John Dickie
Biographic Data
| ID | 525936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Dickie |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickie |
| SIGNATURE | DICKIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0519-9317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The name ’ndrangheta: History versus etymology
The article uses archival sources to critique the currently dominant etymological approach to the history of the word ’ndrangheta as used to refer to the Calabrian mafia. Scholars such as Paolo Martino and John Trumper have latched onto the word's ancient Greek origins to argue that the mafia organisation that we today call ’Ndrangheta has origins dating back many centuries. Moreover, according to Martino in particular, the flattering connotation…
Antonio Bresciani and the sects: Conspiracy myths in an intransigent Catholic response to the Risorgimento
Antonio Bresciani’s notorious trilogy of novels about the revolutions of 1848, starting with L’Ebreo di Verona , first appeared in the earliest issues of the Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica from 1850. They constitute an intransigentist attack on the Risorgimento, and portray the events of 1848–1849 as the result of a satanically inspired conspiracy by secret societies. This article re-analyses those novels by placing Bresciani in the conte…
Mafia and Prostitution in Calabria, c .1880− c .1940
The rules operative in the two major oath-bound criminal brotherhoods or mafias in Italy today, Cosa Nostra (Sicily) and the ’ndrangheta (Calabria), are notoriously flexible. 1 Antonino Calderone, a Sicilian mafioso who gave evidence in the late 1980s, reflected frequently on these rules; appropriately, his views were themselves flexible. At times he states that the mafia's codes are ‘a bit like the laws of a state'; at other times he emphasizes …
Falcone and Borsellino: The story of an iconic photo
Tony Gentile is a professional press photographer. The shot he took of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino shortly before they were murdered by the mafia in 1992 has become one of the most widespread vehicles of public memory of the two heroic magistrates. Here he is interviewed by John Dickie about how he came to take the picture, and how it became so famous
Blood Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias
A parallel history of the Sicilian mafia, the Neapolitan camorra and the Calabrian 'ndrangheta from their origins until the fall of Fascism
Fuori dal Comune: Lo scioglimento delle amministrazioni locali per infiltrazioni mafiose (Out of the Municipality: Suspending Local Government in Italy as a Response to Mafia Infiltration)
Una catastrofe patriottica: 1908, Il terremoto di Messina
Timing, Memory and Disaster: Patriotic Narratives in the Aftermath of the Messina–Reggio Calabria Earthquake, 28 December 1908
The earthquake that struck both coasts of the Straits of Messina on 28 December 1908 was probably the worst natural disaster in the history of the Italian peninsula. It was followed by an extraordinary movement of public grief and solidarity. These extremely widespread manifestations of patriotism in a country that is frequently thought to ‘lack’ national identity give cause to reflect on the way the notion of national identity is used in the Ita…
The mafia misunderstood – again. A reply
[The Editors have agreed to publish the following comments by John Dickie in response to the review of his Cosa Nostra. A Histiory of the Sicilian Mafia (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004) by Filipp
New Mandarins: How British Foreign Policy Works
Not since Anthony Eden launched the Suez War in 1956 has Britain's foreign policy provoked such intense controversy. Every Government statement throughout the recent Iraq crisis has highlighted the strains of Prime Minister Tony Blair in taking a reluctant country into war. Walking a diplomatic tightrope, he has sought to balance his transatlantic loyalties as a steadfast ally of the United States with his electoral pledge of strengthening Britai…
The nation and the South in the work of Rosario Romeo: A debate between John Dickie, Lucy Riall and Giuseppe Galasso: The idea of nation in Romeo
The last seven or eight years have brought a flood of printer's ink dedicated to the issue of national identity in Italy. At the same time, the new political forces that have emerged since Tangentopoli have all, in various ways, contributed to the re-emergence of patriotism in the language of the public sphere. What would Rosario Romeo have said about this new cultural and political climate? How would he have sought to intervene? It seems likely …
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashi…
Sententiousness and Nationalist Discourse: The Case of Alfredo Rocco
This article considers the normative and hypostatising functions of nationalist discourse, and the necessity of rhetoric to nations and nationalism. It does so on the basis of a case study of sententiousness in the thought of Alfredo Rocco. Rocco was one of the most important Nationalist and Fascist intellectuals and the legislative architect of the Fascist state. His political thought is analysed by taking as a starting point a quirk of the hist…
Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900
Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post Unification period, when the Mezzogiornio
Many Souths: Many Stereotypes
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Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history 1
(1997). ‘Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history. Patterns of Prejudice: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 7-14
Murder by stereotype: Contessa Lara's 'Un omicida' and the two faces of the imaginary South
La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism
(1994). La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism. The Italianist: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 261-285
A Word at War: The Italian Army and Brigandage 1860-1870
Future Directions in Film and Video Classification
The Uncommon Commoner. A Study of Sir Alex Douglas-Home
La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism
(1994). La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism. The Italianist: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 261-285
A Word at War: The Italian Army and Brigandage 1860-1870
Many Souths: Many Stereotypes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history 1
(1997). ‘Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history. Patterns of Prejudice: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 7-14
The Uncommon Commoner. A Study of Sir Alex Douglas-Home
The Uncommon Commoner. A Study of Sir Alex Douglas-Home
Future Directions in Film and Video Classification
A Word at War: The Italian Army and Brigandage 1860-1870
La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism
(1994). La macchina da scrivere: The Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome and Italian nationalism. The Italianist: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 261-285
Murder by stereotype: Contessa Lara's 'Un omicida' and the two faces of the imaginary South
Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history 1
(1997). ‘Largo Bottai’: An attempt to construct a common Italian history. Patterns of Prejudice: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 7-14
Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900
Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post Unification period, when the Mezzogiornio
Many Souths: Many Stereotypes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sententiousness and Nationalist Discourse: The Case of Alfredo Rocco
This article considers the normative and hypostatising functions of nationalist discourse, and the necessity of rhetoric to nations and nationalism. It does so on the basis of a case study of sententiousness in the thought of Alfredo Rocco. Rocco was one of the most important Nationalist and Fascist intellectuals and the legislative architect of the Fascist state. His political thought is analysed by taking as a starting point a quirk of the hist…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist movements, organised crime, literature, art, design, fashi…
The nation and the South in the work of Rosario Romeo: A debate between John Dickie, Lucy Riall and Giuseppe Galasso: The idea of nation in Romeo
The last seven or eight years have brought a flood of printer's ink dedicated to the issue of national identity in Italy. At the same time, the new political forces that have emerged since Tangentopoli have all, in various ways, contributed to the re-emergence of patriotism in the language of the public sphere. What would Rosario Romeo have said about this new cultural and political climate? How would he have sought to intervene? It seems likely …
New Mandarins: How British Foreign Policy Works
Not since Anthony Eden launched the Suez War in 1956 has Britain's foreign policy provoked such intense controversy. Every Government statement throughout the recent Iraq crisis has highlighted the strains of Prime Minister Tony Blair in taking a reluctant country into war. Walking a diplomatic tightrope, he has sought to balance his transatlantic loyalties as a steadfast ally of the United States with his electoral pledge of strengthening Britai…
Timing, Memory and Disaster: Patriotic Narratives in the Aftermath of the Messina–Reggio Calabria Earthquake, 28 December 1908
The earthquake that struck both coasts of the Straits of Messina on 28 December 1908 was probably the worst natural disaster in the history of the Italian peninsula. It was followed by an extraordinary movement of public grief and solidarity. These extremely widespread manifestations of patriotism in a country that is frequently thought to ‘lack’ national identity give cause to reflect on the way the notion of national identity is used in the Ita…
The mafia misunderstood – again. A reply
[The Editors have agreed to publish the following comments by John Dickie in response to the review of his Cosa Nostra. A Histiory of the Sicilian Mafia (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004) by Filipp
Una catastrofe patriottica: 1908, Il terremoto di Messina
Fuori dal Comune: Lo scioglimento delle amministrazioni locali per infiltrazioni mafiose (Out of the Municipality: Suspending Local Government in Italy as a Response to Mafia Infiltration)
Blood Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias
A parallel history of the Sicilian mafia, the Neapolitan camorra and the Calabrian 'ndrangheta from their origins until the fall of Fascism
Falcone and Borsellino: The story of an iconic photo
Tony Gentile is a professional press photographer. The shot he took of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino shortly before they were murdered by the mafia in 1992 has become one of the most widespread vehicles of public memory of the two heroic magistrates. Here he is interviewed by John Dickie about how he came to take the picture, and how it became so famous
Mafia and Prostitution in Calabria, c .1880− c .1940
The rules operative in the two major oath-bound criminal brotherhoods or mafias in Italy today, Cosa Nostra (Sicily) and the ’ndrangheta (Calabria), are notoriously flexible. 1 Antonino Calderone, a Sicilian mafioso who gave evidence in the late 1980s, reflected frequently on these rules; appropriately, his views were themselves flexible. At times he states that the mafia's codes are ‘a bit like the laws of a state'; at other times he emphasizes …
Antonio Bresciani and the sects: Conspiracy myths in an intransigent Catholic response to the Risorgimento
Antonio Bresciani’s notorious trilogy of novels about the revolutions of 1848, starting with L’Ebreo di Verona , first appeared in the earliest issues of the Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica from 1850. They constitute an intransigentist attack on the Risorgimento, and portray the events of 1848–1849 as the result of a satanically inspired conspiracy by secret societies. This article re-analyses those novels by placing Bresciani in the conte…
The name ’ndrangheta: History versus etymology
The article uses archival sources to critique the currently dominant etymological approach to the history of the word ’ndrangheta as used to refer to the Calabrian mafia. Scholars such as Paolo Martino and John Trumper have latched onto the word's ancient Greek origins to argue that the mafia organisation that we today call ’Ndrangheta has origins dating back many centuries. Moreover, according to Martino in particular, the flattering connotation…
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