Border Lampedusa Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land

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 relat...

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Other Authors: Proglio, Gabriele (Editor), Odasso, Laura (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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