Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria

The essay analyses the relationship between Calabrian civil society and the ‘ndrangheta from the late sixties to the present day. The reconstruction focuses on the Reggio Calabria region. The main thesis is that the relationship between ‘ndrangheta and civil society is not univocal but has three mai...

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Main Author: Gregorio Sorgonà
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions 2019-02-01
Series:Laboratoire Italien
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/2989
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description The essay analyses the relationship between Calabrian civil society and the ‘ndrangheta from the late sixties to the present day. The reconstruction focuses on the Reggio Calabria region. The main thesis is that the relationship between ‘ndrangheta and civil society is not univocal but has three main characteristics : reaction against organized crime (antimafia); indifference to it; compliance with the criminal organizations interests. Therefore, the ‘ndrangheta cannot be considered as an external and opposed subject to civil society. The Calabrian mafia acts rather within civil society, triggering conflicting answers. In the specific case of the reaction against the ‘ndrangheta, the essay proposes a periodization that identifies the most acute phase of this phenomenon in the second half of the seventies and in the nineties. Moreover, the essay focuses on the way ‘ndrangheta changed its internal structure in the last fifty years. Such a transformation was one of the main causes of the first and second ‘ndrangheta wars (1974-1976; 1985-1991): a process which facilitated the involvement of organized crime in Calabrian civil society.
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spellingShingle Gregorio Sorgonà
Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
Laboratoire Italien
civil society
antimafia
history of the Italian republic
‘ndrangheta
Reggio Calabria
title Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
title_full Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
title_fullStr Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
title_full_unstemmed Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
title_short Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria
title_sort societa e ndrangheta il caso reggio calabria
topic civil society
antimafia
history of the Italian republic
‘ndrangheta
Reggio Calabria
url https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/2989
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