Mediterranean, Knowledge, Culture and Heritage - Book Series

 

The Book Series, published in electronic open access, shall be a permanent platform of discussion and comparison, experimentation and dissemination, promoting the achievement of methodological action-research goals, in order to enforce the development of the territories and of the local and European identities, starting from the cultural heritage and from the Mediterranean Area.

All the research work revolves around three key topics: Mediterranean: The knowledge and cultural values of southern Europe and the Mediterranean Area may represent the strategic elements to overcome the current crisis in Europe, to the point of becoming a stimulus for the review of policies.

  • knowledge: Language, history, tradition and art have always conveyed dialogic relations and interpersonal relationships within societies, founding on otherness the peculiarities understood as knowledge development, processes, sedimentation and transformation. What becomes peculiar is the "knowledge" as the achievement of an advantage derived from the possession of unique and inimitable knowledge.
  • Culture and Heritage: Culture, understood as its cultural heritage, is proposed as one of the privileged areas of the "new economy". In fact, the encounter between culture and territory represents one of the most valuable opportunities for development.
  • Each manuscript submitted in English will be subject to double-blind peer reviewing.

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    • Mediterranean Mosaic 

      Fonzo, Erminio; Haakenson, Hilary A. (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2019)
      The Mediterranean is far more than a sea. For millennia, it has created space for contact and cross-fertilization between the many cultures which have met, negotiated, battled, traded and shared knowledge and experiences ...

    • On Migrant Routes in the Mediterranean 

      Truda, Giovanna; Spurk, Jan (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2018)
      A new idea of space goes beyond State borders, allowing the observation in all directions. It seems natural to think that, when one can look around, the observation always tends towards wealthier and richer societies, and ...

    • The Mediterranean: the Sea of Law 

      Vesto, Aurora; Marchese, Alberto (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2017)
      The book provides an interesting and new analysis about the legal systems of the Mediterranean, addressing several topics: personal and cultural identity, with contributions about the relation between identity, religious ...

    • People and goods on the move 

      Çaykent, Özlem; Zavagno, Luca (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2016)
      The present volume aims at offering a less detailed but chronologically broader survey of the agents of the above mentioned matrix of communications across the Mediterranean basin from the early Medieval to the Modern era. ...

    • Borders and conflicts in the Mediterranean Basin 

      D'Angelo, Giuseppe; Martins Ribeiro, Jorge (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2016)
      The aim of this book, indeed, is re-reading the history of the Mediterranean basin starting from a double interpretative key: sea and border. In order to avoid possible misunderstandings it is good to clarify the sense of ...

    • Beyond the Borders : The Mediterranean between Cultures, Migrantions and Life-world 

      Benguerna, Mohamed; Mangone, Emiliana (Fisciano, Italy : ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2016)
      This book resulted from a rich collaboration between sociologists of different nationalities and reflects on Mediterranean as a strategic element to overcome the current crisis in Europe, becoming stimuli for the review ...