Masso-Mafia –Ben-Yehoyada
Over the past six years or so, several initiatives have sought to expand the reach of the Antimafia criminal justice project beyond the strictly-defined realm of criminal organizations of the mafia type.
Naor Ben-Yehoyada
PhD, Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 2011; MA Sociology & Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, 2005) My work examines unauthorized migration, criminalization projects, the aftermath of development, and transnational political imaginaries in the central and eastern Mediterranean. My monograph, The Mediterranean Incarnate: Transnational Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II (Chicago Press 2017), offers a historical anthropology of the recent re-emergence of the Mediterranean. I am specifically interested in the processes through which transnational regions form and dissipate. I propose to view such spaces as ever-changing constellations, and I show how we can to study them from the moving vessels that weave these constellations together and stage their social relations and dynamics in full view. I’ve been writing shorter pieces about the different phases of the dynamics of maritime unauthorized migration and interdiction, as well as on the role that the Mediterranean’s seabed plays in Italian political retrospection.
