Reversible Destiny Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

Name: Reversible Destiny Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
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ISBN: 9780520236097

ISBN-10: 0520236092

ISBN-13: 9780520236097

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jane C. Schneider, Peter T. Schneider

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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 movement to reverse the mafia's economic,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Maps



The Palermo Crucible



The Genesis of the Mafia



The Mafia and the Cold War



The Cultural Production of Violence



Seeking Causes, Casting Blame



Mysteries and Poisons



The Antimafia Movement



Backlash and Renewal



Civil Society Groundwork



Recuperating the Built Environment



"Cultural Re-education"



Reversible Destiny


Notes


References


Index