Mafia Politics

by Marco Santoro

Book Overview

This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia - in particular Cosa Nostra - as a distinct form of politics. Marco Santoro breaks with criminal and economic approaches which see the Mafia as an industry of private protection and rationally calculating wealth accumulation. Instead he argues that it represents an alternative way of organizing political relations, the exercise of power, and the struggle for prestige. Nor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745670687
• ISBN13: 9780745670683
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"