Fabrizio Maccaglia is a lecturer in geography at the University of Tours and a member of the CoST (Construction sociale et politique du territoire – Social and Political Construction of the Territory) team within the research unit CITERES (Cités, territoires, environnement, sociétés – Cities, Territories, Environment, Societies). He is the author of Palerme. Illégalismes et gouvernement urbain d’exception (ENS Éditions, 2009) and, with Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Atlas des mafias. Acteurs, trafics et marchés criminels dans le monde (Autrement, 2014; new revised and expanded edition). His research currently concerns the informal transactions that can be detected in territorial public action in Italy, and non-economic forms of government privatisation.