{"pk":40998,"title":"Il \"Sud\" come frontiera geosimbolica","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade a new form of pensiero meridiano (southern thought) has emerged affirming an image of Mediterranean-ness as a “different,” rather than “incomplete” or “opposite” form of modern identity. This article clarifies that southern thought should not be understood as an instance of localism or ethnic nationalism, but as a response to the pressures of globalization by means of a renewed connection to the characteristics of Mediterranean territoriality. If Occidentalization can be identified primarily as a critical process of uprooted-ness and de-territorialization, the experience and concept of confine (border, contact-zone) peculiar to the Mediterranean entails the impossibility of a single encompassing identity and the idea of a space of contamination. This is why –the author argues— Mediterranean-ness does not refer exclusively to a place of birth or belonging, but can be found wherever one opens herself to a plural and welcoming form of identity.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x70d7fx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Francesca","middle_name":"","last_name":"Saffioti","name_suffix":"","institution":"Università Messina","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-12-16T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2008-12-16T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2010-02-17T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40998/galley/30673/download/"}]}