The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula

Mostra el registre complet Registre parcial de l'ítem

• dc.contributor.author Ferrer Gallardo, Xavier
• dc.contributor.author Albet-Mas, Abel
• dc.contributor.author Espiñeira, Keina
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-31T08:18:34Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-31T08:18:34Z
• dc.date.issued 2015
• dc.description.abstract This contribution aims to provide a cultural–geographical reading of the borderscape of Punta Tarifa: the southernmost point of so-called continental Europe and a key site vis-a-vis material and representational Euro-African (dis)connections. It is argued that Punta Tarifa harbours a complex process of symbolic and functional invisibilisation that turns this border landscape into a highly significant scenario within the ongoing European Union bordering process. This invisibilisation process is twofold. On the one hand, it lies with the selective public neglecting/ignoring of a crucial historical episode which challenges mainstream readings of Europe’s cultural heritage (the arrival of Tarif and Islam to Tarifa in the year 710). On the other hand, it concerns the veiling of the implemented migration management practices and, more precisely, the opacity surrounding the Migrant Detention Centre situated by Punta Tarifa. Having explored the case of Punta Tarifa, we suggest that a cultural–geographical reading – and hence the shedding of some light – on these and other similar invisibilisation processes is paramount in order to neutralise symbolic and functional exclusionary practices which lie at the heart of current European Union external bordering dynamics.
• dc.description.sponsorship This paper is drawn from research connected to the projects ‘Euborderregions’ (FP7-SSH-2010-266920) and ‘Euborderscapes’ (FP7-SSH-2011-1- 290775), both funded by the European Comission 7th Framework Programme.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Ferrer-Gallardo X, Albet-Mas A, Espiñeira K. The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula. Cult Geogr. 2015;22(3):539-47. DOI: 10.1177/1474474014547336
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474014547336
• dc.identifier.issn 1474-4740
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58909
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Cultural Geographies. 2015;22(3):539-47.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/90775
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/266920
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2014
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword borderscape
• dc.subject.keyword European Union
• dc.subject.keyword migrant detention centre
• dc.subject.keyword Punta Tarifa
• dc.subject.keyword Strait of Gibraltar
• dc.subject.keyword Tarif
• dc.title The borderscape of Punta Tarifa: concurrent invisibilisation practices at Europe’s ultimate peninsula
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion