Messy Europe : : Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World /

Messy Europe : : Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World / / ed. by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Andrea L. Smith.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Björnsdóttir, Helga,
Cannedy, Shay,
Dzenovska, Dace,
Garner, Steve,
Hipfl, Brigitte,
Hylland Eriksen, Thomas,
Loftsdóttir, Kristín,
Muehlebach, Andrea,
Smith, Andrea L.,
Sorge, Antonio,
HerausgeberIn:
Hipfl, Brigitte,
Loftsdóttir, Kristín,
Smith, Andrea L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis
  • 2 “Latvians do not understand the Greek people”: Europeanness and Complicit Becoming in the Midst of Financial Crisis
  • 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005–2015
  • 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
  • 5. What Is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy
  • 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime Fiction
  • 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du Voyage
  • 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee “Crisis”: Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa
  • 9 Epilogue: Declining Europe
  • Index

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