Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, ii @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 Direzione: Diego Lazzarich – Direttore editoriale (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli) e Alessandro Arienzo (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”). Comitato scientifico: Giuseppe Allegri (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”); Emiliana Armano (Università Statale di Milano); Lorenzo Bernini (Università degli Studi di Verona); Olivier Butzbach (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli); Marta Cariello (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli); AlBerto Clerici (Università Niccolò Cusano); Cristina Cassina (Università di Pisa); Pasquale Cuomo (Università di Pisa); Michele Filippini (Università di Bologna); Eleonora Forenza (Università di Roma Tre); Diego Giannone (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli); Annalisa Murgia (Università di Trento); Raffaele Nocera (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”); Spartaco Pupo (Università della Calabria); Giorgio Scichilone (Università degli Studi di Palermo); Mauro Simonazzi (Università degli Studi di Camerino); Antonio Tisci (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli); Adriano Vinale (Università degli Studi di Salerno). Comitato scientifico internazionale: Christian Azaïs (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France); Étienne BaliBar (Université de Paris-X, France); Peter Birke (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen – SOFI, Germany); Kristin Carls, (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen – SOFI, Germany); Luc Foisneau (CNRS – Paris, France); Anahita Grisoni (ENS de Lyon, France); Patrick Gun Cuninghame (UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico); Asad Haider (University of California Santa Cruz, USA); Marta Nunes de Costa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil); Milena Petters Melo (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil); Lucia Pradella (King’s College, U.K.); Codrina Sandru (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania); Jacob Soll (University of Southern California, USA); BarBara Szaniecki (DSc, Pontíficia Universidade Católica, Brazil). Direttore responsabile: Michele Lanna. Numero: V Anno: 1/2016 Periodicità: semestrale Titolo: “Mediterraneo in polvere”/“Mediterranean at large” Curatori: Marta Cariello e Iain ChamBers Lingua: Italiano e inglese Modalità di raccolta degli articoli: call for papers Tipo di selezione e valutazione degli articoli: comitato scientifico e double-blind review Standard di citazione: Chicago Manual of Style 16th (Author-date) Copertina: Progetto grafico di Diego Lazzarich su opera di Victoria Team (vedi p. 173) Contatti: [email protected] Sito web: www.rivistapolitics.it Social media: Facebook: www.faceBook.com/rivistapolitics; Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticsRivists; Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/politicsrivista; YouTuBe: www.youtuBe.com/channel/UC54BGclr06dC1ZnuTt8nfPg Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, iii @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 A Giulio Regeni, che ha attraversato il Mediterraneo sospinto dal vento della verità, trovando la morte per mano di chi usa la politica come solo strumento di dominio. To Giulio, who crossed the Mediterranean urged by the wind of truth, and found death at the hands of those who use politics only to exercise power. Ciao Giulio (1985-2016) Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, iv @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 MEDITERRANEO IN POLVERE/ MEDITERRANEAN AT LARGE a cura di/ edited By Marta Cariello Iain ChamBers Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, v @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 MEDITERRANEO IN POLVERE/ MEDITERRANEAN AT LARGE Indice/Index Editorial/Introduzione Marta Cariello - Iain Chambers vii-xiii PART I: POLITICHE, CONFINI, CONFLITTI/POLITICS, BORDERS, CONFLICTS Mediterranean: Coloniality, Migration and Decolonial Practices Luigi Cazzato 1-17 L’istituzione del porto franco in un Mediterraneo senza frontiere Antonio Iodice 19-33 Force Fields Between LiBya and Italy: Camps, Air Power and Baroque Geopolitics Challenging the Political Geography of the Mediterranean Caterina Miele 35-51 Tunisia’s Endangered Exception: History at Large in the Southern Mediterranean Norbert Bugeja 53-68 Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, vi @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 PART II: VISIONI, NARRAZIONI, SCONFINAMENTI/VISIONS, NARRATIVES, TRESPASSINGS “Dividuous waves of Greece”: Hellenism Between Empire and Revolution Simos Zeniou 71-88 Othering the Mediterranean in E. M. Forster’s Italian Novels: A Levinasian Perspective Aneta Lipska 89-103 Coproducing Nostalgia across the Mediterranean: Visions of the Jewish-Muslim Past in French-Tunisian Cinema Robert Watson 105-123 I porti del Mediterraneo: mondi sociali e spazi di frontiera Michele Claudio Domenico Masciopinto 125-141 Mediterranei italiani. Il Mediterraneo nella letteratura di viaggio dell’Italia preunitaria Elisabetta Serafini 143-157 Lampedusa: scritture oltre la cenere Silvana Carotenuto 159-174 Mixed Identity (artist’s statement) Victoria Team 175-177 Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici www.rivistapolitics.it (5), 1/2016, vii-xiii @ Editoriale A.I.C. - Edizioni Labrys All right reserved ISSN 2279-7629 Editorial/Introduzione Marta Cariello - Iain Chambers To politically and historically conceptualize the Mediterranean in the present conjuncture is very much a crucial exercise in establishing new coordinates and bearings. Habitual understandings, very much stemming from Occidental hegemony and an overwhelmingly European-derived set of definitions and perspectives are clearly insufficient. Events since 2011, and the continuing war in Syria, point to deeper rhythms in the political composition of the present – for example, the rarely acknowledged colonial construction of this geo-political space – and the urgent necessity of elaborating a new lexicon and language with which to interpret it. Rather than simply seeking to respond to the existing state of Mediterranean affairs and subsequently adjust inherited maps and understandings to meet new circumstances, we perhaps need to change key and shift our critical resources into an altogether less protected space. When events, subsequently known as the “Arab Spring”, broke out in North Africa in 2011, Western government and media were taken largely unawares. Autocratic governments, implementing the neo-liberal directives of the IMF, and fully supported by Occidental power, rapidly and spectacularly came undone. The pressure of public protests, voicing a social and political lexicon through technique and technology that the West could not fail to recognize, disrupted the expectancies of most accredited observers. Insisting on freedom to publicly acknowledge poverty and the negation of civil rights could not be easily disavowed in public cultures that from Berlin to Baltimore were rhetorically steeped in the liberty of expression. The media scrambled around for labels to frame the events and render them intelligible to Western eyes. Eventually the frames of analysis were rolled out and Occidental definitions once again secured, particularly as events on the ground were eventually pushed back into older political patterns of alliances, partnerships and interventions. Revolt and revolution were set in perspective (whose?) to be defined, disciplined by a dented but still robust Occidental policing and politics. viii Politics. Rivista di Studi Politici (5), 1/2016 What is perhaps worth pointing out here is that these recent events – even (with the exception of Tunisia) if they are seemingly rolled back into their older authoritarian coordinates in Egypt or else become a microcosm of a regional war in Syria – open up a far deeper rent in the explanatory tissue than area studies, political science and their realpolitick continue to measure and peddle. When the languages, lexicons and technologies of the West are deployed to contest precisely the political arrangements that the West itself has historically and culturally supported and encouraged in the pursuit of allies and its particular interests then the existing coordinates of comprehension can no longer simply pass unchallenged. The maps, the models and methodologies – no matter how “objective” and “scientific” they pretend to be – cannot be permitted to escape revaluation, even critical dismantling. The waves unleashed by crisis also wash through the languages of apprehension and explanation. Of course, in critical honesty, we have to register that none of this has publicly been registered. It has certainly not been translated into a significant political or cultural shift. Occidental government continues to treat the multiple souths of the world in a neocolonial manner, betraying the deep-seated colonial configurations of the present. The dismal social sciences continue to exercise their authority untroubled by dissent voices and refusals to respect their verdicts. Europe remains the template, its model of revolution and change (these days monumentalized in the moribund remains of eighteenth century liberal constitutionalism) was not enacted in Egypt. The failures of North African rebellion and revolt (subsequently aggravated by Western intervention in Libya and Syria) only endorse the time scale of “progress”: the time not yet ripe, the actors not yet mature. And yet this linear fashioning of reasoning,