“Either Everyone Was Guilty or Everyone Was Innocent”: The Italian Power Elite, Neopatrimonialism, and the Importance of Social Relations

Rarely does the Byzantine world of football administration get exposed as clearly as during the 2006 calciopoli scandal. This scandal laid bare the interpersonal relationships of football administrators at the top three Italian men’s football clubs: Juventus, Inter, and AC Milan. This article draws on the media leaks that revealed the inner workings of those working within football to argue that the football clubs are pyramids of power for club presidents that allows them to operate within the Italian power elite. This is done through interpersonal clientelistic networks that operate within a neopatrimonial system. Theoretically, this article draws on four main concepts: C. Wright Mills’s concept of the Power Elite, Lomnitz’s model of “Pyramids of Power,” Eisenstadt’s notion of neopatrimonialism, and Mauss’s utilization of the gift. Power is exercised through quid pro quo relationships, with certain key individuals operating as brokers to the flow of favors throughout the network

L'esilio politico fra Otto e Novecento

L'esilio nella storia italiana degli ultimi due secoli: patrioti e sovversivi nell'800, l'esilio antifascista in Europa e oltreoceano, profughi e fuggitivi, esiliati e latitanti nell'Italia repubblican

L’ Assemblea costituente italiana nell’opinione pubblica europea

Il volume è improntato alla volontà di sprovincializzare il dibattito sulla Costituzione italiana attraverso l'analisi delle reazioni dell'opinione pubblica europea di fronte alle vicende politico istituzionali del nostro dopoguerra.Tale contributo si colloca in un momento politico di difficoltà per la Repubblica nata dalla Resistenza e fondata sulla Costituzione,segnato dalla crisi dei partiti e da un dibattito che spinge verso una revisione costituzionale

The National Museum of Immigration History (Paris; France): Neo-Colonialist Representations, Silencing, and Re-appropriation

This article focuses on the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (National Museum of Immigration History – CNHI, Paris), the only national museum fully dedicated to the celebration of the positive contributions of immigrants to France. Using postcolonial theories and the notion of museum friction, it charts the conflicting processes and decisions at play in, first, the translation of the aims and goal of the CNHI into the museography and interpretation of the collections. Second, it analyses critically the usages made of this heritage space, particularly its unauthorised occupation (one of the longest unauthorised occupations of a museum in France) by illegal workers for four months, from October 2010 to January 2011. I wrote this article from the viewpoint of a second generation immigrant, one of the key targeted visitors of the CNHI. This article is also based on participant observation of each aspect of this heritage space, careful observation of its uses, and semi-structured interviews conducted with the CNHI staff, illegal workers who occupied this heritage space, and human rights organisations which supported its occupation