Peter T. Schneider

Reversible Destiny

Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

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Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Schneider, Jane

ISBN: 978-0-520-92949-4
EAN: 9780520929494
Produktnummer: 21979378
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'755 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Jane C. Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Peter T. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. They are the authors of Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, 1860-1980 (1996) and Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily (1976).