As a dystopic space, Lampedusa represents the hyper-real functioning (or dys-functioning) of border control. Site of biometrics and definitions of European "imagined community”, Lampedusa is the conundrum of a number of colour lines that have old and more recent origins: the North-South (Continental Europe vs. Mediterranean Europe), the South-South (Mediterranean Europe vs. Mediterranean Africa), South-East (Mediterranean Europe vs. the Middle East) faults-constructed within a set of discourses that are racialised, gendered and sexualised. Her paper explores the overlapping of local, national and international colour lines and European borders, their cooperation in constructing a system of definitions that fixes the meaning of "life” (Butler) and distinctions between "killability” and "grievability” within what Talal Asad has called the "small colonial war”.
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Giuliani, G. (2017). The colour(s) of Lampedusa. In Border Lampedusa: Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land (pp. 67–85). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59330-2_5
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