Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-796-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loftsdóttir, Kristín

Smith, Andrea L.

Hipfl, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

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

Über Autor(innen)

Loftsdóttir, Kristín
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.

Smith, Andrea L.
Andrea L. Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. Her interests include postcolonial European social memory, French settler colonialism in Algeria, and race, ethnicity, and place-making. Her publications include the edited volume, Europe’s Invisible Migrants (2003), and the co-authored book, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016).

Hipfl, Brigitte
Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She works on media and gender, subject formations, the affective labor of media, and postcolonial Europe, and is currently exploring migration in Austrian cinema and TV. Her publications include Teaching "Race" with a Gendered Edge (2012) co-edited with Kristín Loftsdóttir.

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.