Illegality and the Making of Italy by Hom, Stephanie Malia; Renga, Dana;

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Italy has long been thought of as a terra di mezzo, a land in between, a crossroads where life “above” exists together with life “below.” Italy’s underworld is taken as a given fact, and enjoys a global, if not romanticized, reputation. This volume is a first-of-its-kind study that explores how crime and illegality have served to make modern Italy and Italians. Its chapters set into relief “crime Italian style”: a distinct formation comprised of the porousness between licit and illicit and the malleability of illegality that has distinguished Italy as a nation-state since Unification. From courtrooms to television screens, and mafia dons to political activists, this volume delves into Italy’s criminal patrimony as well as the entanglements between Italian politics and organized crime, how ideas about crime and criminality cross borders and become attached to people, and how the representational force of the media continues to transform who or what is marked as criminal. This volume reconnects Italy to its heritage of crime and punishment to offer a new take on modern Italian identity that recognizes its relationship to illegality as a central, rather than peripheral, attribute.

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INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Crime Italian Style

Stephanie Malia Hom

I: STATE, SOCIETY, & ILLEGALITY

The Trattativa Stato-mafia: Transforming the State of Mafia Affairs

Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Tangentopoli: Justice, Spectacle, and the Making of a New Political Era

Paolo Campolonghi

Making Italians Aware of Italy: National Public Television and Organized Crime (1962–85)

Alessandra Montalbano

From “Cosa Nostra” to “Cosa Grigia”: How Criminal Systems in Italy are Changing after the Arrest of Fugitive Boss Matteo

Messina Denaro!!!Giacomo Di Girolamo

II: CRIMINAL BORDERS

“To Weigh the Hand”: Cheaters, Scammers, and Italianness in São Paulo

Giulia Riccò

Transatlantic Punishment: The Extradition of Silvia Baraldini

Ellen Nerenberg

Terra dannata / dannati della terra: The Convergence of Farmworker, Food Justice, and Anti-Caporalato Movements

Eleanor Paynter

III: DELINQUENT SUBJECTS

Graphologics: Handwriting, Character, and Social Danger

David Horn

A Laboratory of Male Citizenship: The Juvenile Reformatory of Tivoli, 1879–1914

Mary Gibson

Fascist Woman, Delinquent Woman: The Case of Leonarda Cianciulli

Stephanie Malia Hom

IV: PICTURING CRIME

(Transnational) Crime in Italian Silent Cinema

Robert Rushing

Not The Godfather: Two Investigative Films and Organized Crime

David Forgacs

“This Place Hasn’t Changed in 2000 Years”: Transnational Italian Crime Television

Dana Renga

EPILOGUE

George Floyd, Soumaila Sacko, and Alika Ogorchukwu. Performative Anti-Racism and Black Lives in Italy

Angelica Pesarini

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX