Marco Santoro - Mafia Politics

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2 Dedication Dedication A Riccardo

3 Title Page MAFIA POLITICS Marco Santoro polity

4 Copyright Page Copyright Page Copyright © Marco Santoro 2022 The right of Marco Santoro to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2022 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7067-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7068-3(pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021938677 by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NL The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

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7 Preface Notes

8 1 Mafia, Politics and Social Theory: An Introduction The Argument The Setting (The Case Study) Where Is the ‘Politics’ in Mafia Politics? Contesting Eurocentric Social Theory A Final Note on Sources and Method Notes

9 2 The ‘Mafia’ in ‘Mafia Studies’: (Re)constructing a Sociological Object An Archaeology of ‘Mafia Studies’, 1860–1900 Towards a Comparative Approach: Hobsbawm’s Pioneering Contribution and the Neglect of American Research on Organized Crime The Modern Wisdom (or Mafia Studies since 1970) Global Mafia (or a Globalization of Mafia Studies) Notes

10 3 What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia? The Rationalist School and Its Foils The Economic Theory of the Mafia From the Economic Theory of the Mafia to Protection Theory Some Problems with the Theory Towards a Political Theory of the Mafia Notes

11 4 The Public Life of Mafiosi The Publicness of the Mafia The Public Lives of Mafiosi Protection as a Field (A First Instalment) The Public Secrecy of the Mafia Notes

12 5 The Mafioso’s Gift, or: Making Sense of an ‘Offer You Cannot Refuse’ Of Gifts and Commodities (and Goods as Well) The Gift and the Mafia The Gift of the Godfather: Giving Evidence to the Argument ‘An offer you cannot refuse’ ‘I am someone who has always cried over the pain of others’ Of hospitality and conviviality Politics of the Mafia Gift Notes

13 6 Blood, Bund and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type Of Brotherhoods and Institutions The mafia and the ‘fraternization contract’ The organization model From brotherhood to Bund Rituals of blood Culture, Writing and Communication Mafia as mode of personal communication Hermeneutics of mafia communication From writing to structure Violence, Communication and Pathos Notes

14 7 Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics Refining the Model: The Political Nature of Mafia Obligation Testing the Model: Questions of Method Testing the Model: Six Tracks for Future Research Was there already ‘mafia’ in ancient Mediterranean civilizations? Secret societies, triads, and the mafia in China Sicily as the future of Russia, again Yakuza, the Japanese mafia Is India the future of Sicily? Looking for the mafia in the US Congress From Mana to Mafia : On the Very Idea of ‘Elementary Forms of Political Life’ Notes

15 Appendix ‘Mafia Studies’ as a ‘Field’ Notes

16 References

17 Name Index

18 Subject Index

19 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 3 Table 3.1: Three ideal-typical research schools/approaches in the field of mafia studiesTable 3.2: Social and intellectual properties of the ETM as a ‘theory group’Table 3.3: Social and intellectual properties of PT as a ‘theory group’

2 Chapter 4Table 4.1: The great divide of public vs. private and its extensions

3 AppendixTable A.1: Most cited social science books on the Sicilian mafia (or US Cosa Nostra)

1 Chapter 1 Figure 1.1: The ‘modern description of Europe’, by Sebastian Münster (...

2 Chapter 2 Figure 2.1: Map of Sicily with the location of the three case studies (Blok 1974; Schneider ... Figure 2.2: Mafia studies, after 1970: a conceptual map (I) Figure 2.3: Mafia studies, after 1970: a conceptual map (II)

3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1: Number of citations of Gambetta 1993–2019Figure 3.2: Minimal social network in the mafia

4 Chapter 7Figure 7.1: The relation between mafia, state and politics, according to mainstream scholars...Figure 7.2: The relation between mafia, state and politics, according to this book

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