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Border Lampedusa

Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land

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Editors:
  1. Gabriele Proglio

    1. Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. Laura Odasso

    1. CNRS, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES) & Temps, Espaces, Langage, Europe Méridionale, Méditerranée (TELEMME), Aix-Marseille Univ, Aix-en-Provence & Marseille, France

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  • Offers a book-length analysis of the symbolically-charged space of Lampedusa
  • Provides a highly topical reflection on migration, power and international relations
  • Takes an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the study of the island

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. General Introduction

    • Laura Odasso, Gabriele Proglio
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Traces of Journeys and Migrants’ Perspectives: The Knots of Memory and the Unravelled Plans

    • Rosita Deluigi
    Pages 13-31

  4. “Half Devil and Half Child”: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Treatment of Migrants on their Arrival in Lampedusa

    • Gianluca Gatta
    Pages 33-51

  5. O Hear Us When We Cry to Thee

    • Katy Budge
    Pages 53-66

  6. The Colour(s) of Lampedusa

    • Gaia Giuliani
    Pages 67-85

  7. A Politics of the Body as Body Politics: Rethinking Europe’s Worksites of Democracy

    • Simona Wright
    Pages 87-101

  8. (Un)framing Lampedusa: Regimes of Visibility and the Politics of Affect in Italian Media Representations

    • Chiara Giubilaro
    Pages 103-117

  9. Connecting Shores: Libya’s Colonial Ghost and Europe’s Migrant Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Cinematic Representations

    • Sandra Ponzanesi
    Pages 119-135

  10. Defragmenting Visual Representations of Border Lampedusa: Intersubjectivity and Memories from the Horn of Africa

    • Gabriele Proglio
    Pages 137-151

  11. Objects, Debris and Memory of the Mediterranean Passage: Porto M in Lampedusa

    • Federica Mazzara
    Pages 153-173

  12. Nossa Senhora de Lampedosa, Protectress of Slaves and Refugees: On Mourning, Cultural Resilience and the Oniric Dimension of History

    • Fabrice Olivier Dubosc
    Pages 175-190
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About this book

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.

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“Without ever losing sight of the images of shipwrecks and death so often associated with the island, Boder Lampedusa inter-references a multiplicity of subjective experiences that end up troubling the distinction between the European Self and its Others. Lampedusa thus becomes a sign of the European condition, where the violence of border control cannot erase the powerful presence of other geographies and histories that that continue to challenge it. A must read for anyone interested in migration, borders, and postcolonial criticism.” (Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna, Italy)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal

    Gabriele Proglio

  • CNRS, Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES) & Temps, Espaces, Langage, Europe Méridionale, Méditerranée (TELEMME), Aix-Marseille Univ, Aix-en-Provence & Marseille, France

    Laura Odasso

About the editors

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 Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES), Aix-Marseille University, France. She collaborates regularly with the University of Strasbourg, France, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and civil society organisations in Europe.






Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Border Lampedusa

  • Book Subtitle: Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land

  • Editors: Gabriele Proglio, Laura Odasso

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59330-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59329-6Published: 06 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86599-7Published: 23 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59330-2Published: 19 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Migration, European Politics, Political Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Ethnography

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