ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. In the contemporary globalized world, the problem of continuity in the organization of a collective opposition to neoliberal capitalism and militarization of frontiers cannot be addressed without confronting that opposition with the practice of border struggles, which are often caused by the same institutional framework. By focusing on the material conditions that generate the tensions at the border, a political space opened up in Lampedusa within which new kinds of political subjects operate beyond the logic of citizenship and conventional methods of political organization. The island of Lampedusa indeed represents such a critical node, along the global axes between north and south, where rhizomic relations are hosting new dialectics of rerouting to a different idea of community "based on a modern idea of the sacred". Rosarno lies in a fertile land that has always been at the forefront of the war against Ndrangheta.