Borders

Between Crises and Borders: Interventions on Mediterranean Neighbourhood and the Salience of Spatial Imaginaries

An impressive body of international research has engaged with the rationales, dynamics and societal consequences of micro and macro-level regional integration projects (e.g. Celata & Coletti, 2015; Sidaway, 1998; S€oderbaum, 2009; Telo, 2007). This research has also offered robust templates for critical analyses of globalization, shifting state territorialities and the networked nature of territorial and ideational hegemony (Perkmann & Sum, 2002; Sidaway, 2002; Sparke, 2006).

Volker Prott, The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe. 1917–1923

La recensione del volume di Volker Prott affronta i temi della sistemazione dei confini europei nel primo dopoguerra e la "concettualizzazione" del principio di autodeterminazione nazionale, fra idealismo wilsoniano e realpolitik europea, in particolare nei casi di Alsazia-Lorena e Anatolia.

Media Discourses of the rescue and landing of migration by boat in the Italian News Media

Due to the characteristics of migratory phenomenon in Italy, the arrival by boat of immigrants and refugees represents a “media icon” of the whole migration issue. The news-report on this topic are paramount in the construction of political polarization regard the management of fluxes; seemingly, they support the prevalent discourse frame of emergency and social alarm (or, sporadically, the pietistic or the rescue ones).

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