Rupture, reproduction, and the state

The Arab Spring on Lampedusa as 'Layered Event

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ID2156607
AuthorsLaust Lund Elbek (0000-0002-6719-9478, Aarhus University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume33
Issue5
Pages652-669
Publication date2022-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2020.1793761
OpenAlexW3043130967
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited43

The Italian island of Lampedusa has become synonymous with irregular migration and border enforcement in the Mediterranean, not least since thousands of Tunisians stranded on the island during the so-called Arab Spring in 2011. This article investigates how local interpretations of the situation were centred on ‘abandonment by the state’, and it suggests that 2011 thus represented both a moment of rupture and historical reproduction: while everyday regularities were dislodged and the local tourist industry suffered a hard blow, the interpretative frame of ‘abandonment by the state’ is a political relation as old as Italy itself. Inspired by Reinhardt Koselleck’s thinking on multilayered and multidirectional history, the article describes 2011 as a ‘layered event’ that engaged both a troubled past and an uncertain future

Abandonment (legal · Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Event (particle physics · Frame (networking · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Reproduction · State (computer science · Tourism · Archaeological Research and Protection · Byzantine Studies and History · Engineering · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law

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