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New Anthropologies of Italy : Politics, History and Culture.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heywood, Paolo.
- Series:
- New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations Series
- New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations Series ; v.7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Italy--History.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology--Italy--History.
- Ethnology.
- Political culture--Italy--History.
- Political culture.
- Italy--Ethnic relations.
- Italy.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration.
- Italy--Social conditions.
- Italy--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- 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). 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).
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "New Anthropologies of Italy".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Back to the Future
- Part I. Migration
- Chapter 1. Performing Incompetence: Race and Migration in Italy
- Chapter 2. Not So 'Other': Challenging Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Italy
- Chapter 3. A Return to Life: Narratives of Birth and Death in a Southern European Periphery
- Chapter 4. 'An Unjustified Revolt': Italian Political Discourse and Chinese Migrant Resistance to Inspection Culture
- Part II. Populism
- Chapter 5. Making Fascism History in 'The Land of the Duce'
- Chapter 6. Mediatic Squadrism: Myths, Symbols and Identity in Third Millennium Fascism
- Chapter 7. Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: Spaces of Occlusion and Recursion in Contemporary Tavoliere
- Chapter 8. Demonizing Fake News in a Post-Truth Political World
- Part III. Mafia
- Chapter 9. Omertà: Violence and Cultural Practices
- Chapter 10. Anti-Mafia, Unscripted: On Discourse, Moral Borders and the Public Space
- Chapter 11. Speech in Gommopoli
- Part IV. Heritage
- Chapter 12. Joyous Post-Politics: Street Art and the Pursuit of Consensus after the Morandi Bridge Collapse
- Chapter 13. Migrant Saints: Art, Religion and Activism in Contemporary Naples
- Chapter 14. Expatriate Relocation and Real Estate Investment in Sicily: Sentiment, Sociality and New Beginnings
- Chapter 15. Margins of 'Neotarantism' in Contemporary Apulia
- Chapter 16. Heritage Populism: How a Hyper-Place Turned into a Village
- Part V. Regions and Language
- Chapter 17. Contemporary Italian Regional Economies and the Contradictory Rhetorics of Development
- Chapter 18. Dialect Chronotopes: Politics, Nation and Re-Imaginings
- Afterword. Beyond Rhetorical Binaries: The Anthropology of Italy and the Politics of Critique
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781805395867
- 1805395866
- 9781805395874
- 1805395874
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