Un inizio e una fine? La costruzione sociale dei fenomeni mafiosi

L'articolo analizza i fenomeni mafiosi dal punto di vista della loro costruzione sociale-The article adopts a costruptivst approach to analyze the mafia. This work aims to question the dominant representations of criminal organizations, proposed by the media apparatus and conveyed at the level of politics and civil society. The proposed approach will try to outline an interpretative model of criminal organizations, trying to highlight the differences starting from the context in which they are formed, to arrive at analyzing the development and crisis factors, also in relation to contrast strategies. and mobilizations. It will be seen how the Cosa Nostra, with its political and economic articulations, has constituted a very peculiar criminal organization, different from others, and how today, within the global economy, a model such as that of the Sicilian mafia is unacceptable. In the conclusions we will try to support the need for a new, plural interpretation of the mafias that relativizes their significance.