[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers: Mediterranean Colonial Sea

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Call for Papers

Mediterranean Programme

10th Mediterranean Research Meeting

25-28 March 2009 in Montecatini (Italy)

Workshop 15

Directed by Manuel Borutta (Köln) / Athanasios Gekas (Firenze)

Abstract:

The workshop will explore the modern Mediterranean as a Colonial Sea. We
will reconstruct colonial interactions, relationships, entanglements and
shared experiences between Europe, the Maghreb and the Middle East from late
18th century, when the European colonization of the Mediterranean began,
until the erosion of the imperial order in the 1950s. By bringing together
research on colonial histories on both sides of the Mediterranean, we wish
to get away from a Eurocentric perspective which studies colonialism merely
in a one-way direction from the metropoleis to the colonies. By stressing
the ambivalences and paradoxes of colonialism, we want to overcome the
shortcomings of modernization theory. We will investigate cultural,
economic, political and social aspects of Mediterranean colonialism such as
representations of the Mediterranean, colonial conquest, rule and
administration; migration, settlement and trade; the social reality and
cultural complexity of colonial cities and places. By combining comparative
and transnational perspectives, asking for differences, similarities and
entanglements we wish to avoid the ‘methodological nationalism’ of colonial
histories in the Mediterranean. Similar to the ‘thalassological’ approach
introduced by Horden and Purcell, we look for a history of the colonial
Mediterranean, rather than for histories in the colonial Mediterranean.
Instead of taking ‘the Mediterranean’ for granted, we will investigate how
it was constructed and used as a concept for the colonization of Northern
Africa and the Middle East. In this respect the workshop will also
historicize Mediterranean studies and highlight their colonial past.

Workshop Description:
<http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/desc_pdf/MRM2009_Ds1
5.pdf>
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/desc_pdf/MRM2009_Ds15
.pdf

Call for Papers:
<http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/pdf/MRM2009-Papersca
ll.pdf>
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2009/pdf/MRM2009-Paperscal
l.pdf

Application Deadline: 1 September 2008

Application Form:  <http://www.rscas.org/medform.asp>
http://www.rscas.org/medform.asp

Paper Delivery Deadline: 15 January 2009

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