Messy Europe -

Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Buch | Softcover
254 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-207-0 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
Links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.
Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work “crisis talk” does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.

Kristín Loftsdóttir is a Professor at the University of Iceland. She directs the research project “Creating Europe Through Racialized Mobilities” Her research interests include crisis, whiteness, postcolonial Europe, gender, mobility and racism. Her publications include Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland (2019) and the co-edited Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond (2014) with Lars Jensen.

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Introduction

Kristín Loftsdóttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl



Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis

Kristín Loftsdóttir and Helga Björnsdóttir



Chapter 2. “Latvians do not understand the Greek people”: Europeanness and Complicit Becoming in the Midst of Financial Crisis

Dace Dzenovska



Chapter 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005-2015

Steve Garner



Chapter 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland

Shay Cannedy



Chapter 5. What is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy

Andrea Muehlebach



Chapter 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime Fiction

Brigitte Hipfl



Chapter 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du Voyage

Andrea L. Smith



Chapter 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee “Crisis”: Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa

Antonio Sorge



Epilogue: Declining Europe

Thomas Hylland Eriksen



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie EASA Series
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-207-4 / 1800732074
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-207-0 / 9781800732070
Zustand Neuware
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