Il corpo, nella sua insopprimibile materialit\ue0 e, al contempo, profonda valenza simbolica, cos... more Il corpo, nella sua insopprimibile materialit\ue0 e, al contempo, profonda valenza simbolica, costituisce il luogo dove appaiono maggiormente evidenti le ferite della violenza della Storia inferte dal tempo presente. Il corpo senza vita trasportato dalle onde durante l\u2019ennesimo naufragio mediterraneo. Il corpo assediato, tenuto a distanza e respinto attraverso le frontiere europee. Il corpo esotico venduto e acquistato nei circuiti del sesso commerciale nelle strade delle nostre citt\ue0. Il corpo temuto e, dunque, denigrato e vilipeso, perch\ue9 assurto a simbolo di un\u2019alterit\ue0 inconciliabile con l\u2019Occidente. E, ancora, il corpo sottomesso, subalterno, oltraggiato. Il corpo silente, tacitato, di chi si \ue8 trovato a misurarsi con la dimensione dell\u2019orrore e dell\u2019indicibile e che appare oramai denudato, oltre che dei diritti, di ogni valenza umana. Corpi apparentemente relegati negli interstizi pi\uf9 oscuri della nostra modernit\ue0 che interpellano e i...
L'uso specializzato della violenza e del terrore ha da sempre costituito una delle caratteris... more L'uso specializzato della violenza e del terrore ha da sempre costituito una delle caratteristiche distintive della mafia e una componente essenziale dell'agire mafioso. Ma interrogarsi sul significato che essa assume e sulle modalit\ue0 attraverso cui viene amministrata significa confrontarsi con un universo difficilmente inquadrabile all'interno di cornici di senso gi\ue0 definite. Il saggio, sulla base dei risultati di una ricerca realizzata dall'Autrice sulla violenza armata delle mafie nelle regioni meridionali, propone una riflessione sulle dimensioni individuali e sociali della violenza mafiosa, tentando di coniugare la micro-sociologia degli atti di violenza, anche estrema, praticati dalle mafie, con un'analisi di pi\uf9 largo respiro a livello macro-sociale
Un'analisi sul fenomeno del pentitismo all'interno dell'organizzazione mafiosa Sacra ... more Un'analisi sul fenomeno del pentitismo all'interno dell'organizzazione mafiosa Sacra Corona Unita attraverso la disamina di alcuni casi
L'articolo \ue8 un intervento in un forum promosso dalla Rivista "Meridiana" sulla ... more L'articolo \ue8 un intervento in un forum promosso dalla Rivista "Meridiana" sulla violenza delle mafie oggi. Vi si sostiene la tesi che nelle regioni del Nord, contrariamente a quel che molti operatori e opinionisti credono, la violenza mafiosa non sia strategicamente assente ma abbia definito delle sue specifiche modalit\ue0 di realizzzazione. Essa si sviluppa cio\ue8 in forme di piccola-media intensit\ue0, dirigendosi verso le cose pi\uf9 che verso le persone. L'effetto \ue8 comunque tale da condizionare non solo la libert\ue0 di mercato ma anche le libert\ue0 politiche, a partire dai comuni minori, lontani dalle attenzioni della stampa e della politica nazionali
This chapter provides an overview of the history, characteristics, strategies and most recent evo... more This chapter provides an overview of the history, characteristics, strategies and most recent evolution of the Sacra Corona Unita, a relatively new mafia-type organisation, born between the late 1970s and early 1980s in a southern Italian region \u2013 Apulia \u2013 where no traditional forms of mafia-type organisations had ever been recorded before. The organisation reached its peak of success in the 1990s thanks in part to its close relationships with members of both the \u2018Ndrangheta and Camorra. Since the early 2000s, law enforcement operations have heavily impacted the organisation, whose internal weaknesses have thereby been laid bare. While it is often asserted that this group is now defunct, the chapter points to a more complex interpretation and to the emergence of a \u2018second generation\u2019
Eurafrican Migration: Legal, Economic and Social Responses to Irregular Migration, 2015
The chapter reconstructs in detail the alternative itineraries taken by migrants moving from Afri... more The chapter reconstructs in detail the alternative itineraries taken by migrants moving from Africa to Italy. Identifying their shared experiences, it explores the violence and danger faced by irregular migrants, concluding that the relationship between those making and those facilitating the journey is intrinsically asymmetrical. In arguing that the securitisation of Europe’s territory is a failing policy, the chapter recommends the adoption of the more flexible response to immigration taken by developing countries in Europe’s neighbouring regions.
In the span of 52 days in 1992, two horrific bomb attacks in Palermo killed Sicilian judges Giova... more In the span of 52 days in 1992, two horrific bomb attacks in Palermo killed Sicilian judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife Francesca Morvillo, and eight police agents who were part of their armed escorts. The murders provoked mass demonstrations against the mafia in Italy and marked the beginning of a stunning escalation of violence by the Sicilian mafia against the Italian state. Tensions culminated with a terrorist bombing campaign on the mainland in 1993, when bombs planted in Florence, Milan, and Rome killed ten people and wounded more than 70 (CPIFCOMS, 2010a, pp. 10-11). The impressive amount of explosives used in these 'military-style' actions provoked public astonishment and harsh law enforcement countermeasures, unprecedented in the contemporary history of Italian mafia operations. The Sicilian mafia, like similar organized crime groups based in Italy, has always adopted violence as a last resort, namely when preferred alternatives-such as non-violent displays of strength or threats-cannot achieve the same results. Yet the professionalized use of firearms and explosives remains a characteristic feature of mafia organizations. The use of violence and intimidation against competitors and opponents enables these groups to enhance their reputation and acquire privileged positions in the markets in which they operate, whether legal or illegal. Thus, mafia-type organizations have generally relied on the availability of weapons. This chapter examines patterns, rules, changes, and variations in the use of armed violence by organized crime groups across Italy, focusing specifically on traditional mafia-type organizations. It also reviews available information on firearm acquisition, storage, and use by these groups. Key findings include: • Organized crime groups tend to make 'economical' use of violence, and deliberate killings are typically the last resort. This principle varies by group, however, with some acting less restrainedly than others in the use of armed violence to solve disputes, overcome problems related to their businesses, and maintain territorial control. • The Camorra group, historically rooted in Naples and surrounding areas, is responsible for almost half (48 per cent) of all mafia homicides documented in Italy over the period 1992-2010 (see Table 4.1). A greater availability of firearms in the region, a stronger presence of organized crime members, and recurrent conflicts among clans may partly explain the group's predominance in violence. • Mafia homicides declined by some 43 per cent from 2007 to 2010 (see Table 4.1). Analysts suggest that organized crime groups have entered a submersion phase, moving further into legal markets in which the use of violence and firearms is increasingly counterproductive to business operations. • Most mafia clans maintain their own arsenals of collectively held firearms, with selected members in charge of procuring, storing, maintaining, and distributing firearms in response to requests or circumstances. 4 76 SMALL ARMS SURVEY 2013 The organized crime scene is dominated by the Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and the Sacra Corona Unita. MAFIA VIOLENCE 77 with countries in Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia acting as the source for illegal goods and services intended for Western markets. Among the principal foreign criminal organizations operating in Italy, law enforcement agencies note Balkan, Chinese, and Nigerian syndicates, as well as Russian and North African organized crime groups. These are mostly involved in smuggling illegal immigrants, trafficking humans and drugs, prostitution, counterfeiting, and money laundering (DNA, 2011, pp. 151-60). Although the outcomes of investigations confirm growing cooperation between Italian mafia-type groups and foreign criminal organizations in the management of illegal markets such as drugs, the latter tend to operate within specific sectors of criminal activities and in areas where mafia control is less intense (p. 152).
Partendo dal percorso di ricerca dell\u2019Autrice nel campo delle migrazioni cosiddette \u2018ir... more Partendo dal percorso di ricerca dell\u2019Autrice nel campo delle migrazioni cosiddette \u2018irregolari\u2019 attraverso il Mediterraneo, delle nuove declinazioni del razzismo e del pregiudizio in Europa, soprattutto a partire dall\u201911/9, e delle espressioni concrete della violenza razzista nelle sfere della quotidianit\ue0, soprattutto da una prospettiva di genere, il contributo intende riflettere sui meccanismi di produzione sociale dell\u2019indifferenza che hanno acquisito crescente visibilit\ue0 soprattutto negli anni della cosiddetta \u2018crisi migratoria\u2019 in Europa. Anni caratterizzati da un clima di insensibilit\ue0 collettiva dilagante e di anestesia culturale generalizzata nei confronti dello spettacolo dell\u2019orrore che si va consumando in misura crescente lungo le aree di confine, dove retorica umanitaria e discorso sicuritario sono divenuti nuovamente le parole-chiave attorno a cui sembra ancora declinarsi il discorso pubblico odierno sulle migrazioni. So...
During the past twenty years, biographical research, which had significantly declined in post-war... more During the past twenty years, biographical research, which had significantly declined in post-war sociological inquiry, has gained new visibility and become an established field within scientific social research. This revival has allowed biographical analysis to expand its scope and to move beyond disciplinary borders, while exploring new research perspectives and innovative methods integrating narrative, ethnographic, and discourse approaches. The core question of the biographical approach, however, aimed at understanding how changes in society are connected with varying organizations of the self and family, work, life and generational relations, as well as institutional settings, is currently confronted with major issues of globalizing societies and new forms of communication. Different concepts of biography and life story rooted in different societal organizations and cultural traditions of narratives have appeared and started to interact, while new media and visual practices of ...
Il corpo, nella sua insopprimibile materialit\ue0 e, al contempo, profonda valenza simbolica, cos... more Il corpo, nella sua insopprimibile materialit\ue0 e, al contempo, profonda valenza simbolica, costituisce il luogo dove appaiono maggiormente evidenti le ferite della violenza della Storia inferte dal tempo presente. Il corpo senza vita trasportato dalle onde durante l\u2019ennesimo naufragio mediterraneo. Il corpo assediato, tenuto a distanza e respinto attraverso le frontiere europee. Il corpo esotico venduto e acquistato nei circuiti del sesso commerciale nelle strade delle nostre citt\ue0. Il corpo temuto e, dunque, denigrato e vilipeso, perch\ue9 assurto a simbolo di un\u2019alterit\ue0 inconciliabile con l\u2019Occidente. E, ancora, il corpo sottomesso, subalterno, oltraggiato. Il corpo silente, tacitato, di chi si \ue8 trovato a misurarsi con la dimensione dell\u2019orrore e dell\u2019indicibile e che appare oramai denudato, oltre che dei diritti, di ogni valenza umana. Corpi apparentemente relegati negli interstizi pi\uf9 oscuri della nostra modernit\ue0 che interpellano e i...
L'uso specializzato della violenza e del terrore ha da sempre costituito una delle caratteris... more L'uso specializzato della violenza e del terrore ha da sempre costituito una delle caratteristiche distintive della mafia e una componente essenziale dell'agire mafioso. Ma interrogarsi sul significato che essa assume e sulle modalit\ue0 attraverso cui viene amministrata significa confrontarsi con un universo difficilmente inquadrabile all'interno di cornici di senso gi\ue0 definite. Il saggio, sulla base dei risultati di una ricerca realizzata dall'Autrice sulla violenza armata delle mafie nelle regioni meridionali, propone una riflessione sulle dimensioni individuali e sociali della violenza mafiosa, tentando di coniugare la micro-sociologia degli atti di violenza, anche estrema, praticati dalle mafie, con un'analisi di pi\uf9 largo respiro a livello macro-sociale
Un'analisi sul fenomeno del pentitismo all'interno dell'organizzazione mafiosa Sacra ... more Un'analisi sul fenomeno del pentitismo all'interno dell'organizzazione mafiosa Sacra Corona Unita attraverso la disamina di alcuni casi
L'articolo \ue8 un intervento in un forum promosso dalla Rivista "Meridiana" sulla ... more L'articolo \ue8 un intervento in un forum promosso dalla Rivista "Meridiana" sulla violenza delle mafie oggi. Vi si sostiene la tesi che nelle regioni del Nord, contrariamente a quel che molti operatori e opinionisti credono, la violenza mafiosa non sia strategicamente assente ma abbia definito delle sue specifiche modalit\ue0 di realizzzazione. Essa si sviluppa cio\ue8 in forme di piccola-media intensit\ue0, dirigendosi verso le cose pi\uf9 che verso le persone. L'effetto \ue8 comunque tale da condizionare non solo la libert\ue0 di mercato ma anche le libert\ue0 politiche, a partire dai comuni minori, lontani dalle attenzioni della stampa e della politica nazionali
This chapter provides an overview of the history, characteristics, strategies and most recent evo... more This chapter provides an overview of the history, characteristics, strategies and most recent evolution of the Sacra Corona Unita, a relatively new mafia-type organisation, born between the late 1970s and early 1980s in a southern Italian region \u2013 Apulia \u2013 where no traditional forms of mafia-type organisations had ever been recorded before. The organisation reached its peak of success in the 1990s thanks in part to its close relationships with members of both the \u2018Ndrangheta and Camorra. Since the early 2000s, law enforcement operations have heavily impacted the organisation, whose internal weaknesses have thereby been laid bare. While it is often asserted that this group is now defunct, the chapter points to a more complex interpretation and to the emergence of a \u2018second generation\u2019
Eurafrican Migration: Legal, Economic and Social Responses to Irregular Migration, 2015
The chapter reconstructs in detail the alternative itineraries taken by migrants moving from Afri... more The chapter reconstructs in detail the alternative itineraries taken by migrants moving from Africa to Italy. Identifying their shared experiences, it explores the violence and danger faced by irregular migrants, concluding that the relationship between those making and those facilitating the journey is intrinsically asymmetrical. In arguing that the securitisation of Europe’s territory is a failing policy, the chapter recommends the adoption of the more flexible response to immigration taken by developing countries in Europe’s neighbouring regions.
In the span of 52 days in 1992, two horrific bomb attacks in Palermo killed Sicilian judges Giova... more In the span of 52 days in 1992, two horrific bomb attacks in Palermo killed Sicilian judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Falcone's wife Francesca Morvillo, and eight police agents who were part of their armed escorts. The murders provoked mass demonstrations against the mafia in Italy and marked the beginning of a stunning escalation of violence by the Sicilian mafia against the Italian state. Tensions culminated with a terrorist bombing campaign on the mainland in 1993, when bombs planted in Florence, Milan, and Rome killed ten people and wounded more than 70 (CPIFCOMS, 2010a, pp. 10-11). The impressive amount of explosives used in these 'military-style' actions provoked public astonishment and harsh law enforcement countermeasures, unprecedented in the contemporary history of Italian mafia operations. The Sicilian mafia, like similar organized crime groups based in Italy, has always adopted violence as a last resort, namely when preferred alternatives-such as non-violent displays of strength or threats-cannot achieve the same results. Yet the professionalized use of firearms and explosives remains a characteristic feature of mafia organizations. The use of violence and intimidation against competitors and opponents enables these groups to enhance their reputation and acquire privileged positions in the markets in which they operate, whether legal or illegal. Thus, mafia-type organizations have generally relied on the availability of weapons. This chapter examines patterns, rules, changes, and variations in the use of armed violence by organized crime groups across Italy, focusing specifically on traditional mafia-type organizations. It also reviews available information on firearm acquisition, storage, and use by these groups. Key findings include: • Organized crime groups tend to make 'economical' use of violence, and deliberate killings are typically the last resort. This principle varies by group, however, with some acting less restrainedly than others in the use of armed violence to solve disputes, overcome problems related to their businesses, and maintain territorial control. • The Camorra group, historically rooted in Naples and surrounding areas, is responsible for almost half (48 per cent) of all mafia homicides documented in Italy over the period 1992-2010 (see Table 4.1). A greater availability of firearms in the region, a stronger presence of organized crime members, and recurrent conflicts among clans may partly explain the group's predominance in violence. • Mafia homicides declined by some 43 per cent from 2007 to 2010 (see Table 4.1). Analysts suggest that organized crime groups have entered a submersion phase, moving further into legal markets in which the use of violence and firearms is increasingly counterproductive to business operations. • Most mafia clans maintain their own arsenals of collectively held firearms, with selected members in charge of procuring, storing, maintaining, and distributing firearms in response to requests or circumstances. 4 76 SMALL ARMS SURVEY 2013 The organized crime scene is dominated by the Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and the Sacra Corona Unita. MAFIA VIOLENCE 77 with countries in Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia acting as the source for illegal goods and services intended for Western markets. Among the principal foreign criminal organizations operating in Italy, law enforcement agencies note Balkan, Chinese, and Nigerian syndicates, as well as Russian and North African organized crime groups. These are mostly involved in smuggling illegal immigrants, trafficking humans and drugs, prostitution, counterfeiting, and money laundering (DNA, 2011, pp. 151-60). Although the outcomes of investigations confirm growing cooperation between Italian mafia-type groups and foreign criminal organizations in the management of illegal markets such as drugs, the latter tend to operate within specific sectors of criminal activities and in areas where mafia control is less intense (p. 152).
Partendo dal percorso di ricerca dell\u2019Autrice nel campo delle migrazioni cosiddette \u2018ir... more Partendo dal percorso di ricerca dell\u2019Autrice nel campo delle migrazioni cosiddette \u2018irregolari\u2019 attraverso il Mediterraneo, delle nuove declinazioni del razzismo e del pregiudizio in Europa, soprattutto a partire dall\u201911/9, e delle espressioni concrete della violenza razzista nelle sfere della quotidianit\ue0, soprattutto da una prospettiva di genere, il contributo intende riflettere sui meccanismi di produzione sociale dell\u2019indifferenza che hanno acquisito crescente visibilit\ue0 soprattutto negli anni della cosiddetta \u2018crisi migratoria\u2019 in Europa. Anni caratterizzati da un clima di insensibilit\ue0 collettiva dilagante e di anestesia culturale generalizzata nei confronti dello spettacolo dell\u2019orrore che si va consumando in misura crescente lungo le aree di confine, dove retorica umanitaria e discorso sicuritario sono divenuti nuovamente le parole-chiave attorno a cui sembra ancora declinarsi il discorso pubblico odierno sulle migrazioni. So...
During the past twenty years, biographical research, which had significantly declined in post-war... more During the past twenty years, biographical research, which had significantly declined in post-war sociological inquiry, has gained new visibility and become an established field within scientific social research. This revival has allowed biographical analysis to expand its scope and to move beyond disciplinary borders, while exploring new research perspectives and innovative methods integrating narrative, ethnographic, and discourse approaches. The core question of the biographical approach, however, aimed at understanding how changes in society are connected with varying organizations of the self and family, work, life and generational relations, as well as institutional settings, is currently confronted with major issues of globalizing societies and new forms of communication. Different concepts of biography and life story rooted in different societal organizations and cultural traditions of narratives have appeared and started to interact, while new media and visual practices of ...
This collection of work by distinguished scholars provides a unique overview of the multifaceted ... more This collection of work by distinguished scholars provides a unique overview of the multifaceted characteristics of violence currently performed by Mafia groups in Italy by focusing on specific actors—i.e., Camorra clans—but also other traditional Mafia organizations such as Cosa Nostra and ’Ndrangheta; specific contexts—i.e., different territories and different markets, both legal and illegal; and specific practices and performances. Part One takes a diachronic and comparative perspective to provide an overview of Mafias’ violence during the past 30 years, focusing on the three most prominent criminal organizations active in Italy: Camorra, Cosa Nostra, and ’Ndrangheta. Based on the outcomes of a major project carried out by a research group at the University of Naples Federico II from 2015 to 2017, Part Two looks at the use of violence by Camorra clans, incorporating information from case studies, judicial files, law enforcement investigations, wiretappings, interviews with privileged observers, firsthand empirical data, and historical documents and social sciences literature. Using a multi-disciplinary approach drawing from criminology, sociology, history, anthropology, economics, political science, and geography, this book is essential reading for international researchers and practitioners interested in piecing together the full picture of modern organized crime.
A special issue on Biography and Society of the Italian journal Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia c... more A special issue on Biography and Society of the Italian journal Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia containing reflections on the new visibility gained by biographical research within social sciences, while exploring new research perspectives and innovative methods integrating narrative, ethnographic, and discourse approaches. The papers included in the issue, which devote special attention to the experience of migration from a biographical perspective, address the relations existing between social events, historical processes and biographical experiences in the framework of an increasing transnationalization of people’s lives and practices, paying specific attention to the temporal dimension and the differences existing between age groups and generations both in Europe and non-European countries. Thus, contributors deal with both empirical and methodological challenges and innovative approaches addressing the biographical as well as generational aspects of migration, including the use of visual approaches in combination with biographical and ethnographic methods. The issue is closed by an interview with Gabriele Rosenthal by Roswitha Breckner and Monica Massari.
The body, in its irrepressible materiality no less than its profound symbolic value, is the forem... more The body, in its irrepressible materiality no less than its profound symbolic value, is the foremost locus of the scars left by the violence of history and the wounds inflicted by the present day. Lifeless bodies swept up by the tide in the latest of countless Mediterranean shipwrecks. Besieged bodies, kept at a distance and repelled outside the borders of Europe. Exotic female bodies, bought and sold in commercialised sex networks and on the streets of our cities. Feared and, consequently, disparaged and vilified bodies, which thus rise to become symbols of an irreconcilable otherness with respect to the West. And again, subjugated, subordinate and racialised bodies. The silent, voiceless and muted bodies of those who have faced horror and known the unspeakable, and that now appear to have been stripped not only of their rights but of any worth as human beings. Apparently relegated to the darkest corners of our modernity, these bodies raise questions that encourage us to look towards the historical, political and social origins of the suffering they emblematise. And yet, the disquieting memories they bear, carved into their flesh, also dismantle the moral and cultural terrain we thought we had gained. Based on the experience accumulated by the author during her last fifteen years of research in the field of migration, this volume is aimed at providing some means with which to consider the processes through which otherness is constructed in contemporary society. The perspective she adopts brings together an analysis of the phenomena involved, primarily consisting in a number of case studies, and a reflection in the area of social theory.
Università di Firenze, Giornata internazionale per l'eliminazione della violenza contro le donne ... more Università di Firenze, Giornata internazionale per l'eliminazione della violenza contro le donne 2018. Incontro su Donne, violenza, migrazione.
Il 26 e 27 settembre 2019 presso l’Università di Parma si terrà il Convegno “Emancipatory Social ... more Il 26 e 27 settembre 2019 presso l’Università di Parma si terrà il Convegno “Emancipatory Social Science Today”, organizzato in collaborazione con l’Università di Milano, che offrirà l’occasione di riflettere sulla capacità delle ricerca sociale di riuscire a influire concretamente sui processi sociali, in un fase storica caratterizzata da una crisi crescente delle scienze sociali nel riuscire a essere in relazione significativa con i mondi, le questioni e i contesti di cui si compone la società e da una tendenziale depoliticizzazione del sapere critico - spesso ingabbiato all’interno di ingranaggi volti a favorirne più la spendibilità a livello pubblico che non l’effettiva utilità in termini di efficacia. Il Convegno, promosso dal Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Studi Politici e Internazionali dell’Università di Parma e dal Dipartimento di Studi Internazionali, Giuridici e Storico-Politici dell’Università di Milano, con il coordinamento scientifico di Vincenza Pellegrino (Università di Parma) e Monica Massari (Università di Milano), vedrà la partecipazione di oltre 90 relatori e relatrici distribuiti in 15 diversi panel che discuteranno, da diverse prospettive e in una chiave sia teorica che empirica, dei legami emergenti tra teoria, critica e ricerca sociale. Il Convegno intende continuare il dialogo avviato con la pubblicazione del numero monografico “Emancipatory Social Science Today” (1/2019) della rivista Quaderni di Teoria Sociale (a cura di Monica Massari e Vincenza Pellegrino).
Con il patrocinio di: Associazione Italiana di Sociologia-AIS, Sezione “Vita Quotidiana” dell’AIS, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, CIRS-Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Sociale, Università di Parma e Università di Milano.
Comitato scientifico: Vincenza Pellegrino (Univ. di Parma) e Monica Massari (Univ. di Milano) (Coordinatrici); Vando Borghi (Univ. di Bologna), Marco Deriu (Univ. di Parma), Gianluca Gatta (Kobe Univ. Japan), Chiara Marchetti (Univ. di Milano), Giulia Rodeschini (Univ. di Parma), Ambrogio Santambrogio (Univ. di Perugia).
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Using a multi-disciplinary approach drawing from criminology, sociology, history, anthropology, economics, political science, and geography, this book is essential reading for international researchers and practitioners interested in piecing together the full picture of modern organized crime.
Lifeless bodies swept up by the tide in the latest of countless Mediterranean shipwrecks. Besieged bodies, kept at a distance and repelled outside the borders of Europe. Exotic female bodies, bought and sold in commercialised sex networks and on the streets of our cities. Feared and, consequently, disparaged and vilified bodies, which thus rise to become symbols of an irreconcilable otherness with respect to the West. And again, subjugated, subordinate and racialised bodies. The silent, voiceless and muted bodies of those who have faced horror and known the unspeakable, and that now appear to have been stripped not only of their rights but of any worth as human beings.
Apparently relegated to the darkest corners of our modernity, these bodies raise questions that encourage us to look towards the historical, political and social origins of the suffering they emblematise. And yet, the disquieting memories they bear, carved into their flesh, also dismantle the moral and cultural terrain we thought we had gained.
Based on the experience accumulated by the author during her last fifteen years of research in the field of migration, this volume is aimed at providing some means with which to consider the processes through which otherness is constructed in contemporary society. The perspective she adopts brings together an analysis of the phenomena involved, primarily consisting in a number of case studies, and a reflection in the area of social theory.
Il Convegno intende continuare il dialogo avviato con la pubblicazione del numero monografico “Emancipatory Social Science Today” (1/2019) della rivista Quaderni di Teoria Sociale (a cura di Monica Massari e Vincenza Pellegrino).
Con il patrocinio di: Associazione Italiana di Sociologia-AIS, Sezione “Vita Quotidiana” dell’AIS, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, CIRS-Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Sociale, Università di Parma e Università di Milano.
Comitato scientifico: Vincenza Pellegrino (Univ. di Parma) e Monica Massari (Univ. di Milano) (Coordinatrici); Vando Borghi (Univ. di Bologna), Marco Deriu (Univ. di Parma), Gianluca Gatta (Kobe Univ. Japan), Chiara Marchetti (Univ. di Milano), Giulia Rodeschini (Univ. di Parma), Ambrogio Santambrogio (Univ. di Perugia).
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