The Case of the Suvignano Estate: A Story of Mafia, Anti-Mafia and Politics

The article reconstructs the events of the Suvignano farm, in the Sienese area, confiscated in 1996 to an entrepreneur from Palermo considered close to Cosa nostra and assigned in 2018 to a company owned by the Tuscany Region. Unlike other studies on confiscated assets, mainly focusing on quantitative aspects or their management, the paper proposes a case study based on an integration of techniques and sources, from interviews with qualified witnesses to the consultation of institutional documents. The analysis aims to explore the social and political significance that Suvignano assumes for the local community and the political class. After the definitive confiscation in 2007, Suvignano becomes a political resource disputed between different actors, local and national. Around this political resource take place two challenges, led and won by a Tuscan leftist institutional network, distant heir of the red subculture. The first challenge is against a similar Sicilian institutional network. The second is against local political actors: the traditional (Forza Italia) and the new (Salvini-Lega) centre-right, as well as the emerging 5 Stars Movement. The article shows how these two challenges are won thanks also to the Tuscan civil society, ready to mobilize against a "public evil", as the mafia is usually represented. In a phase in which the political consensus becomes uncertain, the centre-left parties find in the fight against the mafia a powerful source of political legitimacy.

本文重构了锡耶纳地区苏维尼亚诺农场的事件脉络：该农场于1996年从一位被认为与黑手党（Cosa nostra）关系密切的巴勒莫企业家手中没收，并于2018年划归托斯卡纳大区旗下的一家公司所有。与其他聚焦于量化维度或资产管理的没收资产研究不同，本文采用整合多种技术与来源的案例研究方法——涵盖对合格证人的访谈，以及对机构文件的查阅。分析旨在探究苏维尼亚诺农场对当地社群与政治阶层所具有的社会及政治意义。2007年最终没收后，苏维尼亚诺农场成为地方与国家层面不同行动者争夺的政治资源。围绕这一政治资源，发生了两场博弈，均由托斯卡纳左翼制度网络主导并胜出——该网络是红色亚文化的远嗣。第一场博弈针对的是类似的西西里制度网络；第二场则面向地方政治行动者，包括传统中右翼势力（意大利力量党，Forza Italia）、新兴中右翼势力（萨尔维尼领导的联盟党，Salvini-Lega），以及崛起的五星运动（5 Stars Movement）。本文指出，这两场博弈的胜利亦得益于托斯卡纳公民社会——他们随时准备动员起来对抗“公共之恶”（黑手党通常被如此定义）。在政治共识趋于模糊的阶段，中左翼政党在反黑手党斗争中找到了强有力的政治合法性来源。