Raccomandazione : : Clientelism and Connections in Italy / / Dorothy Louise Zinn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Zinn, Dorothy Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: European Anthropology in Translation ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the English Edition --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione --; Chapter 1 The Ethnographic Setting --; Chapter 2 Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations --; Chapter 3 Toward a Poetics of Patronage --; Chapter 4 Raccomandazione, Tangente, and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of Genres --; Chapter 5 Raccomandazione, Class Relations, and the Southern Question --; Chapter 6 Employing the “Little Shove” Raccomandazione and Work --; Chapter 7 “We’re Not Uganda, but Almost” Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity --; Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order --; Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789201987; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789201987?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dorothy Louise Zinn.

The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.