Managing Existence in Naples

A thoughtful account of life in Naples, and how moral questions are addressed in everyday choices.

List of contents

1. Issues of anthropological research in urban Europe; 2. Beyond unemployment: work, morality and entrepreneurship; 3. Entrepreneurial morality and ethics among the young: changing social and cultural relations; 4. Acceptance vs discernment: the morals of family, kinship and neighbourhood as resource options; 5. Transgression, control and exchange: the rationality of the ambiguous and the liminal in life and death; 6. The mass diffusion of contacts: redefined power relations, values of representation; 7. The relation of agency to organisation and structure: deconstructed polarizations at the grass roots of democracy.

Summary

Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life of Naples, showing how ethical issues are addressed in everyday life. One of the very few ethnographic studies of a European city, Managing Existence in Naples questions old assumptions and raises fresh issues in the field of urban studies.

Product details

• Authors: Italo Pardo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2014
• EAN: 9780521562270
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56227-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: Cambridge Language Education; Cambridge Language Education
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology