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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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L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia

Laboratoire Italien, 2019
Between 1979 and 1993, the history of Sicily and Italy was marked by a season of systematic violence produced by Cosa nostra against the men of the institutions and civil society most exposed in the fight against the mafia.
Diego Gavini
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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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Un'altra Sicilia. La costruzione turistica del regno antimafia.

, 2022
Tourism encompasses a variety of semiotic performances overwriting cities’ identity. This paper focuses on the rebranding of Palermo as “the capital of antimafia” through an ethnosemiotic analysis of four tours sponsored by the antimafia association ...
Carlo Andrea Tassinari
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Antimafia e movimenti delle donne. Protagoniste, culture e linguaggi

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2016
Il saggio analizza il ruolo giocato dalle donne nei movimenti antimafia  a partire dalla loro presenza –cospicua e importante – all’interno dei Fasci dei lavoratori in Sicilia alla fine dell’800 fino alle esperienze del Comitato dei Lenzuoli e dell ...
Alessandra Dino
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Riflessioni mediatiche italo-belghe sulla ‘ndrangheta in Belgio 2016-2020

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2021
L’articolo mira ad aggiornare la vaga percezione della ‘ndrangheta nelle Fiandre (Belgio), a metà strada fra Italia e Olanda, tramite un’analisi critica delle recenti fonti aperte in italiano e in olandese.
Paul Sambre
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Writing opacity: Going beyond pseudonyms with spirit portraiture

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 90-97, May 2024.
Abstract What does it mean to go beyond pseudonyms? Building on fieldwork with privacy and data protection advocates in Germany, this article incorporates ethical imperatives coming from within and beyond the field, to develop a different mode of writing it calls spirit portraiture.
Vita Peacock
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Crime and violence on the margins of society: How justice‐based power vacuums create deprived neighbourhoods

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract How have crime, conflict, and violence shaped the social structure of neighbourhoods across diverse spatial and temporal landscapes in marginalised urban communities? To address to this central question, this study examines the socio‐political dynamics of New York City and Palermo, as well as the role of authoritarian actors, by juxtaposing ...
Baris Cayli Messina
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