Cursing the city. A comparative socio-historical study of denunciations of urban corruption Nicolas Maisetti, Cesare Mattina (eds.)
Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021, 284 p.
A corruption scandal, elected officials accused of clientelism, favoritism, profiteering, links to organized crime… Could this happen anywhere? Not necessarily, because there are cities where such denunciations are more frequent than elsewhere, cities that are cursed and have a bad reputation. This book analyzes the indictment of public impropriety, which leads to the stigmatization of certain cities. It explores different eras and several European and North American cities.