[csaa-forum] Book of Interest: Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces

[Lara Palombo]

New Book: Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces

This book offers a unique mapping of Mediterranean cultures and
histories in transnational contexts. A diverse collection of diasporic
scholars stage a critical examination of transmediterranean subjects
across a broad spectrum of geopolitical spaces that encompasses India,
Greece, Palestine, Sudan,

Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Libya. Focusing on the
transnational dispersions and heterogeneous embodiments of
Mediterranean cultures, this book examines how these cultures,
geopolitical spaces and subjects are caught within flows of exchange,
contestation and reconfiguration. Working in the interstices of global
formations, the essays in this volume proceed to articulate
transmediterranean affiliations that challenge the borders and limits
of the nation-state.

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
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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.  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.