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This contribution starts from the assumption that Europe is shaped and constructed by a globally entangled, internal ‘geography of imagination‘ (Michel-Rolph Trouillot), rendering Europe itself as an uneven, postcolonial landscape with north/western ‘centres‘ and south/eastern ‘peripheries‘. While this imaginary geography is still informing the construction of cultural and political borders today, it is, however, also being re-imagined and challenged by the practices of mobilities across these borders. This imaginary geography, created by and from the margins, becomes a cultural remittance invested in economic projects of ‘reflexive Mediterranisation‘ all over Europe, thus re-inventing the region in terms of a Europeanization ‘from below‘. The article elaborates on these productive entanglements between imaginaries, mobilities, and economies on the basis of empirical examples from the Greek Mediterranean and beyond.
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Notes
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Matala Beach Festival, https://www.facebook.com/matalabeachfestival/ (last accessed 27 February 2016).
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This is one of the results of ‘Gastropolis’—a team project with student researchers from the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, which we conducted in the summer of 2014 in Rethymno, Crete. The publication of the research report is forthcoming.
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Starting with Italy in 1955, similar contracts were set up with Spain and Greece (1960); Turkey (1961); Morocco; and, as a geographical exception, South Korea (1963); followed by Portugal (1964), Tunesia (1965), and Jugoslavia (1968).
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This is another result of our team research ‘Gastropolis’ in Crete, see also footnote 2.
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I owe this analysis to Liuba Klepikova, a student researcher on the project ‘Gastropolis’, whose research focussed especially on Russian-speaking tourists in Crete; see also footnote 2.
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Römhild, R. (2016). Reflexive Mediterranisation: Mobilities, Economies, and the Cultural Remittance of Imaginaries. In: Nowicka, M., Šerbedžija, V. (eds) Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe. Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60126-1_2
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