ISBN:
9780857714671
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (264 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Mediterranean frontiers
DDC:
320.54091822
Keywords:
Mediterranean Region -- Boundaries
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Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations
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Nationalism -- Mediterranean Region
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Nationalism
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Mediterranean Region
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Mediterranean Region
;
Boundaries
;
Mediterranean Region
;
Foreign relations
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Mittelmeerraum
;
Internationale Politik
Abstract:
Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface: At the Frontiers of the Mediterranean; Introduction: Frontiers, Memory and Conflict in the Mediterranean; Part I: Constructing Borders and Memories; Chapter I. The Ambivalent Sea: Regionalizing the Mediterranean Differently; Chapter II. Between Empire and Nation-State: The Problem of Borders in the Maghreb; Chapter III. Turkey in the Post-Ottoman Mediterranean: Transcending the 'West'/'Islam' Binary?; Chapter IV. The Uses of Empire: Myths and Memories in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean
Abstract:
Part II: Revisiting Memories to Transform Conflicts?Chapter V. Can We Act on Memory...In the Mediterranean? The Case of Algeria; Chapter VI. 'That Most Beautiful Part of Italy': Memories of Fascist Empire-Building in the Adriatic; Chapter VII. Memory, Conflict and Gender: 'Woman in Black' in Israel/Palestine and Former Yugoslavia; Part III: Crossing Borders, Confronting Memories; Chapter VIII. Borderlands: The Middle East and North Africa as the EU's Southern Buffer Zone; Chapter IX. Borders Besieged: A View on Migration From the European-African Edge
Abstract:
Chapter X. Hardening Closure, Securing Disorder: The Israeli Closure Policies and the Informal Border Economy Between the West Bank and the Northern Negev (2000-2006)Notes; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Abstract:
The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohesion. Yet they are also the sites of division, fragmentation and political conflict. This ambitious study encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Europe to examine the emergence of state borders and polarised identities in the Mediterranean. The authors look at the impact of political boundaries upon the region, along with pressures from European and economic integration, the resurgence of nationalism, and refugee and security concerns. The authors explore the politics of memory, and ask whether echoes from the imperial past - Ottoman and colonial - could provide the basis for conflict resolution, region-building and economic integration
Note:
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