Border Lampedusa

Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land

Gabriele Proglio, Laura Odasso (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 190 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86599-7 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (political, social, cultural, economic and artistic), it explores the island as a place where social relations based around race, gender, sex, age and class are being reproduced and/or subverted. The authors argue that Lampedusa should be understood as a synecdoche for European borders and boundaries. Widening the classical definition of the term 'border', the authors examine the different meanings assigned to the term by migrants, the local population, seafarers and associative actors based on their subjective and embodied experiences. They reveal how migration policies, international relations with African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, and the perpetuation of new forms of colonization and imperialism entail heavy consequences for the European Union. This work will appeal to a widereadership, from scholars of migration, anthropology and sociology, to students of political science, Italian, African and cultural studies.

Gabriele Proglio is an FCT postdoctoral fellowship recipient at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and a Research Fellow on the ERC funded `Bodies Across Borders' project at the European University Institute, Italy. Laura Odasso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire Mediterraneen de Sociologie (LAMES), Aix-Marseille University, France. She collaborates regularly with the University of Strasbourg, France, the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and civil society organisations in Europe.

Introduction; Laura Odasso and Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 1: The traces of journeys and migrants' perspectives: the knots of memory and the unraveled plans; Rosita Deluigi.- Chapter 2: "Half devil and half child": an ethnographic perspective on the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa; Gianluca Gatta.- Chapter 3: O Hear Us When We Cry To Thee; Katy Budge.-Chapter 4:The colour(s) of Lampedusa; Gaia Giuliani.- Chapter 5: A Politics of the Body as Body Politics. Re-thinking Europe's Worksites of Democracy; Simona Wright.- Chapter 6: (Un)framing Lampedusa. Regimes of visibility and the politics of affect in Italian media representations; Chiara Giubilaro.- Chapter 7: Connecting Shores: Libya's Colonial Ghost and Europe's Migrant Crisis in colonial and postcolonial cinematic representations; Sandra Ponzanesi.- Chapter 8: Defragmenting visual representations of border Lampedusa: Intersubjectivity and memories from the Horn of Africa; Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 9: Objects, debris and memory of the Mediterranean passage: Porto M in Lampedusa; Federica Mazzara.- Chapter 10: Nossa Senhora de Lampedosa protectress of slaves and refugees: On Mourning, Cultural Resilience and the Oniric Dimension of History; Fabrice Dubosc.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	IX, 190 p. 21 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Aime CÃ©saire • Aime Césaire • Antonio Gramsci • Asylum • biopolitical management • dematerialized border • ethnography • European borders • Europe's Migrant Crisis • Europe’s Migrant Crisis • Frantz Fanon • human geographies • humanitarian invasion • Human Trafficking • imagined community • Italian border • Lampedusa • media representation of immigrants • migration management • Postcolonialism • Refugees • the Mediterranean passage
ISBN-10	3-319-86599-4 / 3319865994
ISBN-13	978-3-319-86599-7 / 9783319865997
Zustand	Neuware