Prof. Dr. Dieter Haller (RUB) concludes a metropolitan project with the monograph “Tangier/Gibraltar – A Tale of One City” – An Ethnography (Transcript, Bielefeld 2021). The project examined the political, demographic, economic, and, above all, cultural relationships between the two cities. The cultural-historical section is based primarily on material from earlier, multi-year field research in the region (Gibraltar 1995/96; Tangier 2013–present) as well as archival work; the ethnological section focuses on Brexit and its impact on relations between the two cities as well as between Morocco and the EU (field research 2019–20). Through research on these connections—some of which are very ancient—the concepts of identity, ethnicity, and culture are examined and redefined.
