Title: Raccomandazione : clientelism and connections in Italy /
Authors: Zinn, Dorothy Louise,
Year: 2019
Subjects: Patron and client Italy, Southern.; Patronage, Political Italy, Southern.; Patron and client.; Patronage, Political.; Politics and government.; Social conditions.; Italy, Southern Politics and government.; Italy, Southern Social conditions.; Southern Italy
Contents: Introduction : the art of raccomandazione -- The ethnographic setting -- Patronage/clientelism : some theoretical considerations -- Towards a poetics of patronage -- Raccomandazione, tangente and mafia : an "amoral" family of genres -- Raccomandazione, class relations and the southern question -- Employing the 'little shove' : raccomandazione and work -- "We're not Uganda, but almost" : raccomandazione and southern identity -- Conclusion : raccomandazione and the bourgeois-liberal world order -- Epilogue : what happened when they read what I wrote : Mediterranean clientelism and corruption revisited.