Critically Mediterranean

Author : yasser elhariry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319717642
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critically Mediterranean written by yasser elhariry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean informs philosophy, phenomenology, the poetics of time and space, and literary theory. Ranging from some of the earliest twentieth-century material on the Mediterranean to Edmond Amran El Maleh, Christoforos Savva, Orhan Pamuk, and Etel Adnan, the essays ask how modern and contemporary Mediterraneans may be deployed in political, cultural, artistic, and literary practice. The critical Mediterranean that emerges is plural and performative—a medium through which subjects may negotiate imagined relations with the world around them. Vibrant and deeply interdisciplinary, Critically Mediterranean offers timely interventions for a sea in crisis.

Author : Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000585530
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean Redux written by Naor H Ben-Yehoyada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on historical anthropology remaps the Mediterranean by reframing classical themes from early Mediterraneanist anthropology. This edited volume showcases how anthropology can contribute to an understanding of ongoing transnational dynamics and the new wave of scholarship on the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is back as a locus of international anxiety and academic concern. It has reemerged in the international news cycle as a space of desperate crossings and tragic endings, as the site in which a refugee crisis rivalling that of the Second World War is playing out in real time for a global viewing public. The scale of the crisis has called into question Europe’s humanitarian principles and internal political union, making the Mediterranean into a mirror for long-standing tensions between norms of universalism and demands for national security. These captivating events have further raised the tide of scholars’ interest in the Mediterranean. How should ethnographers contribute to the new wave of scholarship on the Mediterranean? To what extent does the Mediterranean offer alternative forms of political relatedness to those construed from within Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East? In this volume, we reframe classical themes from early iterations of Mediterranean anthropology to address these questions in our examinations of changing dynamics across land and sea borders, bringing ethnography back to the study of the Mediterranean, and the Mediterranean – with its Mediterraneanism – back to ethnography. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, History and Anthropology.

Author : Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030565858
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean written by Vanessa Grotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.

Author : Juan J. Alava
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351647636
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tropical Pinnipeds written by Juan J. Alava and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pinnipeds are a fascinating group of marine mammals that play a crucial role as apex predators and sentinels of the functioning and health of marine ecosystems. They are found in the most extreme environments from the Polar regions to the tropics. Pinnipeds are comprised of about 34 species, and of those at least 25% live permanently in tropical zones. This book reviews and updates current research on the biology, marine ecology, bio-monitoring, and conservation of tropical pinniped populations, including their behavior, anthropogenic stressors, and health. It also looks at challenges to be faced for the conservation of tropical pinnipeds, many of which are threatened species.

Author : Shyam Wuppuluri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030906884
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities written by Shyam Wuppuluri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly-interdisciplinary volume, we systematically study the role of metaphors and analogies in (mis)shaping our understanding of the world. Metaphors and Analogies occupy a prominent place in scientific discourses, as they do in literature, humanities and at the very level of our thinking itself. But when misused they can lead us astray, blinding our understanding inexorably. How can metaphors aid us in our understanding of the world? What role do they play in our scientific discourses and in humanities? How do they help us understand and skillfully deal with our complex socio-political scenarios? Where is the dividing line between their use and abuse? Join us as we explore some of these questions in this volume.

Author : Brahim El Guabli
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802078983
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the “Years of Lead” (1966–1988) written by Brahim El Guabli and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LAMALIF anthology presents a wide variety of articles from LAMALIF, Morocco’s longest-serving Francophone journal. Active between 1966 and 1988, LAMALIF covered the most critical periods of Moroccan history and engaged in crucial debates about democratization, feminism, culture, education, Third World relations, and decolonization. However, LAMALIF was not just a journal; it was a real school, where Morocco’s, North Africa’s, and the developing world’s emerging and established writers, artists, and thinkers found a space to disseminate their ideas and address readerships across different cultures and geographical areas in French. This anthology is the first comprehensive translation into English of a wide selection of LAMALIF’s articles covering literary and art criticism as well as critical theory, feminism, Islam, and emigration. In addition to making available to Anglophone readerships articles about transnational solidarities and connections between North Africa and the rest of the world, LAMALIF anthology historicizes this sociocultural and political project within the painful period of authoritarianism in Morocco and reveals how culture worked as a trenchant weapon in the struggle against repression and silence.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465324
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queering the Medieval Mediterranean analyzes the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses. It highlights the importance of queerness and sexuality developed on the Mediterranean trade routes.

Author : Sebastian Heath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734506822
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DATAM Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean written by Sebastian Heath and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean brings together a wide range of teaching digital practices, approaches, and philosophies developed to open the Ancient Mediterranean world to students at a wide range of institutions and levels. A series of practical examples demonstrate how gaming, coding, immersive video, and 3D imaging can infuse teaching and learning at edge of the digital divide where the ancient world intersects with contemporary technology, information literacy, and student engagement. While the articles focus on Classics, Ancient History, and Mediterranean archaeology, the issues and approaches considered throughout this book are relevant for anyone who thinks critically and practically about the use of digital technology in the college level classroom.DATAM features contributions from Sebastian Heath, Lisl Walsh, David Ratzan, Patrick Burns, Sandra Blakely, Marie-Claire, Eric Poehler, William Caraher, and Beaulieu and Anthony Bucci as well as a critical introduction by Shawn Graham and preface by Society of Classical Studies Executive Director Helen Cullyer.

Author : Alison Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789621119
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transpositions written by Alison Rice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume concentrates on the concept of transposition, exploring its potential as a lens through which to examine recent Francophone literary, cinematic, theatrical, musical, and artistic creations that reveal multilingual and multicultural realities. The chapters are composed by leading scholars in French and Francophone Studies who engage in interdisciplinary reflections on the ways transcontinental movement has influenced diverse genres. It begins with the premise that an attentiveness to migration has inspired writers, artists, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians to engage in new forms of translation in their work. Their own diverse backgrounds combine with their awareness of the itineraries of others to have an impact on the innovative languages that emerge in their creative production. These contemporary figures realize that migratory actualities must be transposed into different linguistic and cultural contexts in order to be legible and audible, in order to be perceptible - either for the reader, the listener, or the viewer. The novels, films, plays, works of art and musical pieces that exemplify such transpositions adopt inventive elements that push the limits of formal composition in French. This work is therefore often inspiring as it points in evocative ways toward fluid influences and a plurality of interactions that render impossible any static conception of being or belonging.

Author : Joseph Pugliese
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052016191
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmediterranean written by Joseph Pugliese and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique mapping of Mediterranean cultures and histories in transnational contexts. A diverse collection of diasporic scholars stage a critical examination of transmediterranean subjects across a broad spectrum of geopolitical spaces that encompasses India, Greece, Palestine, Sudan, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Libya. Focusing on the transnational dispersions and heterogeneous embodiments of Mediterranean cultures, this book examines how these cultures, geopolitical spaces and subjects are caught within flows of exchange, contestation and reconfiguration. Working in the interstices of global formations, the essays in this volume proceed to articulate transmediterranean affiliations that challenge the borders and limits of the nation-state.