From clans to co-ops : confiscated Mafia land in Sicily / Theodoros Rakopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rakopoulos, Theodoros, author.

Series:

Human economy ; v. 4.

The human economy ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperative societies--Italy--Sicily.

Cooperative societies.

Agriculture, Cooperative--Italy--Sicily.

Agriculture, Cooperative.

Mafia--Italy--Sicily.

Mafia.

Land use.

Italy--Sicily.

Land use--Italy--Sicily.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos's ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people's lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the 'human' economy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Problems with cooperatives

The anthropology of co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian lens

Cooperatives and the historical anti-Mafia movement

Worldviews of labour: legality and food ideologies

The limits of 'bad kinship': Sicilian anti-Mafia families

The use of gossip: setting cooperative boundaries

'Wage is male-but land is a woman'

Community troubles: cooperative conundrum

Divided by land: Mafia and anti-Mafia proximity

Conclusion. the private life of political cooperativism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rakopoulos, Theodoros. From clans to co-ops.

ISBN:

9781785334009

178533400X

OCLC:

957139267