Italo Pardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 80308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Italo Pardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Italo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pardo |
| SIGNATURE | PARDO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de la República de Uruguay |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6185-1082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond Lowest‐Low Fertility: Why Post‐Transitional Populations Follow Divergent Paths
This paper argues for a paradigm shift in demography, moving beyond the alarmist and deterministic narratives fixated on “lowest‐low fertility (LLF)” (total fertility rate ≤ 1.3). Initially a useful heuristic, the LLF concept now obscures more than it reveals, as it conflates vastly different demographic trajectories across an increasingly heterogeneous global landscape. We demonstrate that factors like international migration, mortality reductio…
Long-Term Trends of Partner Age Differences by Educational Pairings: An Exploratory Study in Four Countries
Although extensive research has been conducted on the evolving patterns of educational assortative mating, the interplay between this phenomenon and partners' age differences has received limited attention.This study offers a twofold contribution.First, it examines trends in both age and educational assortative mating over 5 decades across four countries.Second, it explores age-difference trends in educationally heterogamous and homogamous couple…
Evidencia Internacional Sobre Políticas De Fecundidad Y Las Propuestas Para El Caso Uruguayo
Este artículo presenta una sistematización de la evidencia internacional acerca del efecto de políticas que buscan influir en la fecundidad y analiza las que recién se han propuesto en Uruguay. Se concluye que es infrecuente el aumento de los nacimientos tras políticas de incentivo a la natalidad. No obstante, puede resultar provechosa la implementación de un conjunto coherente de políticas que incluyan un amplio acceso a cuidados infantiles y tr…
Fertility Decline to Low and Lowest-Low Levels in Latin America
Comment s'articulent les différences d'âge et les niveaux d'éducation dans le couple: Une étude des tendances à long terme dans quatre pays
De nombreuses études ont cherché à comprendre la tendance à l’union entre individus de même niveau d’éducation. Cependant, l’interaction entre ce phénomène et les différences d’âge entre les conjoints reste peu étudiée. Cette étude apporte une double contribution. Tout d’abord, elle examine comment les écarts d’âge entre conjoints et l’homogamie éducative ont évolué dans la population de quatre pays sur cinq décennies. Deuxièmement, elle analyse …
The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016-2021)
BACKGROUND: In recent years, fertility rates have declined substantially in most Latin American countries. Uruguay has been at the forefront of this regional process, as the country’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2 children per woman in 2015 to 1.37 in 2021 (and continued to drop to 1.28 in 2022, according to preliminary data). OBJECTIVE: We decompose fertility decline by age and birth order in Uruguay, and identify the probable mechanisms…
The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological Perspectives
Diverging reproductive outcomes by maternal education during the Covid‐19 pandemic across Brazilian and Colombian regions
This work contributes to the current understanding of the heterogeneous impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on fertility. Using more than 36.4 million birth and death records for Brazil and Colombia (2015–2021), we document state‐level correlations between the intensity of the pandemic, measured by the current and 9‐month lagged excess mortality, and the observed number of births relative to a Covid‐19‐free hypothetical scenario. We disaggregate thes…
Gender-role attitudes and fertility ideals in Latin America
Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological Perspectives
Disparities in Gender Preference and Fertility: Southeast Asia and Latin America in a Comparative Perspective
Legal yet Illegitimate Governance in Italy
For several decades Naples has exemplified the deficit of legitimacy that now outstandingly mars public life in Italy and across many democracies. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from extended anthropological field research, this article examines the increasing gap between rulers and the ruled, which jeopardizes the authority, therefore legitimacy, of governance. With a focus on this major Italian city, the discussion leads to the conclusion tha…
Las trayectorias de las mujeres sin hijos en Uruguay
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la población de mujeres uruguayas que finalizan su vida reproductiva sin hijos. Además de cuantificar el fenómeno, se busca responder las siguientes preguntas: ¿qué rasgos socioeconómicos las caracterizan?; ¿cuáles son las trayectorias típicas que conducen a la nuliparidez?; ¿en qué medida es el resultado de aspiraciones reproductivas frustradas o de la voluntad de no tener hijos? Para responder estas pregu…
Fatherhood after Union Breakup in Uruguay: Transitory or Life-Long Commitment
Rising union dissolution in Latin America-and in much of the world-has increased public concern over the involvement of nonresidential fathers in the lives of their children. At the same time, social norms about post-separation fatherhood have changed, increasingly favoring not only economic support, but also participation in child-rearing. In this article, we (a) examine several dimensions of nonresidential fathers' involvement with their childr…
Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights
Embedding Corruption into Governance: The “Graveyard Affair” in 1970s Naples and its Aftermath
While Italy is not immune to corruption that breaks the law, it provides a test case for corruption that does not break the law and for corruption that is made legal. This article centres on the dynamics and ramifications of “the graveyard affair”. This case of corrupt power networks in late 1970s Naples was an important precursor to the corruption scandal of the 1990s. It produced convictions, leading to apparently significant changes in the loc…
Los espacios de formación integral y el vínculo entre la universidad y el sistema penitenciario: El Caso Del Primer Censo Educativo en La Unidad N° 6
El artículo reflexiona en torno a la experiencia del Espacio de Formación Integral "Educación en contexto de encierro. Primer Censo Educativo en la Unidad N°6", llevado adelante por la Universidad de la República en la cárcel montevideana de Punta de Rieles. En esa experiencia se buscó la articulación de varias disciplinas y el desarrollo integral de las funciones universitarias (investigación, enseñanza y extensión), a través del trabajo conjunt…
Fertility Postponement and Regional Patterns of Dispersion in Age at First Birth: Descriptive Findings and Interpretations
Previous studies have documented an increasing heterogeneity in first-birth timing in countries experiencing the postponement transition. Sobotka (2004), for instance, showed a rising dispersion in age at first birth in developed countries, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, where the timing polarisation between more and less advantaged women is most evident. However, these studies have included few countries outside Europe…
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography
Corrupt, Abusive, and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract
What corruption? In this article, I focus on corruption that does not break the law. I develop an ethnographically based analysis of the impact, on associated life, of governance that is both legal and received at the grassroots level as illegitimate and morally corrupt. Empirical evidence from Naples sheds light on the corrupting impact of ideologically biased governance that today, as in the past, responds to the selective interests and demands…
Between Morality and the Law: Corruption, Anthropology and Comparative Society
Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory
Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region
Contents: Introduction: disconnected governance and the crisis of legitimacy, Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato Italian rubbish: elemental issues of citizenship and governance, Italo Pardo Urban mixes and urban divisions in contemporary Israeli cities, Alex Weingrod Displacement of citizenship: the multicultural reality of Slovene Istria, Mateja Sedmak Stereotypes and other lies. The media and the construction of racial hatred, Margarida Fernande…
Les élites italiennes à l’œuvre: Un regard urbain
Le positionnement de l’anthropologie urbaine
Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure
Italo Pardo's "Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure" offers an ethnographic exploration of Neapolitan society, examining how individuals navigate complex social structures and moral dilemmas in their daily lives. Focusing on the working-class neighborhood of Sanità, Pardo analyzes the interplay between individual agency and structural constraints, demonstrating how residents strategically manipulate social networks, moral …
Diverging patterns of fertility decline in Uruguay
The total fertility rate (TFR) in Uruguay fell from 2.5 to 1.9 children per woman between 1996 and 2011. However, no study to date has examined the decline of the TFR by observing changes in fertility patterns by birth order
Corrupt, Abusive, and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract
What corruption? In this article, I focus on corruption that does not break the law. I develop an ethnographically based analysis of the impact, on associated life, of governance that is both legal and received at the grassroots level as illegitimate and morally corrupt. Empirical evidence from Naples sheds light on the corrupting impact of ideologically biased governance that today, as in the past, responds to the selective interests and demands…
Life, Death and Ambiguity in the Social Dynamics of Inner Naples
Death and mortuary practices in inner Naples are characterised by beliefs and activities related to problematic relationships between body and soul, and between this world and the other world. Death is seen as a process, a transition. This allows some softening of its meaning of social and psychological laceration and allows room for domains of ambiguity, negotiation and mediation which are crucial in the body and soul and in this world/the other…
Fertility Postponement and Regional Patterns of Dispersion in Age at First Birth: Descriptive Findings and Interpretations
Previous studies have documented an increasing heterogeneity in first-birth timing in countries experiencing the postponement transition. Sobotka (2004), for instance, showed a rising dispersion in age at first birth in developed countries, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, where the timing polarisation between more and less advantaged women is most evident. However, these studies have included few countries outside Europe…
Las trayectorias de las mujeres sin hijos en Uruguay
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la población de mujeres uruguayas que finalizan su vida reproductiva sin hijos. Además de cuantificar el fenómeno, se busca responder las siguientes preguntas: ¿qué rasgos socioeconómicos las caracterizan?; ¿cuáles son las trayectorias típicas que conducen a la nuliparidez?; ¿en qué medida es el resultado de aspiraciones reproductivas frustradas o de la voluntad de no tener hijos? Para responder estas pregu…
Fertility Decline to Low and Lowest-Low Levels in Latin America
The big decline: Lowest-low fertility in Uruguay (2016-2021)
BACKGROUND: In recent years, fertility rates have declined substantially in most Latin American countries. Uruguay has been at the forefront of this regional process, as the country’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2 children per woman in 2015 to 1.37 in 2021 (and continued to drop to 1.28 in 2022, according to preliminary data). OBJECTIVE: We decompose fertility decline by age and birth order in Uruguay, and identify the probable mechanisms…
Disparities in Gender Preference and Fertility: Southeast Asia and Latin America in a Comparative Perspective
Fatherhood after Union Breakup in Uruguay: Transitory or Life-Long Commitment
Rising union dissolution in Latin America-and in much of the world-has increased public concern over the involvement of nonresidential fathers in the lives of their children. At the same time, social norms about post-separation fatherhood have changed, increasingly favoring not only economic support, but also participation in child-rearing. In this article, we (a) examine several dimensions of nonresidential fathers' involvement with their childr…
La fecundidad bajo el reemplazo y las políticas familiares en América Latina y el Caribe: Qué puede aprenderse de la experiencia europea
El descenso de la fecundidad en América Latina y el Caribe es un fenómeno inédito y extremadamente veloz. Hoy, numerosos países de la región tienen fecundidad bajo el nivel de reemplazo, incluyendo casos emblemáticos como el de Brasil. Aquí se debate desde qué marco conceptual se pueden comprender las diferentes medidas, programas o políticas que están surgiendo y surgirán en el futuro en relación a temas de fecundidad y familia. Además, se resum…
Who is corrupt? Anthropological reflections on the moral, the criminal and the borderline
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence from Great Britain and Italy, this article examines actions that fall under official definitions of corruption and actions that are not illegal but are widely regarded as morally corrupt. As a social anthropologist, I argue that when dealing with the complexity of corruption and abuses of power, we need to identify what aspects of the system encourage or generate illicit practices (illegal and legal…
Morals of legitimacy in Naples: Streetwise About Legality, Semi-Legality and Crime
This article investigates the relationship of ordinary Neapolitans' morals of legitimacy to legality, semi-legality and crime. It argues that addressing this relationship empirically serves much more than the purpose of making suggestions to be translated into law or policy. Raising key questions about control, value and representation, the analysis brings to light the significance of individual morality and action to the complex relation of domi…
Divisions of Labour
L'esperienza popolare della morte: Tradizione e modernizzazione in un quartiere di Napoli
Comment s'articulent les différences d'âge et les niveaux d'éducation dans le couple: Une étude des tendances à long terme dans quatre pays
De nombreuses études ont cherché à comprendre la tendance à l’union entre individus de même niveau d’éducation. Cependant, l’interaction entre ce phénomène et les différences d’âge entre les conjoints reste peu étudiée. Cette étude apporte une double contribution. Tout d’abord, elle examine comment les écarts d’âge entre conjoints et l’homogamie éducative ont évolué dans la population de quatre pays sur cinq décennies. Deuxièmement, elle analyse …
Living' the house, 'feeling' the house: Neapolitan issues in thought, organization and structure
This article draws on participant observation and casematerial on significant situations and individuals, who live in a small neighbourhood of central Naples. I shall call this neighbourhood 'the quartiere', after local custom. The issues discussed here can reasonably be said to have wider significance, because the old centre is basically sociologically homogeneous. This large part of the city is not, however, socially undifferentiated, as many o…
L'esperienza popolare della morte: Tradizione e modernizzazione in un quartiere di Napoli
"Un contributo all'antropologia delle societa "complesse
Divisions of Labour
Life, Death and Ambiguity in the Social Dynamics of Inner Naples
Death and mortuary practices in inner Naples are characterised by beliefs and activities related to problematic relationships between body and soul, and between this world and the other world. Death is seen as a process, a transition. This allows some softening of its meaning of social and psychological laceration and allows room for domains of ambiguity, negotiation and mediation which are crucial in the body and soul and in this world/the other…
Living' the house, 'feeling' the house: Neapolitan issues in thought, organization and structure
This article draws on participant observation and casematerial on significant situations and individuals, who live in a small neighbourhood of central Naples. I shall call this neighbourhood 'the quartiere', after local custom. The issues discussed here can reasonably be said to have wider significance, because the old centre is basically sociologically homogeneous. This large part of the city is not, however, socially undifferentiated, as many o…
Morals of legitimacy in Naples: Streetwise About Legality, Semi-Legality and Crime
This article investigates the relationship of ordinary Neapolitans' morals of legitimacy to legality, semi-legality and crime. It argues that addressing this relationship empirically serves much more than the purpose of making suggestions to be translated into law or policy. Raising key questions about control, value and representation, the analysis brings to light the significance of individual morality and action to the complex relation of domi…
Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure
Italo Pardo's "Managing Existence in Naples: Morality, Action and Structure" offers an ethnographic exploration of Neapolitan society, examining how individuals navigate complex social structures and moral dilemmas in their daily lives. Focusing on the working-class neighborhood of Sanità, Pardo analyzes the interplay between individual agency and structural constraints, demonstrating how residents strategically manipulate social networks, moral …
Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System (New Directions in Anthropology)
With the growing fragmentation of western societies and disillusionment with the political process, the question of legitimacy has become one of the key issues of contemporary politics and is examined in this volume in depth for the first time. Drawing on ethnographic material from the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, and Africa, anthropologists and legal scholars investigate the morally diversified definitions of legitimacy that co-exist in any one s…
Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and the System
Innovaciones en diseños de la investigación y criterios bilingües de validez
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
La fecundidad bajo el reemplazo y las políticas familiares en América Latina y el Caribe: Qué puede aprenderse de la experiencia europea
El descenso de la fecundidad en América Latina y el Caribe es un fenómeno inédito y extremadamente veloz. Hoy, numerosos países de la región tienen fecundidad bajo el nivel de reemplazo, incluyendo casos emblemáticos como el de Brasil. Aquí se debate desde qué marco conceptual se pueden comprender las diferentes medidas, programas o políticas que están surgiendo y surgirán en el futuro en relación a temas de fecundidad y familia. Además, se resum…
Who is corrupt? Anthropological reflections on the moral, the criminal and the borderline
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence from Great Britain and Italy, this article examines actions that fall under official definitions of corruption and actions that are not illegal but are widely regarded as morally corrupt. As a social anthropologist, I argue that when dealing with the complexity of corruption and abuses of power, we need to identify what aspects of the system encourage or generate illicit practices (illegal and legal…
Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory
Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance: Anthropology in the Mediterranean Region
Contents: Introduction: disconnected governance and the crisis of legitimacy, Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato Italian rubbish: elemental issues of citizenship and governance, Italo Pardo Urban mixes and urban divisions in contemporary Israeli cities, Alex Weingrod Displacement of citizenship: the multicultural reality of Slovene Istria, Mateja Sedmak Stereotypes and other lies. The media and the construction of racial hatred, Margarida Fernande…
Les élites italiennes à l’œuvre: Un regard urbain
Le positionnement de l’anthropologie urbaine
Italian Elite Groups at Work: A View from the Urban Grassroots
Western élite groups' moralities and actions can and should be studied empirically. Contrary to belief held in the 1980s in mainstream social anthropology that fieldwork in the classic anthropological fashion could not be done among the western élite, the findings of long-term research in this field have yielded key ethnographic insights leading to academic and public debate. In this article I draw on ethnographic research on legitimacy, power, a…
Placing Urban Anthropology: The Production of Empirically-based Knowledge and its Significance to Society
Es hora de usar indicadores refinados para estudiar la fecundidad en América Latina
El artículo discute la pertinencia de los llamados indicadores refinados de fecundidad para evaluar el nivel de la fecundidad en los países de América Latina. La principal ventaja de estos indicadores es su capacidad de identificar cuánto del cambio en la tasa global de fecundidad se debe a cambios en la intensidad y cuánto a cambios en el calendario. Los países de muy baja fecundidad están culminando un proceso de postergación de la maternidad q…
Diverging patterns of fertility decline in Uruguay
The total fertility rate (TFR) in Uruguay fell from 2.5 to 1.9 children per woman between 1996 and 2011. However, no study to date has examined the decline of the TFR by observing changes in fertility patterns by birth order
Between Morality and the Law: Corruption, Anthropology and Comparative Society
The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography
Corrupt, Abusive, and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract
What corruption? In this article, I focus on corruption that does not break the law. I develop an ethnographically based analysis of the impact, on associated life, of governance that is both legal and received at the grassroots level as illegitimate and morally corrupt. Empirical evidence from Naples sheds light on the corrupting impact of ideologically biased governance that today, as in the past, responds to the selective interests and demands…
Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights
Embedding Corruption into Governance: The “Graveyard Affair” in 1970s Naples and its Aftermath
While Italy is not immune to corruption that breaks the law, it provides a test case for corruption that does not break the law and for corruption that is made legal. This article centres on the dynamics and ramifications of “the graveyard affair”. This case of corrupt power networks in late 1970s Naples was an important precursor to the corruption scandal of the 1990s. It produced convictions, leading to apparently significant changes in the loc…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (19 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Legitimacy (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)