From Clans to Co-Ops Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

One of the 3-4 monographs in anthropology specifically on cooperatives and cooperative labour.


The first ethnography of the agrarian antimafia movement. The first study to offer an account of antimafia cooperatives.


An economic anthropology that explores cooperation in labour and cooperativism.


One of the few recent ethnographies on Sicily and the only one on the mafia.

About the author

Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has most recently published on citizenship, property, statehood and conspiracy theory. His book Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus tackles citizenship by investment programmes and elite Russian migration to ‘Europe’ (Manchester University Press, 2023).

Product details

• Authors: Theodoros Rakopoulos, Rakopoulos Theodoros
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9781800737389
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-738-9
• Pages: 240
• Series: Human Economy
• Subjects: Gender, Talk, Community, family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Labour, land tenure, Gossip, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, morality, Italy, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Home, Property, Difference, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology, Neighborhood, Proximity, Antimafia, Rumours, cooperatives, mutual aid, Foodways, Enclaves, Informal Economy, brokers, Standardisation, Cooperative, patrons, Food Politics, cooperativism, food activism, anti-kinship, Antimafia families, anthropology of mafia, anthropology of cooperatives, community economies, bad kinship, peasant dissent, agrarian cooperatives, moral borders, antimafia movement, divisions of labour