Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships

Paradiso, Maria

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89632-8_1

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“…Idealizing the geography of Italy as a unique contact zone, the architect Piano implies, following a well-known tradition called Mediterraneanism or Mediterranean thought (Paradiso, 2019), that the Mediterranean region is the cradle of a plurality of cultures and presupposes an essentialist division between the Nordic and the Eastern, the Arab and the African. With the intent to persuade readers, he expresses a personal view that should also remind us that all cartographic projects, like discourses, narratives, and ideologies, are never value-free images but they subjectify reality and convey bias of different kinds.…”

Section: Reimagining Italy Through a Cartographic Perspective: Resear...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, in the post-Cold War era, Italy has changed from being a country of emigration to one defined by immigration. This process was facilitated by the open-door policy practiced by Italy, in a moment in which the Mediterranean region was considered a strategic hub by the European community (Paradiso, 2019). With experience of outward, intranational, and inward movements, the Italian territory represents a special case of migro-nationalism.…”

Section: Plural Italies: Historical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mapping coexistence in Italy: Reshaping the cartographic feelings of the plural nation

Presti

2021

Political Geography

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Section: Plural Italies: Historical Contextmentioning

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Mapping coexistence in Italy: Reshaping the cartographic feelings of the plural nation

Presti

2021

Political Geography

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“…Housing options for the immigrant population in Serbia are extremely limited. (Paradiso, 2019). Given a current lack of adequate housing options, new shelter designs that satisfy many criteria of the Israel-Maslow hierarchy as possible are necessary in this region for sheltering the increasing numbers of incoming migrants.…”

Section: Overview Of the Refugee Housing Issues In Republic Of Serbiamentioning

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Proposal for Refugee Housing in Southeast Europe Utilizing Regionally Appropriate, Sustainable, and Affordable Construction Methods

Cicevic

Gamble

2020

UFJUR

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This research focuses on the emergency-housing demand caused by the on-going refugee crisis in Southeastern Europe. The research and proposed solutions focus on Northern Serbia, as this region generally lacks permanent housing solutions for accommodating the increasing influx of immigrants. The outcome of this research is an architectural proposal for the refugee housing unit designed particularly for the situational factors of this focus region. The study identifies earth architecture as the primary building technique, due to its ability to satisfy a range of defined end-product goals. These goals include: the sustainability of the material, quality and durability of the final product, skill level required for non-professional construction, final cost of material and execution, historical regional precedent, and opportunity for communal engagement of the immigrant population. The proposed architectural design uses earth-bag construction as the sub-method most suitable for this location and in keeping with the goals outlined above. The proposed housing unit is a singular component that could be duplicated to create larger communal housing communities. A broad overview of possible solutions is included, followed by the development of the earth-bag construction option. The development of this proposal includes material studies, sketches, and an architectural model as representation tools. The outcomes of this research serve as a guideline, rather than a precise construction model, in creating much needed refugee housing communities in North Serbia.

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“…Mobilities across the Mediterranean Basin have become even more of a shaping factor of Euro–Mediterranean relationships since migrants have become connected via the internet, leading to the reconceptualization of segregation/integration factors based on spatial concentration or dispersion. Considering mobilities as Euro–Mediterranean factors of relationships leads to interesting alternative models for characterizing social groups and identifying social segregation and integration as poles of one continuum 76 , 77 . Euro–Mediterranean relationships are also shaped by, and increasingly themselves shaping, tensions about gendered perspectives of mobilities and integration/segregation dynamics in Europe as well as in the empowerment process going on in Europe and the Maghreb-Mashreq.…”

Section: Bridging De-bordering and Cross-bordering: Mobilities Encmentioning

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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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Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Mapping coexistence in Italy: Reshaping the cartographic feelings of the plural nation

Mapping coexistence in Italy: Reshaping the cartographic feelings of the plural nation

Proposal for Refugee Housing in Southeast Europe Utilizing Regionally Appropriate, Sustainable, and Affordable Construction Methods

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

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