Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly(4 Space and Place)

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Maria Kousis, Tom Selwyn and David Clark PART I: RECOVERING THE MEDITERRANEAN Chapter 1. On Bureaucratic Essentialism: Constructing the Mediterranean in European Union Institutions Vasiliki Yiakoumaki Chapter 2. European ‘Securitisation Policies’ and the Southern ‘Fortress-Europe’ Minas Samatas Chapter 3. Locating the ‘Mediterranean’ in Music: The Medi-Terra music festival Eleni Kallimopoulou PART II: STATE, CAPITAL AND RESISTANCE Chapter 4. Spaces of War, spaces of Memory: Popular expressions of politics in post-war Beirut Sune Haugbolle Chapter 5. Environmentalists in Malta: The growing voice of civil society Jeremy Boissevain and Caroline Gatt Chapter 6. Governing Coastal Biodiversity: Caretta caretta in Zakynthos and Crete Maria Kousis and Katerina Psarikidou PART III: CAPITAL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE Chapter 7. Contested Politics of the Mediterranean: Star Street and the struggle for development in Bethlehem Carol Sansour Dabdoub and Carol Zoughbi-Janineh Chapter 8. Contentious Politics at a Bosphorus Neighbourhood: Perspectives on conflict and solidarity during the 20th Century Günham Danişman and Ismail Üstün Chapter 9. Playing Snakes and Ladders in Ciutat de Mallorca: An ethnographic approach to the production of the neighbourhood scale Marc A. Morell and Jaume Franquesa PART IV: TRANSFORMING IDENTITIES: IMAGINATION AND REPRESENTATIONS Chapter 10. Ethnicised inter-religious conflicts in contemporary Granada, Spain Javier Rosón Lorente and Gunther Dietz Chapter 11. Governance, Alliance and Resistance: Jewish museums in Italy David Clark Chapter 12. The Making of Home away from Home: The Role of Ethno-cultural Festivals in contesting local spaces Elia Vardaki Chapter 13. Tears on the Border: The case of Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, Palestine Tom Selwyn List of Contributors Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Maria Kousis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete. Her publications include a two volume special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on Mediterranean Political Processes in Historical-Comparative Perspective (with Charles Tilly and Roberto Franzosi, 2008).

Review :
“…by insisting on contentiousness and unstable characters of identities and politics that are continuously reproduced within and across the region, the collection testifies to an innovative attitude, providing an insightful framework for the understanding of the Mediterranean as a complicated whole.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale “This volume makes…significant interdisciplinary contributions that reach out to scholars or practitioners interested in the relations between spatial and social processes…The Mediterranean boasts plenty of examples of physical contact spaces being systematically destroyed, or divided as a trickle-down effect of identity and political conflict at higher levels. Not only does the richness of case studies in this collection offer a powerful illustration of the experience of geopolitics beyond the national scale, but it also provides a useful tool for ethnographers and practitioners alike.”  ·  Society and Space – Environment and Planning D “This excellent and timely collection of essays follows in the wake of several recent works that constitute what can be discerned as a revival in studies of the Mediterranean region. Far from a return to outmoded social anthropological models of the area, or a recapitulation of tourist-industry driven fantasies of shared cultural values, the essays gathered here cast a critical eye, and ear, on the ways in which the Mediterranean has been reconceived and performed in the context of national and transnational programs of political and economic consolidation…the book adds considerably to our understanding of the politics of place and culture in this contested region and will be essential reading for students and scholars of the region for years to come.”  ·  Anthropos “It is well known that Charles Tilly left scholars of big structures, large processes, and huge comparisons a tall research agenda. It is less acknowledged that he also left political ethnographers an impressive and provocative set of tools. In the skilled hands of the contributors to this insightful volume, the ‘Tilly toolbox’ is put to good work in the service of a theory-driven and empirically-grounded exploration of Mediterranean contentious landscapes.”  ·  Javier Auyero, University of Texas, Austin; Editor, Qualitative Sociology “Contested Mediterranean Spaces rescues a cultural geography from the essentialist circularities to which it was once often reduced. These authors examine how circum-Mediterranean identities, at every level from the clan to the nation-state, exhibit the complex impact of ideological and political manipulation. They show how this hothouse of Europe’s self-ascribed cultural origins has been characteristically prey to spatial cleansing, gentrification, and bigotry; they also document a regional activism that seeks more tolerant and environmentally benign futures. By problematizing the political and intellectual manipulations as well as the ideological tensions that inform such revivals of the Mediterranean as category and concept, they persuasively refurbish a tired regionalism with refreshing critical and comparative interest.”   ·  Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University; Author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Rome