Index
Adami, Colonel Vittorio
36, 71.
border, Swiss-Italian
Italian political boundaries
71–72, 77figs3.2–3.3, 77–78
Anzaldúa, Gloria
46, 68
border as process and experience
68
Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), hybridity in
205
Appunti del passaggio (2014–2016). see Iorio, Maria, and Raphaël Cuomo
Benjamin, Walter
6
The Arcades Project (1999)
248
dialectical image, lightning flashes, and wish symbols
248
Sekula, Allan and
62–63
border/borders
1–2
as process and experience
45, 68, 69
as space of imagination
212
border controls, performativity, rules of crossing
68, 211
“boring border”
7
cartography, relationship
68, 70, 72–73
disappearing
248
hybridisation
47
impermeability of
39
instability and geographic mobility
81–82
invisible, photographs of
44
maps and
71
Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson, border, national space, and migration
90–91
militarisation of, use of drones to patrol
44
“moving border”
81–82
Nail, Thomas, border as porous and as movement
101
natural
2, 70–71
photography and
36
political community and
61
representation, birth, and cartography of
68
Ribas, Xavier, Ceuta and Melilla border, Spain
43
selective closure and global flows
2
studies
45
surveillance IMGs21
, 46
trains and IMGs15
, 31, 52, 55
violence and
44
WWII, Jewish refugees and
37, 44, 208
Yuval Davis, Nira, power, social relations, and situated intersectionality
131
border, Swiss-Italian
35, 40fig1.1, 48, IMGs1–14
Como-Chiasso
37
differentials (groceries, brothels)
82–83, IMGs29, 51
emergence of
73–75
ETH Studio Basel research on
73
invisible
35–36, 39
Lake Lugano
36, 37, 39, IMGs15, 27
landscape
47
Lombardy
7, 36
militarised
35
paradox of
36
Swiss military survey of border
79
Treaty of Varese
71, 73, 77–78
Val d’Intelvi
37, 38
border-crossing
amenities for women labourers
204
as performance and ritual
210
race and citizenship
210
trains and
222–223
woodland paths and
207–208, IMG46
border land
47, 48–49
fluidity/mutability of
49
land alienation
56
people’s role
47
borderscape/borderscaping
4, 10, 35, 45, 46, 47
as intersecting elements
62
as method
65, 130
fireflies
211, IMGs59–60
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, and Roberto Sifuentes, first use of term
46
landscape and IMGs19
, 54
other aspects of
252–253
space-time binarism and
68
Swiss-Italian borderscape
7, 9, 10
brothels, Canton Ticino border
235–236, IMGs29, 51
border dynamics and
236–237
cell phones and border visibility
236–237
cross-border traffic and sex workers
238
exploitation of women
238–239
legality in Switzerland
237
sex workers in Switzerland
237–238
Canton Ticino
7–8, 73, 74
cross-border labour and
89
Italian emigrants and
246
labour market and Swiss wages
83
salary disparity, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, and Italy
90
cartography
.
border/borders
borders, relationship to
68, 70, 72–73
Imhof, Eduard, Cartographic Relief Presentation (1965)
77
landscape and
57
maps and borders
71
Swiss Style Coloured Relief Shading
77
The Census at Bethlehem (1566)
50fig2.1, 51–52
as landscape
52
Fogel, Aaron on
58–59, 69
organisation of
58
perspective in
57–58
political context of
52, 56
urban and natural
54–55
Como-Chiasso border crisis
3, 8, 37
border crisis of 2016
220, 226–227, 240, IMGs45, 53
Rebbio parish migrant centre
133, 218–220
“constellations”
as allegory
106
as physical points
252
Benjamin, Walter and
106–107
Dean, Tacita, “objective chance”
131
material flows and
252
photographs of border as
248
photographs to overcome visible
125
Poloni, Marco and
105–106
reading through different elements
107
symbolic link to borders
252
the Zodiac and
107
COVID-19
8
Taranto quarantine
241n134
cross-border issues
cell phones, brothels and
236–237
company shuttles
206, 206ns31–32
Italian language
205
Jewish flight, WWII
37, 44, 209
Milan-Lugano train routes
133
parking
215
religion, Santa Margherita church
209–210
traffic
206, 212–213, 213n50, 227
transnational electricity
226
transnational infrastructure
207
transnational radio
214
cross-border labour
7–8, 9, 37, 82 IMGs33, 35.
frontalierato/frontalieri
Biemann, Ursula, Performing the Border (1991)
86, 87
Bracero programme (United States)
87–88
Gaeta, Luca, cross-border routines
82
maquiladoras
86–87, 88
seasonal agricultural cross-border labour
88
strikes and IMGs39
, 43
taxation
216n58, 217
women’s issues and
227–228
Didi-Huberman, Georges
“firefly image” and imagination
212
fireflies
211
imagination and space as political force
250
Survival of the Fireflies (2009)
212
Displacement Island (2006)
122.
Poloni, Marco
as re-appropriation
123, 124, 122fig4.
Barrada, Yto, A Life Full of Holes (2005), similarities
105
boats as symbols
110fig4.2, 111, 111figs4.3–4.4, 112
complexity of space
123
fishing economy
112–113, 113fig4.5
sea as intersection of process
104
Dublin regulations
98n82.
Schengen Agreement
Centro di Permanenza Temporanea [CPT, Provisional Stay Centre]
108
Dublin regulations
8
dublined
97–98, 98n82, 99
EURODAC database identification
97, 98, 102
fingerprinting and bio-control
99
“firefly images”. Didi-Huberman, Georges
as traces
250–251
collecting lilies of the valley and
251
spaces of imagination and
251–252
frontalierato/frontalieri
83.
cross-border labour
commute defined by citizenship
90–91
housing and
207
internal Italian migration and
89
Italian/Swiss labour disparities
90
percentage of cross-border labour
83–84
relationship to Swiss
214
taxes and
90–91, 91n61
trade unions and
224
wage gap
132n17
Fulda photographs
.
Sekula, Allan
geo-political context
62, 63
human perspective of
64–65
invisible elements
64
juxtaposition of fragments
63
location of US overseas border
61
material elements in landscape
64
political connotations of
64
US military traces in
65
images
.
photography/photographs
Bachelard, Gaston, The Poetics of Space (1969), images, poetic imagination, and power
123
of mobility
106
industrial area, Swiss border
215–217, 218
border factory IMGs32
, 38, 42
Mendrisio
36
relocation and Swiss labour laws
89
relocation to Italian border
89
Stabio
37, IMGs20, 28, 41
Stabio and Mendrisio, paths connecting
133
textile
88, IMGs17, 22–23, 34, 37, 39–40, 44, 47
invisibility
Africa, invisibility of
122fig4.6, 124–125
as representing complexity
109–111
events and non-events
41, 42, 43
Lampedusa, invisibility of people on the move
104, 120–121
race and document checks
220
race and invisibility
220, 222
selective visibility in Displacement Island (2006)
108
Van Gelder, Hilde, photography, invisibility, hidden temporality
222
visibility as threat and power
107
Iorio, Maria, and Raphaël Cuomo, Appunti del passaggio (2014–2016)
91–96
current migration and
95–96
health exams and corporeality of labour
92–93
health exams for migrants from Southern Italy to Northern Europe
92, 93
orality in
93
Swiss referendum against mass migration and
91
use of archive photographs in
94–95, 96fig3.9
workers visual stereotypes in
94
Italian Geographic Institute cartographic surveys
78–79
La Frontera bar
206, 213–214
women cross-border labourers
206, 213, 227–228
Lampedusa
9, 97
invisibility of people on the move
104, 120–121
landscape shaped by multiple elements
113
Mediterranean border of Italy
102–103, 109
representations of space on
121
shaped by multiple flows
113–114
spaces of representation on
121–122, 122fig4.6
spatial practices on
121
landscape
as scenery
59
birth of genre
52
borderscape and IMGs19
, 54
cartography and
57
Cosgrove, Denis, landscape ideology
57–58
fireflies
IMGs59–60
Girot, Christophe, trace concepts in landscape architecture
249–250
Ingold, Tim, concept of
56
Olwig, Kenneth, origin of landscape
55–56, 56
pays, French and Italian origins
54
photography, construction of nation status and national identity
45
shaped by and shaping people
53
third landscape
230–231
two meanings of
53, 57
Lefebvre, Henri
4, 9, 114–115, 124
absolute vs abstract space
117–119
abstract space, nation-state, neo-capitalism
119–120
ancient Roman space as social product
117
change of space and changes in social relations
118
The Production of Space (1991)
4, 115
representations of space
116, 117, 120
representations of space on Lampedusa
121
space as social product
115, 120, 123
spaces of representation
116–117, 119
spaces of representation on Lampedusa
121–122, 122fig4.6
spatial practices
116, 117
spatial practices on Lampedusa
121
lilies of the valley, collecting
245, 247(interviews), 249fig6.1
border and
253
image of
253, 254fig6.2
Santa Margherita
245
Stabio and
245, 246
migrants
7, 8–9, 35.
people on the move
migration
Anadu, Chika, JOURNEYS (2019), groups of people moving
100
as crisis
102
Italy and Mediterranean
96–97
moral/legal responsibility and
103
Swiss referendum
223
tourism and
104
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, fireflies
211–212, IMGs59–60.
Didi-Huberman, Georges
changing landscape and
212
“firefly images” as traces of resistance
250–251
spaces of imagination and
251–252
people on the move
9
asylum requests
8
asylum seekers
35
by sea IMGs48
, 58
camps, surveillance of
229–230
Como railway station camp
IMG53
future time horizon and
221–222
hotspots and
108, 109n31
in Como
97, 99 100–101
parking lots as camps
228–230, 231 IMGs26, 59
trains and
225–226
photography/photographs
analogue
134–135
art and deconstruction of borders
60
as autonomous
130
as representation and experience
69
as traces of invisible
41, 42, 43, 45, 249
border and
36
border invisibility and
134
Brett, Donna West, aftermath photography
42–44
construction of nation status and national identity
45
Girot, Christophe, trace concepts in landscape architecture and photography
249–250
hegemony of
10–11
knowing space (making images discursive)
249
landscape and
45
layout and overcoming borders
135–136
research and
134
Serralongue, Bruno, Faits Divers [News Items] (1993–1995)
41, 42
Sontag, Susan, photography as hunting
43–44
writing and
6
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
9, 51, 52, 56, 57
The Census at Bethlehem
activity vs environment (temporality) in paintings
60
Alpine Landscapes with Deep Valley (ca. 1555)
59
Alps as background
59
Alps as joining Southern and Northern Europe
59
Grand Tour to Italy
59
Low Countries
59
Months (1565) cycle of paintings, labour and calendar
60
Poloni, Marco
9, 103, 120–121, 122–123, 124, 125.
Displacement Island
“constellations”
105–106
Displacement Island (2006)
103–105, 107, 108fig4.1
Shadowing the Invisible Man (2001), photography and layered perspective
125
race, document checks, and invisibility
220, 222
Realini shirt factory
216, 246, IMGs23, 44
Italian female labourers and
246–247
Rebbio parish migrant centre
133, 218–220
sans papiers
.
see people on the move
-scape
51
Appadurai, Arjun, -scapes and global flows
51
as political, customary vs. written law
55–56
as polity or scenery
60
English, German, Dutch origins
53–54
epistemologies and
60
shaped and seen
60
Schengen Agreement
7, 37, 44, 213.
Dublin regulations
free movement within
223
Schengen Area
106
Sekula, Allan
6, 9, 11, 60, 69, 79
applied photography
79
East German/West German border
60–61
Fulda, geo-political context
62, 63
Fulda photographs
62–65
personal standpoint
65–66
Sketch for a Geography Lesson (1983)
60, 67, 69
US TV war game
65, 66
Van Gelder, Hilde on
63
sex workers in Switzerland
237–238
smuggling
IMGs30, 36, 56
abandoned customhouse
IMG57
avoiding controls
233
cross-border
231–232
human trafficking
38, 233
night crossing
233
romanticisation of
233
smugglers
37, 38, IMG18
use of drones to police
234
use of rape in trafficking
238–239
spaces of imagination
4, 10
as potential of photography
124
border as
212
Lefebvre, The Production of Space (1991)
250
photography and
250
spaces of representation and
250
Swiss Confederation
.
see border, Swiss-Italian
Alps as limit of Italian state
79
Alps in cartography of
75
declaration of formal republic
78
maps of
75
Swiss-Italian border
.
see border, Swiss-Italian
,
Adami, Colonel Vittorio
Taranto hotspot
241–242, 243, IMGs31, 38, 42, 50, 52
arrivals in
239
as COVID-19 quarantine centre
241n134
identifying Como deportees
240–241
“lightening the border” at Como
240
north-south Italian link
240–241, 243
Ticino
.
see Canton Ticino
tobacco production
advertising appeal to Italians
85, 86figs3.6–3.7
Italian women labourers
85–86, 87fig3.8
smuggling
85
taxation
84
travel narratives and project journeys
as narrative of space
129
as travelogue of research
130
borderscaping and
130
both textual and visual
130
Marin, Louis, utopia and
129
on Swiss-Italian border
130
Van Gelder, Hilde
11, 41, 42
Ground Sea (2021)
130, 244
on Sekula, Allan
63
photography, invisibility, and hidden temporality
222
sans papiers and freight truck
41
travel narrative
129n1, 130
women
.
La Frontera bar
Berner, Armin, Dalla Montagna al Piano (1928), Federation of Swiss Women’s Associations
245
border-crossing, amenities for women labourers
204
cross-border work and
132, 132ns17–18
hiding children
204–205
human trafficking and rape
238–239
people on the move and
132
sex workers in Switzerland
237–238