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Mafia

open access: yes, 1969
Im westlichen Sizilien ist 1969 die Polizei die legale und die Mafia die reale Macht.
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National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Organized crime's governance raises questions about mechanisms facilitating the exercise of illegal authority in society. The present research tested the association between masculine honor ideology and the justification of connivance practices facilitating criminal groups' activities.
Alberto Mirisola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Un'inchiesta dimenticata: il Rapporto Sangiorgi riletto da Umberto Santino

open access: yesRivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2019
La “mafia dimenticata” che dà il titolo al recente volume di Umberto Santino (La mafia dimenticata. La criminalità in Sicilia dall’Unità d’Italia ai primi del Novecento. Le inchieste, i processi. Un documento storico. Melampo, Milano, 2017, pp.
Carolina Castellano
doaj   +1 more source

‘Red sanders mafia’ in South India:

open access: yesThe Wild East, 2019
This chapter offers insights into the material assemblage of red sanders smuggling, extending to its recruitment and labour processes and the role of electoral democracy in determining hierarchies and structures of power.
D. Picherit
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Dual‐Edged State Paradox: Fighting for Justice When the State is Unreliable

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Multispecies slavery–environment nexus in resource extraction and animals' ecological politics: Coercive donkey labour in Indian river sand mining

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Coercive animal labour is often state sanctioned as an ecologically friendly mode of sand mining, based on anthropocentric environmental ideology that sees animal bodies as solutions or fixes for often human‐caused environmental crises, even as, incrementally, it causes extreme ecological destruction.
Yamini Narayanan
wiley   +1 more source

Intervista a Umberto Santino: Mafia e storiografia. Premesse culturali e prospettive attuali

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2019
The founder and president of the Sicilian Documentation Center “Giuseppe Impastato” Umberto Santino in the interview given to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 10 October 2019 presents his evaluations on the mafia phenomenon building on the one
Umberto SANTINO, Fausto PIETRANCOSTA
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The Dog Mafia

open access: yesThe Iowa Review, 1972
My discovery that the dogs of the world are able to communicate among them selves arose, in the first place, from particular circumstances in my own life and my relation to canine society. Like many other discoveries in the history of science it did not come suddenly but grew from the gradual and almost im perceptible accumulation of data from various ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Politics of Revenge: Revanchist Populism in San Francisco and the United States

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2045-2065, September 2025.
Abstract This article offers a conjunctural analysis of revanchism in San Francisco across scale. Over the past decade, conservative politicians, media, oligarchs, and organisations have emphasised immigration, homelessness, bureaucratic inefficiency, the opioid epidemic, diversity initiatives, and criminal justice reform to frame San Francisco as a ...
Gregory Woolston, Katharyne Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

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