The Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in Post-War Calabria.

Collin, Richard Oliver; Walston, James

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“…This chapter draws on the crosslocations approach to claim that the material histories behind both the mayor's offer to me to take away the documents and Ciccio's request for one particular document together demonstrate how histories multiply and layer in order to constitute Petrizzi's relative location. These two requests are fundamentally linked through the comune, the local institution of authority and political power; one that has become increasingly separated from the state (and its resources) since the national government implemented devolution after the 1970s (Walston 1988). The chapter will focus mainly on Ciccio's appeal, although I will return to the mayor towards the conclusion.…”

Section: Joseph J Viscomimentioning

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Green,

Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

et al. 2024

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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Section: Joseph J Viscomimentioning

confidence: 99%