Federica Mazzara
Biographic Data
| ID | 1285440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Federica Mazzara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Federica |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzara |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZARA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4940-4236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discrowning the king: Border performativity, humour and transgression around the Trump Wall
This article identifies forms of creative visual resistance to a prevailing logic of border enforcement around the world – a logic aimed at curbing undocumented human movement, often with deadly consequences. These forms of resistance serve to highlight the porosity and triviality of borders, as well as the violence that increasingly defines their global management. This phenomenon is perpetuated through policies, rhetorical strategies, speech ac…
Transgressing borders through the digital: Tunisian harraga’s ‘counter-maps of disagreement’ on social media
Within the context of digital border technologies, this article undertakes an analysis of the use of social media by people on the move. The main case study analysed here consists of social media clips taken during the crossing of the Mediterranean liquid border by young harraga (الحراقة), an Arabic word used in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco to define ‘those who burn the borders’, in other words, those who try to reach Europe from the Maghreb via …
In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands
In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands’ is a double Special Issue emerging from a cross-Mediterranean scholarly collaboration supported by the British Academy. Focusing on Tunisia as a key site for examining contemporary migration, the Special Issue traces the country’s shifting role from a ‘palimpsest of historical crossings’ to a space of mobility containment under the European Union’s externalized …
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion
Lampedusa: Cultural and artistic spaces for migrant voices
Subverting the narrative of the Lampedusa borderscape
With this article I wish to challenge the concept of ‘crisis’, commonly associated with the arrival of irregularized migrants to the island of Lampedusa, by showing how this conception is usually the result of a fabrication and spectacle to which migrants become subjected, fuelling a ‘moral panic’ difficult to overcome. The understanding and representation of migrants as ‘carriers of crisis’ has inevitably undermined their dignity and rights as i…
Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa: The Counter Narrative of the Aesthetic Discourse
Political, legal, and media discourse around ‘boat-migrants’ arriving in Lampedusa share a tendency to focus on an unnamed and anonymous mass of people in order to build and sustain a Border Spectacle revolving around immigration to Italy. In this context, where very little space is usually left to individual migrant voices, this article challenges this common understanding of immigration to Lampedusa by showing a different side of the story, a s…
Beyond italian borders: Amara Lakhous and the Mediterranean alternative
This article aims at investigating the possibility of talking about a 'Mediterranean alternative' in a cultural and literary horizon. In particular, it will explore the Italian case, whose Mediterranean heredity has recently been rediscovered through the contributions of those writers who come from other Mediterranean countries and challenge the borders of western idiosyncratic realities, like the Italian one. This article will analyse the case o…
Performing post-migration cinema in Italy: Corazones de Mujer by K. Kosoof
Following consideration of the most common representations of migrants in Italian cinema, where they are often portrayed as victimised and minor subjects, this article analyses a film by Davide Sordella and Pablo Benedetti, Corazones de Mujer (2008) as a ‘post-migration alternative’. This film considers a different way of depicting ‘foreigners’, and addresses the complex issues of gender and sexuality as they emerge at the interface between Weste…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa: The Counter Narrative of the Aesthetic Discourse
Political, legal, and media discourse around ‘boat-migrants’ arriving in Lampedusa share a tendency to focus on an unnamed and anonymous mass of people in order to build and sustain a Border Spectacle revolving around immigration to Italy. In this context, where very little space is usually left to individual migrant voices, this article challenges this common understanding of immigration to Lampedusa by showing a different side of the story, a s…
Subverting the narrative of the Lampedusa borderscape
With this article I wish to challenge the concept of ‘crisis’, commonly associated with the arrival of irregularized migrants to the island of Lampedusa, by showing how this conception is usually the result of a fabrication and spectacle to which migrants become subjected, fuelling a ‘moral panic’ difficult to overcome. The understanding and representation of migrants as ‘carriers of crisis’ has inevitably undermined their dignity and rights as i…
Lampedusa: Cultural and artistic spaces for migrant voices
Beyond italian borders: Amara Lakhous and the Mediterranean alternative
This article aims at investigating the possibility of talking about a 'Mediterranean alternative' in a cultural and literary horizon. In particular, it will explore the Italian case, whose Mediterranean heredity has recently been rediscovered through the contributions of those writers who come from other Mediterranean countries and challenge the borders of western idiosyncratic realities, like the Italian one. This article will analyse the case o…
Performing post-migration cinema in Italy: Corazones de Mujer by K. Kosoof
Following consideration of the most common representations of migrants in Italian cinema, where they are often portrayed as victimised and minor subjects, this article analyses a film by Davide Sordella and Pablo Benedetti, Corazones de Mujer (2008) as a ‘post-migration alternative’. This film considers a different way of depicting ‘foreigners’, and addresses the complex issues of gender and sexuality as they emerge at the interface between Weste…
Spaces of Visibility for the Migrants of Lampedusa: The Counter Narrative of the Aesthetic Discourse
Political, legal, and media discourse around ‘boat-migrants’ arriving in Lampedusa share a tendency to focus on an unnamed and anonymous mass of people in order to build and sustain a Border Spectacle revolving around immigration to Italy. In this context, where very little space is usually left to individual migrant voices, this article challenges this common understanding of immigration to Lampedusa by showing a different side of the story, a s…
Lampedusa: Cultural and artistic spaces for migrant voices
Subverting the narrative of the Lampedusa borderscape
With this article I wish to challenge the concept of ‘crisis’, commonly associated with the arrival of irregularized migrants to the island of Lampedusa, by showing how this conception is usually the result of a fabrication and spectacle to which migrants become subjected, fuelling a ‘moral panic’ difficult to overcome. The understanding and representation of migrants as ‘carriers of crisis’ has inevitably undermined their dignity and rights as i…
Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Transgressing borders through the digital: Tunisian harraga’s ‘counter-maps of disagreement’ on social media
Within the context of digital border technologies, this article undertakes an analysis of the use of social media by people on the move. The main case study analysed here consists of social media clips taken during the crossing of the Mediterranean liquid border by young harraga (الحراقة), an Arabic word used in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco to define ‘those who burn the borders’, in other words, those who try to reach Europe from the Maghreb via …
In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands
In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands’ is a double Special Issue emerging from a cross-Mediterranean scholarly collaboration supported by the British Academy. Focusing on Tunisia as a key site for examining contemporary migration, the Special Issue traces the country’s shifting role from a ‘palimpsest of historical crossings’ to a space of mobility containment under the European Union’s externalized …
Discrowning the king: Border performativity, humour and transgression around the Trump Wall
This article identifies forms of creative visual resistance to a prevailing logic of border enforcement around the world – a logic aimed at curbing undocumented human movement, often with deadly consequences. These forms of resistance serve to highlight the porosity and triviality of borders, as well as the violence that increasingly defines their global management. This phenomenon is perpetuated through policies, rhetorical strategies, speech ac…
Sociology (6 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cognitive reframing (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)