Prof. Italo Pardo

Professor, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK

President, International Urban Symposium - IUS, Italy

i.pardo@kent.ac.uk

Qualifications

1988 Ph.D., University of London, UK

1983 M.Sc., University of London, UK

1980 B.Sc., University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Recent Publications (Selected)

1. 2021 Legal yet Illegitimate Governance in Italy. Humans, 1 (1): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3390/humans101000
2. 2021 Making Second-class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds). Urban Inequalities: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
3. 2021 (with G. B. Prato). Querying Urban Inequalities. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds). Urban Inequalities: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
4. 2020 A Social Anthropologist in Lockdown. In G. B. Prato (ed.), City Life and Beyond in Times of Pandemic. Supplement 4 to Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol 10: 19-24; http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6-Pardo.pdf
5. 2020 A Botched Urban Change: A Case-Study from Central Naples. In I Pardo, G. B. Prato and J. Rosbrook-Thompson eds), Urbanity in Flux: Ethnographic and Theoretical Reflections. Supplement 3 to Vol 10 of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography: pp. 13-32.
6. 2020 with Giuliana B. Prato and James Rosbrook-Thompson, Ethnographies of Urbanity in Flux: Theoretical Reflections. In I. Pardo, G. B. Prato and J. Rosbrook-Thompson (eds), Urbanity in Flux: Ethnographic and Theoretical Reflections. Supplement 3 to Vol 10 of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography: pp. 2-12.
7. 2019. Embedding Corruption into Governance: The “Graveyard Affair in 1970s Naples and its Aftermath. Special Issue on Urban Governance and Corruption, edited by P. Jones. International Journal of Regional and Local History. November, forthcoming.
8. 2019. (with Giuliana B. Prato). Introduction: Debating Legitimacy. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato eds, On Legitimacy: Multidisciplinary Reflections. Special Issue of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 9 (Suppl. 2): 3-12.
9. 2019 (with G. B. Prato). Ethnographies of Legitimacy: Methodological and Theoretical Insights. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds), Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-26.
10. 2018. Governance Without Legitimacy: An Italian Conundrum of Democracy. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds), Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57 -82.
11. 2018. (with G. B. Prato) Introduction: The Ethnography of Legitimacy and its Theoretical Ramifications. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato eds. Urban Ethnographers Debate Legitimacy. Special Issue of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8 (Suppl. 1): 1-8.
12. 2018. ‘Legal’, Obnoxious and Unfair: Eroded Legitimacy of Governance in Naples. In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato eds. Urban Ethnographers Debate Legitimacy. Special Issue of Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8 (Suppl. 1): 16-22.
13. 2018. Managing Against the Odds: Economic Crisis, Bad Governance and Grassroots Entrepreneurialism in Naples. In M. Spyridakis (ed.), Market Versus Society: Anthropological Insights. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 61-79.
14. 2018. Corrupt, Abusive and Legal: Italian Breaches of the Democratic Contract. In S. Muir and A. Gupta (eds), The Anthropology of Corruption. Special Issue of Current Anthropology, Vol. 59, Supplement 18: 60-71. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/695804
15. 2018. The Production of Empirically-Based Knowledge and its Significance to Society. In I. Pardo, G. B. Prato and W. Kaltenbacher eds. Placing Urban Anthropology. Special Issue of Diogenes. London: Sage: 1-6.
16. 2017 (with G.B.Prato) Introduction – Urban Ethnography Matters: Analytical Strength, Theoretical Value and Significance to Society . In I. Pardo and G. B. Prato (eds), Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography. Palgrave Macmillan, 1-19.