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A Conversation on Cinematic Representation and Resistance in the films "Altered Landscapes" (2016) by Juan del Gado and "The People Behind the Scenes" (2019), by Elsa Claire Gomis
(2019)This is a conversation between Juan del Gado and Elsa Gomis about their respective films. Juan del Gado has made the film Altered Landscapes (2016), which is the first part of a cinematically projected triptych entitled ... -
A grounded theory for unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy: the case study of Egyptian minors
(2017)The article suggests to share a research first emerging categories according to methodological universe of the "Grounded Theory" based on a mental construction / orientation process. The main target is to investigate in ... -
A Third Wave of Remembering The Mediterranean Sea as a Septic Tank
(2018)The argument focuses on the differences in methods of historiographies as put forth by David Abulafia and Fernand Braudel. Their object-of-study is the Mediterranean Sea. Abulafia focuses primarily on human beings making ... -
Ai Weiwei and JR. Political Artists and Activist Artists and the Plight of Refugees
(2019)The article will address Ai Weiwei’s and JR’s political engagement with the refugee crisis, the former as a political artist and the latter as an activist artist. Ai, in a series of conceptual installations and the feature ... -
Algeria post Arab Spring: The Forced Virtualisation of the Borders
(2016)Algeria is the core of the Maghreb and shares land borders with seven countries Maghreb and Sahel countries. However, since 2011, none of the seven land borders is stable and se-cure. So, even if Algeria is considered as ... -
Art as a Trigger for Reflection in Sociolinguistic Migration Research
(2019)Research methods that are inspired by the arts have recently become subject to increasing attention for language researchers working in migration contexts. There are various studies that show how arts-based methods can be ... -
Beyond Aesthetics of Pity. Italian Media Representation of Migrants and Emotional Audience
(Fisciano: ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2018)Public debates on migration oscillate between two conflicting claims: on the one hand, compassion and protection, on the other hand, rejection and fear. Both representations are more focused on emotional reactions (Castells, ... -
Beyond the Borders : The Mediterranean between Cultures, Migrantions and Life-world
(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 ... -
Beyond the Disciplinary Borders : A New Challenge
(2016)Present society needs a new approach to knowledge, mainly required by the fast succession of the transformation of society and by the multidimensionality of the daily life problems. It is necessary, therefore, a more and ... -
Borders and conflicts in the Mediterranean Basin
(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 ... -
Borders Kill. Tania Bruguera’s Referendum as an Artistic Strategy of Political Participation
(2019)Since the rise of modern nation-states, borders have played the important role to order society because they have the power to define territories, not only on the ground, but also on the level of the imaginary by shaping ... -
Challenges of Migration in Context of Cosmopolitan Citizenship
(2018)This article analyzes the different challenges of citizenship and rights in front of the new forms of flow migrations, especially in the Mediterranean and the case of Venezuelan migrants. The new conception of globalization ... -
Changer les attitudes contre la violence de genre: culture, éducation et apprentissage mutuels
(Fisciano: ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2017)Cet article interroge la notion de genre et ses acceptions multiples. Nous allons d’abord nous interroger sur cette notion pour comprendre les dynamiques de sa construction et de son évolution. Ensuite nous allons la lier ... -
Civilization and Sport in Colombia’s Drive to Modernization
(2019)This paper discusses the manner in which modern spectator sports developed in Colombia in the decade of the 1920s as part of the country’s efforts to modernize. An examination of the dominant theories of the diffusion of ... -
Communication for Cultural Integration : The Case of a Secondary Reception Centre
(2016)The language, a human species-specific activity, permits of knowing, organizing and recounting the reality that around us. Although the vocal level represents the preferred channel of expression, everyday experiences are ... -
Controlling irregular immigration at the European Union’s southern maritime border. An emerging system driven by “migration emergencies"
(2017)Over the last 25 years the southern maritime border of the European Union witnessed the interaction of considerable and increasingly complex irregular migration flows in the Mediterranean with the progressive construction ... -
Counteracting Dominant Discourses about Migrations with Images: a Typology Attempt
(2019)This article examines a series of art and media images which have contributed to counteracting dominant discourses about migrations. Through recourse to recent research in political science and psychology, it suggests that ... -
Crossing Linguistic Borders: Translating Democracy in the 2012 Egyptian Constitution
(2016)The transfer of political concepts into different places and cultures happens first and foremost through translation. Far from being a simple transposition of meaning into a different language to facilitate border crossing, ... -
Driving Reflections about the Mediterranean Migrations
(2018)The present paper refers to the general theoretical framing upon migrations and Mediterranean. It is an example of multidisciplinary view, which intertwines philosophic aspects and sociological requirements in a clearly ... -
El español y sus confines. Diversidad y uniformidad
(2016)In this article we analyze the current situation of Spanish language in the world and its ancient “boundaries”, which are at the same time simple and structured, regular and variable, uniform and different. And while the ...