Decolonising the Mediterranean - European Colonial Heritages in North Africa and the Middle East (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

Decolonising the Mediterranean means, first and foremost, investigating how the legacy of colonial rule over bodies and land has been used by other entities and powers to impose new forms of hegemony after the fall of empires and European powers. It means denouncing and dissecting the tools employed in the production of new geometries of power in the global Mediterranean, as well as in the farthest, most recondite corners of the Mediterranean World. Decolonising the Mediterranean is an epistemological practice of border dismantling and scrutiny of the ways in which powers overlap and intertwine. The multiplication of the border is investigated in this volume from an in-between position, namely a specific positionality of subjectivities, in order to connect the global and local, and address Mediterranean issues with a transnational approach. Decolonising the Mediterranean means thinking of the Mediterranean as a space of investigation beyond its geographical boundaries. Finally, it requires deconstructing the power relations at play, viewing the Mediterranean as an excess space of signification in order to reconsider the past and present stories and subjectivities erased by Eurocentric, nationalist historical discourse. In this sense, the Mediterranean may, then, be more than a "method": a matter of politics, or a space without borders where the future can be reinvented from the bottom up.This volume is structured into six chapters, each written by a different author focusing on a single North African, Maghreb and Mashrek country's colonial legacy to investigate borders in a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics of investigation adopted here are different, they can all be situated on the boundary line described above, and each chapter suggests a specific path for decolonising knowledge.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2017
First published:	2009
Editors:	Gabriele Proglio
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	125
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-0070-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > African history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	1-4438-0070-8
Barcode:	9781443800709

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