Locating the Mediterranean

"Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Lo...

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description "Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology. The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space commonly known as the Mediterranean region. Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes. Individual contributions are linked by the pursuit to rethink the conceptual frames deployed to study the Mediterranean region. Together, the volume’s chapters challenge strict geopolitical renderings of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and suggest how the ‘Mediterranean’ can function as a meaningful anthropological and historical category if the notion of ‘location’ is reinvigorated and conceptualised anew."
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-876662025-08-12T05:34:15Z Locating the Mediterranean Rommel, Carl Viscomi, Joseph Location and place; Regional studies; Ethnography; Mediterranean "Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology. The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space commonly known as the Mediterranean region. Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes. Individual contributions are linked by the pursuit to rethink the conceptual frames deployed to study the Mediterranean region. Together, the volume’s chapters challenge strict geopolitical renderings of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and suggest how the ‘Mediterranean’ can function as a meaningful anthropological and historical category if the notion of ‘location’ is reinvigorated and conceptualised anew." 2022-07-12T04:04:22Z 2022-07-12T04:04:22Z 2022-07-11T09:11:07Z 2022 book OCN: 1336005312 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57280 9789523690783 9789523690769 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/87666 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57280/1/locating-the-mediterranean.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57280/1/locating-the-mediterranean.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57280/1/locating-the-mediterranean.pdf Helsinki University Press 10.33134-HUP-18 10.33134-HUP-18 cf5d0b3e-caff-497f-94d0-292cc4b4fce2 9789523690783 9789523690769 264 Helsinki open access
spellingShingle Location and place; Regional studies; Ethnography; Mediterranean
Locating the Mediterranean
title Locating the Mediterranean
title_full Locating the Mediterranean
title_fullStr Locating the Mediterranean
title_full_unstemmed Locating the Mediterranean
title_short Locating the Mediterranean
title_sort locating the mediterranean
topic Location and place; Regional studies; Ethnography; Mediterranean
topic_facet Location and place; Regional studies; Ethnography; Mediterranean
url OCN: 1336005312