Tag: mediterranean
Turbulence in Eastern Mediterranean: How Warships and Warming Seas Strangle Fish and Fishermen
With military tensions soaring, the Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly criss-crossed by military vessels, and at the risk of the same environmental damage seen on its neighboring seas. With world leaders openly talking of a global conflict just round the corner, what is to happen to the seas that we hardly got to know?
The Unmapped Sea: Power, Blood, and Identity in the 16th-Century Mediterranean
Power over the sea was once contested, but today, in an era of one-way migration, the overwhelming power sits entirely on the Northern shore. The sixteenth-century Mediterranean established three fault lines that define our modern fractures.
The Mediterranean at Breaking Point
© Jonathan Cooper Link copied! The alarm was launched on April 5, from somewhere in the Central Mediterranean. A small boat departed from Tajoura, a […]
Our Way to See/a. The Transforming Landscapes of Central Mediterranean Migrations
We see this politics of solidarity as part of an already ongoing form of struggle—one foremost carried on by people that we don’t save, but encounter in our rescuing initiatives.
Photo Essay: Heavily Loaded
Since the ancient times, when people started sailing, the populations living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea used to move in the Mediterranean basin to sell goods to their neighbours.