Dear Anthropology Matters,
All welcome to the next RAI Research in Progress seminar this Friday 23rd October 2015, 4.30pm, 50 Fitzroy Street, W1T 5BT.
TITLE: Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism
PRESENTER: Dr. Anna Arnone, SOAS Research Associate
Booking: http://annaarnone.eventbrite.co.uk
ABSTRACT:
October 2013, la spiaggia dei conigli is Tripadvisor-rated most beautiful beach in the world and the place where more than 500 Eritreans drown. Lampedusa's recent link to migration from Africa shows African and European political decisions and media discourses. Such "regimes of movement" refer to the island as always linked to tragedy and emergency. The people living in Lampedusa emphasise the island's welcoming nature and launch new ways of experiencing tourism in Lampedusa. Its inhabitants experience tourism and migration, they make sense of both and in many ways migration may be becoming a tourist trope. Lampedusa is also visited by people of African origins who look for a place where to commemorate a loss or a successful migratory project. This paper reveals that the encounter of two types of movement is producing very important outcomes. Lampedusa is here understood as a space filled with multiple realities and signifiers.
ABOUT RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
"Research in Progress" is a special seminar series of presentations by anthropology PhD candidates, Post-Docs and Early Career Researchers. Its aim is to share work, get feedback in a supportive environment, and build new networks that cut across universities, sub-disciplines and hierarchies. Seminars are chaired by peers on a rotational basis and take the form of the presentation of a piece of written work followed by lots of discussion and refreshments. Seminars are free and everyone is welcome, but booking advised (eventbrite or https://www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar)
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Warm regards
Gemma
Gemma Aellah
Royal Anthropological Institute
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London
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