The Station of Alicante is the Centre of the World. 1 Wars at the Borders and Peace in the Market along the North African Routes to Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7796879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Peraldi (0000-0002-8743-8157, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 389-404 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02757200701727809 |
| OpenAlex | W2069468390 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Taking the port city of Alicante the author outlines how numerous crossroads connect the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean. Along the arc of Euro‐Mediterranean trading centres lies the European continent as a whole, extending eastwards to the republics emerging from the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, and in the south to Francophone and Muslim Africa. This arc of trading towns includes Istanbul, Dubai, Naples, Antwerp, Hamburg, Marseilles and Alicante. The author traces the movements of individuals pursuing “suitcase trade” performed by means of face‐to‐face links, word of mouth, and verbal agreements. The author then traces this vast “choreographed movement” that originates from Europe’s borders, and suggests that although reasons other than trade influence mobility and movement, only commerce and the necessity of anchoring trade to globalizing flows determines the spatial form of these movements: a framework of land, maritime, and aerial routes that connect constellations of market centres. This territorial framework possesses constellation points, but does not organise a consistent, articulated territory. These nomadic routes are articulated on a double sequential and irregular geography of migrant diasporas on the one hand, and of trading places on the other. It is therefore a stateless space liberated from all political intermediaries. He contrasts this human mobility with the increasing solidification of Europe’s external borders
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |