From Clans to Co-ops : : Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily / / Theodoros Rakopoulos.

• Superior document: The Human Economy Series ; v.4.
• Funder: University of Bergen
• VerfasserIn: Rakopoulos, Theodoros,
• Author: University of Bergen
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Human economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) :; illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Problems with Cooperatives -- Chapter 2 The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens -- Chapter 3 Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement -- Chapter 4 Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies -- Chapter 5 The Limits of ‘Bad Kinship’ Sicilian Anti-mafia Families -- Chapter 6 The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries -- Chapter 7 ‘Wage Is Male – But Land Is a Woman’ -- Chapter 8 Community Trouble Cooperative Conundrum -- Chapter 9 Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity -- Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism -- Bibliography -- Index