mediterranean clientelism and corruption revisited.

Sommario/riassunto

The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.