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La mafia come metodo nell’Italia contemporanea - The mafia as method in the contemporary Italy
This paper aims to analyze the contribution made by the historian Nicola Tranfaglia to the state of historical studies on mafia phenomena, paying particular attention to the publication of his La mafia come metodo also in relation to contemporary ...
Lorenzo Iacoviello
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Gulags, Crime, and Elite Violence: Origins and Consequences of the Russian Mafia
This paper studies the origins and consequences of the Russian mafia (vory-v-zakone). I web scraped a unique dataset that contains detailed biographies of more than 5,000 mafia leaders operating in 15 countries of the (former) Soviet Union at some point ...
Jakub Lonsky
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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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This article explores Okinawa's ongoing status as a “sacrificial system,” wherein specific regions are exploited for national benefit, and the persistent challenges faced by Okinawans due to the disproportionate concentration of US military bases. The Battle of Okinawa is pivotal in understanding how collective memory shapes political identity, yet it ...
Miyoung Kim, Seok won Song
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Intervista a Marcello Ravveduto: Mafia e storiografia. Premesse culturali e prospettive attuali
The historian Marcello Ravveduto, in the interview given to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 10 October 2019, presents his assessments on the mafia phenomenon by building, on the one hand a detailed historical phenomenology of the “mafia ...
Marcello RAVVEDUTO
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Translating the mafia: legal translation issues and strategies
The mafia has long been a mainstay theme in crime fiction, Hollywood cinema productions and TV dramas. Indeed, the popular conception of the mafia outside of Italy has largely been created by books, films and TV programmes conceived, written and produced
Nicholas Whithorn
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Eduardo Lissi, Dorita Adamo‐Lissi and Juan Grotewold in Aberystwyth, Wales, winter 1961. Upon their return to Buenos Aires in 1963, with their PhD degrees, Lissi and Grotewold started a Chemical Kinetics and Photochemistry group in the School of Sciences (University of Buenos Aires).
Silvia E. Braslavsky+1 more
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The mafia psychology and the coexistence systems
One of the main objectives of this paper is the analysis of the systems that allowed the coexistence of three most important, well-known and widespread Italian mafia organizations, on national and international territories, namely: Cosa Nostra ...
Antonino Giorgi+3 more
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L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
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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