Border Lampedusa

Gabriele Proglio is an FCT postdoctoral fellowship recipient at the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, and a Research Fellow on the ERC funded ‘Bodies Across Borders’ project at the European University Institute, Italy.Laura Odasso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES), Aix-Marseille University, France. She collaborates regularly with the University of Strasbourg, France, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and civil society organisations in Europe.

• Introduction; Laura Odasso and Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 1: The traces of journeys and migrants’ perspectives: the knots of memory and the unraveled plans; Rosita Deluigi.- Chapter 2: “Half devil and half child”: an ethnographic perspective on the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa; Gianluca Gatta.- Chapter 3: O Hear Us When We Cry To Thee; Katy Budge.-Chapter 4:The colour(s) of Lampedusa; Gaia Giuliani.- Chapter 5: A Politics of the Body as Body Politics. Re-thinking Europe’s Worksites of Democracy; Simona Wright.- Chapter 6: (Un)framing Lampedusa. Regimes of visibility and the politics of affect in Italian media representations; Chiara Giubilaro.- Chapter 7: Connecting Shores: Libya’s Colonial Ghost and Europe’s Migrant Crisis in colonial and postcolonial cinematic representations; Sandra Ponzanesi.- Chapter 8: Defragmenting visual representations of border Lampedusa: Intersubjectivity and memories from the Horn of Africa; Gabriele Proglio.- Chapter 9: Objects, debris and memory of the Mediterranean passage: Porto M in Lampedusa; Federica Mazzara.- Chapter 10: Nossa Senhora de Lampedosa protectress of slaves and refugees: On Mourning, Cultural Resilience and the Oniric Dimension of History; Fabrice Dubosc.