Exploring Europeanness in Sicily: Re-Assessing Hospitality towards Immigrants and Newcomers
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: International Development
Abstract
My work currently explores bordering and reception practices at Europe's Mediterranean edge. I examine the interrelatedness of local praxis and political narratives (around hospitality, tolerance, conviviality, diversity, welcome, etc.) with national and supra-national structures of power, social abandonment and marginalization, ideas of peripherality and modernity, and processes of re-making social and cultural identities. I am interested in how inclusion and exclusion are inscribed affectively, politically, existentially, and in the imaginaries of people involved on the ground ('locals' and 'newcomers' alike). My geo-political vantage point is southern Italy, with a particular emphasis on Sicily and the Central Mediterranean.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Tom Scott-Smith (Primary Supervisor) | |
Margaret Neil (Student) |
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ES/P000649/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2027 | |||
2435037 | Studentship | ES/P000649/1 | 01/10/2020 | 31/12/2024 | Margaret Neil |