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  • Locating the Mediterranean

    Connections and Separations across Space and Time

    Carl Rommel, Joseph John Viscomi (eds.)

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    Until today, anthropological studies of locality have taken primary interest in local subjects leading local lives in local communities. Through a shift of conceptual emphasis from locality to location, the present volume departs from previous preoccupations with identity and belonging. Instead, Locating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. In doing so, it stimulates debates on the interplay between location and region-making in history as well as anthropology.

    The volume’s deeply empirical contributions illustrate how historical, material, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space commonly known as the Mediterranean region. Drawing from research in Melilla, Lampedusa, Istanbul, Nefpaktos/Lepanto, Tunisia, Beirut, Marseille, and elsewhere, the volume articulates location through the overlapping and incorporation of multiple social and historical processes.

    Individual contributions are linked by the pursuit to rethink the conceptual frames deployed to study the Mediterranean region. Together, the volume’s chapters challenge strict geopolitical renderings of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa and suggest how the ‘Mediterranean’ can function as a meaningful anthropological and historical category if the notion of ‘location’ is reinvigorated and conceptualised anew.

    Carl Rommel is a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He is an anthropologist, whose research focuses on masculinity, sports, future-making and ‘projects’ in contemporary Egypt.

    Joseph John Viscomi is a lecturer in European History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a historian and anthropologist specialised in temporality, migration, and political processes in the Mediterranean region.

    Locating the Mediterranean presents the fruit of a collective work that has for several years approached the Mediterranean and Mediterraneanism in a compelling, refreshing, and wonderfully productive new perspective. The introduction articulates and the chapters showcase the locating approach in varied, mutually complementary ways, which the epilogue gracefully brings together. This powerful analytic approach permits us to appreciate regional constellations and specific locations at the same time. That is so, as the authors explain, because these various locations are relative to each other (and to other cross-locations), and because they are all “partial locations”.’

    - Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, United States

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    Book Reviews (2):

      Review from 28 Nov 2023: Babylon – Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier, Vol 22 Nr. 1 (2023), 86–87
      Book review: Locating the Mediterranean

      Tiina Järvi

      Summary: What contributes to the volume’s success in demonstrating the complexity and multi-dimensionality of Mediterranean location is the attention to the historicity of place- and location-making that is part of every chapter. This approach further helps in avoiding the pitfalls named as shortcomings of previous regional studies of the Mediterranean, such as dichotomous thinking.

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      Review from 07 May 2023: H-Soz-Kult
      C. Rommel u.a. (Hrsg.): Locating the Mediterranean

      Christoph Lange

      Summary: What is in particular intriguing, is how closely the volume’s contributions as a whole follow the theoretical trajectory of “Mediterranean locations” outlined by the editors in their introduction. Moreover, the wide range of topics and locations touching also the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean present in this volume makes the reading an extremely worthwhile exploration. Lastly, Rommel and Viscomi demanded and promised an “ethnographic insistence”, and this very diverse and excellent group of early-stage and senior anthropologists was able to deliver this ethnographic insistence.

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    Rommel C. & Viscomi J. (eds.) 2022. Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations across Space and Time. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18
    Rommel, C. and Viscomi, J.J., 2022. Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations across Space and Time. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18
    Rommel, Cand J J Viscomi. Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations Across Space and Time. Helsinki University Press, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18
    Rommel, C., & Viscomi, J. J. (2022). Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations across Space and Time. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18
    Rommel, Carl, and Joseph John Viscomi. 2022. Locating the Mediterranean: Connections and Separations Across Space and Time. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18




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    Published on July 6, 2022

    Language

    English

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    264

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    EPUB 978-952-369-078-3
    Paperback 978-952-369-076-9
    PDF 978-952-369-077-6

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-18



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