RT Article
T1 To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 27
IS 4
SP 389
OP 411
A1 Sergi, Anna
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1913615154
AB The ‘ndrangheta is a mafia group from Calabria, Southern Italy. Considerable efforts have been made to understand the structures and the organisation of this mafia, not only in the province of Reggio Calabria where it originated, but also in other Calabrian provinces and even outside the Calabrian region. Building on judicial data from a recent maxi-trial (Rinascita-Scott) against ‘ndrangheta clans in the province of Vibo Valentia, we build a theoretical approach based on narrative criminology applied to organisational studies of secretive organisations. We find a ‘script of narratives’ emerging from collaborators and affiliates’ stories – about socialisation, discretion, and accreditation - which reveals how recognition and constitution of ‘added’ ‘ndrangheta clans are thought to work. This script helps us understand the constitutive power of narratives in mafias and critically approach the study of such organisations.
K1 Organisational theory
K1 Communication-as-constitution
K1 Narrative Criminology
K1 Calabria
K1 ‘Ndrangheta
K1 Mafia
DO 10.1007/s12117-023-09489-y