![]() ![]() ![]() Iain Chambers views the Mediterranean as a space of solid borders that entail the production and consumption of the immigrant as outcast. Roberto Dainotto points to the asymmetries couched in the alluring metaphors of liquidity and flows. The risk in such studies is a reinforcing of old stereotypes, what the anthropologist Michael Herzfeld calls “Mediterraneism.” The present article highlights the work of two scholars and one writer who alert us to the manifold dangers of Mediterraneism and who offer standpoints for launching a serious interrogation of Mediterraneism. Yet the resurgence of the Mediterranean in the postmodern, anti-nationalistic arena must be critically assessed. Lately, this “new thalassology” has witnessed an outburst of Mediterranean studies. In recent years, the declining importance of the nation-state and an increase in globalization have encouraged scholars to move towards the borderless world of seas and oceans, giving special attention to their diasporic movements of people and goods. ![]()
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