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  • Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

    The Politics of Black Women in Italy

    by Jacqueline Andall ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations
    The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Italy and its Discontents 1980-2001

    by Paul Ginsborg ...
    In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Making Democracy Work

    Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

    by Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti ...
    Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Civil Society and International Governance

    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

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  • The Moral Neoliberal

    Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

    by Andrea Muehlebach ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation. Set within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in the Lombardy region of Italy, Andrea Muehlebach tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state’s withdrawal ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Can Democracy Be Saved?

    Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

    by Donatella della Porta ...
    Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy.In this highly articulate book, Donatella della Porta analyses diverse conceptions and practices of participatory and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

    by Colin Crouch ...
    The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Movements

    An Introduction

    by Donatella della Porta, Mario Diani ...
    A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences.Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective action in contemporary society. The text draws from theory-driven, systematic empirical research from across the social sciences to ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Rules, Paper, Status

    Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy

    by Anna Tuckett ...
    Whether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over "porous" borders, dominant commentary on migration in Europe has consistently focused on clandestine border crossings. Much less, however, is known about the everyday workings of immigration law inside borders. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Italy, one of Europe's biggest receiving countries, Rules, Paper, Status moves away from ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Italy's Decline

    by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela ...
    Italy is a country of recent decline and long-standing idiosyncratic traits. A rich society served by an advanced manufacturing economy, where the rule of law is weak and political accountability low, it has long been in downward spiral alimented by corruption and clientelism. From this spiral has emerged an equilibrium as consistent as it is inefficient, that raises serious obstacles to economic ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement

    Organisation, Communication and Ideology

    by Filippo Tronconi ...
    In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal councils to act as the watchdog of a professional political class often perceived as corrupt and self-interested. However, in the Italian general elections of February 2013, despite still largely being considered a small protest movement, the party ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Re-inventing the Italian Right

    Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism'

    by Stefano Fella, Carlo Ruzza ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Following his third election victory in 2008, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the most controversial head of government in the EU. This is a cogent examination of the Berlusconi phenomenon, exploring the success and development of the new populist right-wing coalition in Italy since the collapse of the post-war party system in the early 1990s.Carlo Ruzza and Stefano Fella provide ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD