Prof. Italo Pardo

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

President, International Urban Symposium - IUS, Italy

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1988 Ph.D., University of London, UK

1983 M.Sc., University of London, UK

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

Publications (Selected)

1. Pardo, I., & Prato, G. B. (2025). Forms of Inequality: Legitimacy, Governance, Work and Risk. In Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume One (pp. 1-21). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
2. Pardo, I. (2025). Unequal Italians: The Case of Naples. In Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume One (pp. 25-51). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
3. Pardo, I., & Prato, G. B. (2025). On Forms of Inequality: Urban Dynamics and Choice. In Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance, Volume Two (pp. 1-18). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
4. Pardo, I. (2023). Misgovernance Kills: Italian Evidence. In The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health: Anthropological Perspectives (pp. 45-71). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
5. Pardo, I., & Prato, G. B. (2023). The Legitimacy of Healthcare and Public Health. Anthropological Perspectives. Berlin et al.: Springer International Publish‐ing.
6. Pardo, I. (2022). Anthropology of Urban Inequalities: Weakened Citizenship in Italy. Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 12(2), 2-15.
7. Pardo, I. (2021). Legal yet Illegitimate Governance in Italy. Humans, 1(1), 1-9.
8. Pardo, I. (2021). Making Second-class Italians: A Progressive Fabrication and Entrenchment of Inequality. In Urban Inequalities: Ethnographically Informed Reflections (pp. 25-48). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
9. Pardo, I. (2020). A Social Anthropologist in Lockdown. City Life and Beyond in Times of Pandemic. Special Issue, Urbanities-Journal of Urban Ethnography, 10(Suppl 4), 19-24.
10. Pardo, I. (2019). Embedding Corruption into Governance: The “Graveyard Affair” in 1970s Naples and its Aftermath. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 14(2), 110-125.
11. Pardo, I. (2018). ‘Legal’, Obnoxious and Unfair: Eroded Legitimacy of Governance in Naples. Urban Ethnographers Debate Legitimacy. Special Issue. Urbanities–Journal of Urban Ethnography, 8(Suppl 1), 16-22.
12. Pardo, I. (2018). Corrupt, abusive, and legal: Italian breaches of the democratic contract. Current Anthropology, 59(S18), S60-S71.
13. Pardo, I., & Prato, G. B. (2017). Introduction: Urban ethnography matters—Analytical strength, theoretical value and significance to society. In The Palgrave handbook of urban ethnography (pp. 1-19). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
14. Pardo, I. (2017). Between Stereotype and Bad Governance: An Italian Ethnography. In The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography (pp. 35-52). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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