Iain Chambers, Mediterranean Crossings. The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity
“Within this frame the Mediterranean is transformed into an aesthetic and cultural measure: Its very ‘backwardness’ and difference hold up to modern Europe the mirror of a lost world of antiquity, uncontaminated nature, and pristine ‘origins’. Although seemingly safely consigned to the margins of modernity, the Mediterranean nevertheless has consistently disturbed that picture, both in the violent resistance to the European appropriations of its southern and eastern shores and in the accompanying return of histories that unexpectedly breach the boundaries between past and present.”
