Maria Kousis & Tom Selwyn 
Contested Mediterranean Spaces [PDF ebook] 
Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

Preface

Introduction
Maria Kousis, Tom Selwyn and David Clark

PART I: RECOVERING THE MEDITERRANEAN

Chapter 1. On Bureaucratic Essentialism: Constructing the Mediterranean in European Union Institutions
Vasiliki Yiakoumaki

Chapter 2. European ‘Securitisation Policies’ and the Southern ‘Fortress-Europe’
Minas Samatas

Chapter 3. Locating the ‘Mediterranean’ in Music: The Medi-Terra music festival
Eleni Kallimopoulou

PART II: STATE, CAPITAL AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 4. Spaces of War, spaces of Memory: Popular expressions of politics in post-war Beirut
Sune Haugbolle

Chapter 5. Environmentalists in Malta: The growing voice of civil society
Jeremy Boissevain and Caroline Gatt

Chapter 6. Governing Coastal Biodiversity: Caretta caretta in Zakynthos and Crete
Maria Kousis and Katerina Psarikidou

PART III: CAPITAL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD GOVERNANCE

Chapter 7. Contested Politics of the Mediterranean: Star Street and the struggle for development in Bethlehem Carol
Sansour Dabdoub and Carol Zoughbi-Janineh

Chapter 8. Contentious Politics at a Bosphorus Neighbourhood: Perspectives on conflict and solidarity during the 20th Century
Günham Danişman and Ismail Üstün

Chapter 9. Playing Snakes and Ladders in Ciutat de Mallorca: An ethnographic approach to the production of the neighbourhood scale
Marc A. Morell and Jaume Franquesa

PART IV: TRANSFORMING IDENTITIES: IMAGINATION AND REPRESENTATIONS

Chapter 10. Ethnicised inter-religious conflicts in contemporary Granada, Spain
Javier Rosón Lorente and Gunther Dietz

Chapter 11. Governance, Alliance and Resistance: Jewish museums in Italy
David Clark

Chapter 12. The Making of Home away from Home: The Role of Ethno-cultural Festivals in contesting local spaces
Elia Vardaki

Chapter 13. Tears on the Border: The case of Rachel’s Tomb, Bethlehem, Palestine
Tom Selwyn

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Maria Kousis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete. Her publications include a two volume special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on Mediterranean Political Processes in Historical-Comparative Perspective (with Charles Tilly and Roberto Franzosi, 2008).