Raccomandazione: Clientelism and Connections in Italy

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 pra...

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1. Verfasser: Zinn, Dorothy Louise (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2019]
Schriftenreihe:European Anthropology in Translation 7
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789201987
DOI:10.1515/9781789201987

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