Paolo Heywood is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at Durham University. He is the author of After Difference: Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory (Berghahn, 2018), Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism (Cornell University Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor of Beyond Description: Anthropologies of Explanation (Cornell University Press, 2023).

“Heywood has done an admirable job in compiling this collection of essays… The overall quality of the selections is very good, and they all share a standardized format—an introduction, a discussion based on textual sources and fieldwork, and a conclusion, followed by endnotes and bibliography — making them ideal for advanced students and scholars… An afterword, succinct but insightful, brings together the common threads emerging from the varied essays and valorizes anthropological research as a useful tool in combating fake news and racism.” • Choice“This is an outstanding and very timely collection that will make a notable and innovative contribution to the field of Italian studies and to the anthropology of Europe more generally. The volume gives a really clear illustration of how classic themes in the anthropology of Italy/Southern Europe/the Mediterranean remain salient (e.g. organized crime, politics, heritage) but have evolved with new and emergent trends...For this reason the volume will be a valuable resource beyond the localized field of Italian anthropology, for anyone interested in key themes in contemporary modernity like migration, populism and heritage.” • Paola Filippucci, University of Cambridge“This is a necessary, well-organized and timely book. It tackles a set of conceptual and methodological concerns thoroughly and comprehensively that are central to anthropology and Italian history.” • Hannah Malone, University of Groningen

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Back to the FuturePaolo HeywoodPart I: MigrationChapter 1. Performing Incompetence: Race and Migration in ItalyLilith MahmudChapter 2. Not So ‘Other’: Challenging Ideas of Citizenship and BelongingAnna TuckettChapter 3. A Return to Life: Narratives of Birth and Death in a Southern European PeripheryVanessa Grotti & Marc BrightmanChapter 4. An Unjustified Revolt: Italian Political Discourse and Chinese Migrant Resistance to Inspection CultureElizabeth L. KrausePart II: PopulismChapter 5. Making Fascism History in the Land of the DucePaolo HeywoodChapter 6. Mediatic Squadrism: Myths, Symbols, and Identity in Third Millennium FascismMaddalena Gretel CammelliChapter 7. Before and after Fascist Bonifiche: Spaces of Occlusion and Recursion in Contemporary TavoliereIrene PeanoChapter 8. Demonizing Fake News in a Post-Truth Political WorldNoelle Molé ListonPart III: MafiaChapter 9. Omertà: Violence and Cultural PracticesJane & Peter SchneiderChapter 10. Antimafia, Unscripted: on Discourse, Moral Borders, and the Public SpaceTheodoros RakopoulosChapter 11. Speech in GommopoliNaor Ben-YehoyadaPart IV: HeritageChapter 12. Joyous Post-Politics: Street Art and the Pursuit of Consensus after the Morandi Bridge CollapseEmanuela GuanoChapter 13. Migrant Saints: Art, Religion, and Activism in Contemporary NaplesMagnus CourseChapter 14. Expatriate Sentiment and Real-Estate Investment in Rural SicilyAntonio SorgeChapter 15. Margins and ‘Neotarantism’ in Contemporary ApuliaGiovanni PizzaChapter 16. Heritage Populism: How a Hyperplace Turned into a VillageBerardino PalumboPart V: Regions & LanguageChapter 17. Contemporary Italian Regional Economies and the Contradictory Rhetorics of DevelopmentMichael BlimChapter 18. Dialect Chronotopes: Politics, Nation, and Re-ImaginingsJillian CavanaughAfterword: Beyond Rhetorical Binaries: The Anthropology of Italy and the Politics of CritiqueMichael Herzfeld