Remains: Exploring New Frontiers of Fear, Indifference and Love in the Mediterranean

遗迹：探索地中海恐惧、冷漠和爱的新领域

• 批准号: ES/V011731/1
• 负责人: Alessandro Corso
• 金额: $ 12.25万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011731%2F1
• 关键词: Remains; Exploring; New; Frontiers; Fear

The language of fear used by politicians and the media (Chebel d'Appollonia 2015) is producing an increasing divide between peoples and governments across the world. However, the need to improve one's life condition is bound-less (Jackson 2013), as seen in high-risk forms of migration across reinforced borderlines (UNHCR report). At the border, the divide between what Andersson (2019) has called the 'no go world' (parts of the globe portrayed as dangerous and out of bounds) and the 'rich world' becomes blurred into a series of unexpected encounters that exceed taken-for-granted stereotypes. As a contemporary symbol of the frontier for undocumented migration in Europe, the Italian island of Lampedusa, where I conducted extensive fieldwork during my doctoral research (2016-2017), becomes a mirror of a global order of fear and separation, but also a potential space of cohesion and reciprocity. In this Fellowship I will build on my doctoral research on this migratory frontier of separation and reciprocity via a one-year engagement with the local community of Lampedusa. The aim of the research engagement is to examine, by means of ethnography and visual methods, how contemporary encounters (voluntary or accidental) with various abject remains (objects, stories, pictures and corpses) of undocumented migrants by locals and artists in Lampedusa generate distance or allows for mutuality in the context of undocumented migration in the Mediterranean since the 1990s. Rather than reinforcing the dominant portrayal of migration evidenced in media and political representations of Lampedusa as a stage of tragedy and death (Aime 2018), the project builds upon a phenomenological approach aimed at unveiling the perspectives and interpretations (from storytelling to art forms) of migrant remains held by members of the local community [activists, artists, and local families] of Lampedusa. I will engage migration workers, artists and teachers through workshops, seminars, and public events to facilitate an in-depth reflection on what lies behind the media and political narratives of border zones. This focus [on interpretation and exchange] will help analytically to challenge the conventional concept of border as a space of separation and division, while also allowing for exploring innovative forms of ethnographic writing and methodological approaches. This will significantly open up potential pathways to impact and encourage a critical re-evaluation of the legal and ethical challenges of irregular migration in the contemporary world. Drawing upon my previous PhD research, this Fellowship will allow me to maximise the routes to impact by:1. Publishing two academic articles, a monograph, and working toward publication of a fieldwork diary book arising from my doctoral research.2. Completing a small-scale research project, framed as a form of knowledge exchange activity for disseminating and reflecting on my PhD research with key organization members, activists, locals and teachers in schools on Lampedusa. This element ensures that my doctoral research is shared with the key participants with the intention of building a functional working network and stimulating imagination and critical evaluation within the community of Lampedusa and beyond it.3. Developing research networks and collaborations, both within the world of academia, with aid workers, medical practitioners, activists, and policy makers in the educational sector. These collaborative networks will provide invaluable career development opportunities enabling me to establish a track record in the publication of high quality academic work, receiving feedback on draft project proposals and developing potential future collaborations.4. Working on a research proposal for the Marie S. Curie 2021 call to continue my research in the context of everyday life in borderland situations and the production of memory, pushing further my research findings.

政治家和媒体使用的恐惧语言（Chebel d 'Appollonia 2015）正在世界各地的人民和政府之间产生越来越大的分歧。然而，改善个人生活条件的需要是无限的（杰克逊，2013年），如跨越加固边界的高风险移徙形式所示（难民署报告）。在边境，安德森（2019）所谓的“禁止通行的世界”（地球仪的部分被描绘成危险和越界）和“富裕世界”之间的鸿沟变得模糊，变成了一系列意想不到的遭遇，超出了理所当然的刻板印象。作为欧洲无证移民前沿的当代象征，意大利的兰佩杜萨岛，我在博士研究期间（2016-2017）进行了广泛的实地考察，成为恐惧和分离的全球秩序的一面镜子，也是凝聚力和互惠的潜在空间。在这个奖学金，我将通过为期一年的参与与兰佩杜萨当地社区建立在我的博士研究分离和互惠的移民前沿。研究工作的目的是研究，通过人种学和视觉方法，如何与当地人和艺术家在兰佩杜萨的无证移民的各种悲惨遗骸（物体，故事，图片和尸体）的当代遭遇（自愿或意外）产生距离或允许自1990年代以来在地中海无证移民的背景下相互性。该项目不是强化兰佩杜萨的媒体和政治代表中证明的移民的主要描述，而是作为悲剧和死亡的阶段（Aime 2018），该项目建立在一种现象学方法的基础上，旨在揭示兰佩杜萨当地社区成员[活动家，艺术家和当地家庭]对移民遗体的观点和解释（从讲故事到艺术形式）。我将通过讲习班、研讨会和公共活动与移民工作者、艺术家和教师接触，以促进对边境地区媒体和政治叙事背后的内容进行深入反思。这种[对解释和交流的]关注将有助于在分析上挑战传统的边界概念，即分离和分裂的空间，同时也允许探索民族志写作的创新形式和方法论方法。这将极大地开辟潜在的途径，影响和鼓励对当代世界非正常移徙的法律的和道德挑战进行批判性的重新评估。根据我以前的博士研究，这项奖学金将使我能够最大限度地发挥影响力：1。发表两篇学术论文，一本专著，并致力于出版一本博士研究所产生的田野工作日记。完成一个小规模的研究项目，作为知识交流活动的一种形式，与兰佩杜萨的主要组织成员，活动家，当地人和学校教师一起传播和反思我的博士研究。这一要素确保了我的博士研究与主要参与者分享，目的是建立一个功能性的工作网络，激发兰佩杜萨社区内外的想象力和批判性评价。发展研究网络和合作，无论是在学术界，与援助工作者，医疗从业者，活动家和教育部门的政策制定者。这些合作网络将提供宝贵的职业发展机会，使我能够在出版高质量的学术作品方面建立良好的记录，接收对项目建议草案的反馈，并发展未来潜在的合作。正在为玛丽S.居里2021呼吁继续我的研究，在边境地区的日常生活和记忆的生产的背景下，进一步推动我的研究成果。

项目成果

The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa

赤裸死亡的气味：在兰佩杜萨墓地邂逅生命

• DOI: 10.1177/14634996221128104
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Anthropological Theory
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Corso A

Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

国际化时刻，国际化方法

• DOI: 10.4324/9781003273158-3
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Corso A

Judgment, Doubt, and Self-Doubt: A Reflexive Turn from the Borderland of Lampedusa

判断、怀疑和自我怀疑：兰佩杜萨边境的反射性转向

• DOI: 10.1163/25891715-bja10041
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Public Anthropologist
• 作者: Corso A