The Sicilian MUOS ground station conflict: : On US geopolitics in the Mediterranean and geographies of resistance

• Autores: Arturo Di Bella
• Localización: Geopolitics, ISSN-e 1557-3028, Vol. 20, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 333-353
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyses the alternative territorialities that characterise the conflict on the installation of a US military MUOS ground station in Sicily (Italy). On the one hand, the proponents see territory from a techno-centric vision as a site of strategic importance for the global politics of securitisation since it serves the optimisation of the US military ‘system of systems’. On the other hand, the No-MUOS mobilisation resists this image of territory by claiming it as a place of everyday life, and opposes hegemonic territorialisation through the manipulation of an ensemble of discursive and practical mediators within different spheres of action. The local conflict around a radar infrastructure evolves into a clash between different logics of territorial organisation: a conflict mostly concerning the control over spatial borders, knowledge production, and imaginary circulation.