Full Description
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos's ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people's lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the 'human' economy.
Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Problems with Cooperatives
Chapter 2. The Anthropology of Co-ops, the Mafia and the Sicilian Lens
Chapter 3. Cooperatives and the Historical Anti-mafia Movement
Chapter 4. Worldviews of Labour: Legality and Food Ideologies
Chapter 5. The Limits of 'Bad Kinship': Sicilian Anti-mafia Families
Chapter 6. The Use of Gossip: Setting Cooperative Boundaries
Chapter 7. 'Wage Is Male—But Land Is a Woman'
Chapter 8. Community Troubles: Cooperative Conundrum
Chapter 9. Divided by Land: Mafia and Anti-mafia Proximity
Conclusion: The Private Life of Political Cooperativism
Bibliography
Index
