This somewhat longer post involves a reflection on a number of meetings I’ve had over the last months with African refugees in the city of Bologna, while preparing research on migrant labour and urban marginality. Though these meetings took shape … Continue reading
The Black Mediterranean has recently started to surface as a terminology to describe the cultural crossroads between Africa and Europe. It indicates the emergence of a vibrant cultural borderland characterized by growing proximity between African and European cultures in the … Continue reading
I am happy to announce the publication of the Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship. In collaboration with Black History Month, we (the is: a collective of scholars called the Black Mediterranean Collective) launched the edited volume at NYU, Florence, earlier … Continue reading
The University of Palermo and New York University have just finalised the programme of their conference titled ‘Black Mediterranean: ReSignifications‘ – a topic that is raising widening international interest lately (see amongst others these new publications by Ida Danewid -awarded with the … Continue reading
Further to my posts on the Black Mediterranean, I signal two interesting events this and the next month, on in Florence, and one in Milan. The Florence conference and exhibition Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-staging Histories (28-31 May) offers … Continue reading
I am happy to share a blog post on my recent monograph from the editor Cornell University Press, which elaborates on another post from the Sage House Blog. What is the social and ecological cost of eating industrialized farm products? … Continue reading
Here is list of upcoming presentations of my new monograph The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean, with Cornell University Press: Wednesday 10 April at 9AM CET / 5PM Australian EST at the Australian Critical Border Studies … Continue reading
I am happy to announce the publication of my new monograph The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean, with Cornell University Press. Feel free to write me to obtain information related to book promotion activities and planned … Continue reading
How farm workers are wrecked by a corporate food regime in South Italy’s migrant ghettos This post is the somewhat longer version of a blog contribution I posted on Border Criminologies, as part a collaboration with the journal Geopolitics to … Continue reading
Invitation to the the first episode of a series of sessions on the Black Mediterranean – a topic amply discussed on these pages. location: the MET – Bologna, time: March 25, at 16.30-23.00, During the meeting we will discuss the working conditions … Continue reading