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
On the Problematic Nature of a Word by Camilla Hawthorne and Pina Piccolo I am happy to act as a host for this joint article by Camilla Hawthorne and Pina Piccolo on the politics of ‘mesticcatio’, or cultural hybridity, … Continue reading
Since my last posts mentioning border art and the Black Mediterranean, I’ve been receiving some additional suggestions. In the following post I discuss some of them.
Following my earlier post on the racial geography of the Black Mediterranean, colleagues keep pointing me at North-South connections in agri-food commodity chains, particularly with regard to tomatoes. My colleague Christian Berndt, for example, has written this wonderful comparison between the … Continue reading
2020-2024: Frontier Settlements – Territories of artisan mining labour in Africa This research project reveals how the extraction of the world’s underground resources territorializes through artisan mining labour. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and co-hosted by the … Continue reading
My article titled ‘Naturalising ‘Black Spaces’ in the Mediterranean: Towards a Political Ecology of Bordering Infrastructures‘ has now been published online by Geopolitics. I am especially happy about the outcome for two reasons: (1) the article allows me to propose … Continue reading
In Italy, quite a number of occupied buildings I previously indicated – inspired by Heather Merrill – as ‘black spaces’ (the shelters, detention centres, condemned urban buildings, and other locations representing those who, by virtue of their asylum status and … Continue reading
The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went lonely and swift like a small planet. Round her the abyss of sky and sea met in an unattainable frontier. A great circular solitude moved with her, ever changing and ever … Continue reading