Stephanie Malia Hom Boeken

The book explores Italy's significant influence on the emergence of modern mass tourism through an interdisciplinary approach. By combining archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis, it uncovers how Italy has shaped travel experiences and cultural perceptions, highlighting its status as a premier destination.

Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Empire's Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state's historical mechanisms of control have resurfaced, with greater force, in today's...