Introduction : Disconnected Governance and the Crisis of Legitimacy / Giuliana B. Prato -- Italian Rubbish : Elemental Issues of Citizenship and Governance / Italo Pardo -- Urban Mixes and Urban Divisions in Contemporary Israeli Cities / Alex Weingrod -- Displacement of Citizenship : The Multicultural Reality of Slovene Istria / Mateja Sedmak -- Stereotypes and Other Lies : The Media and the Construction of Racial Hatred / Teresa Morte -- Baltimore, or Boston, in Barcelona : Engaging Mediterranean Port Cities and the New Urban Waterfront / Fernando Monge -- The ̀Citizen' and the ̀Transformation' Period in Albania : The Case of Tirana's Periphery / Nebi Bardhoshi -- The ̀Costs' of European Citizenship : Governance and Relations of Trust in Albania / Giuliana B. Prato -- Between Structure and Action : Contested Legitimacies and Labour Processes in the Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis -- The Collapse of the Turkish Party System and its Effects on Citizenship and the Legitimacy of Governance / Kayhan Detibas -- Erosion of Legitimacy : A Lebanese Case of Collapsed Governance / Marcello Mollica
Summary
The book brings together a strong field of anthropologists offering in-depth ethnographic studies of urban settings in the mediterranean region, ranging from Portugal, to Albania and to Israel. Their aim is to initiate a comparative discussion of the relationship between established moralities, politics, law and civil society from a region with a strong tradition of cultural integration
