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Author Zinn, Dorothy Louise, author

Title Raccomandazione : clientelism and connections in Italy / Dorothy Louise Zinn
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series European anthropology in translation ; Volume 7
European anthropology in translation ; v. 7.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis Patrongage-clientelism, Patronage, Corruption, Southern Italy, Basilicata
Notes Translation of: La raccomandazione : clientelismo vecchio e nuovo. Roma : Donzelli, 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Patron and client -- Italy, Southern
Patronage, Political -- Italy, Southern
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Patron and client
Patronage, Political
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Italy, Southern -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069043
Italy, Southern -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069047
Subject Southern Italy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018059946
ISBN 1789201985
9781789201987
Other Titles Raccomandazione. English