Berghahn Books, 2011. Hardcover. New hardcover in matte case wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.81 x 9 inches) Includes an index, tables, and figures. 330 pp.

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ISBN: 9780857451323

It is well-known that Charles Tilly left scholars of big structures, large processes and huge comparisons a tall research agenda. It is less acknowledged that he also left political ethnographers an impressive and
provocative set of tools. In the skilled hands of the contributors to this insightful volume, the Tilly toolbox' is put to good work in the service of a theory-driven and empirically grounded exploration of Mediterranean contentious landscapes.

Contested Mediterranean Spaces rescues a cultural geography from the essentialist circularities to which it was once often reduced. These authors examine how circum-Mediterranean identities, at every level from the clan to the nation-state, exhibit the complex impact of ideological and political manipulation. They show how this hothouse of Europe's self-ascribed cultural origins has been characteristically prey to spatial cleansing, gentrification, and bigotry; they also document a regional activism that seeks more tolerant and environmentally benign futures. By problematizing the political and intellectual manipulations as well as the ideological tensions that inform such revivals of the Mediterranean as category and concept, they persuasively refurbish a tired regionalism with refreshing critical and comparative interest.

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