Tangier/Gibraltar – A Tale of One City An Ethnography Dieter Haller

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haller, Dieter <p>Dieter Haller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Borderlands.

Morocco.

Gibraltar.

Tangier.

Neighborhood.

Brexit.

Culture.

City.

Ethnology.

Urban Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Anthropology.

Borderlands.

Morocco.

Gibraltar.

Tangier.

Neighborhood.

Brexit.

Culture.

City.

Ethnology.

Urban Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Haller, Tangier/Gibraltar – A Tale of One City An Ethnography

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Dieter Haller, born in 1962, works as a professor of ethnology at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). The cultural anthropologist did his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg and was a founding member of the Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien at the RUB. He carried out long term anthropological fieldwork in Seville (1985/86), Gibraltar (1995/96), Texas (2003/05) and Tangier (since 2013), as well as on Brexit (2019/20). His research focuses on ethnology, corruption, cosmopolitism, possession, and borderlands.

Summary:

Contemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around the topos of identity, thereby creating an illusion of uniqueness, separation, difference, and conflict. By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses. Across the Straits of Gibraltar, local and regional relationships in different fields such as kinship, economy, and culture provide resources for post-Brexit common action and a future beyond the prison of identity.

Besprochen in:https://babylon-metropolis.com/kosmopolis, 10 (2021), Ursula Daus

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

TanGib – Two Places, One City?

1. Myths, rhythms, senses

2. Theoretical accesses

3. Access methods

4. Common history until 1956

5. The loosening of Transboughazian bonds

6. An ethnology of multiple connections

7. Reordering borders, dynamization and a new rapprochement

8. Brexit: An ethnography of agony with hopeful glances to the other side of the Strait

9. Conclusion

References

ISBN:

9783839456491

3839456495

OCLC:

1252419648