Prof | Dr Anna Sergi
@annasergi.bsky.social
Criminology & Organised Crime Professor | from Calabria to Bologna via 🇬🇧 | love 🇦🇺 & podcasts | critical scholar |'ndrangheta/mafia, transnational migration & crime, transculturation & crime, power & crime, ports & crime, cocaine trade |English | Italian .. more
Criminology & Organised Crime Professor | from Calabria to Bologna via 🇬🇧 | love 🇦🇺 & podcasts | critical scholar |'ndrangheta/mafia, transnational migration & crime, transculturation & crime, power & crime, ports & crime, cocaine trade |English | Italian
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My new book | How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad, critical notes on ‘ndrangheta mobility
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Comuni sciolti per 'ndrangheta, da Limbadi a San Luca le urne bucate - Il Fatto Quotidiano
Già dagli anni Ottanta un sindaco dichiaratamente comunista, per quanto anacronistico ciò possa essere nel 2025, si esprimeva contro la ‘ndrangheta locale facendo nomi e cognomi. Anni dopo, la gente c...
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Il mio articolo per Mensile MillenniuM | In Calabria ci sono paesi colpiti anche tre volte dal provvedimento, che spesso non risolve: i bilanci restano in rosso, i partiti all’angolo
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How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad
How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad - Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility; This book challenges existing myths about the international mafia and explores mafia mobility, emphasizing mafias' interconn...
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Today my latest book “How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad. Critical notes on ‘ndrangheta mobility” is out with BUP.
It is about normalising the ‘ndrangheta, not to justify their harm but to stop approaching them as “special”, especially culturally.
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It is about normalising the ‘ndrangheta, not to justify their harm but to stop approaching them as “special”, especially culturally.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/how-to-recog...
La Cosa Nostra in NYC and the NBA 'Rigged Poker Scheme' - did the Italian-American mafia's passion for illegal gambling go too far?
La Cosa Nostra a New York e lo “schema di poker truccato” dell'NBA: la passione della mafia italo-americana per il gioco d'azzardo illegale è andata troppo oltre?
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New Substack Post (English/Italiano)
LCN member - the Italian American mafia - and NBA players are in a story together about fraud and illegal gambling...
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LCN member - the Italian American mafia - and NBA players are in a story together about fraud and illegal gambling...
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- from the state of the art of the book I am currently researching - these families are ALWAYS interested in collaboration and ALWAYS involved in gambling. Did it go next level?
NBA player and mafia among 31 arrested in illegal gambling crackdown, FBI says, as Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier arrested - follow live
Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier have been charged in an alleged gambling probe, according to the BBC's partner CBS News.
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Four of the five La Cosa Nostra families (Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno - so everyone but Colombo) appear to be indicted in this major NBA fraud and illcit gambling corruption investigation. I will wait for further info, but...
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5 Lessons on the banality of illicit trade in by a 'ndrangheta dynasty
5 lezioni sulla banalità dei traffici illeciti in una dinastia di 'ndrangheta
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New post & long read - lesson is 'never share your boiler number on the same encrypted platform where you also share details of the drug trade'
ITALIANO & ENGLISH
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ITALIANO & ENGLISH
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palazzo Hercolani, headquarters of Department of Political and Social Sciences at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna my new workplace. 1st day on the job and classes today! I have many emotions I can’t quite name them all. Surely pride and impatience for the rest of my professional life
New post!
Nuovo post!
Some key ‘ndrangheta families are really not about drugs…
Alcune famiglie di ndrangheta non si occupano di droga…
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Nuovo post!
Some key ‘ndrangheta families are really not about drugs…
Alcune famiglie di ndrangheta non si occupano di droga…
annasergi.substack.com/p/the-reputa...
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Our podcast (with Carlo Oreglia) "My Australian Mafia Roadtrip" is a finalist in the Road Trip category for the Signal Award!
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Long Read. To understand San Luca is to understand Polsi, and to understand Polsi is to understand its Madonna.
Articolo di approfondimento. Capire San Luca significa capire Polsi, e capire Polsi significa capire la sua Madonna.
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Eng & Ita
Exploring this year's controversy about the Madonna di Polsi, the link to 'ndrangheta, and its influence on local culture.
Sulla controversia di quest'anno x la Madonna di Polsi, il legame con la 'ndrangheta e la sua influenza sulla cultura locale.
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Exploring this year's controversy about the Madonna di Polsi, the link to 'ndrangheta, and its influence on local culture.
Sulla controversia di quest'anno x la Madonna di Polsi, il legame con la 'ndrangheta e la sua influenza sulla cultura locale.
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My last month at Essex University (my poster on the wall will stay there for future Bubblegum Princesses) and in a month my new job starts at University of Bologna, as Full Prof of Sociology of Law and Deviance (street art reminds me that where there is chicken there is mafia)-bring it on!
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Today in Thessaloniki we talk about #Crotone and environmental dirty collar crimes #ECPR2025gc
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As part of my commitment to European Criminology next week I will be participating in #Eurocrim2025 in Athens. During the General Assembly we will need to debate on a motion about the European...
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As a European Criminologist, and a Winner of the Early Career Award of the European Society of Criminology I condemn the statement by colleagues of the Israeli Society of Criminology: it is a betrayal of our commitment to be social scientists led by facts and reason
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Il mio “L’inferno ammobiliato” è in finale per il Premio Kerasion!
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When #ndrangheta strongholds start revolutionise their culture..
“In a bar in San Luca I have been many times before, I spotted a new sign: “Clients are advised that in this venue it is forbidden to offer. Please do not insist”.
This was a bit of a shock…..”
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“In a bar in San Luca I have been many times before, I spotted a new sign: “Clients are advised that in this venue it is forbidden to offer. Please do not insist”.
This was a bit of a shock…..”
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Cupio Dissolvi: famiglia di 'ndrangheta, stigma e libertà | Anna Sergi | TEDxReggio Calabria
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Il mio TedX è su YouTube ~ proprio in questi giorni in cui sono nei paesi dove esistono tante “Betta” spero di aver fatto giustizia all’ambiguità della loro esistenza e alla criticità sempre nascosta delle loro scelte
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#criticalcriminology
#contronarrazioni
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#ndrangheta
#criticalcriminology
#contronarrazioni
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PONTE SULLO STRETTO. TRA MAFIE E COLONIALISMO - Medea Liberata
Il 6 agosto 2025 è stato dato il via libera al progetto definitivo per il Ponte sullo Stretto di Messina, che aprirà tra il 2032 e 2033 per una spesa di circa 13,5 miliardi di euro. Sergi: “Il Nord de...
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Il Ponte sullo Stretto è presentato come simbolo di sviluppo e modernità. Ma sviluppo per chi?
Grazie dell’ intervista a Medea Liberata
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Grazie dell’ intervista a Medea Liberata
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Bridge over the Strait and celebration at the Sanctuary of Polsi: a convenient narrative of the 'ndrangheta
Ponte sullo Stretto e festa al Santuario di Polsi: una narrazione di comodo della 'ndrangheta
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This was posted in Italian today on @lavialibera and I wanted to have it in English too.
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Ponte sullo Stretto e festa al Santuario di Polsi: una narrazione di comodo della 'ndrangheta
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Quando sono così indignata, scrivo.
Grazie a @lavialibera che come sempre aiuta a condividere idee diverse e controcorrente.
“La #ndrangheta è la più grande bugia raccontata (e spesso accettata) in Calabria…”
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Grazie a @lavialibera che come sempre aiuta a condividere idee diverse e controcorrente.
“La #ndrangheta è la più grande bugia raccontata (e spesso accettata) in Calabria…”
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very little literature (really none) on this overlap :/
Endorsements are in for How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad (BUP, Nov 2025)
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There's a key argument missing when facing a deportation case of an alleged 'ndranghetista from Canada to Calabria
"Manca un argomento chiave nel fronteggiare un caso di deportazione di un presunto 'ndranghetista dal Canada alla Calabria.
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There's a case in Canada about the deportation of a man allegedly linked to the 'ndrangheta. But there's a key argument missing.
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C'è un caso in Canada per la deportazione di un uomo presunto 'ndranghetista. Ma manca un argomento chiave.
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C'è un caso in Canada per la deportazione di un uomo presunto 'ndranghetista. Ma manca un argomento chiave.
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