How elections are fought in Ascoli: kinship,politics, history and culture |
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Authors: | Nevill Colclough |
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Affiliation: | 1. Max Planck Institute for Foreign &2. International Criminal Law |
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Abstract: | Based on fieldwork and archival study in a small north Puglian town, this article explores the complex interrelationship between kinship and politics. In the context of a recent local election, it seeks to show how ties of kinship and affinity provide a moral framework and idiom for civic cooperation, and how shared political ideologies and a common political heritage define and reinforce a sense of lineage identity. It argues that a failure to engage with the implications of 'kinship beyond the household' has both detracted from the analysis of Italian local politics and impeded our understanding of the long-term resilience of wider kinship forms,especially in periods of acute system change. |
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Keywords: | Elections Patronage Social Memory Kinship Mezzogiorno |
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