Libera Terra: i beni confiscati alle mafie per lo sviluppo locale

Maggio, Umberto Di

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“…21. Di Maggio (2009) traces this through organised questionnaires, using categories such as 'anti-mafia commitment', 'liberation', and 'change' in order to map what motivated people to apply for a job in the cooperatives. 22.…”

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From Clans to Co-Ops

Rakopoulos

2017

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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

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From Clans to Co-Ops

Rakopoulos

2017

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Organized Crime as Global Social Problem

Maggio

Verde

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems

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A tale of reverse deviance: non-compliant spatial practices in the land of Gomorrah

Trifuoggi

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Racketeering local activities, though less relevant in terms of financial turnover, still represents a distinctive feature of mafia-like organisations for it provides them with striking social power. Mafias constitute indeed forms of governance that heavily rely on the acquiescence, if not on the consensus, of the community which they are rooted in. I thus argue that territoriality is critical for a comprehensive understanding of the mafia phenomenon: territories contribute to the reproduction of mafia groups not only in ecological terms, providing human and economic resources to organised crime, but also in cultural ones, forming symbolic and representational spaces that play an active role in the socialisation of the norms at the bottom of people's compliance. The production of space in areas policed by mafia groups is the dynamics that I sought to account for by undertaking field research in the surroundings of Caserta, also known as Gomorrah, where the clout of the Camorra (the Neapolitan mafia) is notorious and yet to be tarnished. I focused on non-compliant spatial practices for illuminating, by contrast, how space takes part to the construction of the mafia governance: the findings presented in this paper come from participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted in former properties of the Camorra where two worker cooperatives installed themselves and started legal businesses in outright contrast with organised crime. This process of reterritorialisation, I argue, discloses the sociological intersection between space and mafia, raising relevant policy implications about the fight against such form of organised crime.2

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Libera Terra: i beni confiscati alle mafie per lo sviluppo locale

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From Clans to Co-Ops

From Clans to Co-Ops

Organized Crime as Global Social Problem

A tale of reverse deviance: non-compliant spatial practices in the land of Gomorrah

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