Transmediterranean

Joseph Pugliese is an Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies. He teaches in the Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. He has published widely on race, ethnicity and whiteness, migration and diaspora, refugees and asylum seekers, and bodies and technologies. His most recent research project is a monograph, Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (2010), that examines the biopolitics of biometric technologies.

• Contents: Joseph Pugliese: Introduction. Transmediterranean Cultures in Transnational Contexts – Maria Giannacopoulos: Alien Conscription, Australian Sovereignty and the Vietnam War – Lara Palombo: The Drawing of the Sovereign Line – Seren Dalkiran: Giving the Voiceless a Voice. Saving Third World Women Through a Western Lens – Ihab Shalbak: Edward Said and the Palestinian Experience – Noah Bassil: The Construction of the Colonial State in Sudan. Tribe, Region, Race and Colonial Power in Darfur – Joseph Pugliese: Transnational Carceral Archipelagos. Lampedusa and Christmas Island – Gaia Giuliani: Whose Whiteness? Cultural Dis-Locations Between Italy and Australia – Petro Alexiou: Alekos Doukas (1900-1962). A Dis-Located Life in the Shifting Terrain of the Eastern Mediterranean – Ilaria Vanni: Imagining Italians Abroad. The 2008 Italian Political Election Campaign in Australia – Goldie Osuri: Transmediterranean Dispersals. Mazzini, Hindu Nationalism and Sonia Gandhi – Joseph Pugliese: Epilogue.