Citizen Activism and Mediterranean Identity

Beyond Eurocentrism
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-83408-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 147 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 226 g

Reihe: Mobility & Politics

This book explores the commonalities between the struggles of the last years around the Mediterranean and tries to find the cultural roots of this season of protests and activism against repression and a growing systemic crisis. Who are their main characters? How has mobility of ideas and persons contributed to it? Why has the Mediterranean become the cradle of civil resistance? And how can one make sure that what has begun bears fruit? The author discusses how a strategic action of social movements and activists from both Europe and the Arab world can build the basis for a grassroots project for integration between the two shores, where mobility is at the core: on the one hand, mobility of ideas, activists, men and women of culture and other key-players, and trans-national strategizing; on the other hand, challenging the paradigms of visa policies and striving for a space of safe human mobility as one of the steps of a grassroots Mediterranean citizens project. Providing argument to a new theory of social mobilization, this book will be of interest to scholars of European and Arab politics as well as to political activists in the region.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solera, Gianluca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Revolutionary Contagion .- 2. Decolonising the Mediterranean: The Battle of Images and Clichés .- 3. Migration, Nomadism, Mélange as Transformative Forces .- 4. Cornerstones for a Mediterranean Internationale Citoyenne .- 5. The Dialogue Is Dead, the Mediterranean Is Alive.

Über Autor(innen)

Gianluca Solera is an activist and a writer. An early Green militant, he studied regional and urban planning, and spent many years as a political adviser to the European Greens, and then as civil society coordinator at the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. His last two books are Muri, lacrime e za’tar [Walls, Tears and Za’tar] and Riscatto mediterraneo [A Mediterranean Awakening]. He collaborates with COSPE and other nonprofit organizations, and edits gianlucasolera.it, a blog on society, politics and culture in the Mediterranean.