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Mediterranean ARTivism

Art, Activism, and Migration in Europe

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Authors:
  1. Elvira Pulitano

    1. San Luis Obispo, USA

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  • Frames the overall “crisis” narrative of contemporary illegalized migrations in Europe within a human rights debate
  • Critiques European legislation on migrants and refugees which often results in temporary solutions
  • Serves as a tribute to the endurance of the human spirit and to the oldest human impulse of solidarity and brotherhood

Part of the book series: Mediterranean Perspectives (MEPERS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Entanglements: Some Reflections on Migrant Journeys

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 1-21

  3. Fault Lines: The Mediterranean’s “Burning” and the Human Rights Debate

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 23-41

  4. Island(s): Lampedusa as a “Hotspot” of EU Border Policies

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 43-73

  5. Stones and Water: Monuments and Counter-Monuments

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 75-102

  6. Boats and Cemeteries: Landscapes of Memories

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 103-134

  7. Eyes, Sounds, Voices: Cinematic Representations of the Lampedusa Borderscape

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 135-162

  8. Heritage Spaces and Digital Archives: ARTivist Acts of Resistance

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 163-200

  9. Watery Confluences: Toward a (Trans)MediterrAtlantic Discourse—Critical Reflections on The Foreigner’s Home (2018)

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 201-220

  10. “La mia terra è dove poggio i miei piedi (My Land Is Where I Lay My Feet”): ARTivism and Social Enterprise in Palermo, Sicily

    • Elvira Pulitano
    Pages 221-228

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 229-235
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About this book

This book is an interdisciplinary study aimed at re-imagining and re-routing contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean. Drawing from visual arts, citizenship studies, film, media and cultural studies, along with postcolonial, border, and decolonial discourses, and examining the issues from within a human rights framework, the book investigates how works of cultural production can offer a more complex and humane understanding of mobility in the Mediterranean beyond representations of illegality and/or crisis. Elvira Pulitano centers the discourse of cultural production around the island of Lampedusa but expands the island geography to include a digital multi-media project, a social enterprise in Palermo, Sicily, and overall reflections on race, identity, and belonging inspired by Toni Morrison’s guest-curated Louvre exhibit The Foreigner’s Home. Responding to recent calls for alternative methodologies in thinking the modern Mediterranean, Pulitano disseminates afluid archive of contemporary migrations reverberating with ancestral sounds and voices from the African diaspora along a Mediterranean-TransAtlantic map. Adding to the recent proliferation of social science scholarship that has drawn attention to the role of artistic practice in migration studies, the book features human stories of endurance and survival aimed at enhancing knowledge and social justice beyond (and notwithstanding) militarized borders and failed EU policies. 

Reviews

“Based on first-hand field research in the central Mediterranean, Pulitano’s volume subverts current discourse of migration in Europe by emphasizing the Black Mediterranean experience and its porous entanglements with art, activism, and belonging. A blueprint for co-habitation and solidarity in war-ravaged Europe.” (Alessandro Triulzi, Professor of African Studies at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy)    

“There are those who try to fix problems in the frame that generated them and predictably fail. And there are others who understand that reinventing the frame creatively and by art is an effective political action indeed. Elvira Pulitano's book provides an accurate, rich and long-awaited account of ARTivism related to Euromediterranean migration, questioning geopolitical assets and challenging disciplinary boundaries.” (Clelia Bartoli, Professor of Politics of Migration and Human Rights, University of Palermo, Italy)

Authors and Affiliations

  • San Luis Obispo, USA

    Elvira Pulitano

About the author

Elvira Pulitano is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where she teaches courses in Indigenous and Caribbean Studies, Critical Race Theory, Migration, and Human Rights. She is the author of Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean: Diasporic Literature and the Human Experience (2016) and editor of Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration (2012). A Fulbright scholar from Italy, she received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, specializing in Native American and postcolonial studies. She previously held teaching positions at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mediterranean ARTivism

  • Book Subtitle: Art, Activism, and Migration in Europe

  • Authors: Elvira Pulitano

  • Series Title: Mediterranean Perspectives

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05992-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05991-9Published: 21 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05994-0Published: 22 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05992-6Published: 20 July 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5592

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5606

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 235

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Modern History, Social History, European History, Arts, World History, Global and Transnational History

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