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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Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Miranda Melcher interviewing @annasergi.bsky.social about her book ‘How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility’ on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
New Substack Post - Eng & Ita
No, Milan is not just like Calabria - in the same way as a city in conflict is not 'just like Beirut'. To each its own mafia.
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No, Milan is not just like Calabria - in the same way as a city in conflict is not 'just like Beirut'. To each its own mafia.
annasergi.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
Rifiuti radioattivi a Crotone: Eni sospende la bonifica del 'mostro'
Trovati materiali radioattivi nell'ex Pertusola: l'Eni blocca i lavori mentre Comune e Provincia denunciano rinvii inaccettabili
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Il Sud dimenticato del danno ambientale, quello serio, dei giganti dalla voce grossa. Il Sud di politici che ossequiano i giganti per mangiare briciole, e sopravvivere.
#Crotone #Calabria #mafia #Sud #environmentalharm #dannoambientale #multinazionali
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#Crotone #Calabria #mafia #Sud #environmentalharm #dannoambientale #multinazionali
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Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and Miranda Melcher for the chat about my How To Recognize the Mafia Abroad
Episodes wherever you get your podcast
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Episodes wherever you get your podcast
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The Abuse of Presidential Power and Breach of Public Trust | New York City Bar Association
Read how the NYC Bar Association examines the pattern of conduct by President Trump and his administration.
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A must read, technical report that is shocking in its apolitical denouncing of abuses and breaches of the rule of law by president Trump and its administration.
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The Securitization Deception: How Trump’s Venezuela Intervention Weaponizes the Drug Trafficking Myth
L'Inganno della Securitizzazione: Come l'Intervento del Venezuela di Trump Strumentalizza il Mito del Traffico di Droga
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Adding my voice to the creepy mix. My newsletter is out, first of 2026.
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Professor Anna Sergi
Royal United Services Institute
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Very happy to be a Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute affiliated with the Organised Crime and Policing Studies research group.
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L’Europa è travolta dalla cocaina e la Svizzera non fa eccezione - RSI
La Svizzera è al centro del narcotraffico in Europa. Intervista all'esperta Anna Sergi sul mercato della cocaina e il ruolo della Confederazione. Scopri di più su RSI.ch.
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Tutto si muove sui traffici leciti, molto è guidato dalla domanda.
Grazie dell’intervista.
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Grazie dell’intervista.
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[AUDIO] What is wrong in the way the 'ndrangheta - and Calabria - is talked about
[AUDIO] Cosa non va nella narrazione della 'ndrangheta e della Calabria
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(Audio post anche in italiano)
A question by Carlo Lucarelli prompted a reflection: what is wrong with the way the ‘ndrangheta is talked about? And what does this mean for Calabria?
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A question by Carlo Lucarelli prompted a reflection: what is wrong with the way the ‘ndrangheta is talked about? And what does this mean for Calabria?
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[AUDIO] What is wrong in the way the 'ndrangheta - and Calabria - is talked about
[AUDIO] Cosa non va nella narrazione della 'ndrangheta e della Calabria
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(Audio post)
A question by Carlo Lucarelli prompted a reflection: what is wrong with the way the ‘ndrangheta is talked about? And what does this mean for Calabria?
open.substack.com/pub/annaserg...
A question by Carlo Lucarelli prompted a reflection: what is wrong with the way the ‘ndrangheta is talked about? And what does this mean for Calabria?
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Scandalo Nba, la mafia italo-americana affascina ancora gli Usa anche perché alla Casa Bianca c'è Donald Trump
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Lo scandalo delle scommesse nella Nba ha dimostrato come la criminalità mafiosa di origine italiana sia ancora attiva a New York. In realtà non era mai uscita dall'immaginario e dalla cultura pop americana, plasmando anche modelli di leadership tra cui Trump
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When the president of the USA resorts to starting a war to distract his people from a sex scandal and when this is masked as “war on drugs” the securitisation of organised crime is complete - weaponising concepts and ignoring facts is the core of a defence mentality creeping in crime prevention.
My new book | How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad, critical notes on ‘ndrangheta mobility
@brisunipress.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/how-to-recog...
@brisunipress.bsky.social
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If anyone wants to buy it DM me for a 50% discount code valid until end of November (and on all BUP titles!)
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...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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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.
annasergi.substack.com/p/long-read-...