The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-87398-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies critically and systematically explores peripheries – in their various notions, definitions, and possibilities – within the European sphere.

Variously considered, peripheries reveal common asymmetries and constraints, shed light on combinations and intersections of well-established distinctions and structures, and yet also offer places of resilience, creativity, and innovation to challenge the status quo. As such, peripheries offer revealing perspectives to understand the changing spatial, political, and cultural landscapes of Europe as well as a crucial object of study in their own right, giving weight to persons, processes, and places who seem not to matter, yet demand a reconsideration of the history and politics of Europe. Using case studies and organized around the exploration of four types of peripheries – geographic, structural, socio-political, and epistemic – this multi- and interdisciplinary handbook shows Europe constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed through the very processes of peripheralization and centralization that it explores.

The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies is a key reference for scholars and students of European studies and culture, European politics as well as the broader social sciences, humanities, and law.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sedmak, Clemens

Ballinger, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Seeing like a Periphery: Europe from the Periphery, Periphery as Method  Section 1. Conceptualizing Peripheries in a European Context  1. Reimagining Europe  2. Peripheralization and the Law: Notes on Fraught Dynamics  3. Center and Periphery in Migration Studies  4. From Europe’s Margins to Global Britain: The (failed) Project of the UK’s Post-Brexit Identity  5. Stigma and Exclusion in French Urban Peripheries  6. On the Periphery of Society: The Social Exclusion of East Germany  7. Thriving at the Edge: Rewriting the Urban Creativity Canon from the Margins  Section 2. Types of Peripheries in Europe  8. A Typology of Peripheries  Section 2.1. Geographic Peripheries  9. Locating Europe’s Geographic Peripheries  10. A Multiple Geographies Perspective to Peripheralization: Multiplicity and Multi-Scalarity in the Making of Peripheries  11. Literary Depictions of Francophone Postcolonial Peripheries on the Brink: Island Uprisings  12. European Integration as a Process of Deperipheralization: The Periphery as Centre and Centre as Periphery  13. Mediterranean Islands as Sites of Peripheral Reasoning: Thinking with interfaces  14. The European Union, the Balkans and the Multipolar Core-Periphery Dynamics  Section 2.2. Structural Peripheries  15. Introducing Structural Peripheries in the European Union  16. Peripheral Regions in Europe: Definitions, Typologies, and Directions  17. From Production to Consumption in the Assembled Countryside: Colonialisms, Mobilities, and Peripheralization  18. A Structural Periphery in Slovakia: Identity, Resilience, and Historical Memory in Partizánska Lupca  Section 2.3. Sociopolitical Peripheries  19. Introducing Sociopolitical Peripheries: Power, Relationality, and Transformation in the Margins of Europe  20. Democratic Resistance at Europe’s “Holy Mile”: Notes from the Neapolitan Underground  21. Peripheralization and centralization in the city: A case study of gentrification, criminalization, and policing in south London  22. Weaponized Migrants at the Peripheries: Promise and Peril on the ‘Eastern Borders Route’ to Europe  23. Disrupting Core-Periphery Dynamics: Diasporic Spheres of Influence in International Relations  Section 2.4. Epistemic Peripheries  24. Introducing Epistemic Peripheries: Decolonizing Time, Space and Narratives  25. Playing with Time, Temporality, and Periodization: Challenges and Opportunities in Narrating the History of Peripheries  26. From Peripheral Vision to Peripheral Time: Survival in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide  27. From the Metropolitan Peripheries to the Center: Luigi Zampa’s Angelina in the Global Marketplace  28. Alexander Pushkin’s Black Ancestry in the Age of Russian Empire  Section 3: Peripheries Research in Europe: Methodological Challenges and Moral Concerns  29. Peripheral Vision as a Method for Anthropological Knowledge Production: Historical and Contemporary Ethnographic Approaches to Europe  30. Core and Periphery in the EU Legal Space  31. European Foreign Policy and Tuning into the Voices from the Peripheries  32. The Peripheral World of the Hedgeland: Explorations in Fiction  33. Europe’s Missionary Peripheries: Established, Instrumentalized, and Dynamic  Conclusion - Unlearning from the Peripheries: Some Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States of America.

Clemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Nanovic Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, United States of America.