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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.
“This is a necessary, well-organized and timely book. It tackles a set of conceptual and methodological concerns thoroughly and comprehensively that are central to anthropology and Italian history.” • Hannah Malone, University of Groningen
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