New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Buch | Hardcover

418 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-585-0 (ISBN)

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Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

Paolo Heywood is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory (Berghahn, 2018), Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism (Cornell University Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor of Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (Cornell University Press, 2023).

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Back to the Future

Paolo Heywood

Part I: Migration

Chapter 1. Performing Incompetence: Race and Migration in Italy

Lilith Mahmud

Chapter 2. Not So ‘Other’: Challenging Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging

Anna Tuckett

Chapter 3. A Return to Life: Narratives of Birth and Death in a Southern European Periphery

Vanessa Grotti & Marc Brightman

Chapter 4. An Unjustified Revolt: Italian Political Discourse and Chinese Migrant Resistance to Inspection Culture

Elizabeth L. Krause

Part II: Populism

Chapter 5. Making Fascism History in the Land of the Duce

Paolo Heywood

Chapter 6. Mediatic Squadrism: Myths, Symbols, and Identity in Third Millennium Fascism

Maddalena Gretel Cammelli

Chapter 7. Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: Spaces of Occlusion and Recursion in Contemporary Tavoliere

Irene Peano

Chapter 8. Demonizing Fake News in a Post-Truth Political World

Noelle Molé Liston

Part III: Mafia

Chapter 9. Omertà: Violence and Cultural Practices

Jane & Peter Schneider

Chapter 10. Antimafia, Unscripted: on Discourse, Moral Borders, and the Public Space

Theodoros Rakopoulos

Chapter 11. Speech in Gommopoli

Naor Ben-Yehoyada

Part IV: Heritage

Chapter 12. Joyous Post-Politics: Street Art and the Pursuit of Consensus after the Morandi Bridge Collapse

Emanuela Guano

Chapter 13. Migrant Saints: Art, Religion, and Activism in Contemporary Naples

Magnus Course

Chapter 14. Expatriate Sentiment and Real-Estate Investment in Rural Sicily

Antonio Sorge

Chapter 15. Margins and ‘Neotarantism’ in Contemporary Apulia

Giovanni Pizza

Chapter 16. Heritage Populism: How a Hyperplace Turned into a Village

Berardino Palumbo

Part V: Regions & Language

Chapter 17. Contemporary Italian Regional Economies and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Development

Michael Blim

Chapter 18. Dialect Chronotopes: Politics, Nation, and Re-Imaginings

Jillian Cavanaugh

Afterword: Beyond Rhetorical Binaries: The Anthropology of Italy and the Politics of Critique

Michael Herzfeld

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-80539-585-8 / 1805395858
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-585-0 / 9781805395850
Zustand	Neuware