CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

The few studies conducted on Italian mafias in Argentina pointed out to a historically and geographically delimited phenomenon. Mafias fictions seem to provide the basic interpretative scheme to approach this issue. Mafias dramas have the potential to contribute to generate an effect of normalisation of behaviors, acceptance of groups, lifestyles, promotion of principles and models, and social positioning of mafia characters that are of key importance for the dissemination of mafia cultures. How does this process actually work in a transnational basis? To address this question, the main findings of a two-step experiment based on empirical audience research will be presented.