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

• Autore: Zinn Dorothy Louise
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.20945/7
• Soggetto topico: Patron and client - Italy, Southern; Patronage, Political - Italy, Southern
• Soggetto geografico: Italy, Southern Politics and government; Italy, Southern Social conditions
• Soggetto non controllato: Patrongage-clientelism, Patronage, Corruption, Southern Italy, Basilicata
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Raccomandazione
• ISBN: 1-78920-198-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793599103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European anthropology in translation ; ; Volume 7.