The Idea of a Mediterranean<i>Region</i>in Nineteenth- to Mid-Twentieth-Century German Geography

Ben-Artzi, Yossi

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“…The scientific concept of the Mediterranean was mainly developed by the French school (Reclus and Vidal de la Blache) and in the German geographical tradition 2 , 3 . It was later elaborated by the Vidalians, who influenced Braudel’s work as well as popular views in Europe.…”

Section: Bordering: Unitary Fiction and Instrumental Hegemonic Narramentioning

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The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Paradiso

2016

European Review

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If we look at the Mediterranean only as a space, a dissonant geography is obvious. Its diversity is mistakenly reduced in a process of ‘diorthosis’, a cognitive and operational approach that starts from assuming the nature of things and functionality modes rather than arriving at a proper image via actual analysis.1The study of flows, of networks–i.e. the circulation of ideas, people, finances, and so on – challenges the continuous representation of the Mediterranean between homogeneity and otherness, and re-posits it as both a post-colonial imbricate site of encounters and currents and as a site of new hegemonic and counter-power discourse(s) and alliances. This paper explores the ‘mobility’ paradigm as an initial approach to contemporary geographies of the Mediterranean. The latter are being created not only by the media, powers and ideologies, but also by everyday people’s inter-ethnic, inter-cultural, and emotional interactions in places and digital communication channels. Such interactions are often characterized by blockages of inter-ethnic or inter-cultural exchanges, as well as by inequalities. They present and discuss initial paths of new encounters structuring North–South relationships, and vice versa, but also circular and East–West ones since they are typified by a variety of personal and virtual mobilities in terms of gender, motivations, emotional geographies, impacts, and circulation rather than origin/destination, and so on. It seems to me that the internet and people’s spatial mobility underline a deep process of change for the Mediterranean. A dialectic of diaspora politics, circuits of funds, weapons, empowerments, and emotions, challenge the boundaries of political communities in transformation. The Mediterranean thus appears as a global space of confrontation, emulation, opposition, dialectics, and change. Places, flows, wires and digital TV are the loci for all this. There is no assumption of ‘Mediterranean as a bridge of cultures’; instead, we all are actors in networking communities

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Section: Bordering: Unitary Fiction and Instrumental Hegemonic Narramentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Paradiso

2016

European Review

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“…Nor can the view that the boundaries between North and South are rooted or fixed by physical geography be substantiated. The areas that were imagined to be Europe, the Mediterranean, and the border between them have been shown to vary over time and have traditionally been very malleable conceptualizations (Ben-Artzi 2004;Leontidou 2004;Liotta 2005;Purcell 2003). All spatial configurations are expressions of mental maps, a form of symbolic geography.…”

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“…This discourse tended to exaggerate national differences and deny the importance of transnational phenomena. The greater Mediterranean region, to the extent that it was discussed at all, was seen as merely a geographical expression and nothing more; and even this view was borrowed from outside (Ben-Artzi 2004). Second, indigenous academics and local societies by and large accepted and internalized the dichotomous categories of East and West.…”

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Europe and Asia beyond East and West

Delanty¹

2006

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This is a timely volume that explores Europe in its relation to Asia in a way that moves beyond simplistic notions of West and East. Rejecting the idea of a clash of civilizations, the contributions highlight the interlinked nature of Europe and Asia and attempt to identify cosmopolitan moments of openness.From both a historical and a contemporary perspective, it is shown that both Europe and Asia are not based on fixed cultural or geographical foundations. The East is also in the West. Rather than look at Europe and Asia in terms of separate worlds, they can be seen in terms of cultural struggles common to both. A general theme is that the idea of the West as an ideological, cultural and geopolitical construct is becoming increasingly questionable when applied to the current situation, which is one in which West and East are mutually linked. The articulation of a new European identity that includes a recognition of the non-European is now one of the major chances for Europe to define its identity in the world.

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Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships

Paradiso

2018

Mediterranean Mobilities

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The Idea of a MediterraneanRegionin Nineteenth- to Mid-Twentieth-Century German Geography

Cited by 5 publications

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The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

The Mediterranean: Bridging, Bordering and Cross-bordering in a Global Mobile Reality

Europe and Asia beyond East and West

Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships

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