Sebastiano Citroni is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures at University of Insubria, Italy. His primary Research interests include Ethnography, Environmental and Urban Studies, Social Theory, Politics and Civil Society.

• Introduction.-On doing “being an ordinary association”.-Chapter 1.- Associations as social antennae.-Chapter 2.-The “civic action” approach.-Chapter 3.-Third-sector organisations in Milan.-emerging needs and current transformations.-Chapter 4.-The dissociative outcome of associative efforts.-Chapter 5.-A festival to address the social needs of the neighbourhood.-Chapter 6.- As water is to fish.-An inquiry into the origins of scene styles.-Conclusions.-Depoliticisation inside out.-the task of “metaphorisation”.

Sebastiano Citroni is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures at University of Insubria, Italy. His primary Research interests include Ethnography, Environmental and Urban Studies, Social Theory, Politics and Civil Society.

• Introduction.-On doing “being an ordinary association”.-Chapter 1.- Associations as social antennae.-Chapter 2.-The “civic action” approach.-Chapter 3.-Third-sector organisations in Milan.-emerging needs and current transformations.-Chapter 4.-The dissociative outcome of associative efforts.-Chapter 5.-A festival to address the social needs of the neighbourhood.-Chapter 6.- As water is to fish.-An inquiry into the origins of scene styles.-Conclusions.-Depoliticisation inside out.-the task of “metaphorisation”.

Sebastiano Citroni is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures at University of Insubria, Italy. His primary Research interests include Ethnography, Environmental and Urban Studies, Social Theory, Politics and Civil Society.

• Introduction.-On doing “being an ordinary association”.-Chapter 1.- Associations as social antennae.-Chapter 2.-The “civic action” approach.-Chapter 3.-Third-sector organisations in Milan.-emerging needs and current transformations.-Chapter 4.-The dissociative outcome of associative efforts.-Chapter 5.-A festival to address the social needs of the neighbourhood.-Chapter 6.- As water is to fish.-An inquiry into the origins of scene styles.-Conclusions.-Depoliticisation inside out.-the task of “metaphorisation”.