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This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean
city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent
reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have recast difference as a central
trope of identification in urban borderland settings, unleashing
heated debates about cultural convergences and animating anxieties
about an arguable clash of civilizations in modern cities. These
emerging uncertainties have also grown stronger as the homogenizing
forces of globalization unsettle essential principles of the
nation-state and nationhood and render fixed perceptions of
distinctive and singular people and cultures more tenuous. Recent
scholarship and public discourse have accordingly framed
discussions of these encounters around concerns of geo-political
security and international policy. Unfortunately, framed within
these terms, our understanding of how various groups within the
Mediterranean metropolis deal with the intensification of
difference as a lived experience has remained regrettably thin.
This volume transcends this limitation and explores new,
interdisciplinary research paradigms that will help us gain a
comprehensive perspective on how complex macro and micro tensions,
contradictions and similarities are negotiated in building urban
identities in the Mediterranean basin. The contributors to this
volume explore the multi-faceted nature of Mediterranean cities and
engage a critical discussion of identity production and consumption
in the Mediterranean basin. By spanning two centuries and examining
both the Northern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean, the
chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive
investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have
framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of
departures, arrivals and contested belonging. By focusing on
cinema, photography, new media, magazines, music and literature as
different stages for the performative representation of
Mediterraneity, the authors highlight the vibrancy of the
intercultural discourses taking place along the shores of the mare
nostrum and provide new perspectives from which to explore the
relationship between North and South, East and West.
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