Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region

ISBN-13: 9781138267695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 234 str.

Italo Pardo; Giuliana B. Prato

Opis

The book brings together a strong field of anthropologists offering in-depth ethnographic studies of urban settings in the Mediterranean region, ranging from Portugal, to Albania and to Israel. Their aim is to initiate a comparative discussion of the relationship between established moralities, politics, law and civil society from a region with a strong tradition of cultural integration.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: disconnected governance and the crisis of legitimacy, Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato; Italian rubbish: elemental issues of citizenship and governance, Italo Pardo; Urban mixes and urban divisions in contemporary Israeli cities, Alex Weingrod; Displacement of citizenship: the multicultural reality of Slovene Istria, Mateja Sedmak; Stereotypes and other lies. The media and the construction of racial hatred, Margarida Fernandes and Teresa Morte; Baltimore, or Boston, in Barcelona: engaging Mediterranean port cities and the new urban waterfront, Fernando Monge; The 'citizen' and the 'transformation' period in Albania: the case of Tirana's periphery, Nebi Bardhoshi; The 'costs' of European citizenship: governance and relations of trust in Albania, Giuliana B. Prato; Between structure and action: contested legitimacies and labour processes in the Piraeus, Manos Spyridakis; The collapse of the Turkish party system and its effects on citizenship and the legitimacy of governance, Kayhan Delibas; Erosion of legitimacy: a Lebanese case of collapsed governance, Marcello Mollica; Index.