Nicco La Mattina
Research Interests
Political anthropology; Linguistics; Postcolonial studies; Mediterranean studies; Libya; Italy, Sicily; Definitional struggles, commonsense, and hegemony; Nationalism; Identity; Affect; Semiotics; Far-right movements; Environmental and infrastructural change; Interactional analysis.
Publications
- La Mattina, Nicco A. 2023. “Transposition, not Translation: Recuperating Attentionality on Pantelleria, Sicily.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 33(3): 311-329.
- Duranti, Alessandro, and Nicco A. La Mattina. 2022. “The Semiotics of Cooperation.” Annual Review of Anthropology 51: 85-101.
- La Mattina, Nicco A. 2022. “Secret Language as a “Weapon of Defence”: The Problem of Opacity in Italian Colonial Libya.” Signs and Society 10(2): 191-214.
- La Mattina, Nicco A. 2020. “Writing Ottoman and Italian Colonial Libya: Intelligence Gathering and the Production of Colonial Knowledge.” Hespéris-Tamuda 55(2):123-153.
