iOn Global Mediterranean Project Global Mediterranean at the Asian Cultures Research Institute (ACRI), TOYO Uni-versity, is a six-year working group project funded by the National Institutes for the Human-ities (NIHU). Our partner institutions are National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (ILCAA), and Doshisha University’s Research Center for Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in Complex Cities (MICCS).The project aims to formulate new approaches to area studies by examining the global flow of people, goods, and knowledge through the Mediterranean Sea from the 17th century to the present day. There are two main objectives. First, to deconstruct the existing framework of area studies which divides countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea into “Europe” in the north and “the Middle East and North Africa” in the south. We explore the Mediterranean as a discursive space that represents this region as a unique civilization with shared values and cultures. Second, although the Mediterranean Sea is an inland sea, it is connected to the Americas beyond the Atlantic Ocean if one sails westward, and to East Africa and the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal to the southeast. That will bring us to Central Asia by following the Silk Road. The Mediterranean has therefore always been global. Our focus is on “modern” globalization, which is characterized by an exponential increase in the mobility of people, goods, and knowledge. Anthropologists have studied migration and historians have studied trade, but the ways in which such movement itself shapes people’s geographic imaginations awaits a full exploration.The theme of our institution is “images/representations” of the Mediterranean as an area. We take interdisciplinary approach to explore relationships between Mediterra-nean images discursively constructed by the Orientalist Western gaze and self-images of non-Western countries and groups.
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