"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"
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