Search Results for western Mediterranean Sea

... on the western Mediterranean Sea. The Alarm Phone, an activist hotline assisting migrants in distress at sea, has been involved in everyday struggles over movement in all three Mediterranean regions, so that tracing its interventions can provide insights into the complex interplay between enactments...

... and its sea power, has been the loss of the whole in the sum of its parts and an outstanding failure in perspective. Dr. Lewis tries to view the whole Mediterranean from the collapse of Roman power to the new era when Western European mariners over­ came both their Byzantine and Moslem rivals and ushered...

... with the restrictive policies of European states. The Alarm Phone project (Schwarz and Stierl) exemplifies the vivacity of the forms of struggle as well as solidarity with migrants crossing the sea. The intense crossings in the western Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain that the project has supported shows...

... and then a transnational uprising in the southern and eastern Mediterranean countries and beyond. At the same time, another practice which engaged bodies as well, began to be enacted by young men and women as a political act: crossing the sea, crossing borders, shaping a new politics of the freedom of movement where...

... to describe the contemporary “deathscape” (De Genova 2017 ) of the Mediterranean Sea, thus creating a parallel with the trans-Atlantic history of enslavement. In conclusion, to connect Gramsci's remarks to a broader Southern question, it is relevant to ask, paraphrasing Walter Mignolo ( 2000 ): what...

... of Nausicaa and the city of Atlantis is commonly recognized, and Homer spared no pains in placing Scheria beyond the Pillars of Heracles. Victor Berard, probably the foremost living student of the Odyssey, disputes this location on the ground that the Greeks knew nothing about the western Mediterranean...

... by sailors, and seemed to be separated from Western Europe by wide oceans rather than connected directly by land. The roots of this view of the world go far back into history. In ancient times the river Nile, the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, and finally the coastal waters and rivers of all Western Europe...

..., after service in Russia and the Mediterranean, was captured at sea in 1574 and for six years tormented as a gal­ ley slave. Eventually, discovered to be a master gunner, he was drafted into the Turkish army against Persia. By his account in the aptly named Rare and Most Wonderful Things which Edward...

... seas, crowning four score years of scientific exploring enterprise. At the close of the first modem century, Spain had seized Portugal and become, for the moment,thenominal mistress of the whole extra-European world. Spain s jealous guardianship of her exclusive dominion of both the eastern and western...

... for not attacking with ground forces at all but depending exclusively on . . . sea and air superiority, were all studied in infinite detail. . . . For a number of reasons the Mediterranean route was rejected. Finally, by comparison with other possible avenues of approach, consider­ ing the need for concentration...

... later when it was found that all the French warships were con­ centrated in the Mediterranean, while the great fleets of England were ready to strike at a moment s notice in the Channel and in the North Sea. Thus encouraged France maintained an attitude correct, digni­ fied, and resolute. Germany...

... the Balkans or the steppes of South Russia. . . . The result, from the standpoint of the Mediterranean and its sea power, has been the loss of the whole in the sum of its parts and an outstanding failure in perspective. Dr. Lewis tries to view the whole Mediterranean from the collapse of Roman power...

... while “kicking” Greece out of this raft and into the dangerous sea. This representation was materialized in concrete terms during the “refugee crisis,” when Europe expelled refugees from its territory and frequently left them to drown in the Mediterranean. The two “crises” (re)presented...

... who gave him this gigantic project, and to the maturity of American historical scholarship. It was done almost entirely from printed sources in the great American libraries, an enormous body of material on Byzantine, Arab, and Western European history. We have long known that seas unite rather than...

..., as he so politely labels the Europeans in Helen s Exile. The sun, sky, and sea are the only truths in the Mediterranean world; and in The Myth Camus suggests that there is no Truth but only truths. Camus likes the simplicity, honesty, and childlike nature of the Algerians in short, their innocence...

... Driving Migrants to Risk Lives in Mediterranean Crossings .” May 11 . www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/libya-horrific-abuse-driving-migrants-to-risk-lives-in-mediterranean-crossings/ . BBC News . 2017 . “ African Migrants Sold in Libya ‘Slave Markets,’ IOM Says .” April 11...

... of an eighteenth-century ancestor, a Midshipman Plunkett who died in the neighboring seas in the service of the Royal Navy. To that minor plot, Walcott adds what I...

... matter. Its attempt to bribe the Duce with a part of British Somali­ land was scornfully rejected. Having mobilized her fleet in the Mediterranean, Britain asked France to support her in case of attack by Italy. When the latter hedged because of earlier commitments to Mussolini, England requested...

... as a public sign of order. By contrast, the sea cannot be written on or scratched, and that leads to the long-standing first order of the nomos, that is the relation between terra firma and mare libre. If Mother Earth makes herself increasingly legible, the lector (or the reader) is he who increasingly...

... to the unity of Greek thought in the Golden Age. The Greek city-state was the first successful balancing and assimilation of a great cluster of symbols or isms in our Western tradition; when it fell apart in the fourth century, its components scattered about the Mediterranean and for many a year pursued...