Mission Statement
Historically a source of cultural and economic dynamism, the circulation of people, objects, ideas and ways of life across the Mediterranean has taken a new edge with current global geopolitical and geo-economic processes. In the midst of this greater connectivity and fluidity of exchanges the Mediterranean re-emerges as a hotspot for international conflicts. Analysts predict a deterioration of political stability in the region in the coming decades due to, inter alia, acute environmental degradation, scarcity of fossil fuels, and growing structural economic and demographic disjunctures between Europe, the Maghrib and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding these challenges in an age of globalisation requires theoretical and methodological tools that account for the increasingly transnational nature of social, political, economic and environmental life and the increasing social and political use of mobile and surveillance technologies in shaping Mediterranean life.
mediterranean mobilities looks at the region in innovative and critical ways that capture its transnational complexity and aims at generating and disseminating policy relevant intelligence on Mediterranean mobilities in the 21st century, especially in relation to issues of cosmopolitanism and sustainability. Of particular interest for mediterranean mobilities are the Barcelona Process and the United Nations Blue Plan for Development and the Environment in the Mediterranean.
Specific aims of mediterranean mobilities:
- To raise awareness about the interconnectedness and interdependence of peoples and places across the Mediterranean, now, historically and in the future;
- To promote comparative, postdisciplinary and historically sensitive research on Mediterranean mobilities;
- To enrich mobilities research with Mediterranean concerns, problems and experiences;
- To liaise with existing networks and organise and contribute to seminars, conferences and symposia nationally and internationally;
- To bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers;
- To serve as a centre for exchanging information between civil society actors and the academia;
- To support research students in the UK with an interest in the Mediterranean.
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