Description
Book SynopsisHighlights and interrogates the link between space and politics and explores the spatial dimensions of insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. The book offers an innovative scheme to rethink the relation between space and power.
Trade Review“This book highlights and interrogates the link between space and politics and explores the spatial dimensions of insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean.”—Tamirace Fakhoury, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University; Scientific Advisor to the Kuwait Chair, Sciences Po, Paris
“Mediterranean in Dis/order offers an innovative scheme to rethink the relation between space and power in the broader Mediterranean region. In doing so, it proposes meaningful objectives that challenge a number of well-established beliefs about the region.”—Lorenzo Kamel, University of Turin
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Framing the Mediterranean (dis)order: epistemologies and theoretical perspectives (Rosita Di Peri and Daniel Meier)
- PART I: MOBILIZATIONS
- Chapter 1 - Filling the urban space after authoritarianism: The evolution of religious charitable activities in Tunisia (Ester SigillÒ)
- Chapter 2 - The “apple of discord”: spatial transgressions, significations, and re-appropriations in (and on) Mount Lebanon from a mobilization of apple growers (1965) (Rossana Tufaro)
- Chapter 3 - Libya’s sovereignty fragmentation (Debora Malito and Muhammad Dan Suleiman)
- Chapter 4 - Inside and outside Lebanese universities: the youth network Mada against sectarianism (Valeria Sartori and Rosita Di Peri)
- PART II: MIGRATIONS
- Chapter 5 - Migration policy instruments as spatial practices: geopolitical space making in the EU’s Southern Neighborhood (Federica Zardo)
- Chapter 6 - (Re)ordering migrants: Immobility in transition at the EU-Turkish border (Chiara Maritato)
- Chapter 7 - Italy and Libya in bordering practices: A case of institutionalized informalization (Chiara Loschi)
- Chapter 8 - Spaces, conflicts and political reconfigurations: Syrian migrations to Morocco (Fanny Faccenda)
- PART III: PLACES
- Chapter 9 - Filming contested spaces in post-war Lebanon (Thomas Richard)
- Chapter 10 - Heterotopias in Lebanon: The Rashid Karameh International Fair in Tripoli (Francesco Mazzucotelli)
- Chapter 11 - From public space re-appropriation to local democracy implementation in post-Revolution Tunisia (Chiara Sebastiani)
- Conclusion - The politics of a transforming Mediterranean space: a liminality perspective (Daniela Huber)
- List of Contributors
