Mediterraneanism as a form of ‘border thinking’?

Description

Ilaria Giglioli, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco, gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and questions from participants. The webinar was recorded, and is published on YouTube.

Political geographers and border scholars often theorize borderlands as a hybrid space of coexistence between people of different national, linguistic and religious backgrounds, and claim that they have a distinct culture that calls into questions ideas of homogeneous nation-states. Based on ethnographic research in Sicily (Italy) and Tunisia, this talk will investigate how claims to a hybrid borderlands’ identity such as “Mediterraneanism” translate into everyday relations between people of Italian and Tunisian descent. It will also analyze how living in this borderland affects the lives and livelihoods of Tunisian migrants.

This was the second seminar of the series "Dwelling, elsewhere: Comparative-methodological perspectives on borderland inhabitation", arranged by William Kutz and the Borderland Working Group. For more information about the Borderland Working Group or to join the mailing list, please write to William Kutz at [email protected].

Period	2023 Apr 25
Event type	Seminar
Degree of Recognition	International