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S’opposer au terrorisme et à la mafia : les luttes citoyennes à Milan (1968-1993)

Laboratoire Italien, 2019
The article analyzes how Milanese society has fought two phenomena that attacked it over the 25 years between 1968 and 1993 (the year of the indictment of the socialist leader Bettino Craxi and the mafia massacre in Via Palestro): terrorism –especially ...
Nando dalla Chiesa
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Lotte civili a Milano, tra terrorismo e mafia (1968-1993)

Laboratoire Italien, 2019
The article analyzes how Milanese society has fought two phenomena that attacked it over the 25 years between 1968 and 1993 (the year of the indictment of the socialist leader Bettino Craxi and the mafia massacre in Via Palestro): terrorism –especially ...
Nando dalla Chiesa
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The Dual‐Edged State Paradox: Fighting for Justice When the State is Unreliable

Sociological Inquiry, Volume 95, Issue 4, Page 689-714, November 2025.
Sociological theories of collective resistance offer insights into how communities mobilize against oppression but often overlook the complexities when the state, an entity relied upon for justice, also acts as an agent of betrayal. Based on 8 years of ethnographic research in Palermo (2016–2024), this study examines the relationship between Sicilian ...
Baris Cayli Messina
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Da Lotta continua alla religione civile. La memoria di Peppino Impastato nelle storie di quattro militanti

Laboratoire Italien, 2019
The essay studies how public memory of Peppino Impastato, killed by the mafia in 1978 in Cinisi, near Palermo, has changed in the decades up to the present day.
Matteo Di Figlia
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The Online Presence of Italian Antimafia Associations

Modern Languages Open, 2020
This tutorial explores the online presence of antimafia associations as a means for critically engaging with their mission and the initiatives that they promote.
Gioia Panzarella
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L'audizione Dalla Chiesa del 4 novembre 1970: scorci su un "metodo" investigativo

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2021
Si propongono qui alcune considerazioni sull’esperienza del colonnello Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa a Palermo tra il 1966 e il 1973. Dalla Chiesa guidò in questo periodo la Legione dei Carabinieri del capoluogo siciliano, dando nuovo slancio alle indagini ...
Ciro Dovizio
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“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 509-516, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Progress, employment and profit: The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo

International Social Science Journal, Volume 74, Issue 252, Page 381-397, June 2024.
Abstract The Sack of Palermo that took place from the 1950s to the 1980s dramatically changed the Sicilian capital's economic and social landscape. Vast tracts of what was agricultural land, including the Conca d'Oro citrus plain, were destroyed as the city was engulfed by concrete. The Mafia played a principal role in this process.
Vincenzo Scalia
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Tutela del mercato e strumenti di contrasto dell’impresa mafiosa

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2023
Il presente contributo analizza i caratteri evolutivi dell’impresa mafiosa all’interno delle regole del mercato ove la stessa costruisce rapporti economici e contrattuali con l’impresa legale.
Pasquale Addesso
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Why temporality matters in collective resistance: Shifting civic norms in a post‐traumatic society

Sociological Forum, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 201-215, June 2024.
Abstract What is the role of civic norms for social change after traumatic events, and how do those norms shape collective resistance? The present study seeks to address this urgent query by examining Sicilians' culture war against the mafia. Based on rigorous ethnographic research over a period of 7 years (2016–2023), an extensive database was created,
Baris Cayli Messina
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